Stronger, safer, healthier...together

Last year, many of us took notice when the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory report calling attention to the epidemic of loneliness and social isolation in our country. The report noted that nearly half of all Americans reported feeling lonely (even before COVID and its debilitating isolation). It quoted startling research that found that loneliness is as dangerous to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, leading to a raft of bad health and mental health outcomes including heart disease, diabetes, and depression.

Read on for more from Sandra Harris, Founder & Co-Leader of the Massachusetts Coalition to Build Community and End Loneliness.