Endowment for Health awards $1.4 m in grants

“These projects address pressing needs and support collective work across New Hampshire to address the health and well-being of everyone who lives here,” said Sue Fulton, chief financial officer for the Endowment for Health.

Recent grants include:

• Bhutanese Community of New Hampshire — $20,000 — for the English Enrichment & Citizenship Preparation Project.

• Concord School District — $20,000 — for a project that trains teachers, staff and community partners about working with refugee children.

• Emerging Leaders in Communities of Color — $22,500 — for a program designed to strengthen the state’s diverse communities by developing people for leadership roles.

• Families in Transition – New Horizons — $55,000 — A Medicaid institute that will educate the state’s housing agencies about the state Medicaid plan and develop custom business plans around reimbursable expenses.

• Health Strategies of New Hampshire — $23,804 — for the Family and Youth Leadership Project.

• Lamprey Health Care — $35,000 — The Equity Leaders Fellowship Program will utilize the expertise of New Hampshire leaders of color to train rising minority community leaders.

• Manchester Community Health Center — $15,000 — The Behavioral Health Integration Project will offer a continuum of coordinated behavioral health services at Manchester Community Health Center, Westside Neighborhood Health Center and the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester.

• New Hampshire Legal Assistance — $17,700 — Combating Elder Financial Exploitation in New Hampshire will develop a program to address the growing problem of elder financial exploitation.

• New Hampshire Oral Health Coalition/Public Health Association — $17,000 — for the 2015 New Hampshire Oral Health Plan.

• Partnership for a Drug-Free New Hampshire — $20,000 — The Be Someone Project will promote recovery from addiction through a statewide campaign.

• University of New Hampshire — $50,000 — for a program designed to raise awareness about the importance of early childhood.

• UNH — $201,230 — for the Behavioral Health Integration Learning Collaborative, a program designed to improve health care.

For more details, visit www.endowmentforhealth.org