Awarded Grants

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 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.

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.