Awarded Grants

To improve the health and well being of girls in NH by surveying girls about the health needs, concerns, behaviors and issues of girls and the barriers to seeking and accessing care and disseminating the study results to providers and other key stakeholders.

To ensure access to critical health and social services and improve the health outcomes of children living in poverty; address systemic economic and social-cultural barriers to child health through legal advocacy; and provide a framework for the expansion of this model of legal advocacy across New Hampshire by establishing a medical-legal collaborative project with NH Legal Assistance.

To ensure that medical interpretation is universally available to and utilized by all individuals in need of those services in NH by creating and disseminating a strategic plan which is supported and led by key stakeholders.

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 streamline service delivery channels and centralized management of anti-virus software, e-mail, document filing and backup administration for eight outlying senior centers and the administrative office in Lebanon by establishing one synchronized database system with centralized data management and ease of programmatic updates for each site through a Wide Area Network.

To gather information on physical and mental health care utilization and access for New Hampshire's foster care children by analyzing existing data, collecting new data from interviews with NH Department of Health and Human Services district office nurses and focus groups with foster parents, and collecting new data from interviews with foster parents and kin care providers.

To enhance the long term financial sustainability of this developing organization by building the fundraising capacity of the staff, Board and volunteers by obtaining training to design and implement a mission-based system for raising sustainable funding from individuals.

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 assess the barriers and facilitators among oral health professionals to routinely screen all patients on tobacco use and provide evidence based treatment in their clinical practices by conducting focus groups, key informant interviews, researching literature, curricula, and best practices, and meeting with decision makers.

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 establish the needs of survivors of sexual violence in Sullivan County by conducting an in depth needs assessment using a telephone survey of the general population, a written survey, interviews, and focus groups with providers and consumers; and by organizing a sexual assault response team (SART) comprised of various agencies and organizations to meet the needs determined by the assessment.

To increase support of evidence-based public health legislation and policies in NH by convening an educational conference on public health concepts for NH policymakers (legislators, members of the Executive Council, County Commissioners and Governor's staff).