Awarded Grants

To demonstrate outcomes of integrated care at Families First and sites throughout NH by developing, in consultation with program-evaluation experts from Antioch University, an evaluation plan for the new integrative behavioral/primary health program at Families First, and a statewide cross-site evaluation.

To improve the communication and coordination of health policy discourse by providing an opportunity for communications training and collaborative dialogue.

To educate the public about the immediate need to address the workforce shortage in home care by analyzing survey data and publishing a white paper.

To ensure quality advocacy, nonprofit capacity building and knowledge development for the health system in NH in order to improve the health of NH residents by sustaining the general operations of key NH nonprofits.

To remove geographic barriers to health care through creation of a multi-stakeholder Working Group that will raise funds for and implement a pilot year of NEMT. Data from the pilot year will be used to create the political will for and support the case for permanent funding, including funding from SV towns, to support an ongoing program.

To improve understanding of issues relating to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease among seniors and their families, social service workers, and the medical community by offering a series of writing workshops, dramatic performances, and lectures.

To assist in efforts to create a high-quality cost-effective health system in New Hampshire by conducting planning and feasibility of a dynamic and comprehensive web-based catalog of health systems improvement efforts and a vehicle for public dialogue.

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

To ensure quality advocacy, nonprofit capacity building and knowledge development for the health system in NH in order to improve the health of NH residents by sustaining the general operations of key NH nonprofits.

To promote collaboration of community stakeholders in development of transportation coordination in the Grafton County region.

To integrate better evaluation and more effective treatment for high risk young children into the NH family court and child welfare systems by planning to pilot a research based intervention within two family courts.

To help assure the sustainability of the Coos County health care system by identifying how the three Coos County hospitals can most effectively collaborate to provide reasonable access to health care for Coos County residents, quality that meets appropriate benchmarks, and costs that are sustainable by businesses and individuals in the economically challenged county.