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Read how Project ECHO is impacting communities worldwide
Featured Story
Using ECHO, Providers Tackle Diabetes Crisis in Rural New Mexico
For family nurse practitioner Flavio Salazar, providing care to patients in his hometown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is personal. And for his patients, that means getting life-saving diabetes care in their own community.
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>>Cancer
Vietnam: Expanding Access to Cancer Care through Project ECHO
The Bach Mai Hospital and the Hanoi Oncology Hospital have a shared goal of ensuring all communities are able to access cancer care. Learn how they are disseminating cancer detection and treatment best practices to local health care providers through the ECHO Model.
>>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.
>>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.
>>Cancer
A Cervical Cancer Survivor’s Story: Saving Lives Through Early Screening and Community Support
WATCH: A powerful story from cervical cancer survivor in her own words. Learn why early detection can save more lives in Kenya and around the world.
Children
With Project ECHO, Protecting Children from ACEs Pays Off for New Mexico
Now in its third year, this ECHO program is an innovative solution to prevent adverse childhood experiences from adding up for New Mexico’s children.
>>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
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.
>>Diabetes
Bringing Diabetes Care Closer to Home Through Project ECHO
By connecting primary care clinicians with specialist teams, Project ECHO is transforming diabetes care and expanding access to high-quality care for rural and underserved communities.
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.
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.
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.
Education
‘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.
>>Hepatitis C
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.
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.