Awarded Grants

The project will organize a planning process that will develop a proposed model for an integrated dental services administrative support system for commonly administered operational functions of the dental service program for participating CHC members; to develop a model of health services integration for oral health status screening and education for selected at-risk populations (prenatal and children).

To help fund the personnel capacity for the North Country Health Consortium to do an inventory and analysis of resources and needs and to design and begin implementation of a coordinated system in the Lancaster to Littleton route in conjunction with the pilot project to be funded by NH Department of Transportation.

To collaboratively develop and analyze a series of economic, socio-cultural and geographic indicators for access barriers to primary care services within Primary Care Service Areas--geographic areas directly related to primary care utilization patterns in the State using existing and newly available data and to disseminate this information through NH DHHS and in research papers to assist in reducing disparities in NH in the availability and utilization of primary care services.

To help fund a forum for North Country Health Consortium members and other partners to come together with the support of a consultant to develop a strategic plan for long-term, sustainable access to oral health services for all North Country residents.

This grant will assist in managing and monitoring the dramatic increase of requests for counseling services. At this time, Pastoral Counseling Services (PCS) has no technical infrastructure in place. The capabilities of technology will cut down on the cumbersome and wasteful paper flow, track the trends of the mental health needs of the community, and enable PCS to install a development software package for fundraising initiatives. The $30,390 would purchase technical equipment and assist with the implementation of a web site

To help fund an opportunity to expand the focus of the New Hampshire Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Recovery's annual prevention conference to include intervention and treatment.

Grant funds will be used to support the first phase of a multi-year project to identify and support public policy proposals that will reduce the percentage of NH's population that lacks health insurance as outlined in the July 12, 2002 Proposal. The project will build on the work already completed by the Adult Coverage Subcommittee created by legislation in 1999 and by the NH Department of Health and Human Services. The first phase of the project will collect and analyze information necessary to develop policy alternatives.

To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue the implementation of the project at the pilot site of Berlin and continue planning and implementation in Littleton, Haverhill, Lancaster and Colebrook HSA's.

To expand the model of comprehensive health care used by Child Health Services to private pediatric practices by adding family support workers to health teams to address social needs of low income children.

In conjunctions with a number of other funders including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Endowment for Health will help fund a multi-year initiative launched by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) to increase its capacity to regularly and extensively cover health news of various disciplines. Through specialized coverage and community engagement, NHPR seeks to enhance the public's understanding of a variety of health issues.

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 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