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Physical educators face many daily challenges in their work. Delivering culturally responsive programming that speaks to all students regardless of race, religion, nationality, gender, and motor abilities (Kozub & Hodge, 2014) is one of these challenges. Teachers who build a meaningful physical educational environment with skilled activities can create a motivating and valuable experience for marginalized students resulting in positive feelings toward physical activity (Goodwin & Watkinson, 2000). Learning environments that provide the three basic psychological needs of self-determination theory (SDT) may aid in developing motivation and student engagement within physical education (Deci & Ryan, 2000). Active exploration is an approach used in PE for adapting student movements, building curiosity about new movements with the use of equipment, and being inventive and flexible (Hyndman, 2021). Drawing upon SDT and learner centered teaching styles, the purpose of this paper is to provide three strategies for teaching that promote inclusion for marginalized students in PE settings: (a) active exploration and discovery, (b) culturally relevant curriculum, and (c) assessing student learning within these approaches.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and community-engaged research have been established in the past 25 years as valued research approaches within health education, public health, and other health and social sciences for their effectiveness in reducing inequities. While early literature focused on partnering principles and processes, within the past decade, individual studies, as well as systematic reviews, have increasingly documented outcomes in community support and empowerment, sustained partnerships, healthier behaviors, policy changes, and health improvements. Despite enhanced focus on research and health outcomes, the science lags behind the practice. CBPR partnering pathways that result in outcomes remain little understood, with few studies documenting best practices. Since 2006, the University of New Mexico Center for Participatory Research with the University of Washington's Indigenous Wellness Research Institute and partners across the country has engaged in targeted investigations to fill this gap in the science. Our inquiry, spanning three stages of National Institutes of Health funding, has sought to identify which partnering practices, under which contexts and conditions, have capacity to contribute to health, research, and community outcomes. This article presents the research design of our current grant, Engage for Equity, including its history, social justice principles, theoretical bases, measures, intervention tools and resources, and preliminary findings about collective empowerment as our middle range theory of change. We end with lessons learned and recommendations for partnerships to engage in collective reflexive practice to strengthen internal power-sharing and capacity to reach health and social equity outcomes.

The relationship of intimate partner violence (IPV) with mental disorders was investigated among 234 American Indian/Alaska Native female primary care patients. Results indicated that unadjusted prevalence ratios for severe physical or sexual abuse (relative to no IPV) were significant for anxiety, PTSD, mood, and any mental disorder. Adjusted prevalence ratios showed severe physical or sexual IPV to be associated with any mood disorder. Patterns of IPV and mental health have implications for detection and service utilization. (Contains 3 tables.)

This article describes a mixed methods study of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership practices and the links between these practices and changes in health status and disparities outcomes. Directed by a CBPR conceptual model and grounded in indigenous-transformative theory, our nation-wide, cross-site study showcases the value of a mixed methods approach for better understanding the complexity of CBPR partnerships across diverse community and research contexts. The article then provides examples of how an iterative, integrated approach to our mixed methods analysis yielded enriched understandings of two key constructs of the model: trust and governance. Implications and lessons learned while using mixed methods to study CBPR are provided.

The article discusses the role of Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service model to offer academic health centers methodologies to address the social determinants of disease in New Mexico. It notes that the University of New Mexico Health Services Center developed the Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) as vehicle for its model facilitated by the health extension agents. It mentions that these HEROs are supported by the regional coordinators for community health service.

The article reflects on the histories of several villages in Albuquerque, New Mexico. These villages were central to the identities of the first Hispano settlers in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. The residents of the Middle Rio Grande Valley considered their villages to be distinct places before 1880. It had an identity that was associated with the families who lived there.

This article focuses on an HIV/AIDS prevention intervention project using community-based participatory research principles. The Woman to Woman: Coming Together for Positive Change Program was held in two rural communities in Albuquerque and northeastern New Mexico previously unserved by an HIV/AIDS intervention program. The program considers that women's choices may be limited by poverty, gender roles and cultural norms. The design of the project curriculum, which is divided into 17 sessions, each with empowerment and HIV prevention objectives, is mentioned. The small-group intervention is facilitated by a trained health educator. Several challenges are mentioned, including the difficulties encountered in changing behavior given societal circumstances of gender inequality.

New Mexico and other arid western states face the following dilemma: rapid urban growth and the increasing demand for the dedication of water to aquatic ecosystem services are placing new stresses on the ability of available water supplies to support these new demands at a time when a coherent federal supply and water policy no longer exists and states have been slow to fill the vacuum. The answer to the increasing demand for water is no longer simply to augment supply through new diversions, high-capacity wells, or the construction of large storage reservoirs. Instead, in today's increasingly unmediated, competitive water allocation environment, states and local governments are being forced to reexamine the traditional relationship between water policy and urban growth: if they come, we will supply them, and, more generally, water should never limit growth. Thus, urban areas are being forced to use alternative strategies such as demand management (conservation) and controversial rural-urban transfers to accommodate continuing urban growth and the state is aggressively limiting new groundwater access. New Mexico is an important case study of the stresses of reallocating water to meet continuing urban growth. The state has mined its ground water both for urban growth and irrigation, and it does not have a large, under-allocated federal project to support future growth or a major new source of water that can be tapped. The highly stressed Rio Grande, a major interstate and international river, must be shared with other states and Mexico. Furthermore, New Mexico has a unique rural landscape with strong Native American and Hispanic communities fighting to maintain a non-urban way of life. The article argues that water policies and urban growth policies must be better coordinated to promote more sustainable water use and "smarter" urban growth. Planning is the link. As the margin of error for unsustainable resource use decreases, integrated land and water use planni... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Carotenoids are important for brain and eye health. Adequate access to carotenoid-rich fruits and vegetables is limited in food deserts like New Mexico. Traditional Mexican preparation practices and ingredients in meals like red chile enchiladas, squash calabacitas, and red chile posole may provide new insights about dietary access to carotenoids. Seven community health educators, promotoras, were recruited from the La Semilla Food Center (Anthony, NM) to traditionally prepare each meal on two separate cooking days. Meals were portioned, homogenized, flash-frozen with liquid nitrogen and stored for analysis. Carotenoid extractions were performed with 10 g samples in duplicate for each meal and analyzed using beta-carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin standards via high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Carotenoid content for each meal was calculated and remaining samples were saved for future in vitro digestions and determination of micellar efficiency. Beta-carotene and zeaxanthin were found in all three meals from both cooking days, whereas lutein was predominately found in calabacitas. The enchilada meal prepared on the second cooking day contained the highest total carotenoid amount with 1.47 mg/plate and the highest beta-carotene and zeaxanthin amounts with 403.2 ug/plate and 132 ug/plate, respectively. Calabacitas contained 112.8 ug/plate of lutein but lower amounts of beta-carotene and zeaxanthin than enchiladas and posole. Differences in preparation and other minor variations between cooking days were captured by HPLC. Future in vitro digestions will provide a basis for determining bioavailability of health-promoting carotenoids from traditional Mexican meals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the city charter amendments considered by communities in New Mexico and Washington. It states that charter amendments aim to ensure that a city charter meets the needs of communities. The charter amendments in Albuquerque, New Mexico involve issues such as council's salaries and the city's duty to protect human rights and the environment. Meanwhile, the Envision Spokane Board of Directors has drafted amendments which they plan to place on ballot in 2009 in Spokane.