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State Agencies New Mexico
The
New Mexico Public Education Department receives funding from CDC’s Division
of Adolescent and School Health to provide HIV prevention education and
conduct the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The goal of New Mexico’s
coordinated school health approach is to improve the health, education, and
well-being of young people.
New Mexico's Program In Action
Providing HIV
Prevention Education
- Implementing HIV prevention education program activities to address
the needs of Native American, Hispanic, and homeless youth.
- Providing information to school personnel, public health educators,
and other HIV prevention advocates on developing policy and involving
youth in HIV prevention efforts.
- Providing technical assistance and disseminating HIV prevention
tools and resources to school staff, institutions of higher education,
public health educators, and other HIV prevention advocates.
Conducting the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Partnering with the New Mexico Department of Health and University
of New Mexico Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to
administer the Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (YRRS, the New Mexico
version of the YRBS) in middle schools and high schools statewide.
- Distributing YRRS results during statewide trainings and in
conjunction with the release of school academic data to teachers,
administrators, and to youth-serving organizations.
- Engaging youth in promoting and participating in the YRBS to
increase awareness of the importance of the data.
For information on New Mexico's
previous program activities, see New Mexico, 2003–2008.
For data from other states, territories, or localities, see
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For more information on
CDC/DASH funded programs, see
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