The Department of Public Health, Bureau of Family Health and Nutrition welcomes your comments about the needs of infants, children, adolescents and their families in Massachusetts and services for them. This information helps us plan and evaluate services. Comments are accepted at any time and are reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Comments also help us prepare our annual application for the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant provided to states by the federal government. The MCH Block Grant has a particular focus on the health of mothers, infants, children, adolescents, and children with special health care needs. Based on federal requirements for submitting our annual MCH application in mid-July, comments received before mid-June each year will be considered in preparing that year's application and summarized as part of our reporting.

Whether you want to comment specifically on the MCH Block Grant and the state's activities related to that or you want to comment more generally on the needs of children and families, your interest and willingness to provide input is appreciated. Note that when comments are reported, they are summarized so that people making them are not identified.

  • If you are responding to a specific measure or priority from the MCH Block Grant, please note which one, preferably in the subject line.
  • Otherwise, simply provide your general comment, concern, resource, or idea to which you want to draw our attention.
  • If you have comments about a page on the website, please include the page URL in your message.
Unless you provide either phone or email we cannot ask for further information or clarify your comment. Contact information helps us respond to your comments. It is necessary if you want to hear back from us, even to hear that your comment was received by the Bureau of Family Health and Nutrition. Messages sent from this page are relayed ("submitted") to the Bureau without identifying information, not even your email address.
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This information is provided by Family Health and Nutrition within the Department of Public Health.