NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDRENS TRUST INC
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in New Hampshire through Community Education
The Children’s Trust serves as the state chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America. As the NH child abuse and neglect prevention agency, the Children’s Trust is responsible for creating and implementing the statewide child abuse and neglect prevention plan. The Children’s Trust provides training and technical assistance to family support agencies statewide, we provide training to help families advocate for themselves and their children, we educate on child abuse and neglect prevention and how to strengthen families.
Strengthening Families
Strenthening Families is a research-based, cost-effective strategy to increase family strengths, enhance child development and reduce child abuse and neglect. It focuses on building that promote healthy outcomes. Those five protective factors are parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support in times of need and social and emotional competence of children.
Home Visiting Capacity Building
Healthy Famiilies America is a nationally recognized, research-based, home visiting service for overburdened or isolated families to provide new and expectant parents with the supports they need. Quality home visiting services produce results - improved attitudes toward parenting, increased knowledge of child development, better home environments, better relationships between parents and their children, better health, increased school readiness, and a reduction in child abuse and neglect.
Period of PURPLE Crying
The Period of PURPLE Crying is an evidence-based infant abude prevention program which educates parents and caregivers about normal infant crying and the dangers of shaking an infant. The acronym is used to describe specific characterististics of an infant's crying during this phase. Although frustrating, such crying is normal and is simply a phase in their child's development that will pass. The word period is important because it tells parents taht it is only temporary and will come to an end.
Advocacy
Advocating for effective public policy which supports healthy growth and development of all children is a priority. NHCT will raise our voice for children and families by working through existing groups. These include Spark NH (promotes a comprehensive, coordinated, sustainable early childhood system that achieves positive outcomes for young children and families) and the NH Child Advocacy Network (works o improve the health and wellbeing of New Hampshire's children by driving governmental policy, changing budget priorities, and inspiring community action.)
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Prevent Child Abuse America - Member 2004
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
2017-2021 goals:
1. Build a robust advocacy movement to ensure families have access to high-quality evidence-informed child and family support policies, practices and services.
2. Promote positive community norms with individuals, families, professionals, state leaders, and decision-makers to ensure safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments for all New Hampshire children.
3. Strengthen the proficiency, visibility, accessibility, and efficiency of the family support and strengthening field to effectively serve families.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. Increase family-friendly public and employer policies such as: paid leave, livable wage, consistent and flexible work schedules
2. Increase eligible families accessing resources such as: Earned Income Tax Credit, Childcare scholarship
3. Increase number of child and family advocates
4. Increase family, friend and neighbor support for parents with young children
5. Increase families enrolled in Healthy Families America-NH home visiting and programs at Family Resource Centers of Quality
6. Increase number of Family Resource Centers of Quality
7. Increase trained professionals in Strengthening Families, Period of PURPLE Crying, ACEs-Trauma-Resilience, Standards of Quality for Family Support and Strengthening
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Founded in 1986 as a statewide quasi-governmental organization attached to the NH Attorney General's office, the NH Children's Trust Fund reorganized as the NH Children's Trust Inc., an independent 501(c)3 in January, 2011. The NH Children's Trust is the Governor's designee as the lead agency for the federal Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention funds, since 2004 has served as the state chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America, and creates and implements the statewide child abuse and neglect prevention plan.
We have an exceptional staff and board that have provided both internal leadership to fully implement our strategic plan and external leadership to strengthen NH programs and policies that impact the healthy development of NH's children.
We have a balanced budget and fully funded cash reserve.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We successfully concluded our last 5-year strategic plan in 2016.
We implemented Period of PURPLE Crying infant abuse prevention program in 18 hospitals, reaching 96% of parents of newborns. Strengthening Families framework is embedded in systems by 1630 professionals. 97% are knowledgeable about protective factors; 98% report intent to take actions learned to strengthen families. We hosted summits, reaching 1200 professionals/parents and cohosted Parent Advocacy Days, reaching 350 parents. My Voice Matters trainings educated 150 parents. 95% report feeling more comfortable advocating. We promoted positive norms/behaviors to thousands.
We led the effort to create the designation process for Family Resource Centers of Quality to help support NH’s family resource centers. Three centers were designated as FRC-Q. We co-led Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening and Support trainings. Of the 153 certified, 90% of participants report being ready to implement standards.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDRENS TRUST INC
Board of directorsas of 01/22/2024
Mark Knights
Nixon Peabody
Sooze Hodgson
retired pediatrician
Erin Maskwa
Measured Progress
Brian Beals
Coös County Family Health Services
Janice Fitzpatrick
NEA-New Hampshire
Adam Memmolo
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Taylor Breed
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Laura Goupil
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Karen Kersting
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Patricia Robitaille
Consultant
Christine Tappan
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Rebecca Lozman-Oxman
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Jennifer Ganim-Smith
Great Bay Community College
Cyndi Graniello
Service Credit Union
Jenn Cronin
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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