Awarded Grants

To improve health and access to health care services for African immigrant/refugee youth and their families by conducting a needs assessment, developing leadership skills among African youth and creating strategies to address the identified needs.

To implement evidence-based treatments for child clients who have trauma histories, posttraumatic symptoms and associated problems such as depression and disruptive behaviors by implementing a videoconferencing network linking clinical experts to 10 community mental health centers and the Philbrook Center.

To improve understanding of how to effectively reduce youth suicide (up to age 24) and to increase the earlier use of mental health care services of youth and their families by testing the effectiveness of anti-stigma messages, collecting and analyzing data to demonstrate that Frameworks is an evidenced based youth suicide prevention practice.

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 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 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 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.

To reduce economic barriers to accessing health for the people in New Hampshire by expanding health insurance protections to divorcing spouses and their families through research, capacity building; and promoting positive policy.

To increase the number of low-income and vulnerable populations in New Hampshire who have access to services to purchase new reliable cars for personal transportation by undertaking a planning process to include siting of new offices, increasing cultural awareness in program design, and planning a policy change effort.