Awarded Grants

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 a sustainable programs and finances for Families First by developing a Strategic Business Plan that gives a compelling, realistic and sustainable vision for the future.

To empower and strengthen the role and participation of African women and girls in reducing health disparities by removing or reducing some of the social and cultural barriers to access health services.

To assure long-range financial stability of the organization by procuring the services of a technical assistance provider.

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 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 improve access to health care for people with limited English proficiency in the Nashua area by establishing a cooperative, regional medical interpretation service that is available to all health care providers in the area.

To complete strategic planning necessary to determine where the Molar Express should ultimately reside both fiscally and administratively and to determine appropriate target populations, payer mix and needed capacity to sustain Molar Express operations and staff with assistance of NCHV Board and North Country Oral Health Work Group.

To broaden public awareness of the personal and policy issues around intergenerational substance abuse through the presentation of the award winning drama Wrecked at the Capitol Center for the Arts.