Awarded Grants

Respite Child Care: Grant helps the Respite Child Care Coalition collaboratively implement, evaluate, and disseminate a pilot model of respite child care for vulnerable families (families that include children with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and other developmental or mental challenges). Program includes education, outreach, and financial assistance.

To develop a statewide training program for medical interpreters; a program to broker interpreter services as a pilot in Manchester with later expansion to Nashua & Portsmouth; a training program to educate health professionals on cultural competency and use of a medical interpreter as well as an education and outreach to health care consumers with limited English proficiency about medical interpretation in same three communities; and a continuing education program for trained medical interpretors.

Bringing Children Home: Grant will help VNA's collaboratively develop a new pediatric home care model in Belknap, Cheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham and Sullivan counties. The new program will address the gap between the acutely ill pediatric patients' needs and current home care delivery capabilities.

Dental Access on the Seacoast: Grant will help expand Seacoast Healthy Grins, a model school-based screening, cleaning and referral program for children in Portsmouth elementary schools (currently K-3); expand screenings at Families First well-child clinics and Head Start; and expand referral and dental case management network of Seacare Dental Services. Grant will also help plan for a model Dental Center at Families First to serve more low-income patients in the Seacoast area.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project: A one-year planning grant to develop (and obtain school board approval for) a program to screen 7th grade females in the Manchester school system who are identified as high risk for becoming pregnant and then provide pregnancy prevention programs and follow up through high school.

Meeting the Oral Health Needs of the Lakes Region and Twin Rivers Region: Grant will help the Healthfirst Family Care Center and Lakes Region Health Care collaboratively develop a model comprehensive system of oral health services for the low income population of the Lakes and Twin Rivers Region Dental Health Provider Shortage Area (DHPSA), while also training student interns from the Tufts University School of Dentistry.

To respond to the local community needs assessment to better understand the issues at the root of youth violence by presenting a free, public evening talk by a nationally recognized leader in the area of healthy development of boys and an all day workshop for professional who work with boys in the Monadnock region.

To conduct a first-ever statewide needs assessment of the blind and visually impaired community in NH to identify unmet needs and gaps in service in order to develop future model solutions.

CHANCES: This Discretionary Venture Grant will help, in combination with other grants, to expand geographic reach of this program, which offers court diversion and intervention services. Not receiving an anticipated grant (which would have resulted in returning other contingent grants) is one of the factors precipitating funding.

Child Health Services: This is a one-year Bridge Grant to assist in offsetting an operating deficit for FY2002. Child Health Services provides pediatric medical services for low income children in greater Manchester. Unexpected decrease in community financial support is one of the factors precipitating this discretionary grant.

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Americorps Victim Assistance Program: This is a one-year Bridge Grant to support ongoing operating expenses. Changes in funding formula, and loss of both in-kind space and no-cost health insurance for employees are among the factors precipitating funding.

To support the rental of a 15 passenger van for the AIR program. AIR offers a free, intensive 6-week arts program for economically disadvantaged teen girls. Unforeseen loss of anticipated funding precipitated funding.