Awarded Grants

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 .

To create a new user-friendly guidebook by revising and integrating the current guidebooks, Family Guidebook for Children & Adolescents with Severe Emotional Disorders and Parents as Case Managers.

To convene all NH professionals who work with and for adolescents in order to promote new professional and service networks, and to provide a comprehensive, statewide educational offering on the needs of adolescents in NH.

To provide one time funding for an unexpected opportunity to access cost effective training during a program reorganization which will improve the techniques and skills of a newly created service unit to work more effectively with families and children with special medical, educational and social needs, and to better respond to families in a timely and focused manner.

2,500 booster seats will be distributed to income eligible parents for children ages 4-8. 245 are earmarked for Merrimack Valley, the remainder for statewide distribution. The program is coordinated by the Merrimack County United Way and is sponsored by Ford Motor Company as the National Boost America Program.

The grant will cover the direct costs of two mailings by New Hampshire Healthy Kids to enrollees in Merrimack County and a second to enrollees statewide--All part of the target audience for the program.

Avis Goodwin Community Health Center incurrred unexpected expenses. The Executive Director and one of the physicians left Avis Goodwin. As a result, the health center paid $13,600 in earned time and are liable for $9,707 for the physician's malpractice tail coverage. These expenses produced a hardship.

The project will increase the capacity of community hospitals in NH to effectively respond to a biological, chemical, nuclear or other incident that involves injuries and deaths. Events of September 11th and the anthrax cases that followed identified gaps in our ability to address new forms of terror and our ability to respond. Hospitals are the front-line for local public health and medical care for most NH residents in the event of biological, chemical or nuclear incident. The project will identify functions and roles in creating a statewide hospital emergency mutual aid network, create and implement a mutual aid network, identify and modify legal and regulatory barriers to preparedness and establish an on-going system to monitor and test the mutual aid network.

The grant will provide the expertise and leadership of a medical consultant to address the clinical dimensions of creating a statewide hospital emergency mutual aid network and accomplish this in a timely manner. The grant will assess current clinical elements of preparedness (e.g., triage protocols, quarantine and decontamination procedures, pharmaceutical inventories, clinical staffing capacity, etc.) and integrate these elements into a coordinated plan with 32 hospitals and the State, based on agreements defining specific roles and resources within the hospital emergency mutual aid network.

To provide transitional funding for the Norwell Home transitional housing program acquired December 1, 2001. Funding will ensure the current five residents and their children avoid homelessness, and continue to receive supportive services and therapy.