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Supporting the Behavioral Health System in Rural New Mexico

The Center for Rural and Community Behavioral Health or CRCBH is part of UNM Health Sciences Center's Department of Psychiatry.  It partners with communities, state agencies, and other UNMHSC departments---including important collaborations with the Institute for Community Health Sciences---in providing community-oriented psychiatric and behavioral health services, systems consultation, services research, and workforce development and training throughout New Mexico. 

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Positive Youth Development Utilizing Extreme Sports

RezRIDERS

RezRIDERS (Reducing Risk through Interpersonal Development, Empowerment, Resiliency and Self Determination) is an Indigenous culturally-centered positive youth development project that utilizes extreme sport and experiential education (EE-ES). RezRIDERS pairs EE-ES with an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral curriculum creating activity-clusters specifically; snowboarding paired with core values, rafting paired with hope for the future, rock climbing paired with self-determination and team building, The program culminates with a youth-driven community action project. Using the Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach, the project is overseen by the Tribal Research Team (TRT) who double as both research partners and cultural project mentors for the youth.

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What is the Health Sciences Center doing to move Vision 2020 Forward?

HSC Activities to Work Towards the Realization of Vision 2020

The UNM Health Sciences Center (HSC) has taken many steps to work towards the realization of Vision 2020.

• The HSC has held symposiums where community partners shared their expertise with us
• HSC leadership went on a road trip and visited community partners to identify needs and partnership opportunities
• Acting on recommendations and identifying priorities to focus on based on community feedback
• Tracking outcomes and developing a strategy to partner to improve health outcomes

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For More Information or to Get Involved

If you would like more information about these efforts or would like to become involved in any way, please contact Leigh Caswell, Program Manager for Vision 2020 at lamason@salud.unm.edu or (505) 272-5377.  There are multiple ways to participate depending on your availability and level of interest.  

 

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