Awarded Grants

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.

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

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.

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.

To initiate and intensively engage citizens in debate around issues of access to health care, thereby building public support for new models & systemic change at the local & state level; build an active network of citizen leaders who can speak to the issues.

To implement a comprehensive dental clinic within Families First Health Center, a CHC, which will provide preventive & restorative services to adults & children integrating the clinic into the continuum of oral health services provided by Seacoast Dental Coalition which includes Families First Health Center.

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 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