Awarded Grants

To determine and implement a cost effective and sustainable system of oral health services to address the unmet oral health needs of the Strafford County community.

To implement a statewide coordinated program (all NH AIDS Service Organizations) to provide counseling, HIV Testing and referral activities using the Internet for the most at-risk for HIV as well as support individuals already diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

To implement a pre-school-based oral health prevention program at the VNA Child Care & Family Resource Center in order to meet the complex oral hygiene needs of low-income, high-risk preschool children without access to dental care. To investigate with others the feasibility of to expand oral health services at the Center to the broader community by developing the site as a satellite of the Poisson Dental Clinic during off hours and to replicate the program in similar settings in Manchester and in other NH communities.

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.

To improve access to health care in the North Country Health Consortium service area through the design and implementation a care coordination model that is accessible through a single point of entry, covers the continuum of health care, and integrates ancillary and social services.

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 develop an oral health education and advocacy program for NH primary care providers targeted to low income children from ages 4 months to 3 years.

A Medical History will be a 3-year project serving communities in Northern NH. Pontine Theatre, in collaboration with writer, Paul Mroczka, and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Alliance will utilize theatre to raise public awareness about issues of social, cultural and geographic barriers to accessing health and health care in Northern NH.

Inadequacies and regional needs fro housing with attention to economics of housing in this regional area will be researched, analyzed and reported. The results will be the formation of a planning group that has a feasible region-wide plan for alleviating housing and related economic needs throughout the Twin Rivers area.

The purpose of the convening initiative would be to examine strategies in which resources and expertise could be pooled to address the issues of geographic, economic and social barriers to health in the Town of Swanzey.