Awarded Grants

The UNH Center on Aging and Community Living (CACL) will advance a collective impact approach and a shared vision for elder friendly communities in NH by providing core back bone support to the NH Alliance for Healthy Aging

To strengthen the early childhood field by supporting research needed to inform policy decisions.

To increase integration and social inclusion of immigrants and refugees in the Lakes Region by implementing a multi-sector plan to promote economic, educational, social, and cultural integration of newcomers.

To improve the ability of the immigrant integration initiative partners to advance successful economic integration strategies and sustain their overall efforts beyond year 3 of implementation through technical assistance and shared planning.

To support an increased number of NH organizations and businesses in their efforts to become Culturally Effective Organizations by dissemination of lessons learned and techniques developed to create a COECEC at the Manchester Community Health Center through developing a Web-Based Culturally Effective Organization Toolkit/Guide, a companion Training Program and Online Webinar to be housed on the MCHC website.

To inspire action that prevents child abuse and neglect and promotes health and well-being by hosting a statewide conference

To create welcoming communities in NH into which immigrants are more likely to integrate by facilitating community collaboration, promoting a welcoming community climate and advocating for institutional change that promotes mutual respect and cooperation between foreign-born and U.S.-born Americans.

To serve as a learning collaborative and safe space where practitioners from four funded regions can learn together how to implement and sustain a robust and successful immigrant integration initiative AND maintain a learning community to share knowledge and address ongoing challenges that arise through the planning, implementation and sustainability phases.

To identify, develop and evaluate methods to train and engage hospital Patient Family Advisory Councils across the continuum of care and in the community.

To increase awareness of the need to shift thinking around planning, design and development of our communities to accommodate our changing needs as we grow older, and to introduce ideas and tools that communities might use to address them through a statewide Plan NH conference.

To document, educate and promote the positive health outcomes and cost savings achieved through supportive housing services and work toward a supportive housing benefit within Medicaid.

To support advocacy capacity to advance the priorities and strategies of the New Hampshire Alliance for Healthy Aging and its partners.