SPECIAL PROJECTS
NHLA responds to the emerging needs of clients with new projects and efforts, often in collaboration with other organizations in the state.
Children's Dental Health
New Hampshire Health Law Collaborative
Youth Law
Children's Dental Health
NHLA is monitoring our State's compliance with a federal class action consent decree entered in 2004 to improve the Medicaid dental program for children. Contact: Kay Drought 1-800-334-3135, extension 2503.
New Hampshire Health Law Collaborative
The New Hampshire Health Law Collaborative (NHHLC) combines the skills of two unlikely partners—doctors and lawyers—to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable low-income children and elderly people in New Hampshire. NHLA advocates work at selected health centers in the state as “sub-specialists” training medical staff to identify possible legal issues that exacerbate health problems for these vulnerable populations. Once such a problem is identified, NHLA advocates provide free legal assistance to resolve these issues.
Since its launch in 2005, the NHHLC has handled cases in the areas of housing, special education, public benefits, domestic violence, family law, employment labor/wage and immigration. The project also seeks to bring about systemic change to improve the health of large groups of individuals in poverty and seeks to address issues that will cause health problems for these people.
The NHHLC began with a partnership between NHLA and Child Health Services in Manchester where NHLA helps families with children and has expanded to three locations in the North Country, at Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Coos County Family Health Services, and Indian Stream Health Center where it helps children, families, individuals and the elderly.
Funders:
Campaign for Legal Services
Jesse B. Cox Charitable Trust
Endowment for Health
Greater Manchester Charitable Trust
IOLTA Program of New Hampshire Bar Foundation
NH Charitable Foundation
Medical Legal Partnership for Children
Norwin S. and Elizabeth N. Bean Foundation
United Way
Youth Law Project
The Youth Law Project (YLP) works with children and teenagers who are facing delinquency or CHINS petitions, as well as those who are at-risk of having such petitions filed against them. The YLP seeks to get these young people the educational, health, mental health, and other services necessary to stay in their homes and communities and out of the juvenile justice system. The type of work the YLP does includes representation at school disciplinary hearings and special education meetings and proceedings. The YLP does not provide representation in delinquency or CHINS cases, but works closely with the public defenders and court-appointed counsel who do to determine how best to meet the youth’s needs.
Funders
Endowment for Health
Equal Justice America
Kaufman Fellowship at Harvard Law School
N.H. Bar Foundation
Pamphlets 
Youth Discipline
A "Know Your Rights" brochure for students and their parents/guardians on school discipline in New Hampshire schools.
