Volume 2021-04-15
CHI TIPbits
Timely Information and Points (TIP) for public health community providers from the Center for Health Innovation, New Mexico's Public Health Institute.
Greetings from the Center for Health Innovation (CHI), New Mexico's Public Health Institute. You've been recognized as one of the leading public health professionals in our state, which is why you have been sent our newest publication TIPbits. Every month, we will be sending out timely information and points to aid your efforts to foster better public health in the state. Feel free to share them with your networks and community. Thanks for all you do for New Mexico, and let us lend you a helping hand with TIPbits!
Resources
The Penn Center for Community Health Workers explored CHW perspectives on job satisfaction and career advancement to develop a career growth program that promotes equitable, transparent, and sustainable advancement in the CHW profession. Find the issue brief at: Developing Sustainable Community Health Worker Career Paths.
Community Commons follows efforts to improve food production, distribution and access across the U.S., which also strengthen food economies, build resilient community food systems, and advance food justice and sovereignty. Click to read about: 7 Food System Trends That Give Us Hope.
The Public Health Communications Collaborative provides weekly alerts to circulating misinformation that you can access in its tracking and response tool.
The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs and National Institute for Children’s Health Quality have a web-based toolkit with educational, advocacy, and planning resources for public health agencies working to prevent child lead poisoning.  
CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity’s interactive database has new data on 37 indicators related to healthy eating, active living, and obesity prevention, available on Data, Trends and Maps. The database also has a new tool allowing you to create customized state comparison charts.
APHA has an interactive mapping tool that tracks adopted formal declarations of racism as a public health crisis across the U.S. Users can see the spread of declarations at the national, state and local level. Learn more and submit your area’s declaration, since right now New Mexico doesn’t have any. 
For those working with tribal communities: (1) the CDC’s Community, Work, and School website gives actions and resources for Native American communities to use to slow the spread of COVID-19, and (2) the National Indian Council on Aging’s report Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs Among Native Communities provides information on key health promotion and disease prevention programs in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian (AI/AN/NH) communities.
If you work with people with disabilities, see the New Interactive State Disability Maps from Mathematica Can Help States Better Serve Residents with Disabilities to identify important patterns in state- and county-level prevalence of disability among working-age adults in New Mexico and across the United States.
The UNM Evaluation Lab hosts a free 1:30 - 3:30 MST webinar on April 19 to build evaluation capacity in NM nonprofits and describe services the Evaluation Lab provides to the community. Click here to register.