Awarded Grants

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.

Created to work on developing a plan to meet the transportation needs of this region, RTC evolved into a provider of demand/response transport services to the isolated, frail and elderly. In the 2001/2002 project year, RTC became involved through a DOT grant, in a planning activity to assess need and develop a broad solution for transit services in this region in cooperation with the Regional Planning Commission of Southern NH, Rockingham County and Nashua. As the study process unfolds, with the first report expected in October, diminishing resources for operating expenses have forced the Council to eliminate the single paid position and dedicate all resources to service delivery and implementing study recommendations when available. At a critical point in furthering the efforts to design a creative system of transportation for local communities, the Regional Transportation Council is seeking immediate emergency assistance for the Endowment for Health leveraged with committed resources from the Alexander Eastman Foundation and the Community Transit Association of American to sustain the organization as the solution develops and support that activity.

At the end of September will receive the recommendations of the Regional Planning Commission study of transportation needs in this region. It is expected that recommendations will include creation of a simplified call center for coordination of paratransit vehicles across 11 communities, as well as the first steps towards creating a regional transit authority through NHDOT. CTAA, RTC will work to implement the recommendations of the Regional Planning Commission study as agreed to by stakeholder participants through year-end. such activities will include stakeholder buy-in, model planning and fund development. through-out the period, the Council will continue to provide demand/response transport services to the frail and elderly of the area as solution development unfolds.

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.

To initiate a project to increase the awareness & knowledge of medical care providers about dental disease; to maximize opportunities for pediatricians/family physicians to utilize preventive oral health interventions; to facilitate cooperation between medical & dental communities.