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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.
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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.
Justice and Corrections
Five Questions With: Dr. Karla Thornton
Dr. Karla Thornton first joined Project ECHO in 2003 as part of the very first ECHO Hub team focused on hepatitis C. In April 2025, she stepped up to fulfill the executive director position.
Substance Use Disorder
Breaking the Cycle: Expanding Opioid Treatment in New Mexico
Project ECHO is expanding access to evidence-based treatment, intervention and prevention strategies for substance use disorders for two of the state’s most vulnerable populations: pregnant people and people in detention centers.
Substance Use Disorder
‘Lived Experience’ Integral to Success of New Mexico Opioid ECHO Program
Matthew Pettit, certified peer support worker, shares why New Mexico’s opioid ECHO programs are successful.