CHI TIPbits
#PowerOfRural Edition
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Timely Information and Points (TIP) for public health community providers from the Center for Health Innovation, New Mexico's Public Health Institute.
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Greetings from the Center for Health Innovation (CHI), New Mexico's Public Health Institute. You've been recognized as one of the leading public health professionals in our state, which is why you have been sent our newest publication TIPbits. Every month, we will be sending out timely information and points to aid your efforts to foster better public health in the state. Feel free to share them with your networks and community. Thanks for all you do for New Mexico, and let us lend you a helping hand with TIPbits!
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National Rural Health Day: The #PowerOfRural
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On Thursday, Nov. 19, we join the nation in celebrating National Rural Health Day and explore the #powerofrural. Rural communities make up the backbone of New Mexico, and we offer these resources to bring a little rural to wherever you reside!
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CHI's worked with the New Mexico Community Data Collaborative to create Rural New Mexico: Perspectives on Health Care and Access which explores the differences in the state's rural and urban access to population health and behavioral health resources. Geography plays a role in residents access to health care and facilities. Seeing is believing!
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Southern New Mexico counties have worked with CHI to plan a Rural Community Opioid Response Program (RCORP) with the support of the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). The resulting plans meet the counties' prevention, treatment and recovery needs what was a community-driven comprehensive assessment process. The program included Catron, Chaves, Cibola, De Baca, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Roosevelt, Sierra, and Socorro, as well as the rural-designated regions of Torrance and Valencia Click here to see the plans.
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With COVID, you may be using more online methods to increase community engagement/participation. Find some low-cost “small tweaks or tactics,” based on persuasion and user experience, to use in your community. Do-it-on-your-own-time webinar here.
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The Suicide Prevention Resource Center, supported by SAMHSA, offers a free online course Locating and Understanding Data for Suicide Prevention that explores different commonly used data sources for information on suicide deaths/attempts, suicidal ideation, and new aspects of suicide surveillance, such as interactive dashboards and real-time data collection. Certificates of completion are provided.
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The Socorro County Health Council (SCOPE) sponsors the Magdalena Wellness Program, ican (providing ideas for cooking and nutrition classes), a Socorro Community Garden, and the annual “Maze of Life” event for middle school students to help them recognize the consequences of risk-related life choices (like smoking, lack of exercise, etc.). More info.
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If you’re trying getting your communities more involved in advocacy, civic engagement and voting, the New York Times’ visual opinion piece “Good Design is the Secret to Better Democracy,” shows how easily ballots can be misunderstood.
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Interested in implementing activities to advance racial equity and/or create workforce pipelines to benefit students, communities and employers? Read How to Keep Young Learners from Disconnecting During a Pandemic. New Mexico’s Future Focused Education shows how, with a grant from Presbyterian Healthcare, high school student interns in Albuquerque and Cuba trained with healthcare professionals in an innovative COVID-19 re-entry paid internship program, which can be duplicated by others.
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Helping Asian & Pacific Islander Communities: The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) is collecting Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander in-language COVID-19 resources. Access the responses by language here, or fill out the form here to submit a resource.
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