Community Partners

The New Hampshire Area Health Education Center’s (NH AHEC) mission is: “To develop innovative approaches that meet the health needs of diverse populations by enhancing the knowledge, skills, and capacity of the health care workforce and New Hampshire communities” with a programmatic focus to enhance access to high quality, culturally competent health care through academic-community partnerships to improve the distribution, diversity, and supply of the primary care health professions workforce who serve in rural and underserved health care delivery sites. The AHECs receive seed funding through a competitive grant from the HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce to establish an infrastructure and activities that are of value to the communities served by the AHEC. Partners include academic institutions, community health networks, public health networks, civic groups, social service agencies, and other community-based organizations throughout the state.

NH AHEC is comprised of three offices: the Program office housed in Lebanon, NH at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; and two Center offices, the Northern NH AHEC housed in Littleton, NH at the North Country Health Consortium; and the Southern NH AHEC at Lamprey Health Center in Raymond NH. Together, these AHECs serve the totality of New Hampshire.

The Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance of Maine, based at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a one-of-a-kind innovative health education program that links an academic medical center with a neighboring state. This connection between Mass General and Maine, through Lunder-Dineen, has proven fertile ground for innovation in the delivery of high-quality health education to empower and equip health care teams by advancing the knowledge, skills and attitudes to promote improvements in public health outcomes. Lunder-Dineen’s tagline is Health Education is Powerful Medicine. We aim to reduce identified barriers and provide methods to adapt and respond to the changing health care needs of Maine residents. Lunder-Dineen has three strategic educational initiatives to address public health issues. Each initiative follows an established a methodology to develop each of these initiatives that incorporates best practices for the science of learning.

The Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, founded in 1797, strives to improve the lives of the people it serves: students, patients, and local and global communities. The School builds healthier communities through innovations in research, education, and patient care. As one of America's top medical schools, the Geisel School of Medicine is committed to creating new generations of diverse leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in healthcare.

Established in 1986, Bi-State Primary Care Association is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501 (c) (3) charitable organization that promotes access to effective and affordable primary care and preventive services for all, with special emphasis on underserved populations in Vermont and New Hampshire. Bi-State works with federal, state, and regional health policy organizations, foundations, and payers to develop strategies, policies, and programs that provide and support community-based primary health care services in medically underserved areas.

ALL Together is a multi-organization collaboration that supports the development of healthy, safe, and resilient communities that take action to reduce the impact of alcohol and drug misuse. ALL Together prioritizes implementation of evidence-based programs, policies, and practices including community engagement.

ALL Together is made up of local community coalitions and a regional leadership council. ALL Together is recognized as the Substance Misuse Prevention workgroup of the Public Health Council of the Upper Valley and is also nationally recognized as a Drug Free Communities Coalition. Towns represented are: Canaan, Dorchester, Enfield, Grafton, Grantham, Hanover, Lebanon, Lyme, Piermont, Plainfield, Orange, and Orford, New Hampshire and Hartford and Norwich, Vermont. ALL Together is supported by the New Hampshire Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.