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 enhance public understanding and public policy regarding health care access and finance by providing information and analysis to stakeholders in health care and health policy, including the Citizens Health Initiative and its working groups.

To examine the effectiveness of the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Program (NHHK) by systematically analyzing the characteristics of the program, comparing it as appropriate with programs in other states.

To educate healthcare organizations and the people who work in them to meet the challenge of providing quality healthcare to the Deaf and hard of hearing and the limited English proficient (LEP) populations in NH by convening a half-day conference of experts and people from this target population.

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 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 address the national Philanthropic Divide which is the increasing gap in foundation assets between those States with the most and those with the least (NH ranks among the 10 states with the least amount of in-state foundation assets) by 1) increasing regional and national grantmaking to help develop in-state philanthropic resources, 2) increasing regional and national grantmaking to strengthen and expand in-state nonprofit sector infrastructure, 3) by leveling the playing field for grantseekers from divide states to increase access to national foundation grants.

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.