The Bay State Banner: The Family Van mobile clinic aims for head-to-toe wellness via its ‘Healthy Roads’ program

For community health workers and staff at The Family Van, a Boston-area mobile health clinic, there’s magic in connecting with community members to offer and something special in the simple questions like, “How are you?”

Through its program Healthy Roads, staff at the Family Van, which is associated with Harvard Medical School, is trying to bring that magic beyond just physical health and into mental health care as well.

“We always talk about wellness, because we want to see somebody well from the head to the toe. We think about the total health care of the individual that’s in front of us,” said Rainelle Walker-White, associate director health equity programs with The Family Van.