Awarded Grants

To enhance the awareness and knowledge of the New England public and its policymakers regarding critical health issues especially those affecting the poor and the underserved by intensively training medical journalists.

Creation of a plan that integrates oral health education, assessment and treatment for children, adults and the elderly in the Sullivan County health service area.

To further identify priorities and strategies for improving language access in NH by engaging all key stakeholders.

To develop a statewide campaign to stop the spread of flu in NH, using the principles of social marketing, and working in collaboration with other organizations, including the NH DHHS Immunization Program and the NH Minority Health Coalition.

To bring together grantmaking colleagues with government staff, policy experts, researchers, and community advocates to discuss opportunities and strategies for protecting public programs in the short term and working towards more sustainable and equitable policies over the long term.

To strategically position NH community/home care agencies to meet the challenges of the future by convening a day long workshop of regional community home care experts for trustees and managers of NH community home care agencies.

To improve the oral health of the people of NH by creating and implementing a statewide oral health plan.

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.