Priority Areas
The Paso del Norte Health Foundation’s board of directors identified five priority areas to focus the Foundation’s work throughout the region.
Healthy Eating and Active Living
To make healthy eating and active living the easy choice for all people in the Paso del Norte region.
Initiative or Program:
Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL)
Tobacco and Alcohol Prevention
To eliminate tobacco use and reduce binge drinking particularly among youth.
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Mental Health and Emotional Well-being
To reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, increase training for mental health providers and explore structural changes in the region’s behavioral health treatment system.
Initiative or Program:
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium
Healthy Kids
To work with families, community organizations, and schools to increase protective factors for youth.
Initiative or Program:
Health Leadership
To develop regional health leaders and respond to community requests to provide leadership for health-related initiatives.
Initiative or Program:
News
La Semilla is working with schools to develop health eating and active living
October 23, 2018
Across the Paso del Norte Region – from Hatch, New Mexico, to East El Paso – schools are learning just how delicious healthy eating can be with La Semilla Food Center’s Edible Education Program.
By the end of the 2018-2019 school year, 33 schools will have partnered with La Semilla to install school gardens and i…
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