Awarded Grants

To continue to increase the knowledge and advocacy skills of NH small business owners and individuals regarding quality, affordable health care policy issues at both state and national level.

To improve immigrant integration and advance health equity by providing the most current research, policy analysis and other resources necessary to effectively address the challenges facing newcomers and their host communities.

To promote health and equity and address health disparities in NH by developing the NH Health & Equity Partnership, focusing on strengthening partnerships through advancing leadership, enhancing knowledge, and fostering networking and collaboration.

This research project uses a mixed-method approach to analyze the extent of racial/ethnic diversity in NH's healthcare workforce and the role of social networks in influencing employment and advancement opportunities; and will inform policy recommendations for employers, workforce development leaders, educational institutions and others.

To improve regional transportation services for people in Strafford and Eastern Rockingham Counties by coordinating transportation services offered by COAST and multiple human service transportation provider agencies.

Nursing Quest Summer Camps will offer camp experiences to minority campers and promote awareness of the nursing profession among youth from diverse cultures and ultimate expand diversity within the future nursing workforce.

To implement a more efficient and effective community transportation system for citizens of the State of New Hampshire by making live a coordinated computerized Transportation Coordination Service System that will enable: (1) single regionalized points of contact for citizens looking for information on available transportation services and schedule rides; and (2) coordinate transportation service provision through a regional RTC, which will allocate scheduled trips to participating providers, establishing and streamlining common eligibility determinations, claims processing, and data management functions.

To improve access to pharmacy assistance for uninsured or underinsured individuals by extending the Unused Medication program statewide and by forming a new entity that will manage and sustain the program into the future.

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 sustaining the general operations of key related NH nonprofits.

To provide trauma-informed services to children exposed to violence in their homes and the non-offending parent by developing a cohort of trauma-informed advocates and providing training and technical assistance to member agencies.

To create a Center of Excellence for Culturally Effective Care (COECEC)within Manchester Community Health Center by
1-institutionalizing best and model practices of a culturally effective organization (language access, Race Ethnicity and Language (REaL) data , cultural competence, and workforce diversity),
2-creating capacity for leading and teaching quality improvement efforts to address health disparities,
3-and implementing a Community Health Worker (CHW) pilot project with a targeted cohort from two patient populations that experience a higher prevalence of health disparities.

To improve the availability of and access to high quality early childhood mental health supports and services for NH's young children (aged birth to six) and their families by creating and implementing a state early childhood mental health competency system for NH professionals serving this population and by collaborating with the NH Early Childhood Advisory Council on systems building.