Health Education & Promotion provides the El Paso Community with awareness, resources, and preventative services to encourage, develop, and sustain healthy lifestyles.

Services Offered to the Public

Health Education Program

Provide educational presentations to the public on the following topics:

• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Department of Public Health Overview of Services
• Disease Prevention
• Growth and Development for Boys
• Eating Disorders
• Nutrition (basic information tailored to your needs)
• Personal Hygiene
• Playground Safety
• Stress Management
• Summer or Winter Survival

Tobacco Prevention

Funded by the Paso del Norte Health Foundation

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Tobacco Exposed

• A curriculum that offers agencies that serve children of all ages a single lesson opportunity. Presentations for grades Kindergarten through 12^th grade provided in out of school settings regarding the dangers of using tobacco products (afterschool programs, sports clubs, afterschool clubs, etc.)
• Parent presentations on how to talk to kids about not using tobacco products

El Paso Clean Air Ordinance

• Smoke Free Ordinance Summary of Changes
• Smoke Free Ordinance FAQs
• City of El Paso Ordinance

Fresh-Start Tobacco Cessation Program

A curriculum for adults wanting to quit smoking.  Classes consist of four lessons that help participants choose a quit date, learn about the benefits of quitting, deal with withdrawal, and preventing relapse. 

Eat Well! El Paso

Funded by the Paso del Norte Health Foundation

• Restaurant Initiative: work and recognize locally owned restaurants to create healthier children and adult menu
• See Program Information
• Click Here to Download the EWEP Toolkit

Texas Healthy Communities 

Texas Healthy Communities (TXHC) is funded by the Texas Department of State Health Services and developed by the Heart Disease & Stroke Program. TXHC recognizes cities for having environmental and policy infrastructure and practices in place that are public health priorities for reducing cardiovascular disease, stroke, and other chronic diseases.

The Healthy Community initiatives, as determined by the CDC, are designed to focus on: 

1. promoting physical activity and nutrition 
2. reducing tobacco use and exposure 
3. building capacity to implement policy, system, environmental and organizational changes related to chronic disease risk factors 
4. fostering improved access to care 
5. reducing/eliminating health disparities 
6. reducing complications and incidence of chronic diseases

Useful Links

• Set Your Date-Smoking Cessation Program
• American Heart Association-Healthy Living Website
• American Heart Association-Heart Attack Warning Signs