Awarded Grants

To forge strategic alliances, plan & complete a community health assessment, & initiate discussion with key stakeholders around solutions to the problem of an absent public health infrastructure & to develop the methodology to allow it to make a long-term commitment to partner communities in the Gr. Derry area to create a professionally staffed, organizational entity whose responsibility is to fulfill the obligations of a local public health department in the form of a regional cooperative health district

To examine multi-community data for select protective and risk factors within the various levels of the ecological model of NH youth (i.e., youth,family,school and community) looking at data separately for males and females.

Created to work on developing a plan to meet the transportation needs of this region, RTC evolved into a provider of demand/response transport services to the isolated, frail and elderly. In the 2001/2002 project year, RTC became involved through a DOT grant, in a planning activity to assess need and develop a broad solution for transit services in this region in cooperation with the Regional Planning Commission of Southern NH, Rockingham County and Nashua. As the study process unfolds, with the first report expected in October, diminishing resources for operating expenses have forced the Council to eliminate the single paid position and dedicate all resources to service delivery and implementing study recommendations when available. At a critical point in furthering the efforts to design a creative system of transportation for local communities, the Regional Transportation Council is seeking immediate emergency assistance for the Endowment for Health leveraged with committed resources from the Alexander Eastman Foundation and the Community Transit Association of American to sustain the organization as the solution develops and support that activity.

At the end of September will receive the recommendations of the Regional Planning Commission study of transportation needs in this region. It is expected that recommendations will include creation of a simplified call center for coordination of paratransit vehicles across 11 communities, as well as the first steps towards creating a regional transit authority through NHDOT. CTAA, RTC will work to implement the recommendations of the Regional Planning Commission study as agreed to by stakeholder participants through year-end. such activities will include stakeholder buy-in, model planning and fund development. through-out the period, the Council will continue to provide demand/response transport services to the frail and elderly of the area as solution development unfolds.

To maintain access for low income adults to community mental health services by making these services financially viable by developing a loan fund, enhancing financial case management, and improve client financial functioning.

The project will conduct a comprehensive study of the health of NH's community mental health system, which consists of ten regional community mental health centers, 11 regional peer support agencies, and a statewide network of family support organizations, in order to provide a basis for determining & soliciting adequate funding for the system, to identify opportunities to make the system more accessible and effective for the consumers of mental health services & to identify opportunities to achieve cost ef

To leverage funds which have now become available that will enable us to start up an adolescent injury prevention program at six pilot sites.

A campaign to promote helmet use among teens, who have the highest risk for traumatic brain injury of all age groups, yet the lowest rate of helmet use.

To convene a statewide conference, Expand Your Vision: Hire the Visually Impaired. to begin the process of opening doors to economic independence for many visually impaired residents by providing an opportunity for employers, consumers and service providers to work and learn together about employment barriers for visually impaired individuals and how they can be overcome.

To help fund personnel costs, including consultants and meeting costs, to develop through a series of planning activities a sustainable plan for a regional, coordinated transportation system to access primary, secondary, and tertiary health care in the Twin Rivers and Lakes Region.

To conduct a survey, needs assessment and evaluation to determine current gaps in services to victims of domestic and sexual violence, training needs of professionals who work with victims, and the effectiveness of the Governor's Commission's multi-disciplinary responses.

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).