Awarded Grants

To ensure the integrity of vaccines and medicines that need to be temperature controlled by acquiring a medical-grade refrigeration unit.

To build a well developed and fully functional infrastructure of Community Support Organizations in the Greater NH Seacoast and to begin moving toward vision and community level outcomes in this area related to four priority areas: Access to Healthcare, Substance Abuse, Housing and Transportation by strengthening the current collaboration management structure, assess and meet training needs, map and assess current regional coalition infrastructure and to develop a long term plan for reducing duplication and improving efficiency of current coalition infrastructure.

To improve understanding of how to effectively reduce youth suicide (up to age 24) and to increase the earlier use of mental health care services of youth and their families by testing the effectiveness of anti-stigma messages, collecting and analyzing data to demonstrate that Frameworks is an evidenced based youth suicide prevention practice.

To begin implementation of the Interagency Council on Homelessness's 10 Year Plan: A Home For Everyone by increasing the capacity of the lead agency, the New Hampshire Coalition to End Homelessness.

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 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 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 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 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 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.