All award terms are one year, unless indicated
PREVENT CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
HAVEN
Award: $25,000 – Area Served: Seacoast Region
Pilot to increase knowledge of signs of child abuse for preschool and daycare staff and parents, and implement an age-appropriate modification of Safe Kids Strong Teens program for preschool age children.
JSI Research and Training
Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Statewide
Establish and facilitate an advisory committee that will research practices to improve NH’s capacity of behavioral health/trauma recovery services for children who have experienced abuse.
Antioch University New England
Award: $29,909 – Area Served: Statewide
To build a strong administrative, supervisory, & clinical network of Child Parent Psychotherapy providers throughout NH to support delivery of the model with fidelity.
Early Learning NH, for SPARK NH
Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Statewide
For general operating support.
North Country Education Services
Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Coos County
To build knowledge of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) for a range of professionals working with young children.
PREVENT CHILDHOOD OBESITY
Strafford Regional Planning Commission
Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Strafford County, with emphasis on Somersworth
Inform active living policies and projects for implementation in local planning processes.
REDUCE FOOD INSECURITY
Families in Transition
Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Manchester
To implement policy and environment changes for greater utilization of resources and cost savings.
UNH/Carsey School of Public Policy
Award: $21,399 – Area Served: Statewide
To update the 2012 research brief on NH food insecurity to include maps and discussion of geographic trends.
Belknap Merrimack Community Action Program
Award: $15,000 – Area Served: Statewide
To update communication vehicles (videos, social media presence, etc) to better serve and reach WIC participants
Community Action Program of Strafford County
Award: $29,667 – Area Served: Strafford County
For startup costs to expand Summer Meals Program.
Willing Hands
Award: $20,000 – Area Served: Upper Valley, Sullivan County
For volunteer coordination and management.
PROMOTE ORAL HEALTH
North Country Health Consortium
Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Coos and Northern Grafton Counties
To address the gap in access to oral health treatment by providing screening and referral services for area Head Start participants through age five.
NH Public Health Association, for the NH Oral Health Coalition
Award: $27,000 – Area Served: Statewide
For general operating support.
INCREASE ACCESS TO CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND DENTAL INSURANCE COVERAGE
ProgressNow Education Fund
Award: $25,000 – Statewide, with emphasis on the southwest region
Conduct outreach and education campaign utilizing multiple social media channels during ACA open enrollment period.
ADVOCACY IN SUPPORT OF NH CHILDREN’S HEALTH FOUNDATION FUNDING PRIORITIES AND POPULATIONS
New Futures
Award: $405,000/three years – Area Served: Statewide
To build local level advocacy capacity to advance early childhood and related efforts, and develop and enhance advocacy leadership capacity across NH nonprofit organizations.
NH Fiscal Policy Institute
Award: $15,000 – Area Served: Statewide
To conduct state-level policy analysis to inform children’s health insurance benefits, and food insecurity/SNAP benefit policy planning.