Awarded Grants

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 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 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 the educational and community outcomes of youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in New Hampshire as they transition from adolescence to adult life by training professional staff members in the community mental health centers and other providers within the state mental health system to implement the RENEW model and facilitate a process to problem solve around funding, implementation, and administrative barriers that prevent full implementation and access to high-quality transition services for youth with EBD.

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.

To reduce suicide in NH by bringing professionals, policy makers and survivors together to learn about evidence based methods being used to prevent suicide in NH and throughout the country.

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 promote resiliency, enhance coping skills and develop natural supports for young adults with serious mental health problems by providing evidence based treatment and promising practices within an integrated system of care.

To transform the role of residential service providers in serving high-risk children and families with mental health problems by researching best practices, participation in a strategic planning process and learning collaborative, and documentation of learning in a guidebook.