Awarded Grants

To increase access to workers' compensation medical benefits for injured immigrant workers.

To improve health and access to health care services for African immigrant/refugee youth and their families by conducting a needs assessment, developing leadership skills among African youth and creating strategies to address the identified needs.

To promote improved integration of NH's increasing immigrant and refugee populations by developing a statewide humanities initiative focused on increasing knowledge and understanding of immigration nationally and in NH and promoting cultural exchange and understanding between and among newcomers and the NH's receiving communities.

To improve coordination of interpretation services and thus access to care for deaf and hard of hearing individuals by developing and implementing an online interpreter assignment system.

To empower and strengthen the role and participation of African women and girls in reducing health disparities by removing or reducing some of the social and cultural barriers to access health services.

Work towards building community consensus that can address both institutional and internalized social-cultural barriers that contribute to racial and ethnic health disparities by convening a multi-racial, multi-cultural group of community residents and social and human service providers for a 2.5 day Undoing Racism workshop.