Awarded Grants

To develop a sustainable training program for qualified medical interpreter; to provdie leadership to develop a system that meets the interpretation need of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) population statewide; to train and educate health professionals on cultural competency and use of medical interpreters; to provide outreach and education to LEP health consumers about medical interpretation; to develop a continuing education program for training medical interpreters.

To design and implement an Integrated Data system to collect demographic data regarding members and grant applicants of Steppingstones in order to improve data analysis and better respond to indentified needs.

To develop and implement a program to improve access and capacity to better meet the mental health needs of the Latino/Hispanic population in our region. As our community changes, we recognize the need to be able to change along with it and become more culturally compentent at delivering services that maintain our high quality tradition and are sensitive to the culture and values of the citizens who come through the doors.

To repeat the New Hampshire third grade oral health survey in 2004 to 1) update information on the three childhood indicators in the surveillance system, 2) evaluate changes since the 2001 survey, and 3) assess progress towards Healthy NH 2010 objectives.

To expand the advocacy work of the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire at a federal level and to educate the public and policymakers how such developments affect the children and families of New Hampshire.

To fully unnderstand why people from NH have and do not have health insurance.

To participate in a national program engaged in an effort to integrate primary care medicine and dentistry in preventing oral disease and promoting oral health for children one to three years.

The Claremont Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry hope to accomplish feeding & providing food boxes to everyone who comes to us in need. We hope to accomplish this task through the funding we receive from grants. We hope to purchase nutritious foods, fresh fruit, veg. & meats so families may prepare a balanced meal. We will use the food to prepare & serve a nutritious meal at the soup kitchen. We hope to split the money between the Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry to purchase food we need to supply our depleted supply.

We are the largest community mental health center in the state seeking to increase the cultural competency of our staff. The project we are undertaking, as described in the attached letter, will assist us in this endeaver.

To engage the citizens of New Hampshire in public policy debate around the issues of access to health care. NHCA will build an active network of citizen leaders who can speak to the issues of health care access in NH. By recruiting and training citizens to engage in local initiatives to address existing barriers to access. NHCA will develop capacity for citizens to engage in statewide policy debate, making elected leaders more accountable to constituents.

To develop and implement administrative systems to support the standard operational functions of the oral health services of CHAN members and others, and to develop and institute a model of clinical integration for oral health status screening and education for selected at risk populations in the primary medical care setting.

To provide outreach, education, and advocacy to deaf and hard of hearing patients and their health care providers in an effort to improve the health and well-being of deaf and hard of hearing citizens of NH and to subsequently improve access to health care for persons with hearing loss by improving communication between patients and providers.