Awarded Grants

To enhance the ability and interest of NH's early childhood educators to improve the health of NH's young children by convening a professional development conference for early childhood educators.

To better understand the health needs of NH's foster children in order to better meet their needs by gathering, analyzing and disseminating information to key stakeholders.

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

To plan an initiative to reduce economic and/or geographic barriers to health care access in the Souhegan Valley by building relationships with, and gathering information from other health care stakeholders and residents who have had trouble with health care access; and by drawing on initiatives used successfully elsewhere.

To increase the understanding of the importance of oral health to the overall health of NH's children thereby creating a climate in which policy proposals to improve oral health are more likely to be understood and supported by conducting a best practice social awareness campaign.

To raise awareness of the importance, value, costs of prevention particularly the impact on adult health of child abuse in NH.

To develop an implementation plan for a model rural, home-based Chronic Disease Management program for diabetes and congestive heart failure in NH by researching and adapting optimal existing models/programs, patient education materials, staff training materials,telehealth technologies and electronic medical record software.

To prevent pressure ulcers of all NH residents who have or are at a risk by providing access to the diagnostic technology known as Forse Sensing Array (FSA) which will result in clinical recommendations for a seating system that provides proper positioning, postural support and an optimal pressure-relieving cushion.

To increase NH's knowledge of cost effective sustainable and responsive community oral health models by planning and implementing a practice based oral health program.

To create systemic change in addressing linguistic barriers of non-English speakers in NH by increasing the number of trained medical interpreters in the health care workforce, as well as developing a comprehensive approach to providing quality health care services by offering training to health professionals, and their organizations about medical interpretation.

To determine a NH best practice school-based dental sealant program by implementing and evaluating three models which build on the existing infrastructure of established school-based programs, use of volunteer dentists to provide required patient assessment and targeting Title I schools with students at highest risk for dental disease.

To facilitate access of NH residents to needed health care by developing and implementing technology-based solutions to enhance and strengthen communications among health and human service providers by community installation of products, by enhancement of new product features and by developing a new tool which makes the system cost effective for all NH nonprofits able to participate in technology to improve access to consumers, to transition to a private enterprise corporate model which sustains its customer base, to expand membership to new markets and to increase collaboration with other service providers in the state.