Awarded Grants

To improve access to evidence-based behavioral health care for adolescents in the Newport area by planning designed to integrate treatment within an existing school-based primary care clinic.

To improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of the behavioral health service delivery system for children, adolescents, and their families who use New Hampshire's community mental health system by finalizing, disseminating, and developing a set of core competencies and creating a sustainable training network for direct service and supervisory level staff who work with children and adolescents with behavioral health challenges and their families.

To ensure quality advocacy, knowledge development and nonprofit capacity building for the mental health system which supports NH's children and their families by sustaining the general operations of key related NH nonprofits.

To ensure delinquent and CHINS youth receive the mental health, educational and other services they need by providing civil legal services in collaboration with courts, juvenile services officers, public defenders, mental health providers, schools and other key organizations serving children and youth.

To identify early childhood developmental concerns and to increase access to coordinated supports and services for NH's young children and their families by expanding developmental screening, referral, and parent/caregiver education through the Watch Me Grow (WMG) system.

To reduce the impact of suicide in NH by presenting a Suicide Prevention Conference, a forum to promote best practices in suicide prevention and to network.

To increase the psychopharmacological management capacity of Primary Care and Family Physicians to treat children and adolescents in the Concord area by implementing the REACH Institute's mini-fellowship program in child psychiatry and providing consultation for 18-months.

To improve awareness of and response to the needs of NH children with emotional/behavioral challenges by disseminating a documentary film and educational materials on best practices, engaging stakeholders in dialogue, conducting public education through on-line and multi-media outreach, and educating policymakers and administrators to inform systems change.

To enhance advocacy and supportive services for children exposed to violence in their homes by training advocates in local domestic violence service programs using a national trauma-informed curriculum.

To improve outcomes for children with mental health needs who are currently in or are at-risk for out-of-home placement by piloting a high fidelity wraparound approach in Belknap County and by creating a financing mechanism to braid funding across child serving systems.

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.

To provide integrated, family-centered care designed specifically to serve children and families facing the unique challenges presented by homelessness and co-occurring mental illness/substance abuse disorders by reducing common barriers to care faced by vulnerable families.