The New Mexico Health Equity Partnership (HEP) firmly believes that 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 communities and their lives. During the past few months HEP has been reflecting with partners to celebrate accomplishments, learn from the past, and inform the future. We are so grateful for everyone’s rich reflections, learnings, and ideas. In this newsletter we share a graphic from a reflection session with the place-based leaders highlighting what seeds they have planted together, what roots do they want to take deeper, and how they want to continue to grow. We also highlight four Health Impact Assessment teams for their visions and accomplishments. We look forward to collaborating with partners to co-create a just, healthy, and equitable world.
Policy & Advocacy
Together for Brothers HIA Update
After almost four years since starting the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Together for Brothers is celebrating that the City of Albuquerque has agreed to permanent fare free buses for youth ages 18 years old and younger. This is a result of young men of color (YMOC) most impacted, transit dependent youth, in Albuquerque’s International District and Westgate as well as many community partners. Research, surveys, focus groups and interviews in Dari, Farsi, English, Spanish, Swahili and more languages led by YMOC with support of community partners were key as well as T4B building capacity of YMOC and others to tell their transit equity stories.
submitted by - Christopher Ramírez, Together for Brothers (T4B), Executive Director and Co-Founder
Global 505 HIA Update
The City of Albuquerque recently announced bus posters to report discrimination in seven different languages. This recommendation was made by Global 505 in their Health Impact Assessment on language and cultural access policies to advance the success of immigrants and refugees in Albuquerque. Global 505 worked with the City of Albuquerque's Equity and Inclusion Office to implement the HIA recommendations. The City did an internal analysis of language access policies that exist within all city departments, and has moved to provide model policy development, implementation, and enforcement with support of Global 505 for those entities under city purview. Additionally, they have looked more deeply at cultural access policies for the city, which includes re-examining how access to education, transportation, and job training programs are structured to be more inclusive and accessible for immigrant and refugee populations. Thank you to Global 505 for uplifting these important policy recommendations to ensure language and cultural access for immigrants and refugees.
Capacity Building
Visionary Futures
HEP is honored to be working with the New Mexico Birth Equity Collaborative and the McKinley Community Health Alliance to advance policy and systems change on issues important to their respective communities. In January, representatives from both teams came together to deepen relationships and to share their visions for the shape and content of the world. The dialogue was visually captured by Taslim van Hattum. We invite you to view the graphic and see what resonates with you as you imagine a healthy and just future.
Graphic by Taslim van Hattum
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:
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.
Chief Executive Officer Santa Fe Community Foundation Posted February 19, 2021
The Santa Fe Community Foundation seeks an accomplished leader to serve as its next Chief Executive Officer. The new CEO will provide dynamic and forward-thinking leadership to promote SFCF’s goals, implement the Board-identified policy directives, and steward the role of SFCF as a key convener in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. The CEO will serve as the key spokesperson and face of SFCF to its grantees, donors, civic, community and state leaders. The CEO will support Board and staff to be visible in philanthropic activities throughout the communities in and around Santa Fe. The new CEO will have a broad-based mix of experiences to promote philanthropy throughout the region, attracting gifts to increase the size and impact of SFCF, developing and deepening lasting partnerships, and continuing to advance SFCF’s role in community leadership and advocacy. The CEO will further position the organization to listen to and lift the voices of a broad cross-section of Santa Fe’s and the surrounding area’s residents, engaging them in developing sustainable solutions for their communities.
