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‘A Big Wow’: ECHO Literacy Program Helps New Mexico Teachers Turn Science-Based Training into Classroom Results
Launched in 2023, the Structured Literacy ECHO Program bridges the gap between training and classroom implementation, helping improve student literacy rates across New Mexico.
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Mental Health
Fortalecimento dos sistemas de saúde mental: Parceiros do ECHO na América Latina
Agora, em 20 países da América Latina e do Caribe, os parceiros da ECHO estão usando o modelo ECHO para alavancar suas redes e enfrentar a crise de saúde mental da região e melhorar o acesso nas comunidades rurais.
Mental Health
Fortalecimiento de los sistemas de salud mental: Socios de ECHO en América Latina
Ahora, en 20 países de América Latina y el Caribe, los socios de ECHO están utilizando el modelo ECHO para aprovechar sus redes y abordar a la crisis de salud mental en la región y mejorar el acceso en las comunidades rurales.
Substance Use Disorder
Project ECHO Provides New Mexican Clinicians Expertise, Tools to Combat the Opioid Crisis
In a small town in northern New Mexico, Dr. Leslie Hayes is transforming how rural communities fight opioid addiction—offering compassionate, evidence-based care made possible through Project ECHO.
Noncommunicable Diseases
Improving Chronic Disease Care in Underserved Communities with Project ECHO
WATCH: Using the ECHO Model, AMPATH is strengthening frontline support and improving chronic disease care in Kenya.
Substance Use Disorder
The New Mexico Alcohol Use and Mental Health ECHO: Building Communities For Supporting People in Recovery
The New Mexico Alcohol Use and Mental Health ECHO launched in 2022 to address the state’s high rates of alcohol-related illness and death.
Systems Change
The ECHO Effect: How Project ECHO is Transforming Health Care in Indonesia
WATCH: Hear from the providers and hospital administrators who are leveraging the ECHO Model to save, and improve, lives throughout Indonesia.
Long COVID
Protected: The Value of Lived Experience: Long COVID Patients Support Solutions
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Long COVID
Protected: SILC and ECHO: Improving Clinical Care for Long COVID Patients
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Justice and Corrections
The Community Peer Education Program: Helping Former Inmates Build New Lives
The New Mexico Community Peer Education Program helps people who are transitioning out of incarceration. Today, many former peer educators work for CPEP in their communities, guiding people on probation or parole through challenges such as housing, employment, and access to health care.
Education
Case Study: With Project ECHO, Alamogordo Teacher Boosts Student Literacy to 77% from 44%
Teachers across New Mexico are improving literacy outcomes by practicing shared learning and applying reading strategies in the classroom through the Structured Literacy Classroom ECHO Program.
Five Questions With: Kyky Knowles
Since joining Project ECHO in 2019, Knowles has worn many hats, pivoting to where her skills were most needed. Today, she serves as the United States Programs director.
Justice and Corrections
Fifteen Years of Changing the Lives of Incarcerated People
Today, the New Mexico Peer Education Project offers a continuum of transformational opportunity and support for people who are incarcerated to find their voices and create new lives for themselves.
Diabetes
Project ECHO Gives New Mexico’s Diabetes Patients Hope
ECHO brings diabetes care, mental health support and social services together in one place: offering patients a path forward with real solutions and renewed hope.
Justice and Corrections
How Project ECHO is Changing Outcomes for New Mexicans in the Prison System
The New Mexico Peer Education Project teaches prisoners how to stay healthy and to provide information on key health issues, such as substance use and navigating the prison health system.
Mental Health
Strengthening Mental Health Systems through Telementoring: ECHO Partners in Latin America
Now in 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, ECHO partners are using telementoring to leverage their networks to address the region’s mental health crisis and improve access in rural communities.
Five Questions With: Soraya Gollop, Ph.D.
Dedicated to creating an equitable education system, Gollop joined Project ECHO in 2020. Today, she serves as the director of the education team, making a systemic, positive impact in New Mexico’s classrooms across the state.
What Does ECHO Mean?
Founded as the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO), today we’ve grown beyond health care. Just call us “Project ECHO.”
Health Care
The 6,000 Island Challenge
In Indonesia, partners are using the ECHO Model to close distance in providing care to patients.