ONE Voice for Southeastern NH is a regional coalition initiated through funding from the NH Department of Health and Human Services’ Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to reduce morbidity, mortality, and other negative outcomes related to alcohol abuse among 12 to 34 year olds.

The United Way of the Greater Seacoast (UWGS) provides financial management for the project, sub-contracts with vendors, and employs coalition staff to support the project, in addition to providing in-kind staff and office support and additional funding to support the work and outcomes of the coalition.

ONE Voice serves 20 towns in the seacoast region of New Hampshire that includes Portsmouth, a social, geographical, and urban hub for the area, as well as Durham, home to the University of New Hampshire (UNH)’s main campus. For the purposes of planning and implementation, the twenty towns were divided into four sub-regions based on current partnerships, school districts, risk and protective factors, and other community characteristics.

ONE Voice was tasked by the NH SPF to begin assessment and capacity building by conducting One-On-One interviews across the region and across multiple community domains such as business professionals, law enforcement, youth, parents, and alcohol retailers. Through this process, the coalition developed a membership body as well as an oversight board to provide leadership for the coalition’s operations.

In addition to One-On-One interviews, the coalition NH SPF SIG ONEVoiceStrategicPlanFINAL Page 2 of 54 conducted sector-based focus groups and information panels to engage community leaders and to begin to build capacity and relationships for data-sharing and planning efforts. In addition, the NH SPF tasked the coalition with conducting Community Readiness Interviews (CRIs) to gauge current capacity to aid in the determination of the changeability of risk, protective, and contributing factors affecting rates and patterns of alcohol abuse in the target age group.

To read more, download the ONE Voice Strategic Plan.

Also see the Updated Regional Goals