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Grant County Health Council outlines 2026 mental-health trainings, transportation mapping project
Summary
The Grant County Community Health Council reported new trainer certifications for suicide prevention and adult mental-health first aid, plans for monthly trainings at the regional medical center in 2026, transportation resource mapping with focus groups and a final resource-guide launch in May, and engagement in SB3 behavioral-health regional planning.
Emma, representing the Grant County Community Health Council, updated the commission on recent accomplishments and upcoming programs focused on behavioral health, transportation access and community outreach.
She said the council obtained two additional mental-health trainer certifications in the last quarter of 2025: an ABC suicide-prevention module developed in New Mexico and an adult mental-health first-aid trainer certification. "We're going to be having adult mental health 1st aid trainings at Hila Regional Center every month of 2026," she said, and noted monthly dates are included in commissioners’ packets.
Emma described the transportation resource-mapping initiative as a major project that has grown with community input; the council is developing surveys and plans to host focus groups in February–April and launch a printed resource guide in May, with accessibility testing (QR codes and screen-reader readability) planned in the January 15 health-council meeting. She also listed outreach activities: Narcan trainings, a teen safety "Rise Together" event, and technical assistance to school health advisory councils on digital safety and substance-use prevention.
Commissioners asked whether the council could re-establish transport services to help residents get to medical appointments; Emma said the council will evaluate whether the program could be relaunched, consider grant opportunities, and coordinate with partners including the regional medical center and EMS providers.
Emma invited commissioners and the public to the Region 6 sequential-intercept mapping workshop (behavioral-health planning) March 24–26 in Deming and said her organization will help convene providers and people with lived experience for regional behavioral-health planning.
The presentation closed with invitations to the next health-council meeting on Jan. 15 and offers to receive follow-up questions by phone or email.
No formal county action was recorded during the work session on health-council matters.
