Awarded Grants

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 sustain an interactive dialogue on health care reform by developing web resources to catalog health reform activities within the estate and establishing interactive features.

Increase access to mental health integration for all ages through acquisition of private mental health organizations.

To create and implement a targeted, multi-year business and action plan for the start-up of the University of New England School of Dental Medicine. The project mobilizes both internal UNE resources and external regional collaborators and culminates in the successful admission of students to the school in 2011.

To improve access to health for the residents of the Contoocook Valley area by expanding access and coordinating development of transportation options.

To assure the sustainable operation of the Nashua Area Health Center by relocating into a new clinic site in Nashua.

To reduce social and cultural barriers to health and well-being for immigrants and refugees in the City of Nashua by strengthening coordination among municipal, social and health care agencies to better serve new arrivals, empowering individuals to navigate various public systems and improving the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services.

To understand the impact of current trends of health care cost increases on the economy and the health care system of New Hampshire over the next decade by developing a research strategy and plan.