Awarded Grants

To improve the mental health and well being of children, youth, and families in Dover by strengthening the ability of the Dover Kid's Cabinet to assess community needs, develop an integrated community approach, and sustain these efforts.

To reduce childhood lead paint poisoning in New Hampshire through a coordinated approach to improving NH's lead poisoning prevention policies by continuing to convene and expand a strong coalition of diverse interests, strengthening a lead paint prevention communications network, advocating for primary prevention and other sound policies, and engaging in other strategic activities designed to further primary prevention policy change in systems throughout the state.

To improve NH's mental health system by transitioning the legislative mental health commission from its planning phase to implementation.

To develop the next generation of Community Health Center and primary care leaders who will deliver comprehensive primary and preventive care services to medically-underserved and geographically, culturally and linguistically isolated persons by establishing the curriculum for a leadership development program.

To assure the availability of primary care services northern Coos County by developing a long-term sustainability plan for the Indian Stream Health Center.

To review the space needs of the health center for current and planned growth. To review business operations of the health center and make recommendations to improve business operations of the health center.

This project will begin a dental screening and treatment program for elementary school children in the Hillsboro-Deering School District by contracting with a licensed dental hygienist.

Work towards building community consensus that can address both institutional and internalized social-cultural barriers that contribute to racial and ethnic health disparities by convening a multi-racial, multi-cultural group of community residents and social and human service providers for a 2.5 day Undoing Racism workshop.

To ensure quality advocacy, nonprofit capacity building and knowledge development for the health system in NH in order to improve the health of NH residents by piloting the use of core operating support to sustain key NH nonprofits.

To ensure the sustainability of the InShape program by evaluating the effectiveness of a lower cost alternative model which does not rely on grant funding and can be generalize to the standard community mental health setting.

To build a well developed and fully functional infrastructure of Community Support Organizations in the Greater NH Seacoast and to begin moving toward vision and community level outcomes in this area related to four priority areas: Access to Healthcare, Substance Abuse, Housing and Transportation by strengthening the current collaboration management structure, assess and meet training needs, map and assess current regional coalition infrastructure and to develop a long term plan for reducing duplication and improving efficiency of current coalition infrastructure.

To explore the socio-cultural adjustment of children and young adults from African refugee and Latino immigrant families in New Hampshire and the implications for mental health treatment by undertaking a six month research study with parents of children in mental health treatment, young adults (ages 18 to 25), and key informants.