Awarded Grants

To leverage funds which have now become available that will enable us to start up an adolescent injury prevention program at six pilot sites.

A campaign to promote helmet use among teens, who have the highest risk for traumatic brain injury of all age groups, yet the lowest rate of helmet use.

To convene a statewide conference, Expand Your Vision: Hire the Visually Impaired. to begin the process of opening doors to economic independence for many visually impaired residents by providing an opportunity for employers, consumers and service providers to work and learn together about employment barriers for visually impaired individuals and how they can be overcome.

To help fund personnel costs, including consultants and meeting costs, to develop through a series of planning activities a sustainable plan for a regional, coordinated transportation system to access primary, secondary, and tertiary health care in the Twin Rivers and Lakes Region.

To conduct a survey, needs assessment and evaluation to determine current gaps in services to victims of domestic and sexual violence, training needs of professionals who work with victims, and the effectiveness of the Governor's Commission's multi-disciplinary responses.

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 identify & address the long term needs of high risk adolescents to prevent teen pregnancy utilizing a school-based model in Manchester middle schools.

To continue a newly instituted program in Nashua developed with the NH Minority Health Coalition to increase access to mental health care for Latino/Hispanic populations & to transfer the model to other communities.

To strengthen the financial sustainability of NH CHC fundraising; to provide financial TA for systems barriers in operations of CHC's.

The Access Project proposes to work in partnership with the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) on an effort to educate and inform hospitals, health care providers, immigrant and health advocates, and groups interested in expanding health care access of the availability of federal funds to defray the cost of providing language interpreters. Between June and December of 2002, TAP and NHeLP propose to develop an Language Services Action Kit for nationwide distribution and implement work in 2 to 4 states supporting provider/immigrant coalitions. These coalitions will work to educate opinion leaders and policy makers on the importance of providing language services and investigate the feasibility of implementing the federal reimbursement option for these services.