Awarded Grants

To explore the feasibility of conducting a leadership program for emerging leaders on health issues working in rural communities on the edge of traditional service areas.

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 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 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 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.

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 develop a Multi-Stakeholder, Collaborative Regional Partnership for Autism in the North Country by organizing a regional input forum; developing a database of stakeholders and expert health care providers; gathering input via surveys; organizing follow-up meetings; developing a web site; and enlisting technical assistance resources to deliver trainings and to ensure long-term sustainability through organizational capacity building.

To hire an architect to create a buildable design that will achieve the following: add two dental operatories; an add space for mental health or other one-on-one counseling; increase privacy for patients and staff; support increased efficiency and integration of services; and redesign the lobby to be more welcoming and better utilized space.

To plan and design a cost-efficient videoconferencing network that would link experts in child/adolescent trauma treatment with NH community mental health centers seeking training and supervision to improve their clinician's ability to furnish quality care to traumatized youth.

To increase support of evidence-based public health legislation and policies in NH by convening an educational annual conference on public health concepts for NH policymakers (legislators, members of the Executive Council, County Commissioners and Governor's staff).