Awarded Grants

To create a comprehensive statewide plan to build resiliency and increase overall mental health in youth through after-school programming by supporting a planning process and developing a training curriculum, technical assistance and evaluation resources.

To develop a plan to increase the quality of children's mental health care by leading a community-based work group made up of executive officers and providers and by assisting in the planning and piloting of a model telepsychiatry intervention requiring collaboration between existing infrastructures.

To improve outcomes for young children (birth to age six years) and their families by collecting data and developing and promoting a plan for a cohesive, integrated system of mental health services and supports founded on evidence-based and promising practices.

To create a comprehensive plan to improve the career development and retention of children's mental health counselors who provide front-line intervention to children with severe emotional disorders by conducting a needs assessment; identifying and engaging organizational partners; and developing a collaborative plan to deliver an integrated professional development system for front-line children's mental health counselors with NH service providers.

To improve the mental health and well being of children, youth, and families in Dover by strengthening the ability of the Dover Kid's Cabinet to assess community needs, develop an integrated community approach, and sustain these efforts.

To plan and design a cost-efficient videoconferencing network that would link experts in child/adolescent trauma treatment with NH community mental health centers seeking training and supervision to improve their clinician's ability to furnish quality care to traumatized youth.

To demonstrate the negative and positive affects of different frames available to talk about Mental Health, and to explain these in ways that communications practitioners can understand in order to strengthen their messages and materials, thereby enhancing their potential for better public understanding and support.