Awarded Grants

To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue implementation & evaluation of training program and to develop a program to broker interpreter services as a pilot in Manchester with later expansion to Nashua & Portsmouth to develop a training program to educate health professionals on cultural competency & use of a medical interpreter as well as education and outreach to health care consumers with limited English proficiency about medical interpretation in same three communities; to develop continuing education program for trained medical interpreters

To establish a model coordinated transportation brokerage system that will maximize the use of existing transportation services & expand availability of transportation to medical services for the low-income, elderly & disabled residents of Merrimack County.

To add new dental equipment into currently existing/ recently renovated dental office at a nursing home/retirement community to expand services to nursing home residents & increase access to retirement community residents who currently have minimal access

Purchase of used box truck to transport food for food pantry, appliances, and furniture.

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.

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.