Awarded Grants

To improve the quality of healthcare offered by New Hampshire hospitals and other providers by promoting cultural effectiveness within organizations and facilitating innovation to ensure delivery of culturally sensitive and appropriate care via the Medical Interpretation Advisory Board and a Cultural Awareness Healthcare Workgroup.

To develop a plan to screen, assess and refer young children (birth to age 6) and their families in need of evidence-based behavioral health services by working collaboratively with Strafford County pediatricians, child care providers and other key stakeholders to understand need and enhance knowledge.

To build the unity of the nonprofit sector and strengthen its understanding of what and how leadership is developed and the leadership opportunities and challenges of the future for the nonprofit community by convening nonprofit leaders, foundation community, and business partners for a 2008 Nonprofit Leadership Summit.

To improve access to health and health care by continuing development of a regional transportation system for the Carroll County region.

To ensure NHPR will bring coverage of issues that matter to NH's future generations by deepening and upgrading their online service.

The goal of the project is improve understanding of care provided to women in NH aged 55 to 64, the financial and other barriers they face in accessing care, and potential policy options to alleviate those barriers.

To improve regional transportation services for people in Strafford and Eastern Rockingham Counties by coordinating transportation services offered by COAST and multiple human service transportation provider agencies.

To expand mental health services within the Nashua schools by conducting a needs assessment, coordinating a multi-stakeholder planning process, and creating a comprehensive plan.

To reduce social and cultural barriers to health and well-being for immigrants and refugees in the City of Nashua by strengthening coordination among municipal, social and health care agencies to better serve new arrivals, empowering individuals to navigate various public systems and improving the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services.

To support the development of a regional system to improve mobility services in Sullivan County.

To support and improve real-world rural integrative care projects, create a model for evaluating integrative care, and advance integrative health care policy in NH by designing four local evaluation plans, a cross-site evaluation plan, and piloting local evaluation at one site through systematic cycles of program evaluation, reflection, and improvement.

To expand and improve comprehensive mental health services for students by strengthening linkages, cooperation, and collaboration protocols among schools, Monadnock Family Services, the state's Division of Children, Youth, and Families, and the state's Office of Juvenile Justice Services.