The Division of Adolescent Medicine and Envision New Mexico 2.0's programs aim at improving overall health and wellbeing for New Mexico’s adolescent youth. Our programs seek to support and educate healthcare providers by sharing innovative methods and strategies to promote a healthy way of living for children, teens, and families that come into their clinics. Below are some of division programs and how we make an impact in local and rural communities.
The University of New Mexico School-Based Health Center program provides health care services at several elementary, middle, and high schools in the Albuquerque, NM area. The centers are open during school hours and are staffed by licensed health care professionals and clinical assistants. Services are available to all students—regardless of their ability to pay—and include primary care (treatment of minor injuries, immunizations, sports physicals, etc.), mental health, referral, and prevention services.
Envision New Mexico (ENM) is a healthcare, quality improvement program through the Division of Adolescent Medicine. Envision New Mexico interdisciplinary staff work with children’s health practitioners to make sustainable changes in health care delivery practices and community service coordination to improve the quality of healthcare for all children in New Mexico.
The Contraception Mentoring Program (CMP) (formally LARC Mentoring Program) has served School Based Health Centers (SBHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in the most rural communities across NM since 2016. It is the only hands-on clinical contraceptive training program in the state. Providing essential training and support through the lens of promoting reproductive autonomy and justice, the program supports clinics to offer more comprehensive contraceptive methods and patient-centered reproductive health care to individuals living in some of the more underserved areas of the state. Each participating clinic site engages in ongoing hands-on training and mentoring activities and uses the clinic support systems constructed by the University of New Mexico and the Contraception Mentoring Program for this initiative.
The CMP:
Provides specialized didactic instruction, small group hands-on practice with models, as well as administrative, billing and stocking support
Has trained over 3,000 health care professionals through 5,800 individual training interactions across New Mexico
Every year, an average of 73% of training participants are new to CMP training
Has trained health care professionals in 31 of 33 counties in the state, as well as 24 of 26 counties in rural or frontier areas
Expanded same-day access to all contraceptive methods for Medicaid patients in 14 SBHCs, FQHCs and community clinics in NM through the StellarRx stocking project.
