Awarded Grants

To recruit and retain North Country students in health-related occupations to meet the growing demand for health care and to expand the capacity of existing North Country health care providers.

To create a sustainable dental practice for preventative and restorative care that is accessible to all Sullivan County residents including the uninsured, underinsured and Medicaid eligible families.

To help refugee, immigrant and American schoolchildren develop capacity for respect, understanding, and compassion for the life experiences and cultural backgrounds of all people by offering opportunities to increase knowledge and understanding of other cultures, develop intercultural relationships and develop young people as leaders and role models in reducing destructive prejudices and misunderstanding within schools and the broader community through service learning projects.

To assess the health status of minority populations and address health disparities by improving NH's collection of race, ethnicity and language data and developing a State Plan to Reduce Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity.

To improve the health and mental health status of people with severe mental illnesses who also suffer from a co-morbid medical condition and live in a community setting by evaluating the effectiveness of the Healthy Buddy technology (home tele-monitoring)

To improve the well-being of neglected and abused children and their families in Sullivan County by improving access to and availability of evidence-based evaluation and trauma treatment.

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 improve access to mental health services for children and families within a pediatric practice serving extremely vulnerable families and youth by planning for Behavioral Health integration and improving facilitated referrals to community mental health partners.

To ensure children receive quality mental health care services that are safe, effective and appropriate by enhancing knowledge about current NH prescribing practices, increasing awareness, and promoting adoption of evidence-based best practices for prescribing psychotropic drugs.

To improve access to a full range of health care for children in the Upper Valley from birth to the child

To provide an understanding of how access to the dental workforce in NH for vulnerable populations compares across the state by reviewing and analyzing existing information and developing a report with the information.