Awarded Grants

Project will ensure local access to health and human services and support through family resource centers in every community in NH by creating a pilot model which provides local access to DHHS and contracting providers; supports and advocates for people navigating the service system; and facilitates civic dialogue, leadership development, mutual aid and the development of new or existing local supports and services and work with DHHS and Network NH to develop a statewide replication plan.

To develop, implement and evaluate 1) a web-based health data query system for NH and 2) training and educational materials that promote and support the community health improvement process in NH reflecting community input from the work of the Empowering Communities with Data project to date.

To forge strategic alliances, plan & complete a community health assessment, & initiate discussion with key stakeholders around solutions to the problem of an absent public health infrastructure & to develop the methodology to allow it to make a long-term commitment to partner communities in the Gr. Derry area to create a professionally staffed, organizational entity whose responsibility is to fulfill the obligations of a local public health department in the form of a regional cooperative health district

To examine multi-community data for select protective and risk factors within the various levels of the ecological model of NH youth (i.e., youth,family,school and community) looking at data separately for males and females.

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 support the implementation of this project to enhance the cultural competency of the organization and outreach to developmentally delayed minority populations and their families.

To increase the volume of care & to reduce waiting time for restorative care or oral surgery; to host a dental externship program; to create a dental lab & to expand education, prevention and volunteer programs.

To expand current school-based preventive oral health services in several Rockingham communities in conjunction with the Exeter Hospital oral health van.

The Endowment for Health initiated the FrameWorks Institute to develop a communications plan for the Endowment's Uninsured Project. The objective of the proposal is to determine the culture of our constituency and its composition. We must understand to whom do we wish to communicate and how should these messages be delivered, emphasizing certain issues and avoiding others. We want to prevent public backlash and, at the same time, create support for change in New Hampshire. There are three components of this proposal including:
Solicitation, Survey Research and creating a communication strategy.