Awarded Grants

To conduct and disseminate a comprehensive health and human services needs assessment for Sullivan County.

To collaboratively increase and sustain the body of knowledge regarding New Hampshire's oral health workforce to inform strategic planning in response to oral health status and access issues.

To create a viable business which would provide real work opportunities for students with cognitive impairments.

To develop a strategic vision and implementation plan for future programming of Northeast Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services via a collective effort with other organizations serving deaf individuals in NH.

To comparatively evaluate the New Hampshire Medicaid prepaid dental benefit, fee-for-service program and dental safety net program from the perspective of access, quality and cost.

To identify the current health needs of NH's youth, develop & disseminate a set of comprehensive recommendations & action strategies and assist state & community agencies & coalitions in building capacity for plan implementation.

To revise the guide, Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Teens-A National Guide for Families as a printed, CD and web based document.

To plan and fund a statewide school-based dental sealant program for New Hampshires high risk children.

To address the critical need for improving access to treatment for adolescents and young adults with both mental illness and substance abuse disorder through the development of a coalition of government and private organizations to serve on an advisory council and to lead a summit to determine priorities and strategies to address this issue.

To develop a profile of existing workforce initiatives in NH, convene a group to refine and make recommendations relative to this profile, and maintain an ongoing web presence regarding workforce activities in the state.

To collaboratively develop analytic and policy tools to provide the State of New Hamsphire and its constituents a better understanding of the underlying barriers to access to primary health care in NH.

To assess the language service needs in New Hampshire of limited English proficient pateints in the medical setting, existing capacity and quality of interpretation services provided to these patients, the gap between need and capacity, and potential steps to reduce or eliminate this gap. The report will recommend future actions to evaluate and improve these services to meet present and projected needs. It will be disseminated to a wide range of stakeholders.