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 extend the existing evaluation of the InShape health promotion project to include long-term follow-up on participants and to include an evaluation of Medicaid service use and expenditures associated with participation in the project by conducting 18 month interview evaluations of program participants and by accessing and analyzing Medicaid service use and expenditure data.

To plan model collaborative mental and behavioral health care program (MBHC) in Sullivan County, which utilizes Antioch University New England's (ANE) doctoral program in Clinical Psychology, by engaging in a careful planning process with area stakeholders and expert consultants that balances best practice information with local realities and constraints.

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 understand the impact of current trends of health care cost increases on the economy and the health care system of New Hampshire over the next decade by developing a research strategy and plan.

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 improve the quality of public health practice and performance of public health systems by providing performance standards for public health systems and encouraging their widespread use; engaging and leveraging national, state and local partnerships to build a stronger foundation for public health preparedness; promoting continuous quality improvement of public health systems; and strengthening the science base for public health practice improvement.

To maintain a dental residency program in New Hampshire that will contribute to the availability of a qualified dental workforce to serve residents by providing technical assistance to the Manchester VA General Practice Dental Residency to develop and implement effective strategies for sustaining the program.