Awarded Grants

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Community Health Prevention and Treatment Initiative: Grant will help plan a community health model to provide better access to prevention and treatment, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations by looking at the relaionship between community health data and personal medical care.

Weeks on Wheels: A Discretionary Bridge Grant to help leverage dollars to purchase a mobile health care van, improving access to health care in the region.

Planning and Staff Development: Grant will aid in the development an updated strategic plan for the NH Healthy Kids Corp Board, its community and State partners as well as implement staff development to prepare for implementation of such plan.

TAP 2000/01 Multi-Community Report: Grant will help create and examine an aggregate database across 55 New Hampshire communities (previously surveyed by TAP) in order to make timely comparisons of teen health risk behavior among communities, and to write and distribute a report of the findings to individuals, organization, and state agencies providing services to adolescents.

Health Care for Incarcerated Youths: Grant will help YDS implement comprehensive health care program for children who loose Medicaid coverage when incarcerated.

Kids Count: Grant will help expand the capacity of the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire Kids Count project by imporving its' capacity to collect, process and analyze children's health data and to effectively communicate this vital information to a broad audience.

Assessing New Hampshire North Country Health Data: Grant will help to locate and critically assess the available data on the health status of New Hampshire residents in the North Country and the availability of health care providers.