Behavioral Health Outreach Along the Border
We have two Regional Behavioral Health Authorities working to improve and protect mental health along the border. Cenpatico and Community Partnership of Southern Arizona (CPSA) offer specialized programs to help combat substance abuse and prevent suicide as well as to help those with behavioral health issues. One of the CPSA-sponsored prevention activities near the border includes substance abuse and suicide prevention. [...]
Medical Marijuana Rulemaking Underway
A few weeks ago a Superior Court judge decided that a portion of our medical marijuana regulations are unreasonable because they lack a formal appeal process for dispensary registration certificate holders who don’t earn their approval to operate within 1 year. Because of the ruling, we approved renewal requests for all the current dispensaries (open or not). The ruling also [...]
Outreach in Border Region Enhances WIC Enrollment
The Arizona WIC Program is airing outreach ads in border counties, to ensure WIC clients know about the availability of WIC services in their communities. Several local WIC agencies in the border region are undertaking special actions to promote WIC along with making healthy eating and active living the easy choice in their communities. The Mariposa WIC Program is a [...]
Border Car Seat Safety Program Moves Forward
A cooperative partnership between Arizona and Sonora highlights the importance of a safe ride home for all children and their families. Car seat use in Arizona is about 90%, yet car seat use in Sonora is less than 20%. A lot of this is because car seats cost more in Mexico than they do in the US- making them less [...]
International Data Sharing
Arizona and Sonora have a long history of collaborating on many projects over the years. We long ago understood that disease doesn't stop at the border. Arizona and Sonora were the 1st states along the U.S.-Mexico Border to share information on cross border cases in an organized way. Since 2008, we’ve been sharing this information electronically with Sonora Secretaria de Salud [...]
Border Bi-National Health Week
I’ve was in DC much of last week working alongside many of the health officers from the 10 US Mexico border states. We had meetings with the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission as well as events associated with Border Binational Health Week. Border Bi-national Health Week is just one of the initiatives of the Commission- whose goal is to promote sustainable cross- border [...]