Awarded Grants

To enhance system practice and performance and improve outcomes for youth in NH's juvenile justice system, many of whom have unmet behavioral health needs, by conducting a process evaluation

To enhance system practice and performance and improve outcomes for youth in NH's juvenile justice system, many of whom have unmet behavioral health needs, by conducting an analysis of NH's juvenile justice system.

To provide nonprofit advocacy capacity in NH including access to advocacy education for nonprofits by developing nonprofit advocacy capacity within the NH Center for Nonprofits.

To help create lasting system change to improve the health and reduce the burden of illness for the people of New Hampshire by training health system stakeholders in the use of systems dynamics modeling to effectively address health system challenges.

To lay the groundwork for a conversation about the real drivers of health care costs in New Hampshire by decomposing health care growth into its various factors - input price changes, utilization affects, demographic changes and hospital cost/price changes.

To support, improve, and expand integrated primary care and behavioral health care services for rural NH children, families, and adults through local and cross-site evaluation, and creation of a model for ongoing evaluation to advance integrated health care policy in the state.

Friends Forever will work collaboratively with the Manchester community to build trust and mutual understanding among the immigration, refugee, and majority populations of youth by providing social inclusion services and leadership training to a diverse cross-community group of Manchester teens.

To help adjudicated youth in Sullivan County build positive, productive futures and to reduce the need for expensive residential placement by providing a range of community-based targeted interventions using a wraparound approach.

To improve access to gender responsive and trauma-informed substance abuse services for women and girls by enhancing knowledge through counselor and mental health professional training.

To build awareness for the importance of early childhood development in the future physical, mental and behavioral health of children by hosting a conference Invest in Coos Kids in May 2011.

To provide technical assistance and support in the preparation of a grant application to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration under its Cooperative Agreements for Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program.

The goal of this discussion would be to give Seacoast leaders an understanding of the impact and interconnectedness between needs, costs, and service delivery.