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.
Initiative or Program:
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
New workshop to help allied health and fitness professionals work with obese patients
February 20, 2019
The Paso del Norte Institute for Health Living is delivering a series of workshops to train allied health and fitness professionals on evidence-based approaches for the management of obesity and its comorbidities. Participants gain basic knowledge of adaptations to traditional exercise programming for adults with ob…