NH Needs Assessment

The NH Charitable Trusts Unit maintains an online listing of all of the Community Benefits plans that have been filed in NH.  Some can be accessed online.  In NH all health care charitable trusts are required to develop community benefits plans to ensure the unique health care needs of a community are met.
http://doj.nh.gov/charitable/benefitslisting.html

The The United Way State of Caring Index incorporates 36 indicators of community well being covering 1992-2002 and offers users the ability find out how their state compares with other states and the nation. The Index provides the long view of how a state is performing on pressing social, economic, and environmental issues.
http://national.unitedway.org/stateofcaring/

Using Data

The New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice's Empowering Communities Project provides access to data, technical assistance, and training to assist NH organizations use data effectively to address health issues.
http://www.ecnh.unh.edu/general.html

NH Data Sources

Kids Count Census Online has easy to use Census data available at the national, state, county, congressional district and town level.
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/census/

The Children's Alliance of NH offers access to Kids Count data for New Hampshire as well as a NH Fact Sheet.  Their site also offers other data and information about children's issues in NH.
http://www.childrennh.org/ 

New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice maintains the Health Data Inventory that provides information about what health related data is available in NH and where you can find it.
http://www.nhhealthdata.org/

New Hampshire State Data Center gives access to information on NH, including population estimates and projections, housing data, demographics and economic information. Also links to US Census data.
http://www.nh.gov/oep/programs/DataCenter/library.htm