Awarded Grants

The Long Distance Medical program, a division of North Country Transportation, acts as liaison between those needing transportation for medical appointments including dialysis, cancer treatments, and other medical services performed in hospitals out of their area, and volunteer drivers. The program provides mileage reimbursement to the volunteer drivers who use their own vehicles, but would like to offer them more incentives as a means of recruiting and retaining volunteers. A wheel-chair accessible vehicle is also needed for those clients who cannot transfer from wheelchairs to regular vehicles.

To extend the Family Mediation Services to include Victim Offender Mediation.

To convene the Presidents of all post secondary institutions in NH (public, private, 2-year, 4-year) for a round table with a national expert on the use of social norming to combat the illegal use and abuse of alcohol on college campuses in NH

Kids Count: Grant will help expand the capacity of the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire Kids Count project by imporving its' capacity to collect, process and analyze children's health data and to effectively communicate this vital information to a broad audience.

Assessing New Hampshire North Country Health Data: Grant will help to locate and critically assess the available data on the health status of New Hampshire residents in the North Country and the availability of health care providers.

Steppingstones Evaluation: Grant will enable the Kremples Foundation to conduct an in-depth evaluation of Steppingstones, a program whose goal is to improve the quality of life for brain injury survivors. The program will identify the program's strengths and weaknesses and develop a plan to improve the programs' overall effectiveness.

Empowering Communities with Data: Grant will enable researchers to design and develop a business plan, budget, funding strategy and additional grant initiative to eventually provide communities with access to local population based health data and information. This will help communities better implement evidence based community health planning and education.

Assuring Cultural competence in Southern New Hampshire Develomental Disability Services: A one year planning grant will help address the cultural competency needs of the Area Agency of Nashua and to develop a strategic plan to address barriers to the delivery of service to the developmentally disabled and their families who are of minority ethnicity. Program will be replicated in the other Area Agencies throughout New Hampshire.

To develop the plans in partnership with a pilot school for PROJECT BUILD a community owned and operated prevention leadership program for 6th grade students using the Teen Institute program methodology and training format of training and motivating local volunteers to conduct their own prevention program.

Liveable, Walkable Communities: Grant will enalble the Association to convene key stakeholders- including representatives from health, planning, conservation, transportation, community development, environmental, business, and disabled communities - to develop an Action Plan to create and promote Liveable, Walkable Communities (LWC).

Substance-Use Disorders, Crime, and Treatment: Grant will help fund the gathering and analysis of data describing relationships between alcohol and other drug abuse in New Hampshire, in relation to crime and incarceration data. Research will focus on apparent apparent lack of access to treatment options for those on parole or probation, and rates of recidivism.

Study of Birth Defects Surveillance System for the State of NH: Grant will help lay the groundwork for the development of a birth defects surveillance system in New Hampshire.