The Long Branch Partners is a collaboration of different organizations and agencies that serve the Long Branch community. A Long Branch Partners meeting led by CHEER was held last Thursday July 9th at the Long Branch Library. The purpose of the meeting was to create a common space in which local agencies and organizations working in Long Branch area can meet to share information, seek opportunities for future collaboration and begin to develop a sense of belonging to a networ

The CHEER Community Association (CCA) is a tool designed to help tenants in Long Branch and Takoma Park build and maintain community, and improve their quality of life. We help tenants start, sustain, and improve their Tenant Associations. We help tenant associations address common problems, so that tenants are informed of events, activities and resources, and prepared to meet crises when they arise. The CCA also supports and encourages tenants to participate in shared act

Back in April CHEER was awarded a $50,000 Healthcare Initiative Foundation grant to conduct a pilot outreach and referral program that has two major goals. First is to get low income uninsured people in Long Branch and Takoma Park into primary care treatment. Second is to help patients, to get access to social supports that help them improve their health and wellness. This week we will be meeting with Mobile Med to propose our outreach and referral plan to give people in need