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 identify, implement and evaluate methodolgies and interventions that most likely will improve the health profiles of NH's children by assessing, preventing and reducing the impact of poor nutrition and lack of exercise.

To improve access to health care, particularly in rural areas, in NH by developing a framework for planning a collaborative statewide telehealth program through convening a panel of experts to write a NH Telehealth White Paper that will be a road map for planning and developing a statewide telehealth program.

To provide geographic access to all of the essential components of a quality recovery process for the mentally ill in the greater Concord/Franklin area by maintaining access to adequate services of the local peer support group during reorganization.

To evaluate the benefits and risks of its community based staff to use mobile technology by participating in the beta testing of new software.

To increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the current transportaion system of the Twin Rivers and Lakes regions in order to improve access to health care by establishing an effective working model for rural transportation for this NH region.