Project ECHO
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The New Mexico Peer Education Project (NMPEP) is a collaboration between Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) and the New Mexico Corrections Department.
It leverages the ECHO model to make a powerful and lasting intervention in prisoners and prison community health. With a solution-based focus, NMPEP trains selected prisoners to become Peer Educators, with the goal of increasing their peers' knowledge of key health issues, increase general health literacy, reduce risky behaviors, and increase job readiness upon release.
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The New Mexico Community Health Worker (CHW) and Peer Support Worker (PSW) Opioid Training teleECHO program supports CHWs and PSWs in the State of New Mexico as they work with clients with chronic pain or using opioids. With one New Mexican dying every 18 hours of an opioid overdose, CHWs and PSWs are uniquely poised to help clients understand and overcome Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and its deadly ramifications.
In this program, CHWs and PSWs gain knowledge and insight on working with clients who have OUD. They come away from this program with a greater understanding of harm reduction techniques, such as when and how to reverse overdoses, various treatment options for chronic pain and OUD, and how best to support clients as they move through the stages of behavior change.
Program Links:
Project Echo Opioid CHW/PSW: https://hsc.unm.edu/echo/institute-programs/nmchw-pws/
Best Chance: https://bestchancenm.org/
Women In Leadership: https://www.wilecho.org/