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Awarded
September 30, 2001
Gateways Community Services
Adult Day Services Program Expansion: Grant will help develop plans to double the Adult Day Services Program (ADSP) by opening a second site. This grant will also help the Agency address the limitations of current funding streams, transportation, and need for donated space.
Amount Awarded:
$8,000
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
Community Health Institute/JSI Research & Training
Assessment and Dissemination of Community Benefit Information and Practices: Grant will help the Community Health Institute analyze how New Hampshire's Health Care Charitable Trust's community benefit plans compare to the community needs assessment, and then to disseminate findings to communities and charitable trusts.
Amount Awarded:
$83,839
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
North Country Health Consortium
To provide a Discretionary Venture Grant for a forum for NCHC members and others to acquire a better understanding of services currently being provided for medical transportation in the North Country; issues/barriers existing for patients and providers of medical transportation; how NCHC members could influence support solutions; and to develop an agenda, purpose, and outcome for a rural transportation summit in early 2002 for the purpose of identifying solutions and opportunities for sustaining medical transportation services and developing action steps to develop a collaborative solution to the North Country's transportation needs.
Amount Awarded:
$5,165
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
Growth Opportunity Alliance of Greater Lawrence
Chamber Health Care Coalition: This Discretionary Venture Grant will assist small and medium-size businesses through survey analysis throughout New Hampshire to better understand how to provide affordable health insurance to their employees.
Amount Awarded:
$8,700
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
Concord Hospital
Enhancing Quality Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care: Grant will help the Concord Regional Family Health Center design an effective screening process for correlating patients' psychological/social behaviors and their physical health conditions, as related to their functional abilities. The project will furnish medical and mental health providers with information that will facilitate effective interventions (considering the ' whole person' ), and will share this tool with other New Hampshire community health centers.
Amount Awarded:
$91,000
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
American Red Cross, Concord Area Chapter
Medical Appointment Transportation: This Discretionary Venture Grant will support a pilot mileage reimbursement incentive to volunteer drivers who provide rides to medical appointments. A crisis in driver recruitment precipitated funding.
Amount Awarded:
$9,500
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
New Hampshire Association of Counties' Nursing Home Administrators
New Hampshire Nursing Home Town Meeting: Grant will help support a gathering to bring together representatives of County, State and Federal agencies who work in, operate and regulate nursing home facilities, as well as private for-profit and non-profit providers and resident representatives. The goal of the gathering is to engage in an organized public policy dialogue with the State's Congressional Delegation, and learn more about the increasingly complicated relationship between Federal, State, and County regulations and funding. Another goal is to build better communication and understanding of all the parties involved.
Amount Awarded:
$12,500
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region
Mobile HIV Testing Van: A Discretionary Bridge Grant to equip a van with HIV testing supplies and personnel, to help meet an unanticipated high demand for HIV outreach services in the area.
Amount Awarded:
$10,000
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
Foundation for Healthy Communities
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.
Amount Awarded:
$15,000
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
Weeks Medical Center
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.
Amount Awarded:
$10,000
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
New Hampshire Healthy Kids Corporation
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.
Amount Awarded:
$15,500
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Awarded
September 30, 2001
University of New Hampshire
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.
Amount Awarded:
$10,800