All Partner Meetings

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Thank you to our Partner Sponsor!

Our Agenda

11am          Lunch is Served
                     Taco Bar from Cinco's Cantina in Dover

11:30am   Welcome & PHN Year in Review
                    Ashley Wheeler, SCPHN Manager

                    Highlighting Partner Successes
                   
Katie Soule, Granite YMCA
                    Katie Michaud, Cornerstone VNA & Rochester Mental Health Alliance
                    Faye Paquette, UNH Wildcats for Recovery program
                    Allison Bussiere, Gather

                   Presentation: Navigating Challenges Together
                   Christine Wyrsch, Chief Nursing Officer, Greater Seacoast Community Health & PHAC Member

                   Facilitated Networking: Collaboration for Change
                   Steve Pappajohn, Director Dover Teen Center & SCPHN PHAC Chair

12:45pm   Closing: The Year Ahead
                    Ashley Wheeler, SCPHN Manager

Materials & Resources

You can find our full presentation, including the slides from our partner highlights here: 2025 Spring All Partner Meeting Presentation

Check out all of our accomplishments over the last year (July 2024 - June 2025) in our 2025 Annual Report 

You can find more information about our Partners who shared their accomplishments:

Here's the list of other partner highlights shared with us, along with links to their websites to learn more!

Infinity Peer Support guides individuals through their mental health recovery with peer support and has over 500 members! They were recently awarded an Opioid Abatement Grant by the city of Rochester to expand our programming to increase our focus on co-occurring substance use disorders.

Great Bay Community College from Aug 1st, 2024, to May 23rd, 2025:

      • Mental Health and Suicide Prevention: Our Community Resource Coordinator had 68 appointments for Student Wellbeing
      • Healthy Living: The Herons Nest Food Pantry served an average of 400 people (students and their families) per month, during academic year, August 2024-May 2025. The Gather Café provided 31,000 discounted meals to students in the last three years and 10,000 healthy premade meals to students to take home to their families
      • Healthcare Awareness and Access: Our Community Resource Coordinator had 32 appointments regarding accessing health insurance

Recovery Friendly Workplaces in Strafford County are doing amazing work in their orgs and in the community! Some highlights are Somersworth School District and City of Dover signing on in the last year.

UNH Institute on Disability:

      • Related to food security was working with Gather to improve the member registration process for people with disabilities. More info at https://iod.unh.edu/nh-disability-health-program/promoting-accessibility-all-gather.
      • Update/success regarding oral health is we will have finalized our new healthcare training module for dentists on disability-competent practice. The module will be online and can be taken on-demand. Dentists and dental hygienists can earn free continuing education credits. This module will complement existing modules the program developed for healthcare providers on care and screening as well as communication. "

Better Life Partners

      • Healthcare services for individuals with OUD and AUD. These services include MAT, mental health counseling and non-emergent care.

Triangle Club is in the process of adding a "Young Persons" meeting targeting ages 16-20 to provide more of a youth-peer representation within our community. More details to come.

Dover Police Department's Community Response & Engagement Unit worked with the City of Dover and Recovery Friendly Workplace to officially deem Dover a Recovery Friendly City! Lt. Mitrushi and Kaitlin Jones are working to train all 330 Dover City employees in MHFA.

 

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