Evaluation
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Oral Health Care Access in New Hampshire Just as good oral health is essential to good overall health, poor oral health can increase the risk of a number of serious health problems, including stroke and cardiovascular disease.1 Access to oral health care is not universal, however. Barriers to care may be… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Health, New Hampshire |
| New Hampshire Children in Need of Services: Impacts of 2011 Legislative Changes to CHINS Using administrative data from state and local agencies and data from interviews with CHINS professionals, this brief provides an overview of participation in the Children in Need of Services (CHINS) program before and after the change in the law in September 2011… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Children, Health, New Hampshire, Safety Net |
| Mapping Food Insecurity and Food Sources in New Hampshire Cities and Towns (co-publication with the Children's Alliance of NH) Using a series of detailed New Hampshire maps, this brief presents a geographic picture of the towns and cities at risk for food insecurity as well as the food resources available across the state. By detailing places with high food insecurity risk and comparing them… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Food Assistance, New Hampshire |
| Homeless Teens and Young Adults in New Hampshire (co-publication with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire) More than 1,000 adolescents and young adults in New Hampshire are homeless, and their numbers are growing. The brief, co-published with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire, provides an estimate of homeless youth in New Hampshire calculated from national and… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Family, Housing, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| What's for Dinner? Finding and Affording Healthy Foods in New Hampshire Communities Access to healthy food is becoming increasingly difficult for some households in the Granite State, as grocery stores relocate or consolidate, leaving some residents to depend on convenience stores for basic groceries. This brief looks at recent data on food deserts… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Family, Food Assistance, New Hampshire, Safety Net |
| Indicators of New Hampshire Youth Well-Being (co-publication with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire) According to a new study, New Hampshire youth, ages 13 to 24, are more likely to complete school, be employed, and have lower obesity rates than their peers nationwide but fare worse in national measures of alcohol and substance abuse. This brief, a co-publication… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Demography, Education, Family, Health, New Hampshire, Poverty, Young Adults |
| Federal Child Nutrition Programs are Important to Rural Households This brief, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, examines how rural families use four of the major federal child nutrition programs. It finds that 29 percent of rural families with children participate but that there are barriers to these nutrition programs,… |
Evaluation, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Food Assistance, Poverty, Rural, Safety Net |
| Student Discipline in New Hampshire Schools (co-publication with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire) A new analysis of student discipline in New Hampshire schools in the 2007–2008 school year shows that out-of-school suspension rates are higher and statewide expulsion rates are lower than the national average. Schools reporting the highest rates of suspensions and… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Children, Education, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Experience of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund in Mainstreaming of Acquisition Loans to Cooperative Manufactured Housing Communities, The This study aimed to provide evidence of the extent to which a financial product―land acquisition loans for manufactured home parks―performed well and was adopted by mainstream financial institutions. The study hypothesized that The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Economic Development, Housing, New Hampshire |
| Children's Health Insurance in New Hampshire: An Analysis of New Hampshire Healthy Kids New Hampshire has been successful in achieving one of the lowest uninsurance rates for children in the country - 6 percent in 2005 (U.S. Census Bureau). The extent to which New Hampshire Healthy Kids has contributed to the state's success in achieving this low… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Children, Health, Health Insurance, New Hampshire, Safety Net |
