EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
ONE ASHBURTON PLACE, BOSTON, MA 02108
Tel: (617) 573-1600
Fax: (617) 573-1891
www.mass.gov.eohhs
MAURA T. HEALEY KATHLEEN E. WALSH
GOVERNOR SECRETARY
KIMBERLEY DRISCOLL
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
October 26, 2023
Michael D. Hurley, Clerk
State House, Room 335
Boston, MA 02133
Steven T. James, Clerk
State House, Room 145
Boston, MA 02133
RE: Community Behavioral Health Promotion and Prevention Commission
Dear Clerks Hurley and James:
On behalf of the Community Behavioral Health Promotion and Prevention Commission
(Commission), I am pleased to provide the following letter summarizing the Commission’s
activities to date, pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 6, Section 219. Please accept this letter as the
Commission’s Annual Report.
Chapter 177 of the Acts of 2022 offered a fundamentally enhanced vision of the Commission’s
charge, expanding its scope to include a broad range of new responsibilities, including the
development and implementation of a comprehensive plan to strengthen community and state-
level promotion programming and infrastructure through training, technical assistance, resource
development and dissemination and other initiatives; collecting, analyzing, and tracking data
measuring population-based indicators of behavioral health from existing data sources; making
programming and policy recommendations to address the needs of populations at greatest risk;
coordinating behavioral health promotion and wellness programs, campaigns and initiatives;
and serving as an advisory board to the newly-established Office of Behavioral Health
Promotion (OBHP).
The Healey-Driscoll Administration envisions the Commission working in close collaboration
with the new OBHP and has been working to implement the creation of that office. The