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List of Awarded GrantsYour search returned 112 grants as shown below.
1: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Girl's Health Data Project | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $51,334 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the health and well being of girls in NH by surveying girls about the health needs, concerns, behaviors and issues of girls and the barriers to seeking and accessing care and disseminating the study results to providers and other key stakeholders. | | Detail: | To fund staff, travel and other related expenses associated with improved documentation of girls' needs and access barriers and dissemination of the study results. |
2: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | Evaluation for Health Promotion Intervention for Persons with Severe Mental Illness III | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $107,953 | | Grant Date: | September 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA. Concord HSA, Manchester HSA | | Description: | To ensure the sustainability of the InShape program by evaluating the effectiveness of a lower cost alternative model which does not rely on grant funding and can be generalize to the standard community mental health setting.
| | Detail: | To continue to fund staff, consultant and other related services. |
3: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | Evaluation for Health Promotion Intervention for Persons with Severe Mental Illness II | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $49,117 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA | | Description: | To extend the existing evaluation of the InShape health promotion project to include long-term follow-up on participants and to include an evaluation of Medicaid service use and expenditures associated with participation in the project by conducting 18 month interview evaluations of program participants and by accessing and analyzing Medicaid service use and expenditure data.
| | Detail: | To fund staff and other related services. |
4: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | Evaluation for Health Promotion Intervention for Persons with Severe Mental Illness II | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $78,635 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA | | Description: | To extend the existing evaluation of the InShape health promotion project to include long-term follow-up on participants and to include an evaluation of Medicaid service use and expenditures associated with participation in the project. by conducting 18 month interview evaluations of program participants and by accessing and analyzing Medicaid service use and expenditure data.
| | Detail: | To fund staff and other related services. |
5: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | Evaluation of Pilot Health Promotion Intervention for Persons with Severe Mental Illness | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $66,589 | | Grant Date: | September 20, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA | | Description: | To conduct a systemic assessment of the effectiveness of the InShape program to improve fitness, promote health, and reduce the risk factors associated with excess disability and premature mortality in persons with SMI by a) refining and manualizing the IN SHAPE program, b) quantifying pre-post differences in physical activity, physical fitness, health status, affect, quality of life, and satisfaction with the IN SHAPE program, and c) by exploring age-associated modifications in the intervention necessary to address the needs of older and younger persons. | | Detail: | To fund personnel and other related expenses and supplies necessary to conduct the research. |
6: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Health of NH's Foster and Medicaid Eligible Children II | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $54,069 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To gather information on physical and mental health care utilization and access for New Hampshire's foster care children by analyzing existing data, collecting new data from interviews with NH Department of Health and Human Services district office nurses and focus groups with foster parents, and collecting new data from interviews with foster parents and kin care providers. | | Detail: | To fund personnel and other expenses to conduct telephone interviews and face-to-face focus groups, data analysis and dissemination. |
7: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Health of NH's Foster and Medicaid Eligible Children II | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $44,092 | | Grant Date: | September 20, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To better understand the health needs of NH's foster children in order to better meet their needs by gathering, analyzing and disseminating information to key stakeholders. | | Detail: | To fund personnel and other expenses to conduct telephone interviews and face-to-face focus groups, data analysis and dissemination. |
8: Access Project/Third Sector New England
| Project: | Assessing Language Interpretation Capacity among NH Health Care Providers | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $62,967 | | Grant Date: | September 23, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To assess the language service needs in New Hampshire of limited English proficient pateints in the medical setting, existing capacity and quality of interpretation services provided to these patients, the gap between need and capacity, and potential steps to reduce or eliminate this gap. The report will recommend future actions to evaluate and improve these services to meet present and projected needs. It will be disseminated to a wide range of stakeholders. | | Detail: | To work with the NH language service stakeholders to design and conduct the research regarding the need and capacity of language services in the medical setting, recommend future actions to evaluate and improve these services to meet present and projected needs and to create a report and disseminate its findings to a wde range of stakeholders |
9: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | New Hampshire Access to Primary Care Indicator Project | | Grant Type: | Applied Research Grant | | Amount: | $83,817 | | Grant Date: | September 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To collaboratively develop and analyze a series of economic, socio-cultural and geographic indicators for access barriers to primary care services within Primary Care Service Areas--geographic areas directly related to primary care utilization patterns in the State using existing and newly available data and to disseminate this information through NH DHHS and in research papers to assist in reducing disparities in NH in the availability and utilization of primary care services. | | Detail: | To fully fund the project as outlined in the revised proposal and budget. |
10: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Improving NH's Health Care Delivery for Children with Disabilities | | Sub Title: | Increasing provider capacity to address the medical needs of NH's children with disabilities through film and dialogue | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $30,000 | | Grant Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the capacity among NH health care professionals for appropriately addressing the health care needs of children with disabilities and their families by convening health care professionals for a series of film screenings and dialogues.
| | Detail: | Funds will be used to support staffing and event expenses for screenings and discussions of the documentary film, Including Samuel. |
11: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Reducing Cancer Disparities of Vulnerable Populations: A Comprehensive Approach | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $5,000 | | Grant Date: | January 03, 2007 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To educate health care professionals, civic and organizational leaders, and community representatives serving racial, ethnic, and linguistic minority populations and other medically underserved audiences in New Hampshire about the disproportionate cancer burden experienced by such vulnerable population groups and discuss strategies to address the barriers to effective cancer prevention and treatment by offering a one day conference. | | Detail: | Grant funds will be used to support conference expenses including speaker honoraria and travel ($1000), rental of Audio/visual equipment($1000), space rental ($1450) and Printing ($1550) |
12: Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
| Project: | Achieving Cultural Competence and Addressing Health Literacy in Greater Nashua | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $4,000 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve healthcare providers' cultural competency and their understanding of how culture and language impacts patients' access to care and medical compliance by providing comprehensive training opportunities with nationally known experts in the field. | | Detail: | To partially fund the speaker fee for the conference presenter. | | Outcomes: | The Endowment for Health received a modest Convening Grant application from Southern NH Medical Center to partially support a cultural competency continuing education session for hospital staff and clinicians. At the same time the MIAB was seeking a keynote speaker for its kick-off event of the medical interpretation strategic plan. After dialogue with the applicant and the MIAB steering committee we agreed it made sense to combine efforts. The results of that collaboration exceeded all of our expectations.
Although the original target audience was Nashua area health care providers with a focus on SNHMC staff and clinicians, collaboration led to much wider participation with statewide impact. The well known keynote speaker attracted participants who would most likely not have attended the MIAB kick-off event. The event was filled to capacity with nearly 200 participants from diverse backgrounds attending. Conference evaluation results indicate that the event greatly enhanced knowledge level and skill of the participants. The collaboration was an opportunity to engage SNHMC in the MIAB's larger efforts, which is particularly important to the theme given the growing diversity in southern NH. Conference feedback was so overwhelmingly positive that the MIAB made the decision to host an annual event to raise awareness and promote utilization of medical interpretation. A newly formed subcommittee of the MIAB, chaired by SNHMC, will plan the annual conferences. The MIAB and the health care workgroup recruited some new participants from the conference who have been active [subcommittee] members as we work to implement the medical interpretation strategic plan. The participant survey summary from the conference indicates that there was a commitment to move knowledge gained into action. Perhaps next year's conference will be an opportunity to showcase some of those 'actions' from the field. |
13: New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
| Project: | Chronic Health Conditions Across the Lifespan: the Domestic Violence Connection with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $5,000 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To increase the number of providers routinely discussing adverse childhood experiences, particularly domestic violence with their patients, and increase the number of medical referrals to community crisis centers, by educating providers on the chronic health risks associated with domestic violence, how to routinely and confidentially screen, and how to document and refer appropriately. | | Detail: | To fund speaker costs, and travel-related expenses associated with the convening. | | Outcomes: | The Endowment for Health awarded a modest Convening Grant for the Leadership Team of the Health Initiative on Domestic Violence at the NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence to partially support a continuing education session for physicians, nurse practioners, nurses, social workers, mental health professionals and other clinicians. Specifically, EH funding supported the keynote speaker, Dr. Vincent Felitti, co-principal investigator of research on the effect of adverse childhood experiences on adult health, risk factors, and the prevalence of chronic disease.
Recognizing that health care professionals are uniquely positioned to identify domestic and sexual violence among their patient population, the conference sought to increase participants knowledge and ability to identify families who need additional support and assistance and to intervene. Dr. Felitti's research highlighted the urgency of early intervention and treatment and the opportunities to improve health outcomes and reduce risk factors that may lead to chronic diseases among children with adverse childhood experiences. The convening also ambitiously sought to increase the number of providers who routinely discuss the link between domestic violence and chronic health conditions and to increase the overall number of referrals by health care providers to the community crisis centers.
An overwhelming majority (89%) of conference participants indicated that their ability to understand and identify childhood experiences that might lead to adverse health consequences was 'completely met'. Similarly participants could relate examples, understand the effect of witnessing domestic violence, the effect of childhood sexual abuse on obesity, and the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and the major causes of adult mortality. Although still over half of participants (54%) felt they had the ability to demonstrate non-judgmental, non-threatening methods of screening the adult patient, this was the lowest ranking perhaps indicating that attendees needed more 'hands-on' skills to feel confident in their ability. A 3 month post convening survey was distributed to participants to measure behavior change and whether providers had incorporated their new knowledge into their practices. Unfortunately, only 9 people responded. Although the impact of the convening could not be measured, the conference clearly increased participants knowledge about the new research, techniques to effectively screen patients, and their awareness of community resources to assist domestic and sexual violence survivors. |
14: Welcoming Light, Inc.
| Project: | New England Regional Minority Health Conference | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $5,000 | | Grant Date: | February 16, 2007 | | Duration: | 2 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To build the capacity of government, health and human services leaders, workers and the systems that deliver patient care throughout New England to more effectively address the issue of minority health disparities by holding a bi-annual conference to discuss ways to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in these workers. | | Detail: | Funds will be used for scholarships for representatives from health organizations working to benefit NH's minority communities. |
15: Foundation for Healthy Communities
| Project: | 2nd Annual MIAB conference - 'Culturally Competent Care: From Theory to Practice' | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $7,500 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To educate healthcare organizations and the people who work in them to meet the challenge of providing quality healthcare to the Deaf and hard of hearing and the limited English proficient (LEP) populations in NH by convening a half-day conference of experts and people from this target population. | | Detail: | The funds will pay costs associated with the 2nd Annual MIAB conference - 'Cultural Competent Care: From Theory to Practice. The grant funds will also help the MIAB to leverage support from other organizations for this event. |
16: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | NHMHC 10th Anniversary Celebration Breakfast | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $7,000 | | Grant Date: | March 31, 2004 | | Duration: | 4 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To raise awareness of minority health issues by holding an event focused on making the economic case for investing in preventive solutions to improve access to health care for all of NH's communities, and by creating an opportunity for collaborations and community initiatives to be formed. | | Detail: | To help fund a nationally known speaker fee at the event about economic benefits of creating collaborations across sectors to improve access to health care. |
17: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Adolescent Health Summit | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $11,551 | | Grant Date: | September 23, 2003 | | Duration: | 5 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To identify the current health needs of NH's youth, develop & disseminate a set of comprehensive recommendations & action strategies and assist state & community agencies & coalitions in building capacity for plan implementation. | | Detail: | To help fund a convening to disseminate a set of comprehensive recommendation, develop action strategies and engage stakeholders including youth to create feasible regional implementation strategies. |
18: University of New Hampshire
| Project: | Convening a Training for NH Communities on Community Health Improvement | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $4,696 | | Grant Date: | March 24, 2003 | | Duration: | 2 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | This convening grant will build upon the work of the empowering communities with Data and Empowering communities through Access to Information and Training Grant. the objectives of this training session are to: a) hold a regular Advisory Committee Meeting b) provide a workshop on the community health improvement process, c) provide an opportunity for communities to share with each other how they are using data to prioritize their community work and to measure the effectness of their efforts, d) networking, e) assess the training needs of communities regarding implementation of a structured process for community health improvement. | | Detail: | To fund a convening of the Empowering Communities with Data project address how to implement a community health improvement process, to share information, to network and to further identify training needs. |
19: New Hampshire Association for the Blind
| Project: | Expand Your Vision: Hire the Visually Impaired | | Grant Type: | Convening Grant | | Amount: | $5,300 | | Grant Date: | September 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To convene a statewide conference, 'Expand Your Vision: Hire the Visually Impaired.' to begin the process of opening doors to economic independence for many visually impaired residents by providing an opportunity for employers, consumers and service providers to work and learn together about employment barriers for visually impaired individuals and how they can be overcome. | | Detail: | To fund the cost of an honorarium for the Keynote Speaker, as well as the travel expenses of all four conference presenters. |
20: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | NHMHC Conference Scholarship | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $1,079 | | Grant Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To increase awareness on how to sustain Community Health Worker project by attending a conference. | | Detail: | To fund conference expenses. |
21: The Way Home
| Project: | Reducing Barriers to Access Health Services | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $8,107 | | Grant Date: | May 14, 2008 | | Duration: | 4 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To empower and strengthen the role and participation of African women and girls in reducing health disparities by removing or reducing some of the social and cultural barriers to access health services. | | Detail: | To fund technical assistance for conducting a needs assessment and developing training for African women serving as community health coordinators. |
22: UJIMA Collective
| Project: | Undoing Racism Workshop training | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $1,000 | | Grant Date: | October 03, 2007 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | Work towards building community consensus that can address both institutional and internalized social-cultural barriers that contribute to racial and ethnic health disparities by convening a multi-racial, multi-cultural group of community residents and social and human service providers for a 2.5 day 'Undoing Racism' workshop. | | Detail: | To fund workshop registration scholarships ($250 each) for four grassroots community members. |
23: Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrant s and Refugees (GCIR)
| Project: | GCIR Funders Workshop: The Changing Face of NH | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $3,000 | | Grant Date: | September 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To promote improved immigrant/refugee integration in New Hampshire by providing an opportunity for NH funders to learn about demographic, economic and social imperatives for immigrant integration; an exciting new framework and set of promising practices to help newcomers establish a social and economic foothold and work with longtime residents to build strong, cohesive communities; and the practical roles that funders can play to promote newcomer integration. | | Detail: | To support planning, implementation and follow-up for a regional funder program. |
24: Wellesley College
| Project: | National Child Traumatic Stress Network Funding Opportunity | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $1,100 | | Grant Date: | July 14, 2008 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the mental health of refugee and non-English speaking minority youth through the creation of trauma informed systems of care by conducting a needs assessment utilizing community dialogue strategies. | | Detail: | To fund consultant costs. |
25: The Way Home
| Project: | Leadership Development for Women For Women Coalition | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $2,065 | | Grant Date: | September 06, 2007 | | Duration: | 2 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To enhance the effectiveness of the Women for Women Coalition to address health disparities in African Refugee/Immigrant Women and their families living in Manchester NH by supporting two individuals to develop leadership skills and lead specific knowledge through participation in two national conferences. | | Detail: | To support travel, lodging and conference fees for The National Health Promoter Leadership Training for Refugee and Immigrant Women and a national conference on lead and other healthy home/environmental hazards. |
26: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Managing Major Change | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $8,500 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 4 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To ensure that underserved populations with barriers to accessing appropriate health care continue to have a powerful advocate for the elimination of health disparities as well as uninterrupted access to high-quality, culturally appropriate services by increasing the capacity of staff and board at the New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition to manage change in general and the transition to a new Executive Director specifically. | | Detail: | To fund consultant and other costs associated with hiring a new Executive Director. |
27: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | Native American Health Tent | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $9,952 | | Grant Date: | April 01, 2007 | | Duration: | 5 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To decrease barriers Native Americans face regarding access to health care for services most needed in New Hampshire by offering a health tent at the Dartmouth Pow-wow in May of 2007 providing counseling, testing/screening and information about obesity, diabetes, cancer, elder-care, drug and alcohol addiction/abuse and HIV/AIDS that is specifically designed to be culturally appropriate. | | Detail: | To fund professional services from staff and contract providers, travel, office expenses, supplies associated with the event, and incentives for participants to attend the various booths at the health tent. |
28: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Services Peer-to-Peer | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $4,138 | | Grant Date: | November 27, 2006 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To provide a peer-to-peer learning exchange with the Spring Institute of Denver, CO for the staff of the Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England's Language Bank. This will be done by a combination of formal mini training sessions, on-site job shadowing, and debriefing sessions. | | Detail: | To fund travel, hotel, and meals as well as consulting from the Spring Institute staff. |
29: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Manchester Health Disparities Survey | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $5,000 | | Grant Date: | October 16, 2006 | | Duration: | 13 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve and affect efforts to address disparities in health and health care among Latinos/Hispanics and African Descendents in Manchester, New Hampshire by collecting and disseminating data on several health indices for these populations. | | Detail: | To fund incentives for survey respondents. |
30: The Way Home
| Project: | Steps to Safe Housing for Resettled Immigrants & Refugees | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $13,750 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To empower Somali Bantu families affected by lead poisoning with the skills and resources to address their needs and protect their children from further harm due to lead hazards in our housing stock.
| | Detail: | To fund emergency intervention, support services, and primary prevention / education assistance for six families whose children have been poisoned by lead during an estimated 15 week relocation period. |
31: Ndakinna, Inc.
| Project: | Waolowzi Program | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $7,150 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To promote good health and positive life choices among Native youth by providing guest speakers on health related topics, and activities to teach youth good nutrition, physical well-being, healthy life-styles and a positive self-image. | | Detail: | To fund honorariums for speakers on health related topics; travel costs for educational/recreational outings for youth; and space/supply costs for youth activities. |
32: Open Arms Outreach, Inc.
| Project: | New American Africans | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $7,627 | | Grant Date: | March 20, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To assist New Hampshire's new African communities to achieve complete socio-cultural and economic integration by teaching life skills and health education. | | Detail: | To fund start-up costs (office operations and transportation) associated with health education and support groups for New Hampshire Africans of both genders and all age groups. |
33: New Hampshire Public Television
| Project: | Seeing Seniors | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $10,000 | | Grant Date: | April 05, 2005 | | Duration: | 18 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To educate the NH public about the needs of our seniors, give seniors and caregivers access to resources that can help them, and begin building the public will to make changes benefitting our elderly in our communities through a story series on NH Public TV, an accompanying web site and four community forums. | | Detail: | To help provide matching funds to Sound Partners/RWJF-Benton Foundations to support staff, materials and media. |
34: University of New England
| Project: | New England Regional Minority Health Conference | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $6,000 | | Grant Date: | January 14, 2005 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To build the capacity of government, health and human services leaders, workers and the systems that deliver patient care throughout New England to more effectively address the issue of minority health disparities by holding a bi-annual conference to discuss ways to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in these workers. | | Detail: | To fund six full scholarships and eight partial scholarships for NH residents to attend the New England Regional Minority Health Conference and to underwrite conference printing costs. |
35: City of Manchester Department of Health
| Project: | Manchester Health Link | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $4,846 | | Grant Date: | December 15, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To improve access to health care among Manchester's youth by developing a process to 1) identify children who do not have health insurance and/or lack a primary care doctor, 2) initiate a health insurance application, 3) help families establish a medical home with an appropriate health care provider, and 4) establish a sustainable process to improve access to health care. | | Detail: | To fund interpretion/translation services for clients and client transportation when needed. |
36: Foundation for Healthy Communities
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Statewide Strategic Plan Kick-off | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $9,000 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To ensure that medical interpretation is universally available to and utilized by all individuals in need of those services in NH by creating and disseminating a strategic plan which is supported and led by key stakeholders. | | Detail: | To fund costs associated with the MIAB 'kick off' of the strategic plan. |
37: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Advisory Board Retreat | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $5,598 | | Grant Date: | November 15, 2004 | | Duration: | 2 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To further identify priorities and strategies for improving language access in NH by engaging all key stakeholders. | | Detail: | To fund a facilitator and supportive expenses to plan and implement retreat of key stakeholders to address language accesss in NH. Endowment Theme: Social-Cultural Barriers to Access. |
38: Monadnock Family Services
| Project: | In SHAPE Program III | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 3 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA, Peterborough HSA | | Description: | To increase the life expectancy of individuals who have or are at risk of developing Severe and Persistent Mental Illness, by providing resources and supports to reduce risks of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and substance abuse through a variety of community based interventions. | | Detail: | To help fund program expenses to allow needed open enrollment in the program beyond the budgeted capacity. |
39: Community Council of Nashua
| Project: | Medical Interpretor Program | | Grant Type: | Discretionary Grant | | Amount: | $13,800 | | Grant Date: | September 11, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Nashua HSA | | Description: | To develop and implement a program to improve access and capacity to better meet the mental health needs of the Latino/Hispanic population in our region. As our community changes, we recognize the need to be able to change along with it and become more culturally compentent at delivering services that maintain our high quality tradition and are sensitive to the culture and values of the citizens who come through the doors. | | Detail: | To work with NAMI NH to prepare a cultural competency-training program designed to assure that our organization understands and begins to plan for the capacity to more effectively, more culturally competently, meet the consumers' needs by having a medical interpretor on our staff. |
40: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Program - Emergency | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $90,000 | | Grant Date: | December 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To ensure safety-net services are available to newly arriving refugees in NH by providing emergency one-year funding to the Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Program of Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England made necessary by unanticipated reductions in federal funding. | | Detail: | To fund operating costs for the Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Program of Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England due to unanticipated reductions in the Social Services Formula Grant from the federal office of Health and Human Services and distributed by the NH State Refugee Office. |
41: Community Health Institute/JSI Research & Training
| Project: | NH HIV/AIDS Care Service Delivery System Planning Grant | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $45,335 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 7 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the delivery of HIV care to people living with HIV/AIDS in NH by developmenting a system of coordinated access to care services that maximizes the limited financial resources available. | | Detail: | To fund consultant costs associated with investigating service delivery system models for HIV care to people living with HIV/AIDS in other states; convene meetings of HIV service agencies and other stakeholders in NH to actively engage them in decision making on restructuring the statewide HIV care service delivery system; and produce a process and outcomes report that will guide the HIV community in the implementation of the required restructuring of the HIV care service delivery system. |
42: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Interpretation System Development | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $64,847 | | Grant Date: | September 23, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop a sustainable training program for qualified medical interpreter; to provdie leadership to develop a system that meets the interpretation need of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) population statewide; to train and educate health professionals on cultural competency and use of medical interpreters; to provide outreach and education to LEP health consumers about medical interpretation; to develop a continuing education program for training medical interpreters. | | Detail: | To provide emergency funds to underwrite the outstanding project expenses of the Medical Interpretation Services project which were anticipated to be paid by the State of New Hamsphire as a 2004 Community Grant.. |
43: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | The Language Bank | | Grant Type: | Emergency Grant | | Amount: | $80,000 | | Grant Date: | September 23, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To recruit and retain medical interpreters to be available as a cost effective support service to New Hampshire health care providers in order to ensure access to all New Hampshire residents especially Limited English Proficient (LEP) population. | | Detail: | To provide emergency funds to replace an anticipated 2004 Community Grant to help fund the coordination and scheduling of the medical interpreters and the education for area health care providers. |
44: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Sustaining the New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition | | Sub Title: | Health-related knowledge development and advocacy for NH's minority populations | | Grant Type: | Operating Grant | | Amount: | $25,000 | | Grant Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 0 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | 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 piloting the use of core operating support to sustain key NH nonprofits. | | Detail: | To continue to provide non-earmarked operating funds to NH Minority Health Coalition, a key NH advocacy and knowledge building organization regarding the health of NH's population. |
45: Somali Development Center
| Project: | Coalition of African Organizations | | Sub Title: | Delivering more effective services to African immigrants and refugees in New Hampshire through strategic collaboration | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $28,665 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Description: | To create a comprehensive plan to improve collaboration among the Coalition members by hiring a consultant to assess the coalition's opportunities and challenges, outline a three-year strategic plan, negotiate conflict, and identify potential partners. | | Detail: | To fund consultant costs for strategic planning, travel for peer-to-peer exchange with other African coalitions and meeting expenses. |
46: Elliot Hospital
| Project: | Southern NH Forensic Nurse Examiner Consortium | | Sub Title: | Improving access to medical/forensic health care services for sexually assaulted/abused individuals in Southern NH | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $25,920 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Derry HSA, Massachusetts Border HSA, Nashua HSA | | Description: | To improve access to medical/forensic health care services for sexually assaulted/abused individuals in Southern New Hampshire by engaging in an effective and collaborative planning process with key community stakeholders. | | Detail: | To fund staff and consultants to conduct surveys and interviews of key stakeholders, to identify and document the scope and level of need for medical/forensic sexual abuse/assault services, and develop a plan to ensure trained examiners are available 24/7 to consortium hospitals. |
47: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | Native American Health Survey | | Sub Title: | Assessing the health care needs and concerns of NH's indigenous people | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $5,316 | | Grant Date: | September 15, 2008 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve capacity to assess the health care needs and concerns of New Hampshire’s Native American Indian people by creating a research methodology and tool for gathering data.
| | Detail: | Funds will be used for meetings with stakeholders and for a consultant to develop a methodology and survey instrument. |
48: The Way Home
| Project: | Reducing Barriers to Access Health Services | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $28,184 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To empower and strengthen the role and participation of African women and girls in reducing health disparities by removing or reducing some of the social and cultural barriers to access health services. | | Detail: | To support convening of African women to create consensus around common concerns, training of community coordinators on health issues, and building of organizational structure and capacity. |
49: New Hampshire Humanities Council
| Project: | Portraits of The New Americans | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To promote improved integration of NH's increasing immigrant and refugee populations by developing a statewide humanities initiative focused on increasing knowledge and understanding of immigration nationally and in NH and promoting cultural exchange and understanding between and among newcomers and the NH's receiving communities. | | Detail: | To fund personnel, research and meeting costs for the planning period. |
50: Women's Supportive Services
| Project: | Creating A Communication Model To Address Barriers That Inhibit Victims From Reporting Sexual Assault And Accessing Services | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $30,000 | | Grant Date: | September 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Claremont HSA, Lebanon HSA | | Description: | To reduce the incidence of sexual assault and increase reporting and assistance seeking by victims of sexual assault among 12 to 25 year olds in Sullivan County by engaging youth and young adults to develop a campaign to educate their peers and the public.
| | Detail: | To fund staffing and project related costs to convene meetings with youth/young adults and providers/first responders, and conduct classroom presentations for the purpose of gathering information and developing an education and public awareness building campaign for Sullivan County |
51: Foundation for Healthy Communities
| Project: | GNHCC Medical Interpretation Pilot | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $17,150 | | Grant Date: | September 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | Nashua HSA | | Description: | To improve access to health care for people with limited English proficiency in the Nashua area by establishing a cooperative, regional medical interpretation service that is available to all health care providers in the area.
| | Detail: | To help fund the cost of conducting and evaluating a medical interpretation pilot at Southern NH Medical Center that will provide needed data to plan for the regional medical interpretation service. |
52: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Health Education - Youth Empowerment | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $27,155 | | Grant Date: | March 17, 2008 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Description: | To improve health and access to health care services for African immigrant/refugee youth and their families by conducting a needs assessment, developing leadership skills among African youth and creating strategies to address the identified needs. | | Detail: | To fund salaries and other expenses related to conducting a needs assessment. |
53: Open Arms Outreach, Inc.
| Project: | Health Education - Youth Empowerment | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $9,178 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Description: | To improve health and access to health care services for African immigrant/refugee youth and their families by conducting a needs assessment, developing leadership skills among African youth and creating strategies to address the identified needs. | | Detail: | To fund salaries and other expenses related to conducting a needs assessment. |
54: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Community Health Worker Training Institute- Planning Grant | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $26,070 | | Grant Date: | March 19, 2007 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To assess the interest in and demand for a community health worker training program in NH by conducting educational sessions and a survey of current/potential community health workers and current/potential employers.
| | Detail: | Funds will be used to support project oversight, expenses related to educational sessions, development and dissemination of survey, data entry, technical assistance for survey design and analysis, and administrative costs for the survey. |
55: New Hampshire Legal Assistance
| Project: | Language Accessibility Advocacy Project | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $19,357 | | Grant Date: | September 18, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop an advocacy plan to assist the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services in accelerating adoption and implementation of its Communication Access Plan (CAP) for people with limited English proficiency or who are deaf or hard of hearing by creating a coalition of key stakeholders that will conduct an assessment of DHHS progress in adopting and implementing the CAP, identify current barriers to full implementation, and determine ways to address those barriers. | | Detail: | To fund staff salary, testing program and operational costs necessary to complete and disseminate advocacy plan. |
56: Somali Development Center
| Project: | Somali Community Healthcare Needs | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $12,650 | | Grant Date: | March 20, 2006 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To improve access to health care services for Somalis living in NH by conducting a needs assessment and engaging and sharing findings with the provider community. | | Detail: | To fund staff related and administrative costs associated with the needs assessment. |
57: New Hampshire Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
| Project: | Increasing Access to Workers' Compensation Medical Benefits for Low-Income and Immigrant Workers | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $19,142 | | Grant Date: | March 20, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To increase access to workers' compensation medical benefits for low-income and immigrant workers by creating a plan (1) to increase free legal assistance and (2) to expand worker and community leader awareness of these medical benefits. | | Detail: | To fund staff and consultant costs associated with focus groups and interviews, planning for an expanded awareness program, researching models to increase the availability of low-cost legal assistance, and write funding proposals. |
58: Greater Manchester Family YMCA
| Project: | Activate America and Diversity - Building Inclusive Organizations | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $30,450 | | Grant Date: | December 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 18 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To increase the Greater Manchester Family YMCA s cultural competence and identify socio-cultural barriers to accessing its fitness facilities and programs by completing an assessment, training, and community outreach process. | | Detail: | To fund staffing to coordinate and implement the assessment process and community outreach effort, contract services for cultural competency training, and related program expenses and translation services. |
59: Women's Supportive Services
| Project: | Sexual Assault Needs Assessment for Sullivan County | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $15,000 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 5 months | | Area(s): | Claremont HSA, Lebanon HSA, Keene HSA | | Description: | To establish the needs of survivors of sexual violence in Sullivan County by conducting an in depth needs assessment using a telephone survey of the general population, a written survey, interviews, and focus groups with providers and consumers; and by organizing a sexual assault response team (SART) comprised of various agencies and organizations to meet the needs determined by the assessment. | | Detail: | To fund contracted services associated with a professional survey research firm to conduct a telephone survey of 300 Sullivan County residents and to analyze the results of the surveys and interviews in order to complete a needs assessment and to print and distribute a report. |
60: Trustees of Dartmouth College
| Project: | 'It's Your Life!' - Reducing Barriers to Mental Health Care for Low Income Older Adults | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $42,241 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | Concord HSA | | Description: | To increase the numbers of low income older adults accessing mental health care for emotional problems by planning and implementing a pilot program to train and utilize trusted community religious leaders to educate and inform their congregations about the importance of seeking treatment for depression when needed and distributing easy to use depression screening instruments for their use. | | Detail: | To support planning, development and pilot testing of the 'It's Your Life' Barrier Reduction Program, the phased training sessions for members of the NH Council of Churches from the Merrimack Valley Region, the printing of Program materials for use by the trainees and their congregations, and the evaluation of the impact of the program. | | Outcomes: | The Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) piloted 'It's Your Life' in the Concord community to test whether a train-the-trainer curriculum targeting religious leaders could increase the number of low-income older adults seeking mental health services for depression. The project sought to leverage the trusted relationships older adults often have with religious leaders in their respective houses of worship. The NH Council of Churches partnered with the PRC on the initiative. An Advisory Group of mental health and religious leaders in the region was formed, which proved to be very useful in developing strategies to encourage participation and refining the materials and curriculum. Six mental health practice groups were identified and agreed to participate in the pilot tracking referrals from It's Your Life with the goal of measuring impact.
Fifty-three religious leaders and lay members representing 36 houses of worship participated in one of the two the train-the-trainer sessions held in late November/early December of 2005. Each were given a comprehensive packet of information designed to assist religious leaders to disseminate information about depression in older adults and to refer community members to appropriate resources. Participants understood that the pilot sought to evaluate this strategy and were asked to keep track of activities. A reminder was forward in January 2006 and a survey was collected in March 2006.
Twenty of 36 houses of worship responded to the survey. Of those who responded, 11 implemented specific activities using the materials and training provided. Although the results were initially disappointing for project staff, Advisory Group members felt participation was good given a number of factors including competing demands on religious leaders' time. Engaging religious leaders in this type of initiative proved to be challenging, which is important for the EH to consider for future initiatives. During the three months of the program only one person could be tracked as seeking services as a result of It's Your Life. As we anticipated, there are so many variables that linking care seeking behavior to educational efforts proved to be very difficult. Although it could not be tracked for privacy and practical reasons, religious leaders and PRC staff suspect several other individuals reached by the program discussed their or their relatives depression with PCPs, other counselors and their pastors. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the project was the opportunity to educate religious leaders about depression in older adults and to offer information which could be utilized at a future date. The majority of participants responding to the survey indicated that depression among their members is a problem, is widespread, and under recognized. 17 of 18 respondents indicated they would use components of the training in future work. As such, the PRC is trying to identify resources to distribute the materials and/or the training curriculum statewide. |
61: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Statewide Strategic Plan | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $16,071 | | Grant Date: | December 13, 2004 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To ensure that medical interpretation is universally available to and utilized by all individuals in need of those services in NH by creating and disseminating a strategic plan which is supported and led by key stakeholders. | | Detail: | To fund a facilitator to work with key stakeholders to finalize the strategic plan, to identify resources to implement the strategic plan, and to disseminate the plan; a consultant to assist with grantwriting and creation of volunteer stipends to improve member participation and leadership. |
62: Center for Life Management
| Project: | Exploring the Integration of Mental/Primary Healthcare | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $24,826 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | Derry HSA, Manchester HSA, Massachusetts Border HSA | | Description: | To improve the overall health (physical and mental) of the people of NH as a result of strengthening the working relationship between community mental health providers and primary healthcare physicians by conducting a planning initiative to create a best practice model to functionally integrate mental and physical health services in the greater Derry/Salem area. | | Detail: | To fund a Project Director, a survey consultant and the supporting costs. |
63: Easter Seals New Hampshire, Inc.
| Project: | Seniors Count, Changing the Face of Aging | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $15,000 | | Grant Date: | March 31, 2004 | | Duration: | 18 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To improve access to services and coordination of care for frail seniors in the greater Manchester area by implementing a comprehensive needs assessment and developing a systemschange work plan to address these needs that will include public education and awareness building, fiscal/resource planning and development of an enhanced individualized care coordination model. | | Detail: | To help fund a Project Director salary and contracted services to implement the Comprehensive Needs Assessment for frail elderly in the greater Manchester area. |
64: Child Health Services
| Project: | Medical-Legal Collaborative to Improve the Health of Children in Poverty | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $15,718 | | Grant Date: | March 31, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA \ | | Description: | To improve health outcomes for individual CHS clients by providing direct legal services to children & families. To address systemic social & enviornmental barriers to children's health & well being through advocating for laws and/or policies that will improve the health of large groups of children. To provide a framework of medical-legal collaboration that NHLA can use to expand legal advocacy services to address health problems to other underserved populations in NH. | | Detail: | To fund program expenses primarily to include staff support, staff trainning, communication, occupancy expenses at both sites, and translation services for clients. |
65: Healthy At Home, Inc.
| Project: | Healthcare for the Homeless | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $10,427 | | Grant Date: | March 31, 2004 | | Duration: | 2 months | | Area(s): | Nashua HSA | | Description: | To meet the health service needs of the homeless in the greater Nashua area by planning collaboratively as a community a new Healthcare for the Homelesss access point. | | Detail: | To fund staff as necessary (consultant, project planner and grantwriter) to conduct focus groups with key stakeholders, to convene community planning meetings, to design the proposed access point, to prepare funding proposals to HRSA, to provide expert review and critique drafts of such proposals. |
66: National Alliance on Mental Illness-New Hampshire
| Project: | Improving Access and Treatment for Young Adults with Mental Illness and Substance Abuse | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $10,030 | | Grant Date: | September 23, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To address the critical need for improving access to treatment for adolescents and young adults with both mental illness and substance abuse disorder through the development of a coalition of government and private organizations to serve on an advisory council and to lead a summit to determine priorities and strategies to address this issue. | | Detail: | To fund the planning of a key stakeholder summit to address the issue of co-occuring disorders in adolescents and young adults in NH by identifying priorities and strategies for improving access to treatment for individuals and youths with dual disorders. |
67: Spaulding Youth Center
| Project: | Working Wonders Business Project | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $8,313 | | Grant Date: | September 23, 2003 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To create a viable business which would provide real work opportunities for students with cognitive impairments. | | Detail: | To fund the writing of a business plan and staff planning activities prior to the opening of the pilot business which would provide real work opportuniteis for students with cognitive impairmnets. |
68: American Friends Service Committee-NH
| Project: | AFSC-NH Housing & Community Development Project | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $10,000 | | Grant Date: | September 23, 2003 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To advocates for an adequate supply of safe affordable housing in New Hampshire, with special attention to the housing needs of low income people, minorities and seniors. | | Detail: | To develop a better understanding of the connection between housing and health, to identify gaps in information or data, to plan research to fill those gaps, and to build more effective networks of housing and healthcare providers and advocates in order to reduce barriers to healthcare and to build stronger support for developing more affordable housing. |
69: Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester
| Project: | State Funding of Mental Health | | Grant Type: | Planning Grant | | Amount: | $11,050 | | Grant Date: | September 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | The project will conduct a comprehensive study of the health of NH's community mental health system, which consists of ten regional community mental health centers, 11 regional peer support agencies, and a statewide network of family support organizations, in order to provide a basis for determining & soliciting adequate funding for the system, to identify opportunities to make the system more accessible and effective for the consumers of mental health services & to identify opportunities to achieve cost ef | | Detail: | To fund the production and distribution of the report including a one page Executive Summary of the outcomes of the study. |
70: AIDS Response Seacoast
| Project: | HIV/AIDS Action | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $11,000 | | Grant Date: | March 19, 2007 | | Duration: | 7 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To increase the State’s role in financially supporting life-sustaining medical and social support services for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDs in NH by creating a broad-based HIV AIDS Coalition of organizations and individuals concerned with issues of common concern and utilizing unified messaging regarding the funding crisis to educate key decision makers.
| | Detail: | Funds will be used to hire a communication consultant to develop educational materials with a 'mainstream' message; to host legislative breakfasts across the state; to provide advocacy training to persons living with HIV/AIDS; and to create the NH HIV AIDS Coalition to work on issues of common concern regarding HIV/AIDS. |
71: New Hampshire Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
| Project: | Advocating Implementation of LEP Services for Injured Immigrant and Refugee Workers | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $10,000 | | Grant Date: | March 17, 2008 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To increase access to workers' compensation medical benefits for injured immigrant workers. | | Detail: | To support coordination of an effort to change policy of NH Department of Labor, which currently does not provide legal interpretation or other foreign language services to non-English speaking workers' compensation claimants. |
72: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Language Services Project Expenses | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $1,400 | | Grant Date: | February 13, 2003 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Detail: | To defray costs related to the Medical Interpretation Project. NH Minority Health incurred $1,000 in conference costs and the EH paid $400 for Leslie Melby to present at a conference in Washington DC. |
73: Access Project/Third Sector New England
| Project: | Medical Language Services Project | | Grant Type: | Public Policy Grant | | Amount: | $20,000 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | The Access Project proposes to work in partnership with the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) on an effort to educate and inform hospitals, health care providers, immigrant and health advocates, and groups interested in expanding health care access of the availability of federal funds to defray the cost of providing language interpreters. Between June and December of 2002, TAP and NHeLP propose to develop an 'Language Services Action Kit' for nationwide distribution and implement work in 2 to 4 states supporting provider/immigrant coalitions. These coalitions will work to educate opinion leaders and policy makers on the importance of providing language services and investigate the feasibility of implementing the federal reimbursement option for these services. | | Detail: | To work in partnership with the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) on an effort to educate and inform hospitals, health care providers, immigrant and health advocates, and groups interested in expanding health care access of the availability of federal funds to defray the cost of providing language interpreters. The Access Project and NHeLP will develop a 'Language Services Action Kit' for nationwide distribution and implement work in 2 to 4 states, which are supporting provider/immigrant coalitions. Each coalition will work to educate opinion leaders and policy makers on the importance of providing language services and investigate the feasibility of implementing the federal reimbursement option for these services. New Hampshire was chosen to be a pilot site and is being directed by the New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition and the Southern NH AHEC. |
74: Northeast Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
| Project: | Interpreter Referral Technology Project | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $18,000 | | Grant Date: | December 17, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve coordination of interpretation services and thus access to care for deaf and hard of hearing individuals by developing and implementing an online interpreter assignment system. | | Detail: | To primarily purchase software and support technical assistance from the software company. |
75: African Community International, Inc.
| Project: | African Community Technical Assistance | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $1,868 | | Grant Date: | May 01, 2007 | | Duration: | 1 month | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To provide opportunity for African organizations, funders and community leaders to have one-on-one technical assistance and/or small group discussion. | | Detail: | To fund consultant costs. |
76: Granite State Independent Living
| Project: | Including Samuel | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $10,000 | | Grant Date: | March 19, 2007 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To help health practitioners, educators and the general public better understand the barriers that people with disabilities face in accessing quality health care and education by promoting the use of 'Including Samuel,' a documentary film that follows the journey of children with disabilities and their families and examines best practices for the social and educational inclusion of youth with disabilities.
| | Detail: | Funds from the Endowment for Health will be used to pay for technical assistance for strategic communications, website design and graphic design of promotional materials. |
77: Odyssey House, Inc.
| Project: | Odyssey House: Recovery School Feasibility | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $11,508 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To determine the feasibility of establishing a Recovery School in New Hampshire by evaluating the regions need, accessing existing schools in other parts of the country and developing the best model for the area. | | Detail: | To fund consultants associated with the development of a Recovery School feasibility study and related travel expenses. | | Outcomes: | The strategy used (convening the group of stakeholders, seeking as much feedback as possible, using consultants to assist with identification of best practices) worked perfectly. Involving folks in the feasibility study helped OdysseyNH to strengthen and establish new relationships and to gain buy-in. The feasibility report itself is comprehensive and serves as a nice documentation of all of the pre-planning that was involved. |
78: National Alliance on Mental Illness-New Hampshire
| Project: | Improving Access and Treatment for Adolescents and Young Adults with Co-Occurring Disorders: Mental Illness and Substance Abuse | | Grant Type: | Technical Assistance Grant | | Amount: | $18,182 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 13 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To develop a 'Blueprint for Change' that provides a framework and specific action steps for addressing the barriers to treatment for co-occurring disorders for adolescents and young adults in New Hampshire by creating a structured process which builds on identified critical topics. | | Detail: | To fund consultant support for providing technical assistance in the development of the 'Blueprint for Change.' |
79: Gateways Community Services
| Project: | Assuring Cultural Competence in Southern New Hampshire Developmental Disability Services | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $18,600 | | Grant Date: | September 30, 2001 | | Duration: | 6 months | | Area(s): | Nashua HSA | | Description: | Assuring Cultural competence in Southern New Hampshire Develomental Disability Services: A one year planning grant will help address the cultural competency needs of the Area Agency of Nashua and to develop a strategic plan to address barriers to the delivery of service to the developmentally disabled and their families who are of minority ethnicity. Program will be replicated in the other Area Agencies throughout New Hampshire. |
80: Manchester Community Health Center
| Project: | Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $16,000 | | Grant Date: | September 28, 2001 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project: A one-year planning grant to develop (and obtain school board approval for) a program to screen 7th grade females in the Manchester school system who are identified as high risk for becoming pregnant and then provide pregnancy prevention programs and follow up through high school. |
81: Northeast Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
| Project: | Deaf People Accessing Health | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $134,350 | | Grant Date: | September 28, 2001 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | Deaf People Accessing Health: Grant will help build a system of support and comprehensive services statewide to allow full and equal access to deaf residents, focusing on the expansion of medical interpreting and health care advocacy in the state. |
82: National Alliance on Mental Illness-New Hampshire
| Project: | Program to Increase Access to Mental Health | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $68,663 | | Grant Date: | September 28, 2001 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA, Nashua HSA | | Description: | Program to Increase Assess to Mental Health: Grant will help intitiate a new program in Nashua to increase access to mental health care for Nashua's Latino community by building on an established program in Manchester. The program provides outreach and education about mental illness (including interpreter services), and incorporates cultural competency outreach to mental health providers. |
83: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Services | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $151,765 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Exeter HSA | | Description: | To develop a sustainable training program for qualified medical interpreters; to provide leadership in the develop a system that meets the interpretation needs of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) population statewide; to train and educate health professionals on cultural competency and use of medical interpreters; to provide outreach and education to LEP health consumers about medical interpretation; to develop a continuing education program for trained medical interpreters. | | Detail: | To continue to fund the implementation and evaluation of the medical interpreters training program, the provider cultural competency training program, the consumer outreach and education program. To facilitate the Medical Interpretation Advisory Board and provide leadership in the creation and implementation of a statewide plan for the delivery of medical interpretation services. |
84: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Services | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $70,066 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 9 months | | Area(s): | Exeter HSA, Manchester HSA, Portsmouth HSA | | Description: | To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue implementation & evaluation of training program and to develop a program to broker interpreter services as a pilot in Manchester with later expansion to Nashua & Portsmouth to develop a training program to educate health professionals on cultural competency & use of a medical interpreter as well as education and outreach to health care consumers with limited English proficiency about medical interpretation in same three communities; to develop continuing education program for trained medical interpreters | | Detail: | To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue implementation & evaluation of training program and to develop a program to broker interpreter services as a pilot in Manchester with later expansion to Nashua & Portsmouth to develop a training program to educate health professionals on cultural competency & use of a medical interpreter as well as education and outreach to health care consumers with limited English proficiency about medical interpretation in same three communities; to develop continuing education program for trained medical interpreters. |
85: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Services | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $78,032 | | Grant Date: | September 28, 2001 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA, Exeter HSA, Portsmouth HSA | | Description: | To develop a statewide training program for medical interpreters; a program to broker interpreter services as a pilot in Manchester with later expansion to Nashua & Portsmouth; a training program to educate health professionals on cultural competency and use of a medical interpreter as well as an education and outreach to health care consumers with limited English proficiency about medical interpretation in same three communities; and a continuing education program for trained medical interpretors. | | Detail: | To fund second year of three year theme grant with conditional funding to continue implementation & evaluation of training program and to develop a program to broker interpreter services as a pilot in Manchester with expansion to Nashua & Portsmouth. |
86: City of Nashua Division of Public Health and Community Services
| Project: | The Gateway City Health & Wellness Immigrant Integration Initiative | | Sub Title: | Promoting collaboration between Nashua’s municipal, social and health care agencies to better serve newly arriving immigrants and refugees | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $134,000 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 15 months | | Area(s): | Nashua HSA | | Description: | To reduce social and cultural barriers to health and well-being for immigrants and refugees in the City of Nashua by strengthening coordination among municipal, social and health care agencies to better serve new arrivals, empowering individuals to navigate various public systems and improving the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services. | | Detail: | To fund project staff, cultural brokers, technical assistance from national experts, data collection, and cultural competency training. |
87: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Community Health Worker Training Institute (CHWTI) | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $198,389 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 36 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve the health and wellness of New Hampshire's underserved communities by establishing a program to train Community Health Workers (CHWs) so they are better able to promote health, self-care, self-advocacy and access to health and social services among their clients.
| | Detail: | To help fund staff time, curriculum refinement, faculty, training and evaluation expenses. |
88: Somali Development Center
| Project: | Somali Woman Health Educator | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $70,493 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To assist Somali women and their families in becoming educated, empowered and active participants in their own health care by providing bi-lingual, bi-cultural case management, medical interpretation and home-based health education through a Somali woman health educator that is shared by the Somali Development Center and the NH Minority Health Coalition.
| | Detail: | To fund training, supervision, salary and other resources for a full-time Somali woman health educator. |
89: National Alliance on Mental Illness-New Hampshire
| Project: | Frameworks Youth Suicide Prevention Project | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $76,860 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve access to health for youth at risk for suicidal behavior by reframing messages, changing stigmatizing attitudes, providing training and skill development, strengthening community coalitions, fostering leadership, and promoting collaboration and service coordination. | | Detail: | To support staff and consultant activities associated with project implementation. | | Outcomes: | The final report chronicles the journey of the Work Group to learn about existing anti-stigma messaging and to incorporate that learning into messages that can be used by the larger initiative. Although I was one of those 'waning and waxing' participants, I learned a great deal during the process. Thank you for inviting me to participate.
The Endowment awarded this grant (as part of a much larger initiative involving national funders) to the Frameworks Institute to learn more about the current mental health 'frames' through communications research. The final report includes a summary of the results of the Stigma Scale. The report indicates that both qualitative and quantitative data was collected from surveys and focus groups.
Stigma is a barrier to policy change as much as it is a barrier to treatment. We are pleased to have supported the efforts to advance knowledge on this issue in NH. The bibliography, the research, the review of existing public awareness campaigns and the dialogue all have contributed to the work of the EH's new theme. |
90: Foundation for Healthy Communities
| Project: | Cultural Effectiveness and Quality Health Care | | Sub Title: | Improving access to culturally and linguistically appropriate care | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $245,904 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2008 | | Duration: | 36 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve access to the quality of healthcare offered by New Hampshire hospitals and other providers by promoting cultural effectiveness within organizations and facilitating innovation to ensure delivery of culturally sensitive and appropriate care via the Medical Interpretation Advisory Board and a Cultural Awareness Healthcare Workgroup. | | Detail: | To fund project coordinator to facilitate and conduct project activities and consultants to enhance the coordinator's efforts. |
91: Foundation for Healthy Communities
| Project: | Cultural Competency and Quality Healthcare | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $162,342 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 24 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve access to the quality of healthcare offered by New Hampshire hospitals and other healthcare providers by promoting cultural competency within organizations and developing models or systems that ensure delivery of culturally sensitive and appropriate care. | | Detail: | To support salary and other expenses for a staff person who will coordinate the Medical Interpretation Advisory Board (MIAB) and Healthcare Workgroup, consultants to assist with project implementation and activities of the MIAB and Healthcare Workgroup. |
92: Foundation for Healthy Communities
| Project: | Cultural Competency & Quality Healthcare Project | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $88,240 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 14 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To achieve the vision of the Medical Interpretation Advisory Board (MIAB) where the limited English proficient and deaf and hard of hearing populations in New Hampshire will have access to high quality health services and to improve the quality of healthcare offered by New Hampshire hospitals and other providers by promoting cultural competency within organizations, developing models or systems that ensure delivery of culturally sensitive and appropriate care and faciliating the Medical Interpretation Advisory Board and its subcommittees. | | Detail: | To fund staff and consultant support to conduct project activities. |
93: Northeast Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
| Project: | Deaf People Access Health Project III | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $70,240 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To change funding for access to services, social and health care by NH's deaf and hard of hearing population through policy and legislative change where appropriate by working with NH state agency representatives. | | Detail: | To help fund health advocate and executive director positions. |
94: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Training Program | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $198,012 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 39 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To create systemic change in addressing linguistic barriers of non-English speakers in NH by increasing the number and quality of trained medical interpreters in the health care workforce, increasing awareness of the issue among health care organizations, and offering training to health professionals to enhance cross cultural communication skills. | | Detail: | To help support staffing, faculty, consultants and program operation expenses for the Medical Interpretation Training Program and the Cultural Competency Training Program. |
95: New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
| Project: | Medical Interpretation Training II | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $100,000 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To create systemic change in addressing linguistic barriers of non-English speakers in NH by increasing the number of trained medical interpreters in the health care workforce, as well as developing a comprehensive approach to providing quality health care services by offering training to health professionals, and their organizations about medical interpretation. | | Detail: | To continue to fund project leadership and staff, medical interpretation faculty, implementation of a sustainability plan for medical interpretation training and professional outreach/education , and coordination of MIAB as well as supporting operational expenses to support the medical interpretation training program and outreach and education to professionals and health care organizations. |
96: Monadnock Family Services
| Project: | In SHAPE Program IV | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $84,601 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA, Peterborough HSA | | Description: | To increase the life expectancy of individuals who have or are at risk of developing Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) by providing resources and supports to reduce the risks of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and substance abuse through a variety of community based interventions. | | Detail: | To help fund staff, client services and other expenses. |
97: Monadnock Family Services
| Project: | In SHAPE Program III | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $66,483 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA, Peterborough HSA | | Description: | To increase the life expectancy of individuals who have or are at risk of developing Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) by providing resources and supports to reduce the risks of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and substance abuse through a variety of community based interventions. | | Detail: | To help fund staff and client mentors. |
98: Monadnock Family Services
| Project: | In SHAPE Program II | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $52,654 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA, Peterborough HSA | | Description: | To increase the life expectancy of individuals who have or are at risk of developing Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) by providing resources and supports to reduce the risks of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and substance abuse through a variety of community based interventions. | | Detail: | To help fund staff, mentoring contracts, and a public health nurse. |
99: Monadnock Family Services
| Project: | In SHAPE Program II | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $33,715 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA, Peterborough HSA | | Description: | To increase the life expectancy of individuals who have or are at risk of developing Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) by providing resources and supports to reduce the risks of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and substance abuse. | | Detail: | To help fund staff, mentoring contracts, and a public health nurse. |
100: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | Language Bank | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $70,835 | | Grant Date: | June 19, 2006 | | Duration: | 24 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To improve access to healthcare by providing a high quality, comprehensive language interpretation service that will assist both persons who are limited in their English proficiency and staff at medical facilities/social service agencies to communicate without linguistic or cultural barriers. | | Detail: | To help fund coordination, services, and outreach for the Language Bank, including a business consultant. |
101: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | Language Bank II | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $82,037 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 15 months | | Area(s): | Concord HSA, Franklin HSA, Laconia HSA, Manchester HSA, Nashua HSA | | Description: | To continue to improve access to and quality of healthcare by providing a high quality, comprehensive, sustainable language interpretation service to assist both persons who are limited in their proficiency of English and staff at medical facilities/social service agencies to communicate without linguistic or cultural barriers. | | Detail: | To fund a full-time coordinator and marketing materials associated with an awareness campaign to increase the visibility of the Language Bank throughout central NH and eventually statewide and utilization of medical interpretation services. |
102: Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
| Project: | Language Bank II | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $71,034 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Concord HSA, Franklin HSA, Laconia HSA | | Description: | To improve access to healthcare by providing a high quality, comprehensive, sustainable language interpretation service that will assist both persons who are limited in their proficiency of English and staff at medical facilities/social service agencies to communicate without linguistic or cultural barriers. | | Detail: | To continue to help fund the coordination, services, training, outreach, planning and solutions to achieve the sustainability of the Language Bank interpretation service. |
103: New Hampshire Legal Assistance
| Project: | Manchester Child Law Program | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $157,408 | | Grant Date: | June 18, 2007 | | Duration: | 24 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To address the critical link between social factors and health by sustaining and expanding the NH Health Law Collaborative that identifies and addresses legal issues affecting the health and well-being of low-income children and adults.
| | Detail: | To help fund staff costs and related expenses for continuing the Manchester site, expanding into multiple sites in the North Country, sharing lessons learned within the statewide network, and systemic advocacy on issues identified through the project. |
104: Child Health Services
| Project: | Manchester Child Law Program | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $56,668 | | Grant Date: | September 19, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To ensure access to critical health and social services and improve the health outcomes of children living in poverty; address systemic economic and social-cultural barriers to child health through legal advocacy; and provide a framework for the expansion of this model of legal advocacy across New Hampshire by establishing a medical-legal collaborative project with NH Legal Assistance. | | Detail: | To support staff salaries at both Child Health Services and NH Legal Assistance, and to support other program operation expenses such as staff training, office supplies, office operations, translation and interpretation for year two of the project. |
105: Child Health Services
| Project: | Manchester Child Law Program | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $59,289 | | Grant Date: | June 20, 2005 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To ensure access to critical health and social services and improve the health outcomes of children living in poverty; address systemic economic and social-cultural barriers to child health through legal advocacy; and provide a framework for the expansion of this model of legal advocacy across New Hampshire by establishing a medical-legal collaborative project with NH Legal Assistance. | | Detail: | To support staff salaries at both Child Health Services and NH Legal Assistance, and to support other program operation expenses such as staff training, office supplies, office operations, translation and interpretation for year one of the project. |
106: National Alliance on Mental Illness-New Hampshire
| Project: | Latino Access to Care | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $47,139 | | Grant Date: | June 21, 2004 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To assure increased access to culturally and linguistic appropriate mental healthcare for the growing Latino population in NH through consultation and training in recommended systemic change processes in existing Latino/Hispanic population centers in NH. | | Detail: | To help fund staff to create a sustainable program in Nashua |
107: Northeast Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
| Project: | Deaf People Accessing Health II | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $119,500 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To provide outreach, education, and advocacy to deaf and hard of hearing patients and their health care providers in an effort to improve the health and well-being of deaf and hard of hearing citizens of NH and to subsequently improve access to health care for persons with hearing loss by improving communication between patients and providers. | | Detail: | To continue to fund a health advocate and a medical interpreter to implement the provision of outreach, education and advocacy to deaf and hard of hearing patients and their health care providers. |
108: New England Network for Child, Youth, and Family Services, Inc.
| Project: | Reach Out Initiative - New Hampshire | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $45,000 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2003 | | Duration: | 36 months | | Area(s): | State of NH | | Description: | To prepare youth service providers in northern New England to meet the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) youth in order to enhance their health, safety and well-being. | | Detail: | To help fund a project to prepare five major New Hampshire youth services providers to meet the needs of GLBTQ youth through an integrated program of organizational assessment, training, technical assistance and evaluation. |
109: Monadnock Family Services
| Project: | In SHAPE | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $39,835 | | Grant Date: | June 16, 2003 | | Duration: | 12 months | | Area(s): | Keene HSA
Peterborough HSA | | Description: | To develop a program, In Shape, to improve the overall health status and increase the lower than average life expectancy for the population of adults who have, or are at risk of developing, a severe/persistent mental illness (SPMI) by targeting risk factors that contribute to increased mortality from diabetes, substance abuse and cardiovascular disease. | | Detail: | To help fund a pilot project, In Shape, enrolling 40 people with SPMI, aged 16 to 45 years, implementing activities which will address risk factors related to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, substance abuse, and circulatory conditions. The pilot year will be used to test recruitment and retention, track participants' individual progress, test preliminary program cost effectiveness, identify problems or barriers to participation, and devise strategies for resolving issues and moving forward. |
110: Manchester Community Health Center
| Project: | Adolescent Health | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $64,597 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 24 months | | Area(s): | Manchester HSA | | Description: | To identify & address the long term needs of high risk adolescents to prevent teen pregnancy utilizing a school-based model in Manchester middle schools. | | Detail: | To contriubute to the funding of an Adolescent Health Care Provider at four Manchester middle schools to provide at-risk students preventive health education, case management services & on-going mentoring in order to prevent teen pregnancy |
111: National Alliance on Mental Illness-New Hampshire
| Project: | Program to Access to Mental Health Care for Latinos/Hispanics in Nashua | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $160,910 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 24 months | | Area(s): | Nashua HSA | | Description: | To continue a newly instituted program in Nashua developed with the NH Minority Health Coalition to increase access to mental health care for Latino/Hispanic populations & to transfer the model to other communities. | | Detail: | To fund years two and three of a grant to provide community outreach and education, improve provider cultural competency, and enhance access to mental health services for minority populations in Nashua. The project will be accomplished in collaboration with the Minority Health Coalition and the Advisory Council established in the first year of the grant. An outside consultant will be retained
to evaluate the project utilizing the outcome measures described in the proposal and others that may be determined over the course of the project. |
112: Gateways Community Services
| Project: | Minority Outreach Initiative | | Grant Type: | Theme Implementation Grant | | Amount: | $115,000 | | Grant Date: | June 24, 2002 | | Duration: | 24 months | | Area(s): | Nashua HSA | | Description: | To support the implementation of this project to enhance the cultural competency of the organization and outreach to developmentally delayed minority populations and their families. | | Detail: | The grant will include hiring a Minority Outreach Service Coordinator to expand outreach, the formalization of a Minority Advisory Boar and the translation of educational and agency written materials. This model of cultural competency training, outreach activities, literature and materials will be disseminated to and used by other developmental disability agencies throughout NH. |
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