Resources

To help inform health care workforce development planning in New Hampshire, the Endowment for Health supported a review of the workforce development plans of other states with large rural areas to understand their structure, components (i.e., areas of focus and strategies), and implementation plans. Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. reviewed and summarized relevant documents available for nine states and interviewed representatives from a sub-set of the states.

Under a NH DSRIP 115 waiver, New Hampshire's IDN's have been working to address behavioral healthcare workforce shortages. The technical conclusion of the waiver which supports the IDN work was December 2020. This report by Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. summarizes the work done, what was learned and what remains incomplete.

This policy brief summarizes key health care cases including challenges to the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid work and community engagement requirements, due process rights for people with acute mental illness, state authority to regulate pharmacy benefit managers and access to reproductive health.

This brief provides an overview of the health insurance landscape in NH, as well as updated policy explanations for shifts and changes in access. This update also includes a special section focused on premiums and deductibles in New Hampshire.

Under a NH DSRIP 115 waiver, New Hampshire's IDN's have been working to address behavioral healthcare workforce shortages. The technical conclusion of the waiver which supports the IDN work is December 2020. Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. summarizes the work done, what was learned and what remains incomplete.

LGBT older adults are less likely than their heterosexual peers to reach out to providers, senior centers, meal programs, and other entitlement programs because they fear sexual orientation- or gender-based discrimination and harassment. This report includes recommendations for agencies who want to put out the welcome mat for LGBT older adults.

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The Endowment for Health (EH) is a statewide, private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving the health of New Hampshire's people, especially the vulnerable and underserved. EH engages in “field building” by providing resources to develop systems-change capacity within its priority areas (“fields”). Howard and Wu (2009) define a field as “a community of actors who engage in a common set of core practices with a common goal for their work” (p. 10). EH’s field building involves creating strong coalitions and networks, enhancing the NH knowledge base, growing leadership and advocacy capacity, developing shared measures and data-based decision making, and supporting other systems change capacities. EH currently supports five fields: children’s behavioral health, early childhood, health equity, healthy aging, and health policy.

The Behavioral Health Improvement Institute (Keene State College) developed an assessment process, Field Assessment Tool (FASST) to estimate field development across 7 domains and 32 items based on key informant interviews. The FASST was first used to assess the conditions of NH’s Children’s Behavioral Health (CBH) field in 2017. This report examines the results of a repeat assessment three years later.

The Behavioral Health Improvement Institute (Keene State College) developed an assessment process, Field Assessment Tool (FASST) to estimate field development across 7 domains and 32 items based on key informant interviews. The FASST was first used to assess the conditions of NH’s Children’s Behavioral Health (CBH) field in 2017. This report examines the results of a repeat assessment three years later.