The New Mexico Health Equity Partnership (HEP) believes every New Mexican should have the opportunity to lead a healthy life, live in neighborhoods where children and families thrive, and have a say in the decisions that impact their lives. HEP supports grassroots organizations to educate decision makers on issues that impact the health of children and families. HEP invests in communities most impacted by inequities to conduct participatory research on institutions, systems, and policies and set forth recommendations and solutions.
HEP is excited is excited to announce a partnership with Roanhorse Consulting, a Native-women owned consulting firm, to build on our existing Health Impact Assessment process to create an Indigenous Health Impact Assessment toolkit that values and uplifts Indigenous knowledge and approaches. This will be a co-design process to honor existing conversations, wisdom, and ideas for the toolkit. Olivia Roanhorse will be the lead for this project. She brings over fifteen years of public health expertise and over half of that time working in partnership with Native communities working to improve the health of their children.
During the past month, HEP partnered with Opportunity Santa Fe to host a data collection through art workshop. We also strengthened relationships with colleagues through a self-care hike. Together for Brothers worked on photo voice project focused on transit equity. Whereas, Doña Ana Communities United, along with neighbors and friends, brought to life a second vibrant mural in the Nevada neighborhood. To learn more about HEP’s efforts and opportunities, please scroll down.
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HEP-py Hike
The HEP team is deeply committed to social justice and healthy communities for all. To do this work for the long hall, we recognize the importance of self-care, reflection, and relationship building amongst our team. This past month, the HEP team joined by our colleagues with Opportunity Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Community Foundation took some time for a hike and dialogue over lunch.
Policy & Advocacy
Together for Brothers PhotoVoice Project
Together for Brothers (T4B) implemented a PhotoVoice project this summer with support from NMHEP an initiative at the Santa Fe Community Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Mavel Photography. PhotoVoice is amazing tool to: 1) engage our brothers and the community in critical dialogues about transit equity, the process of people who are most transit dependent getting what they need, and 2) transit sovereignty, the process of people who are most transit dependent being able to make decisions over their own transportation. The process was a transformational learning experience for T4B. It lifted up and brought back the work our our health impact assessment (HIA) and added to the learning of transit equity and transit sovereignty. The young people working with PhotoVoice shifted from theory to practice by documenting and sharing their own stories about how transit inequity affects those most impacted in the city. They came to many realizations on their own and added important points to the conversation. PhotoVoice is a great tool because it helped young people tell their stories and communicate in a more authentic way. They were able to choose, caption and display their photographs. It was a well-received participatory research method in the community. In the community. The people who see the photos and read the captions "get it" and the message is received.
Submitted by - Christopher Ramírez, Together for Brothers (T4B) Founding Director
photos by - Mavel Photography
Second Nevada Neighborhood Mural Unveiled
Another full day of painting with neighbors and friends brought to life a second vibrant mural in the Nevada neighborhood, this one at the corner of Brook Circle and Nevada on resident Ray Griego's wall.
Local artist Meg Freyermuth designed the piece in three parts: the south end represents the Organ Mountains as seen from White Sands National Monument, the north end depicts elk and Sierra Blanca, and the middle section is dedicated to Ray's late wife, Martha Rose. The couple spent much of their time in the cool of Cloudcroft, and Meg's design seeks to show the connections between that ecosystem and our own.
Meg says "hearing him and countless neighborhood residents exclaim how beautiful it is has been an inspiration. Murals are for everyone, and I hope to keep doing this for my community." Be sure to check out the wall next time you're at Young Park (it's just a block away)! And don't forget to visit its sister mural to the west, at the corner of Nevada and Mimbres. We are excited that the City of Las Cruces has agreed to work with DACU and residents to do more to calm traffic in this neighborhood. Be on the lookout for chicanes, a new streetlight, and crosswalks!
republished from the DACU Newsletter
photos by Robert Yee
Capacity Building
Data Collection through Art
On August 27, 2019 HEP and Opportunity Santa Fe co-facilitated a workshop at the Santa Fe Community Foundation Hub, called Data Collection through Art. This workshop introduced Health Impact Assessment and engaged participants in collage as a form of data collection. Participants gained hands on experience that they can utilize in community-driven research, knowledge building, and engagement efforts. The activities were designed to uplift qualitative narratives, work intergenerationally, and communicate across multiple languages and cultures through art. The intention is to identify environmental, social, economic, and political factors that impact the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical health of communities. We are grateful to Global 505 who utilized this tool in their HIA on language and cultural access and continues to share the method with the HEP network.
Health Impact Assessment
Funding and HIA 101 Webinar Video
HEP is excited to announce a funding opportunity to support two Health Impact Assessments that center Indigenous peoples, communities of color, immigrants, and refugees to conduct community-driven research to improve policies that impact community health in Bernalillo, Doña Ana, McKinley, or San Juan counties. Priority will be given to HIAs informing education or employment focused policies or plans. You can read more about our approach and the values we bring to HIA here. The HIA project period will be January 2020 – December 2020. Grantees will receive in person HIA training; a webinar series on the HIA steps and a platform for peer learning; ongoing coaching provided by New Mexico technical assistance providers and HEP staff; and up to $35,000. Applications are due by October 15, 2019.
We strongly encourage all interested applicants to view the HIA 101 webinar on the HEP website to learn about HIA and HEP's approach to the process. Please reach out to jjensen@nmhep.org for more information.
Partner Capacity Building Opportunities and Events
Santa Fe Community Foundation - The HEP’s institutional home, the Santa Fe Community Foundation (SFCF), is committed to supporting nonprofits in achieving their missions with excellence. The SFCF’s Philanthropy HUB has been designed as a learning and gathering place for the philanthropic sector. The HUB's programs strive to: 1) deepen philanthropic practice; 2) build nonprofit capacity; 3) provide support for professional advisers; and 4) provide platforms for learning about social issues in community. Upcoming trainings and presentations include:
Monday, October 07, 2019 2019 Piñon Awards
Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector
If you are a HEP network member and you have an upcoming training, workshop, or other capacity building opportunity open to community members and organizations, please send information about it to David Gaussoin and the HEP team can include it an upcoming newsletter.
Project Director
The Santa Fe Community Foundation is currently seeking collaborative, outcome-driven candidates for the position of Project Director. The position will lead two important projects at the Foundation focused on young parents and early childhood – Expanding Opportunity for Young Families (EOYF) and the Santa Fe Baby Fund. Expanding Opportunity for Young Families (EOYF) is a new nine-month pilot initiative funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) to conduct a landscape scan and create a plan for expanding opportunities and pathways for young parents and their children in Santa Fe and more broadly throughout New Mexico. Santa Fe Community Foundation will serve as a “hub” bringing together a coalition of multi-sector partners across Santa Fe and New Mexico for the project. The Santa Fe Baby Fund is an initiative of the Santa Fe Community Foundation funded by an initial $1.1 million gift to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers in Santa Fe County. The Baby Fund provides annual competitive and strategic grantmaking and also engages in community leadership efforts to raise awareness of the critical importance of investing in early childhood and raise additional funds to support sustained grantmaking and activities of the program.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Applications are due October 3, 2019 for priority considerations. Learn more about this position. Philanthropy Associate
The Santa Fe Community Foundation is currently seeking collaborative, professional candidates for the position of Philanthropy Associate. This is a split position, requiring Coordination of the W. K. Kellogg-Funded grant, Catalyzing Community Giving (50%), and Community Philanthropy Team Support (50%). The position will lead two important aspects of our work at the Foundation focused on building Native American donor networks and supporting our development team in the area of Community Philanthropy. In respect to the Native American donor networks, the work involved in this position work will expand Native American (NA) donor networks; engage in Native American-focused research in New Mexico; develop and disseminate a deeper understanding of philanthropic practice within Native American communities; and work with partners in New Mexico and the other WKKF-funded Catalyzing Community Giving cohorts. The other part of the position involves providing direct support to the Director of Development and the Philanthropy Team, which includes the Vice President for Community Philanthropy, the President & CEO, and the Communications and Marketing Officer.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as soon as they come in prior to October 3, 2019 and after that until position is filled. Learn more about this position.
