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Programs We Offer

•  Let's Talk Diabetes/ Hablemos de Diabetes

  Provides home-based education and support to more than 40 Latino and African Descendant community members who either have or are at high risk of developing diabetes.

• Pink Ribbons of Sisterhood

  Provides home-based small group education around increasing awareness of breast cancer, the importance of preventative screenings and healthy behaviors that support breast health. The program serves un- and underinsured women 40 years of age and older within New Hampshire's racial and ethnic minority communities, providing referrals to free or discounted mammogram screenings, bilingual and logistical support during screening appointments and is launching a local social marketing campaign to further spread it's message.

• CEED- New Hampshire Health Equity Partnership

Undertakes activities that improve health outcomes in communities of color in Manchester, to increase the capacity of grassroots self-help organizations to advocate on behalf of their members and constituents, to bring community members together to discuss health care issues and strategies for improving health and to bring about measurable institutional changed identified as high priority by community needs assessment.

• *Bright Start*

Educates limited-English proficient pregnant and parenting women in their homes, focusing on the developmental stages of their infants. Services include regular home visits, nurse visits and bilingual support to establish links to community services & resources. The program currently serves 144 mothers and infants in Manchester and Nashua.

• Cultural Competency

Provides workshops and consultations with providers of health care services, social and human services agencies and the business sector to increase effectiveness in cross-cultural interactions. 2,070 providers received training in the past year.

• HIV Prevention

Works to reduce HIV infection in undeserved minority communities in the State through street intervention,      small group education sessions and community building events. In the past year, the Coalition's intervention staff made 487 outreach contacts to racial and ethnic minorities and educate 85 people through 63 home-based group education sessions.

• Medical Interpretation Services Project

Works to develop a statewide program to train medical interpreters and educate health professionals and consumers in the use of medical interpretation. In collaborations with the Southern NH Area Health Education Center, we have trained more than 280 Medical Interpreters and 80 Legal Interpreters.

• Research & Evaluation Group

Provides quality health research, analysis and evaluation services, including evaluation design, focus group studies, and database construction, focused on undeserved minority community-based organizations, public organizations, school departments and business in New England. NHMHC's approach to evaluation is to devise mixed methods designs that apply qualitative techniques to assess and improve programs. Publications range from peer-reviewed journal articles to reports for public and private organizations to easy-to-read multilingual materials for community members. Recent research and evaluation efforts include:

• Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Evaluation

With support from SAMHSA and the NH Division of Public Health Services, NHMHC provides evaluation services, training, and technical support to ten regional prevention coalitions as they move through the SPF process of assessment, capacity-building, planning, implementation and evaluation.