Awarded Grants

To establish the new Community Resource Center in Peterborough by building the organizational structures that will ensure its future as a true community serving, sustainable organization with broad and diverse participation.

To recruit and retain medical interpreters to be available as a cost effective support service to New Hampshire health care providers in order to ensure access to all New Hampshire residents especially Limited English Proficient (LEP) population.

To create a community health model in New Hampshire to provide better access to prevention and treatment through the use of evidence-based protocols and interventions.

To implement the New Hampshire Oral Health Plan: A Framework for Action.

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 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 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 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.