Awarded Grants

To successfully replicate and test expanding the disease focus of the community prevention and treatment initiative (CPTI) model in four New Hampshire communities.

To improve healthcare providers' cultural competency and their understanding of how culture and language impacts patients' access to care and medical compliance by providing comprehensive training opportunities with nationally known experts in the field.

To develop an intervention model which links primary care providers, 7-9 year olds and commuity based physical activity programs and to identify the financial burden attributable to childhood obesity in NH; and assess the link between current academic performance and fitness levels in order to impact NH public policy.

To decrease geograhic barriers to health and health care by conveing a transportation summit for Sullivan County that will bring together stakeholders from the local community, community agencies and local and state government to develop solutions to improve access to transportation.

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 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).