Office for Community Health (OCH)

OCH is UNM HSC's central point of contact for community partners all over New Mexico. This web site is meant to be a resource to advance our aims and facilitate linkages and communication. We invite suggestions and input from all our partners to make this site as useful as possible.

Click for a list of our Community Health Partners

HEROs - Health Extension Rural Offices

The goal of the Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) is to link community priority health need with UNM HSC resources to achieve measurable improvement in health status.NMSU (via theirCooperative Extension Program) and the DOH (via County Health Councils) will participate as active partners. HEROs grew out of community input and recommendations as to how the HSC can best help communities achieve greater capacity to address their own needs and improve their measures of health.

HERO Agents:

LIVE in community
LINK local health needs with UNM resources
IMPROVE local health services and systems
ENCOURAGE youth to finish school, enter health careers
RECRUIT and retain a local health workforce
BRING latest research and health care practices to community
STRENGTHEN community capacity to address local health problems

To learn more about HEROs contact:
Regional Coordinators
Juliana Anastasoff, MS - JAnastasoff@salud.unm.edu
Francisco J. Ronquillo, PA - FRonquillo@salud.unm.edu
Tribal Communities
Ken Lucero - KeLucero@salud.unm.edu

EAT ~ Everyone’s At the Table: Students Working with Communities to Create Sustainable Solutions for Hunger in New Mexico

Project Aims:

Addressing hunger and healthcare needs in rural New Mexico
Partnering with NM food banks, mobile healthcare vans, and other community partners
Using service learning models for college students to promote civic engagement and create role models for rural youth

UNM main and north campus students who participate in this project can volunteer or gain academic credit in courses relating to their field of study such as preceptorships/clerkship, field experience etc. Click here for more information.

Links:

Become a fan of LOBO Gardens on Facebook!
Hunger Report 2010 from Feeding America