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Healthy Paso del Norte March Health Indicator – Food Environment
March 18, 2022
This month’s Healthy Paso del Norte website indicator combines two measures of food access: the percentage of the population that is low-income and has low access to a grocery store, and the percentage of the population that did not have access to a reliable source of food during the past year (food insecurity). The index ranges from 0 (worst) to 10 (best) and equally weights the two measures.
Click here to find where the greatest areas of need are for food access that is correlated with economic and household…
El Paso County Community Listening Sessions for ARPA Funding
March 18, 2022
The El Paso County is hosting four community listening sessions to engage the public in identifying high priority needs in our community.
The El Paso County Commissioner’s Court plans to invest $9.7 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding for nonprofit organizations to help meet identified needs. The sessions will allow residents to provide input on community needs and services, which will help the Commissioners Court develop a Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFO) for nonprofit organizations.
The public is invited to participate in this process by attending one of the…
El Paso Center for Diabetes and Vista Markets to Host Pop-Up Event with Free Information and Resources
March 18, 2022
Do you know someone with diabetes or recently diagnosed with diabetes?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2020 National Diabetes Statistics Report estimated that 10.5% of the U.S. population had diabetes in 2018. In El Paso, four out of every twenty-five adults self-report a diabetes diagnosis.
Join the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, El Paso Center for Diabetes, Diabetes Alliance in partnership with Vista Markets to a pop-up event that will provide area residents with diabetes educational information and resources.
Saturday, March 26
**Noon to…
Early Childhood Education Forum
March 18, 2022
Early Matters El Paso is inviting all El Paso families and Early Childhood Education professionals to an Early Childhood Education Form. Learn about FREE Child Care, FREE Afterschool Programs, and other Educational Programs for those who qualify.
Saturday, March 26, 2022
ESC Region 19 Head Start Building
11670 Chito Samaniego Dr.
El Paso, TX 79936
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Resource Fair
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion with Community Leaders
On-site childcare will be provided for children ages 3 – 10 years
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Welcome Daniela Salazar
March 17, 2022
The Paso del Norte Health Foundation and Paso del Norte Community Foundation are pleased to welcome Daniela Salazar as our new Operations Support Assistant.
Daniela is the friendly face you first meet when visiting our office. She is responsible for providing administrative and general support for the foundations.
A native of the region, Daniela grew up in Ciudad Juárez. She is fluent in both English and Spanish and part of both amazing cultures. She continues to study and hopes to be a psychologist to help the community. Daniela enjoys spending time with family, friends, and her…
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation to partner with Health Foundation to fund nonprofit organization
February 17, 2022
The Paso del Norte Health Foundation in partnership with the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK) recently invited several local nonprofit organizations that promote health and prevent disease to participate in an information session to identify at least one local organization to be included in the DRK portfolio.
Michelle De La Isla, Managing Director of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, spoke to the group on the criteria for funding. The selected organization(s) would receive financial support in the form of an unrestricted $300,000 grant over three-years along with directives that…
Nominations accepted for next REALIZE Executive Cohort
February 17, 2022
The future of health in our community requires well-trained, supported, and capable leadership. The Paso del Norte Health Foundation (Health Foundation) designed REALIZE Executive to create a dynamic network of skilled leaders committed to improving health now and for the benefit of future generations.
REALIZE Executive is a world-class leadership development experience, custom designed by international leadership experts and Health Foundation staff, for top-level and emerging top-level management within the Paso del Norte region. The purpose of this leadership development experience is…
Parents, can you spot the vapes?
February 16, 2022
A Smoke-free Paso del Norte, which is an initiative of the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, has experienced many successes since its inception in 1999. It supported important policy adoptions like the Clean Indoor Air Ordinance adopted by the City of El Paso in 2001, which prohibited smoking indoors and since been updated to include the prohibition of smoking and vaping in outdoor public spaces like public parks. As a result of this and other community-wide efforts, smoking rates in El Paso County declined from 21% 1996 to 11% today.
Despite these successes, smoking continues to be…
February is heart awareness month: explore data related to heart disease in the Paso del Norte region
February 16, 2022
The Healthy Paso del Norte website healthypasodelnorte.org provides a variety of information about quality of life, health disparities, demographics and more for El Paso and Hudspeth Counties in Texas, Doña Ana, Otero and Luna Counites in New Mexico, and Ciudad Juárez. The website is sponsored by the Paso del Norte Health Foundation to support the community in assessment, strategic planning and identifying best practices.
We invite planners, policymakers, and community members to use this valuable resource. February is Heart Awareness Month,…
New “Explore AR” App brings Insight to DinoTracks tour
February 16, 2022
Did you know that dinosaurs once roamed the El Paso region?
The Insights’ DinoTracks tour offers visitors a 98-million-year-old fossil discovery over five different species of dinosaurs, volcanos, and marine organisms.
Once a person-guided tour, Insights recently launched the Explore Augmented Reality (AR) DinoTracks app. With support of the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, the AR DinoTracks app was developed to engage families in a self-guided walking tour.
The new app allows visitors to use their tablet or smartphone to see augmented reality outlines of real…
