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A Handbook for Keeping Families Safe from Prescription Painkillers – UPC

UPDATED! Unified Prevention Coalition (UPC) for Doña Ana County worked with the community to update this handbook with vital information to better understand prescription painkillers and how to keep your family safe. The handbook includes community resources pages and tips on how to “Talk. They Hear You.” with children and youth.

Cibola County Parents Handbook

Collaborating with the community, Cibola Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition (CSAPC) created this informative guide for parents, guardians and residents to understand the facts regarding opioid substance misuse and its impact on the county.

CHI 2019 Annual Report

As New Mexico’s designated Public Health Institute, the Center for Health Innovation (CHI) is dedicated to working with communities to advance health and social justice through innovative and effective policies and programs for all the residents in our state, and beyond. Read read about how we engaged in 2019 with New Mexicans of all ages, […]

RCORP Southern New Mexico Outcomes

CHI received a grant from the U.S Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Communities Opioid Response Program to engage 16 southern New Mexico counties to meet their prevention, treatment and recovery needs in a community-driven comprehensive assessment process. The southern New Mexico counties in the program include Catron, Chaves, Cibola, De Baca, Eddy, Grant, […]

Policy Goals to Support the Healthcare Workforce in Healthy Aging Communities

With funding from the New Mexico Department of Health, the Center for Health Innovation engaged five rural Southern New Mexico counties in research, analysis and discussion about their healthcare workforce development needs now and in the future. The five counties included Grant, Sierra, Socorro, Catron and Valencia. Project participants included representatives from NM Department of […]

Policy Goals to Improve Behavioral Health Needs of Individuals, Employers and Communities in Rural New Mexico

With funding from the New Mexico Department of Health, the Center for Health Innovation engaged five rural Southern New Mexico counties in research, analysis and discussion about their healthcare workforce development needs now and in the future. The five counties included Grant, Sierra, Socorro, Catron and Valencia. Project participants included representatives from NM Department of […]

Alcohol Outlet Density Report Las Cruces, New Mexico 2020

Our new report details the Unified Prevention Coalition of Doña Ana County’s process of bringing together GIS maps of Las Cruces, New Mexico, alcohol sales locations with overlaid maps of select calls for services to law enforcement for alcohol-related crimes and identifies community “hot spots”. 

The Health Commons and Care of New Mexico’s Uninsured

A seamless system of social, behavioral, and medical services for the uninsured was created to address the social determinants of disease, reduce health disparities, and foster local economic development in 2 inner-city neighborhoods and 2 rural counties in New Mexico. We helped urban and rural communities that had large uninsured, minority populations create Health Commons […]

Health Extension in New Mexico: An Academic Health Center and the Social Determinants of Disease

The Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service model offers academic health centers methodologies for community engagement that can address the social determinants of disease. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center developed Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) as a vehicle for its model of health extension. Health extension agents are located in rural communities across the […]