Awarded 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.

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 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 improve access to preventive and restorative oral health services for all under and uninsured residents of Strafford County by establishing a dental center at Avis Goodwin Community Health Center, integrating medical and dental services by providing education for medical providers on quality oral health assessment, and by establishing a school-based program for elementary children.

To better integrate oral health care of long-term care residents in New Hampshire into general health care by 1) developing a comprehensive oral care training program for health care professionals, 2) establishing an oral health care model that is more coordinated into the care plan system, and 3) developing a sustainable staffing model that utilizes and trains existing nursing home staff.

To increase the number of providers routinely discussing adverse childhood experiences, particularly domestic violence with their patients, and increase the number of medical referrals to community crisis centers, by educating providers on the chronic health risks associated with domestic violence, how to routinely and confidentially screen, and how to document and refer appropriately.