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 an analysis of NH's juvenile justice system.

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 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 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.

To assist with the search and hiring of a new Executive Director for NAMI NH by utilizing the services of a consultant to train the Leadership Transition Planning Committee in behavioral interviewing techniques.

To increase public awareness and general knowledge about autism spectrum disorders by producing a 5-part investigative series on New Hampshire Public Radio.

To promote a consistent, high quality children's mental health workforce in NH by developing a comprehensive and concrete set of common core competencies for direct service and supervisory level staff within the community mental health system and New Hampshire Hospital.

To improve the mental health of NH's children and their families by convening a children's mental health collaborative of diverse interests, establishing a baseline of knowledge among participants, developing a statewide, comprehensive, strategic plan, and broadly disseminating it.

To improve access, and the quality and efficiency of the New Hampshire behavioral health system by designing and submitting a 1915b waiver to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by July 1, 2011.

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 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.