Awarded Grants

To improve the health status of the underserved populations in the North County by community care coordination.

To improve the oral health of the residents of Mt. Washington Valley by developing a school based dental program, by providing the prenatal patients of the White Mountain Health Center with comprehensive dental care, by providing referrals and vouchers to patients who present themselves at the Memorial Hospital Emergency Department with acute oral pain, and by providing a comprehensive educational program on the importance of good oral health.

To assure increased access to culturally and linguistic appropriate mental healthcare for the growing Latino population in NH through consultation and training in recommended systemic change processes in existing Latino/Hispanic population centers in NH.

To enhance public understanding of health care issues by increasing NHPR's capacity to regularly and extensively cover health care especially EH themes.

To change funding for access to services, social and health care by NH's deaf and hard of hearing population through policy and legislative change where appropriate by working with NH state agency representatives.

To improve access to healthcare by providing a high quality, comprehensive, sustainable language interpretation service that will assist both persons who are limited in their proficiency of English and staff at medical facilities/social service agencies to communicate without linguistic or cultural barriers.

To improve access to health care, employment and educational opportunites for residents of the North Country especially the mobility-impaired, by reducing geographic barriers posed by a lack of public transportation through the implementation of a reliable, affordable, sustainable transit system in the Littleton-Lancaster corridor.

To develop a mobile dental initiative to address the unmet oral health needs of the populations of Coos and Northern Grafton Counties.

To continue to create a model for rural mental health care for children and adolescents in southern Carroll County through the development of a broad based community collaborative process and infrastructure.

To increase the life expectancy of individuals who have or are at risk of developing Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) by providing resources and supports to reduce the risks of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and substance abuse.

To improve the health and wellness outcomes of New Hamsphire's children by increased and coordinated action that improves policies and programs affecting children.

To strengthen the NH health care safety net (emergency care, primary care, specialty care and in-patient care ) by improving financial access systems based on uniform core principles for care for low-income uninsured and under-insured people statewide.