Awarded Grants

To provide a peer-to-peer learning exchange with the Spring Institute of Denver, CO for the staff of the Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England's Language Bank. This will be done by a combination of formal mini training sessions, on-site job shadowing, and debriefing sessions.

To create the highest quality, sustainable delivery system that promotes and integrates oral health care in Sullivan County.

To expose middle-school aged girls to information, discussion, experimentation and self-expression by 1) creating an interactive day-long gathering focused on relevant issues concerning health, self-esteem, stress management and 2) ensuring a safe place to observe and interact with positive, inspiring women role models who will present a variety of topics in an engaging ways for this population and 3) offer a compelling set of workshop topics and discussion opportunities for the parent/adults who accompany the girls to the event.

To improve knowledge and skills of community health center and community mental health center clinicians and administrators who seek collaborative solutions to patient care by providing scholarships to attend the Best Practices in Collaborative Healthcare conference.

To improve and affect efforts to address disparities in health and health care among Latinos/Hispanics and African Descendents in Manchester, New Hampshire by collecting and disseminating data on several health indices for these populations.

To successfully replicate and test expanding the disease focus of the Community Prevention and Treatment Initiative (CPTI) model in three New Hampshire communities to prevent childhood obesity.

To strengthen the collective capacity of northern New England to advance policies that help families, children and communities including regarding health and human service issues by providing intensive and sustained high level collaborative training of current and future regional leaders consisting of reflection, learning from state, regional and national policy experts and participation in guided strategic regional collaboration opportunities.

To develop an advocacy plan to assist the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services in accelerating adoption and implementation of its Communication Access Plan (CAP) for people with limited English proficiency or who are deaf or hard of hearing by creating a coalition of key stakeholders that will conduct an assessment of DHHS progress in adopting and implementing the CAP, identify current barriers to full implementation, and determine ways to address those barriers.

To advance public policy outcomes of the NH Child Advocacy Network's 2007 Priorities by training leaders on effective communications and by developing strategies to ensure effective promotion of each Action Step.

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 empower Somali Bantu families affected by lead poisoning with the skills and resources to address their needs and protect their children from further harm due to lead hazards in our housing stock.

To demonstrate the negative and positive affects of different frames available to talk about Mental Health, and to explain these in ways that communications practitioners can understand in order to strengthen their messages and materials, thereby enhancing their potential for better public understanding and support.