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The NH Departments of Health and Human Services and Education remain committed to the development of NH’s system of care, an integrated and comprehensive delivery structure for the provision of publicly funded behavioral health services to NH children and youth. This Year 4 report provides critical updates on the progress toward these goals and celebrate the immense success achieved across NH in four short years.

Year 3 Report, May 2019

Year 2 Report, December 2017

In 2016, Governor Sununu signed into law a bill that required the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services to work together to develop a comprehensive system of care for children with behavioral health needs. Annual reports document progress including expenditures associated with children’s behavioral health care across state agencies, and an assessment of whether services are consistent with a system of care approach. The Year 2 report documents gaps in the service array and highlights ongoing and planned quality improvement efforts. The Year 3 report was released in May 2019 and highlights additional improvements to the children’s behavioral health system of care.

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.