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 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).

To provide expansion of supported services for low-income people with mental illness attached to residential services.

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.