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Quay County Health Council reviews outreach, seeks recurring state funding
Summary
The Quay County Health Council presented outreach and prevention activities and urged the commission to support recurring state funding for county health councils; the group circulated a petition and offered materials to commissioners.
Representatives of the Quay County Health Council (QCHC) briefed the Tucumcari City Commission on Jan. 23 about the council’s recent activities and asked for support for recurring legislative funding for county health councils.
A QCHC representative said the council is the recognized county health planning council under state law and that, in the prior year, the council leveraged limited state funding into substantial grant-funded programs. "We do have a bill, before the legislature, for continuing the $4,000 per council," the presenter said, and asked commissioners to sign a petition to the Legislative Finance Committee and the governor supporting recurring funding.
The council described a range of local work in the prior 12–15 months: social-media outreach that reached tens of thousands of accounts across platforms, a new website, public presentations, training on suicide prevention for 57 people, distribution of naloxone to prevent opioid overdose, an evidence-based youth resilience curriculum that reported a 14% increase in participant resiliency, and partnerships with regional broadcasters and university researchers. The presentation included an end-of-year video and a multi-year fact sheet included in the meeting packet.
QCHC staff named partners and programs including a Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) committee, work on mental-health programs focused on anxiety, and a climate-and-health coalition project concentrating on safe drinking-water supplies. The council said it brought over $28 million in leveraged funds to the county over 34 years and projected more than $225,000 in grant funds for the current year to support local hires and programming.
The presenters asked commissioners to help by signing a petition supporting stable, recurring state funding for county health councils and to refer community groups that need presentations or services.
No formal commission action on the petition was recorded in the meeting transcript; the council left informational materials and encouraged engagement.
