Awarded Grants

Program to Increase Assess to Mental Health: Grant will help intitiate a new program in Nashua to increase access to mental health care for Nashua's Latino community by building on an established program in Manchester. The program provides outreach and education about mental illness (including interpreter services), and incorporates cultural competency outreach to mental health providers.

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.

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.

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.