Awarded Grants

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.

To create a community-generated plan for a Transportation Cooperation serving geographically isolated people in the eastern Monadnock region to improve access to health care and other services by creating 1) citizen groups from several abutting towns to identify and document transportation needs and opportunities; and 2) project steering group composed of health-related non-profit organizations, planners and representatives of town groups to identify and document organizational needs and opportunities.

Determine the space needed for existing and future programs in one consolidated, centrally located building.

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 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.

The goal of this project is to create a plan to improve access to health care services for the geographically isolated residents of the five towns of the Mascoma Valley. This will be accomplished by first creating and considering a cost-effectiveness analysis of two distinct solutions to this problem of access: 1) improving public transportation to existing health care resources in the Hanover/Lebanon area; and 2) creating a health care center within one of the five towns to serve the needs of residents locations.