Our Mission


The Children's Alliance of New Hampshire promotes policies and practices that enable all children to lead healthy and productive lives and to reach their full potential.

We believe...

Children do well when families do well.

Individuals, families, communities, government, and the private sector share responsibility to assure child well-being.

Investing resources in child health and well-being is essential to the future of our state.

New Hampshire can, and should be, a place where every child is valued, every child has adequate opportunity and resources, and every child thrives.

The work of the Children's Alliance over the past 12 years has helped bring about measurable and positive changes for low- and moderate-income families with children in New Hampshire, including:

• The founding of a statewide child advocacy network - NHCAN - that provides and supports an annual public policy agenda for children, youth and families.
• The expansion of Medicaid coverage for poor children and pregnant women;
• The statewide adoption of a computerized intake assessment program which provides low income persons with one-stop determinations of eligibility for dozens of local, state and federal assistance programs;
• The creation of the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Corporation to provide publicly subsidized health insurance to low and moderate income children;
• The passage of legislation providing state funding for kindergarten in New Hampshire;
• The creation of pilot programs for school-linked health services; and
• Funding for a home-based visiting nurse program providing nutrition, child development, parenting, family planning and resource referral information to at-risk mothers and their newborns.

To reach our goal of making New Hampshire one of the best places anywhere for a child to grow up we need your help and your involvement. Please contact us to find out how you can raise your voice for children.