Success Stories by State: New Mexico

• Torrance County Rural Outreach Initiative
  May 2009
  The Torrance County Rural Outreach Initiative targeted the county’s two most vulnerable populations—children covered by Medicaid and the uninsured.
• Healthy Nations Initiative
  October 2008
  The Healthy Nations Initiative was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Native Americans reduce the harm caused by substance abuse in their communities.
• HELP New Mexico Farm Workers
  June 2007
  The Farm Worker Child Care Task Force is a collaborative program that provides access to health services and improved living conditions to New Mexican farm workers and their families in Ana and Luna counties.
• Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness
  June 2007
  Angel Flight West provides free, private air transportation for people with medical and other needs.
• Border Area Mental Health Services, Inc. Project
  January 2007
  The main goals of the project were to increase access to appropriate levels of care for mental health and/or substance abuse services,to increase capacity to provide services to individuals with substance abuse and/or mental health disorders; and to improve access to and management of psychotropic medications.
• Mora & San Miguel Primeros Pasos/First Steps Program
  January 2007
  The Mora & San Miguel Primeros Pasos/First Steps Program proposes to serve up to 60 first-time parents and their children through the implementation of the research-based Healthy Families America Program.
• Northern New Mexico Rural Infant Mental Health Consortium Project
  January 2007
  The Northern New Mexico Rural Infant Mental Health Consortium project will provide access to mental health services for high-risk families with young children, from birth to age 5.
• Project R&R
  January 2007
  Project R&R offers a solution to the critical need for mental health and substance abuse services in a high-risk, multi-cultural frontier community.
• Single Point of Entry and Lay Promotora Program
  January 2007
  This 3-year outreach proposal is focused on designing a Single Point of Entry and Lay Promotora Program to deliver Prescription Assistance to a target population defied as residents of Taos County 18 years and older with a diagnosis of type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes who are up to 185 percent of the poverty level.
• Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
  July 2005
  This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.