AWARDED GRANTS

To implement a comprehensive dental clinic within Families First Health Center, a CHC, which will provide preventive & restorative services to adults & children integrating the clinic into the continuum of oral health services provided by Seacoast Dental Coalition which includes Families First Health Center.

To add new dental equipment into currently existing/ recently renovated dental office at a nursing home/retirement community to expand services to nursing home residents & increase access to retirement community residents who currently have minimal access

Purchase of used box truck to transport food for food pantry, appliances, and furniture.

Futuro Saludable brings comprehensive HIV Prevention programming to at-risk Latinos in Greater Nashua. Through a collaborative effort with the NH Minority Coalition and the Nashua Public Health Dept., multi-week health workshops, street outreach, and referrals provide risk-behavior counseling, knowledge, and skills to Latina women, hard-hit by the epidemic in So. New Hampshire.

The Discretionary Grant will allow us to complete the final six-week health workshop and continue part-time outreach until July 1st when additional resources will become available.

To convene all NH professionals who work with and for adolescents in order to promote new professional and service networks, and to provide a comprehensive, statewide educational offering on the needs of adolescents in NH.

To prepare the CHS network for the implementation of the NH Community Technology Partnership software program(a statewide single-point-of- entry care coordination and access system) to assist underserved populations .

To disseminate the findings of the community benefit plan analysis ( funded by the Endowment in 2001) to communities and charitable trusts at a statewide conference in the fall of 2002.

To create a new user-friendly guidebook by revising and integrating the current guidebooks, Family Guidebook for Children & Adolescents with Severe Emotional Disorders and Parents as Case Managers.

To plan and develop a family and community resource center in which six nonprofits co-locate to provide the Greater Peterborough area with improved access to health, social and economic services.