Southern New Hampshire Services, Inc.

southern new hampshire services, inc. (snhs) is a private non-profit corporation chartered in the state of new hampshire, may 21, 1965 to serve as the community action agency for hillsborough county in compliance with the economic opportunity act of 1964. from 1965 through 1969, snhs was known as the community action agency for hillsborough county and served the city of nashua and the twenty-nine towns. in 1969 the organization became the community action agency for the city of manchester as well. in 1974 the agency’s name was changed to southern new hampshire services, inc. in july, 2011, rockingham community action (rca), the community action agency serving rockingham county, was merged with southern new hampshire services. snhs had served as the administrative agent for rca since october, 2008. as a result of this merger snhs now provides services to residents of both hillsborough and rockingham counties. as a community action agency, it is snhs’ purpose to provide social service pr