Awarded Grants

To create the 2003 KIDS COUNT New Hampshire Decennial Edition Data Book.

To carry out service projects while receiving leadership training in public service in local NH communities with underserved populations), to include students from UNH and the Franklin Pierce Law School in projects related to EFH themes and to fund a one year fellowship at each school.

The project will organize a planning process that will develop a proposed model for an integrated dental services administrative support system for commonly administered operational functions of the dental service program for participating CHC members; to develop a model of health services integration for oral health status screening and education for selected at-risk populations (prenatal and children).

To help fund the personnel capacity for the North Country Health Consortium to do an inventory and analysis of resources and needs and to design and begin implementation of a coordinated system in the Lancaster to Littleton route in conjunction with the pilot project to be funded by NH Department of Transportation.

To collaboratively develop and analyze a series of economic, socio-cultural and geographic indicators for access barriers to primary care services within Primary Care Service Areas--geographic areas directly related to primary care utilization patterns in the State using existing and newly available data and to disseminate this information through NH DHHS and in research papers to assist in reducing disparities in NH in the availability and utilization of primary care services.

To help fund a forum for North Country Health Consortium members and other partners to come together with the support of a consultant to develop a strategic plan for long-term, sustainable access to oral health services for all North Country residents.

To define the scope of the health insurance crisis currently plaguing NH's child care industry by conducting in partnership with others a survey targeted to child care providers regarding health insurance coverage and disseminating this information to key stakeholders, business leaders, legislators, potential funders, and child care providers.

To determine the scope of the problem of child abuse in NH in a way that better informs prevention, intervention and treatment efforts.

To build upon Healthy NH 2010 to create a community health model to provide better access to prevention and treatment particularly for vulnerable populations by examining the processes related to how policies, networks (formal, informal), institutions and the public interact to produce more effective prevention and treatment strategies in the community.

To conduct the planning activities necessary to successfully establish a Community Dental Center which provides access to affordable dental care to low-income, uninsured, underinsured residents of Southern Strafford County.

To develop, implement and evaluate 1) a web-based health data query system for NH and 2) training and educational materials that promote and support the community health improvement process in NH reflecting community input from the work of the Empowering Communities with Data project to date.

Project will ensure local access to health and human services and support through family resource centers in every community in NH by creating a pilot model which provides local access to DHHS and contracting providers; supports and advocates for people navigating the service system; and facilitates civic dialogue, leadership development, mutual aid and the development of new or existing local supports and services and work with DHHS and Network NH to develop a statewide replication plan.