Awarded Grants

To continue to develop a coordinated, easily accessible transportation system that provides quality services to the transit dependent residents of the Greater Derry-Salem region.

To continue to provide evidence-based adolescent substance use treatment to the same or increased numbers of clients by obtaining emergency funding to recover from a Project Year 2007 operating deficit caused by an unanticipated shortfall in service-fee revenues.

To enhance the effectiveness of the Women for Women Coalition to address health disparities in African Refugee/Immigrant Women and their families living in Manchester NH by supporting two individuals to develop leadership skills and lead specific knowledge through participation in two national conferences.

To initiate the healthy eating/active living planning and implementation process by inviting a broad representation of stakeholders to identify action steps and measurable outcomes to halt the rise of overweight and obesity in NH.

To improve awareness about pain as a health issue, its myths and issues of access in our senior population by means of a series of short plays and guided discussion presented statewide at senior centers and other locations where seniors gather.

To address the critical link between social factors and health by sustaining and expanding the NH Health Law Collaborative that identifies and addresses legal issues affecting the health and well-being of low-income children and adults.

To increase the life expectancy of individuals who have or are at risk of developing Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) by providing resources and supports to reduce the risks of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and substance abuse through a variety of community based interventions.

To plan a sustainable, comprehensive and integrated system to improve access to mental health care for Seacoast residents through research, community organizing, and resource development.

To increase access to primary health care services to all individuals in the Laconia area, regardless of their ability to pay, race, ethnicity, or cultural diversity, by opening a new site of the Health First Family Care Center.

To ensure that underserved populations with barriers to accessing appropriate health care continue to have a powerful advocate for the elimination of health disparities as well as uninterrupted access to high-quality, culturally appropriate services by increasing the capacity of staff and board at the New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition to manage change in general and the transition to a new Executive Director specifically.

To establish a community integrated health care network that will increase the availability of coordinated and cost effective primary care to the local population with a specific focus on serving Manchester's most vulnerable.

To assist Somali women and their families in becoming educated, empowered and active participants in their own health care by providing bi-lingual, bi-cultural case management, medical interpretation and home-based health education through a Somali woman health educator that is shared by the Somali Development Center and the NH Minority Health Coalition.