The SBRHN has an Steering Committee comprised of leaders of health and social service organizations and meets every other month to look at trends and clarify the direction of the Network. The Resource group which has broader representation from over 30 local and county-wide organizations including our legislative representatives meets twice monthly to identify resources and gaps and build collaborative responses. We also participate in collaborative groups such as BASIC for immigrants and SCOWG addressing substance use. Because we are not a direct service organization, we do not measure our impact in patients or individuals served, but rather, in projects we are making progress on.

Since its inception, the SBRHN has 

• Championed pediatric collaborative care coordination resulting in state support for expanding a pilot project in 2022, 

• Worked to get funding to create Rural Recovery Resources through a grant from HRSA which has led to BSAS funding to assure longer term services, 

• Welcomed our Family Resource Center and integrated their work with the existing community services

• Built a food network, coordinating and expanding access to healthy food for food insecure residents

• Coordinated a Covid-19 response in South Berkshire County for food, emergency housing and mental health access

• Built collaborations that have provided Covid -19 supplies to schools and summer camps, sent children to summer programs, connected housing insecure individuals to broad support services

• Coalesced community organizations around the development of an on-line Resource Directory that should be expandable to the rest of the county