Awarded Grants

To implement a comprehensive dental clinic within Families First Health Center, a CHC, which will provide preventive & restorative services to adults & children integrating the clinic into the continuum of oral health services provided by Seacoast Dental Coalition which includes Families First Health Center.

To expand the model of comprehensive health care used by Child Health Services to private pediatric practices by adding family support workers to health teams to address social needs of low income children.

In conjunctions with a number of other funders including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Endowment for Health will help fund a multi-year initiative launched by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) to increase its capacity to regularly and extensively cover health news of various disciplines. Through specialized coverage and community engagement, NHPR seeks to enhance the public's understanding of a variety of health issues.

To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue implementation & evaluation of training program and to develop a program to broker interpreter services as a pilot in Manchester with later expansion to Nashua & Portsmouth to develop a training program to educate health professionals on cultural competency & use of a medical interpreter as well as education and outreach to health care consumers with limited English proficiency about medical interpretation in same three communities; to develop continuing education program for trained medical interpreters

To establish a model coordinated transportation brokerage system that will maximize the use of existing transportation services & expand availability of transportation to medical services for the low-income, elderly & disabled residents of Merrimack County.

To add new dental equipment into currently existing/ recently renovated dental office at a nursing home/retirement community to expand services to nursing home residents & increase access to retirement community residents who currently have minimal access

Purchase of used box truck to transport food for food pantry, appliances, and furniture.

Futuro Saludable brings comprehensive HIV Prevention programming to at-risk Latinos in Greater Nashua. Through a collaborative effort with the NH Minority Coalition and the Nashua Public Health Dept., multi-week health workshops, street outreach, and referrals provide risk-behavior counseling, knowledge, and skills to Latina women, hard-hit by the epidemic in So. New Hampshire.

The Discretionary Grant will allow us to complete the final six-week health workshop and continue part-time outreach until July 1st when additional resources will become available.

To disseminate the findings of the community benefit plan analysis ( funded by the Endowment in 2001) to communities and charitable trusts at a statewide conference in the fall of 2002.

To plan and develop a family and community resource center in which six nonprofits co-locate to provide the Greater Peterborough area with improved access to health, social and economic services.

To prepare the CHS network for the implementation of the NH Community Technology Partnership software program(a statewide single-point-of- entry care coordination and access system) to assist underserved populations .