AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - NORTHEAST AFFILIATE
Toll Free: 1-800-662-1701
2 Wall Street Manchester, NH 03101
Cardiovascular disease research grants; Public/Professional
Education; Referral Info; CPR training Info for Public; Cardiac
Life Support Training System for health professionals; Health
Education for Youth Programming Material; sample pamphlets
provided free.
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION STUDENT AID PROGRAM OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE
Phone: 225-6641
37 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH 03301-4005
Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Distributes financial aid to NH students. Annual scholarship
competition conducted each spring. Call office for application.
CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS, STRAFFORD COUNTY
Phone: 335-3849, or toll free 1-888-440-4914 Fax: 335-6221
Email: strafdctyccc@metrocast.net
Location: Head Start Suite of the Rochester Community Center, 150
Wakefield St., Rochester, NH 03867.
Mailing Address: PO Box 607, Farmington, NH 03835
Child Care Connections maintains a data base of current child
care providers and preschools in Strafford County and provides
the following: free referrals and information for families
seeking quality child care and preschools; start-up information
for family child care; technical assistance to child care
providers; and workshops for parents, child care providers, and
other early childhood professionals.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF STRAFFORD COUNTY, INC.
Phone: 332-2848 Fax: 330-0838
61 Eastern Avenue, PO Box 1921, Rochester, NH 03866-1921
Offering Education Programming: Pre-vocational, academic, and
vocational educational programs for special needs children ages 3
through 21 who have been determined to be developmentally and/or
physically disabled, have autism, or behavior disorders.
Occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, and
behavioral consulting are provided as part of the educational
plan. Hippotherapy (horse back riding therapy), horticultural
program, aquatics, job coaching, and community recreational
activities are also offered. We also provide an after school
program, consulting and individual services on a sliding fee
scale to students enrolled elsewhere. Program Length: School
calendar year with extended school year possible. As a cost
effective, community based, client centered service, the center
believes in developing the full potential of every child within
the child's community.
DOVER ADULT LEARNING CENTER OF STRAFFORD COUNTY
Phone: 742-1030
22 Atkinson Street, Dover, NH 03820
Open Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Adult basic education classes and tutorial services for adults
working on basic reading/math skills; GED preparation; English as
a second language; Adult High School diploma classes; and adult
vocational classes.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Robert Kantar, Educational Consultant
1041 Brown Farm Road, Lyndonville, VT 05851
Alton, NH Office: Phone: (603) 228-8442 to schedule appointments
only. (For further information leave name, phone number, and
address on answering machine.)
Website: www.bobkantar.com
Evaluates adolescents and adults for the purpose of private
school placement, special education placement, college planning,
and career planning. Advocate for children in junior high and
secondary education. Opportunities for talented people and help
for troubled adolescents. Fee for services, some adjustment or
long term payment arranged. More than 30 years experience as
advocate.
EDUCATIONAL TALENT SEARCH
Phone: 862-1562
Robinson House, UNH, Durham, NH 03824
Assists New Hampshire residents with high financial need in
planning further education, gaining admission to post-secondary
schools, and obtaining the necessary financial aid.
EXETER ADULT EDUCATION
Phone: 775-8456
56 Linden Street, Exeter, NH 03833
Website: www.sau16.org/adulted/
Basic skills instruction for reading, writing, math, English as a
second language, GED preparation (open enrollment-money is not an
obstacle), adult high school credit courses (algebra, English,
biology, history) AND enrichment courses and fun workshops in
everything from computers, photography and crafts to yoga! GED
and ESL classes available mornings and evenings. See complete
listing and schedule on website.
HUB FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
Phone: 749-9754
23 Atkinson Street, Dover, NH 03820
Website: www.hubfamilies.org
The HUB Family Resource Center provides families with educational
programs and supportive services which enhance their ability to
raise healthy children in caring homes. Parenting classes
covering the full cycle of parenting from newborns to teens, play
groups which allow socialization for both parents and children,
and parenting support groups. Family literacy program (Even
Start) and home visiting program (Healthy Beginnings) available
to residents of Southern Strafford County. Programs open to all
parents and legal guardians; free unless otherwise indicated.
Stay & Play Drop-In Childcare Center, also offering part time
and full time child care for ages 18 months to 9 years.
LIBRARY SERVICES FOR THE HANDICAPPED
Phone: Toll Free 1-800-491-4200 Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:00 am
to 4:30 pm, except on State Holidays.
This is a section of the NH State Library lending recorded books,
magazines, and special playback equipment to people unable to see
regular print comfortably or handle conventional printed
material. Disability may be permanent or temporary. Collection
exceeds 60,000 titles of every type. Service is completely free
to eligible borrowers: no rental fee, no repair costs, and no
postage/shipping fees.
NEW ENGLAND FARM WORKER'S COUNCIL, INC.
Phone: TollFree 1-877-527-3276 or (603)622-8199 Fax: (603)
622-3276
NH Area Director: Jennifer Justice - St. Hilaire, MSCED
50 Bridge Street, Suite 103, Manchester, NH 03101~
NEFWC is a federally funded non-profit agency representing the
needs of the migrant and seasonal farm workers in New Hampshire.
The National Job Training Program, WIA§167, funds this federal
program. NEFWC provides training, vocational counseling, job
placement assistance, ESL instruction, GED preparation, and
supportive services to farm workers who seek an alternative to
agriculture, or who wish to upgrade job skills in agriculture.
Any individual who has worked on a farm within the last two years
may qualify for this federally funded job-training program. We
encourage farm workers to contact the NEFWC for further
information. Farm workers sustain us by their labor.
NH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION STUDENT AID PROGRAM
Phone: 225-6641
37 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH 03301
Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Distributes financial aid to NH students. Offers limited
counseling to students and parents. Annual scholarship
competition conducted each spring. Call office for an
application.
NH DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
Phone: 436-8884
30 Maplewood Avenue, Suite 206, Portsmouth, NH 03801.
Hours: Monday thru Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm.
To rehabilitate the individual to return to gainful employment
through training, medical treatment, onthejob training,
transition employment, job placement and counseling.
ROCHESTER ADULT COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Phone: 335-7351 ext. 269, or 332-0757 ext. 313
Spaulding High School, Rochester, NH 03867, Attn. Thom.
Provides help for adults to gain academic proficiency, develop
leisure activities, and take refresher courses. The program
includes: GED Preparation, typing, computer courses, vocational
technology skills, and more. Call for more information.
SENIOR CITIZEN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Phone: 862-2015
UNH Continuing Education, 6 Garrison Ave., Durham, NH.
Registration Hours: Monday thru Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm. (Closed
on |Holidays.)
This program provides NH residents 65 years old and over with
waivers on tuition for credit or non-credit courses, up to two
courses per semester. Cannot be taken for economic gain, and does
not apply to Interhostel and special conferences and workshops.
STRAFFORD COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
Phone: 749-3037
Justice & Administration Building 259 County Farm Rd, Unit
#3, Dover, NH 03820
An organization that provides guidance and technical assistance
with planning design and installation of natural resource
conservation projects to Strafford County residents, citizen
groups, and local government. Offers soil erosion & sediment
control, soil maps, soil potential index (SPI) ratings, water
quality & quantity issues, conservation education, sale of
conservation plants for erosion control and wildlife, aerial
photo library, conservation easement acquisition and management.
To provide these services, the District works closely with the
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and cooperates
with all Federal, State, County, Town and private agencies on a
non-discriminatory basis.
STRAFFORD COUNTY / UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
Phone: 749-4445 Fax: 743-3431
Website: www.extension.unh.edu
259 County Farm Road, #5, Dover, NH 03820
Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Offers informal educational programs designed for individuals,
families, and communities in the following areas: financial
management, child care, family development, community
development, 4-H Youth development, nutrition, and food safety,
agriculture and forestry, wildlife management, and more.
STRAFFORD LEARNING CENTER
Phone: (603) 692-4411
Website: www.straffordlearningcenter.org
317 Main St., Somersworth, NH 03878-3099
Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Offers programs for children experiencing learning difficulties,
educational diagnostic evaluation and therapy services. Resource
Center for special instructional materials and in-service
training of school personnel. Ages 0 - 21, and residents of the
participating school districts; SAU's 5, 44, 56, 61, 64, &
74. Consultation/program development/training contracted to
nonmember districts.
TRI-CITY EVEN START / HUB FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
Phone: (603) 749-9755 23 Atkinson Street, Dover, NH 03820
Tri City Even Start is a FREE family literacy program available
to Dover, Rochester, and Somersworth families with at least one
child under the age of 8. Home visiting services, support for
parents, free books, and fun family literacy activities for
parents who want to complete their GED or High School Diploma, or
learn English as a second language.
U.N.H. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
Strafford County Office: 749-4445
Rockingham County Office: 679-5616 or 1-800-248-6672.
Website: www.extension.unh.edu
UNH Cooperative Extension provides programs and resources for
individuals, families, and youth in a variety of areas including:
Family and Consumer Resources, Nutrition Connections, Life Skills
for Employment, Achievement, and Purpose (LEAP), and 4-H Youth
Development.
Family and Consumer Resources programs are in the areas of
parenting, single parenting, stepfamilies, money management,
media literacy, nutrition, and food safety; and reach parents,
seniors, child care providers, consumers, and food service
workers.
Nutrition Connections provides nutrition and fitness education
for families and youth of limited resources through one-on-one
and group settings.
LEAP provides family life skills education to those who receive
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and are in the NH
Employment Program.
4-H Youth Development helps facilitate community youth
development projects and opportunities for youth to enhance their
skills and abilities in a wide variety of interest areas.
In addition, UNH Cooperative Extension works in the areas of
Agriculture Resources, Forestry Resources, Land and Water
Conservation, Sea Grant, and Marine Resources.
Examples of programs of interest to seniors: programs that evolve
around food safety; nutrition and fitness; and money management.
Claudia Boozer-Blasco presents programs about "Food Safety
on the Home Front" for seniors that are living in a
residential community. Terri Schoppmeyer provides senior
nutrition and fitness programs. Karen Blass is involved in an
initiative called "Financial Security in Later Life".
For more information go to the above web site, or call one of the
phone numbers listed above.
U.N.H. PARTNERSHIP FOR SOCIAL ACTION
Phone: 862-2197 or 862-0079 Fax: 862-4787
Website: www.unh.edu/serve
5 Hitchcock Hall, Durham, NH 03824
The Partnership for Social Action (PSA) seeks to encourage the
development of meaningful connections between members of the
University and non-profit agencies throughout the local,
national, and international community through support for
community service and service-learning initiatives. Our web site
links students, faculty, and staff to on-line resources and
volunteer opportunities. PSA works closely with community
service-oriented student organizations engaged in activities such
as visits to local group homes, Habitat for Humanity projects,
mentoring relationships with local teens, fund-raising, special
events, local literacy efforts, and with faculty seeking to
connect their classroom experiences with the needs of the
community.
UNIVERSITY OF NH CONTINUING EDUCATION
Phone: 862-2015
6 Garrison Ave., Durham, NH 03824
Hours: Monday thru Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm.
Credit courses open to the community. Part-time day or evening
degrees (diploma, associates, bachelors, and masters programs).
Business and industry seminars in management, human resources,
computers, and a wide range of technical and professional topics.
Noncredit career certificate programs and workshops in
Supervisory Skills, Human Resources Management, and Computer
Applications. Academic advising and career services available.
Visit www.learn.unh.edu
for complete information.
UNIVERSITY OF NH PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF
PEOPLE OF COLOR
Phone: 862-1058
UNH Batcheller House, Rosemary Lane, Durham, NH 03824
Hours: Monday thru Friday 9 am to 5 pm.
Proposes and recommends, and evaluates programs, policies and
services aimed at enhancing diversity and supporting people of
color within the UNH community. The commission acts to ensure
implementation of goals to increase campus diversity through
minority student, faculty, and staff recruitment and retention,
and through curriculum development. As an advocacy group, the
commission identifies, recommends and supports creative
strategies for promoting and supporting campus diversity; it
responds to issues, needs, and concerns identified within the
community; it works to establish effective and collaborative
working relationships between departments, offices, committees,
commissions, and special programs that play a role in fostering
diversity on campus, and ensuring that the environment is
supportive of the minority populations.
UNIVERSITY OF NH PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF
GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER ISSUES
Phone: 862-1058
Email: wwwglbt.commission@UNH.edu
Website: www.unh.edu/glbt
The mission of the UNH President's Commission on the Status of
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues is to facilitate
the development of a university community that is equitable and
inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender expressions
through advocacy, education, assessment, and activism.
The GLBT Commission achieves this mission by monitoring the
campus climate for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
faculty, students and staff, reviewing the policies and programs
that might affect this community, and advising and assisting the
University President on these issues.
The GLBT Commission was established in 1992 as a Task Force, in
2002, then President Joan Leitzel authorized the commission. The
GLBT Commission meets monthly during the academic year. Its
membership includes gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and
allied university faculty, students, staff, and community members
who are appointed by the president.
UNIVERSITY OF NH PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF
WOMEN
Phone: 862-1058
UNH Batcheller House, Rosemary Lane, Durham, NH 03824
Email: womens.commission@unh.edu
Website: www.unh.edu/womens-commission
Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:30 am to 4 30 pm. Investigates &
recommends University policies affecting the equality of women
students, staff, and faculty. Publishes an Annual Report on the
status of women at UNH, as well as a women's calendar of events.
Programs during the academic year include activities for National
Women's History Month in March, and cosponsoring campus events
such as concerts, fairs, and workshops.