Awarded Grants

Community Health Prevention and Treatment Initiative: Grant will help plan a community health model to provide better access to prevention and treatment, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations by looking at the relaionship between community health data and personal medical care.

Weeks on Wheels: A Discretionary Bridge Grant to help leverage dollars to purchase a mobile health care van, improving access to health care in the region.

Planning and Staff Development: Grant will aid in the development an updated strategic plan for the NH Healthy Kids Corp Board, its community and State partners as well as implement staff development to prepare for implementation of such plan.

TAP 2000/01 Multi-Community Report: Grant will help create and examine an aggregate database across 55 New Hampshire communities (previously surveyed by TAP) in order to make timely comparisons of teen health risk behavior among communities, and to write and distribute a report of the findings to individuals, organization, and state agencies providing services to adolescents.

Health Care for Incarcerated Youths: Grant will help YDS implement comprehensive health care program for children who loose Medicaid coverage when incarcerated.

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.

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).

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.