Awarded Grants

Empowering Communities with Data: Grant will enable researchers to design and develop a business plan, budget, funding strategy and additional grant initiative to eventually provide communities with access to local population based health data and information. This will help communities better implement evidence based community health planning and education.

Assuring Cultural competence in Southern New Hampshire Develomental Disability Services: A one year planning grant will help address the cultural competency needs of the Area Agency of Nashua and to develop a strategic plan to address barriers to the delivery of service to the developmentally disabled and their families who are of minority ethnicity. Program will be replicated in the other Area Agencies throughout New Hampshire.

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.

Access to Assistive Technology: Grant will help ATECH Services collaboratively provide access to assistive technology (AT) products and services by individuals with severe disabilities. Project will provide a pool of AT equipment, a mobile service delivery unit (for on-site rural outreach), and a resource pool of business and community members to support AT users within local communities.

Deaf People Accessing Health: Grant will help build a system of support and comprehensive services statewide to allow full and equal access to deaf residents, focusing on the expansion of medical interpreting and health care advocacy in the state.

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.

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.

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.