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361. Transforming Lives at the Border: How a Rural Library in San Elizario is Changing the Game - Resources
Date: Dec 2024

Describes how the Pete Herrera Library functions as a hub for healthcare, human services, education, and more in the rural, border community of San Elizario, Texas. Highlights the library's initiatives and strategies for supporting community health and wellness in a predominantly Spanish-speaking, under-resourced community.

...Foundation for Mental Health Access · Community health workers · Service delivery models · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...

362. Project ECHO's Complex Care Initiative: Building Capacity to Help "Superutilizers" in Underserved Communities - Resources
Date: Aug 2016

Describes a case study from the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) program, which uses telehealth to support primary care clinicians in underserved areas. Focuses on a project targeting Medicaid beneficiaries with substance abuse and mental health issues, with details on two primary care teams being supported, including one in a rural New Mexico community.

...Community health workers · Health workforce education and training · Medicaid · Mental health · Primary care · Substance use and misuse...

363. Promising Practice: Educational Partnership Reaches Rural California Communities - Resources
Date: Aug 2019

Details a promising practice that works to expand health literacy among rural Latinos in California through a partnership between the California State Office of Rural Health and the California Department of Public Health's Office of Binational Border Health. Details the way the program is reaching rural Latinos through community health worker/promotores training.

...Offices of Rural Health Community health workers · Health literacy · Public health · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · California...

364. From the Front Lines: COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts in Rural Communities Hit by the Opioid Epidemic - Resources - Archive
Date: May 2021

Examines the COVID-19 response, including testing, contact tracing, and vaccination efforts, of HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) grantees. Discusses challenges related to vaccination efforts to reach rural individuals with substance use disorder/opioid use disorder and other rural residents.

...Community health workers · Illicit drug use · Prescription drug misuse · Public health · Statistics and data · Vaccination...

365. Health without Borders - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Jan 9, 2025

A health promotion program in the New Mexico border region that addresses diabetes prevention and control, behavioral health, and immunization.

...Community health workers · Diabetes · Mental health conditions · Public health · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Vaccination New Mexico...

366. Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission - RHIhub Substance Use Disorder Toolkit - Toolkits
Reviewed: Dec 12, 2025

Describes the Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission Outreach Program's comprehensive approach to addressing substance use disorder through prevention, intervention, treatment, case management, and recovery.

...community health worker model and pairs the case coordination services of a peer recovery specialist...

367. Coast to Forest: Mental Health Promotion in Rural Oregon and Beyond - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Jan 16, 2026

Coast to Forest provides training and community education to improve mental health and prevent substance use disorders in rural Oregon and beyond.

...Community health workers · Health literacy · Networking and collaboration · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention Oregon...

368. Activating Patients for Sustained Chronic Disease Self-Management: Thinking Beyond Clinical Outcomes - Resources
Date: Apr 2016

Describes the Expanded Health Coaches for Hypertension Control (EHCHC) project to increase the proportion of adults 45 years and older to self-manage their hypertension. Discusses how a primary care practice and a community-based program can work together to improve patient knowledge and support readiness for behavior change through various channels, including the use of trained volunteer community health coaches.

...Community health workers · Physical activity · Population health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

369. Depression in a Depressed Area: Deservingness, Mental Illness, and Treatment in the Contemporary Rural U.S. - Resources
Date: Dec 2018

Examines the concepts of health-related deservingness and local moral economics to understand the diversity of moral responses to depression for rural women living in Appalachian Kentucky, where economic distress has contributed to poor mental health. Women from a variety of ages, treatment encounters, work experiences, and family sizes, along with healthcare professionals from a variety of backgrounds and settings, participated in semi-structured interviews and focus groups.

...Community health workers · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Poverty · Primary care · Statistics and data · Stigma...

370. Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Pilot: Closing the Gaps in Rural Complex Care - Resources
Date: Oct 2017

Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit corporation that established a pilot program to improve the health of rural patients through the use of technology and interdisciplinary care teams working together in Montana's Flathead Valley. Describes a $1 million innovation award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to support their use of ReSource Teams and help care for high-cost, high-need Medicare patients in the region.

...Community Health Workers Connect with Patients in Rural Montana Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit...