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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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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.
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.
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
A Personal Journey Through Chronic Pain and Stigma
Project ECHO’s Opioid Crisis and Pain Management program empowers health care professionals in rural communities with expert-led training and resources to enhance harm reduction, opioid overdose prevention, and patient care.
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.
Children
Protecting Children from ACEs with ECHO Pays Off for New Mexico
Now in its second year, this ECHO program is an innovative solution to prevent adverse childhood experiences from adding up for New Mexico’s children.
Maternal and Child Health
Amplifying Maternal Health Substance Use Disorder ECHOs in New Mexico
Two doctors, located 140 miles apart, use the ECHO Model to increase services for pregnant people with substance use disorder.
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.