Awarded Grants

To strengthen the field of children?s behavioral health by strategically supporting technical assistance to leverage funding from federal and/or national foundation sources.

To assess the state of the Children?s Behavioral Health field in New Hampshire, using the FASST Tool 3.0 and Documentation Review.

To provide civil legal services and engage in systemic advocacy for low-income delinquent and Child in Need of Services (CHINS) youth to ensure that they receive mental health, educational, and other services they need to prevent delinquent behavior and involvement with the juvenile system.

To support implementation of SB 534, an act to implement a system of care for children's behavioral health, by providing technical assistance, data analysis, and research.

To ensure quality advocacy, knowledge development and nonprofit capacity building leadership for the mental health system which supports NH's children and their families by providing operating support.

To fund staffing, consultants and related expenditures associated with building backbone infrastructure to monitor progress, to foster coordination and to align partners for Plan implementation efforts.

To provide civil legal services and engage in systemic advocacy for low-income delinquent and Child in Need of Services (CHINS) youth to ensure that they receive mental health, educational, and other services they need to prevent delinquent behavior and involvement with the juvenile system.

To increase NH's capacity to meet the needs of infants and young children whose healthy brain development is seriously compromised by exposure to violence by supporting train-the-trainer certification in Child Parent Psychotherapy to institutionalize this highly effective evidence-based practice.

To expand the degree to which parents have the leadership skills to engage in the continuum of social change strategies from direct service, public issue education, advocacy, and policy change by conducting a study to understand the current NH environment and best practices in parent/caregiver engagement and leadership development nationally; and by conducting a gap analysis which will result in a shared set of goals and specific activities to strengthen parent leadership capacity in NH.

To improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of the behavioral health service delivery system for children, adolescents and their families and to create a foundation for training the children

To ensure quality advocacy, knowledge development and nonprofit capacity building leadership for the mental health system which supports NH's children and their families by providing operating support.

To improve the behavioral health of NH’s children and their families by implementing a collective impact initiative based on the March 2013 plan, Transforming Children’s Behavioral Health Care.