Awarded Grants

To develop the plans in partnership with a pilot school for PROJECT BUILD a community owned and operated prevention leadership program for 6th grade students using the Teen Institute program methodology and training format of training and motivating local volunteers to conduct their own prevention program.

Liveable, Walkable Communities: Grant will enalble the Association to convene key stakeholders- including representatives from health, planning, conservation, transportation, community development, environmental, business, and disabled communities - to develop an Action Plan to create and promote Liveable, Walkable Communities (LWC).

Substance-Use Disorders, Crime, and Treatment: Grant will help fund the gathering and analysis of data describing relationships between alcohol and other drug abuse in New Hampshire, in relation to crime and incarceration data. Research will focus on apparent apparent lack of access to treatment options for those on parole or probation, and rates of recidivism.

Study of Birth Defects Surveillance System for the State of NH: Grant will help lay the groundwork for the development of a birth defects surveillance system in New Hampshire.

Adult Day Services Program Expansion: Grant will help develop plans to double the Adult Day Services Program (ADSP) by opening a second site. This grant will also help the Agency address the limitations of current funding streams, transportation, and need for donated space.

Assessment and Dissemination of Community Benefit Information and Practices: Grant will help the Community Health Institute analyze how New Hampshire's Health Care Charitable Trust's community benefit plans compare to the community needs assessment, and then to disseminate findings to communities and charitable trusts.

To provide a Discretionary Venture Grant for a forum for NCHC members and others to acquire a better understanding of services currently being provided for medical transportation in the North Country; issues/barriers existing for patients and providers of medical transportation; how NCHC members could influence support solutions; and to develop an agenda, purpose, and outcome for a rural transportation summit in early 2002 for the purpose of identifying solutions and opportunities for sustaining medical transportation services and developing action steps to develop a collaborative solution to the North Country's transportation needs.

Chamber Health Care Coalition: This Discretionary Venture Grant will assist small and medium-size businesses through survey analysis throughout New Hampshire to better understand how to provide affordable health insurance to their employees.

Medical Appointment Transportation: This Discretionary Venture Grant will support a pilot mileage reimbursement incentive to volunteer drivers who provide rides to medical appointments. A crisis in driver recruitment precipitated funding.

Mobile HIV Testing Van: A Discretionary Bridge Grant to equip a van with HIV testing supplies and personnel, to help meet an unanticipated high demand for HIV outreach services in the area.

Enhancing Quality Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care: Grant will help the Concord Regional Family Health Center design an effective screening process for correlating patients' psychological/social behaviors and their physical health conditions, as related to their functional abilities. The project will furnish medical and mental health providers with information that will facilitate effective interventions (considering the ' whole person' ), and will share this tool with other New Hampshire community health centers.

New Hampshire Nursing Home Town Meeting: Grant will help support a gathering to bring together representatives of County, State and Federal agencies who work in, operate and regulate nursing home facilities, as well as private for-profit and non-profit providers and resident representatives. The goal of the gathering is to engage in an organized public policy dialogue with the State's Congressional Delegation, and learn more about the increasingly complicated relationship between Federal, State, and County regulations and funding. Another goal is to build better communication and understanding of all the parties involved.