New Mexico Health Equity Partnership

NMHEP works with community partners that have the capacity and knowledge to change systems that make it possible for New Mexicans to live a healthy life. New Mexico needs community members actively involved in making a difference, and it needs a strong set of community-based organizations learning from one another and serving as a galvanizing force to offer creative solutions. NMHEP is building the foundation to make this possible. HEP engages in the following strategies to make this happen.

CAPACITY BUIDING
NMHEP provides training and technical assistance to support grassroots organizations to conduct community driven research to make a more compelling case to decision makers on issues that affect the health and wellbeing of communities. Key tools include Health Impact Assessment, photovoice, and graphic harvesting. By using these tools, community partners collect data and uplift stories to inform policy change.

CONNECTING
NMHEP creates critical connections by facilitating relationships and leadership opportunities across the network and distributes information and elevates stories via communications platforms to advance health equity and racial justice.

COLLABORATIVE FUNDING
In partnership with funders, NMHEP engages in collaborative grantmaking and provides coordination, connections, and opportunities to increase access in funding for BIPOC and grassroots organizations to advance health equity and racial justice.

CONVENING
NMHEP serves as a convener and co-creates spaces for relationship building and cross-cultural learning to advance health equity and racial justice. NMHEP builds loving and beloved community to do work for social justice. NMHEP provides opportunities for people to connect across the state, bridge rural and urban areas, and engage in mutually beneficial relationships and peer learning.