Neighbor

When you become a Salud y Vida con Amigos Neighbor, you will learn how to make sense of health information in today’s world.  
You don’t need any previous training – you just need curiosity. 

Salud y Vida con Amigos offers online and face-to-face courses.  All trainings are available in both English and Spanish. Choose what’s best for you. 

What you’ll learn as a Neighbor

Topics include:

  • What health literacy is 
  • How to search for health information on the internet
  • How to spot false information
  • How to read graphs 
  • Where to find current information about COVID in your community
  • How to protect yourself and your family from COVID:
  • Improving indoor air quality
  • The truth about vaccines
  • How masks work
  • How to use rapid antigen tests most effectively
  • COVID and pregnancy
  • Treatments for COVID
  • How to protect others when someone in your household has COVID
  • Where to get help for Long COVID 
  • Talking to your doctor about COVID and other health issues
     

Who We Are

Salud y Vida Con Amigos uses Health literacy to help people find, understand, appraise, and act on information to protect themselves and their community from COVID-19.  Salud y Vida con Amigos is funded by the Office of Minority Health/OASH/HHS and is a program of Doña Ana County.

Office of Minority Health

Contact Us

Salud y Vida con Amigos
 
Doña Ana County Health and Human Services
845 N. Motel Blvd.
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88007
(575) 728-5591 

Dona Ana County Health and Human Services