Who We Are
Healthy Archuleta is a community organization working alongside residents, growers, youth, partners, and service providers to strengthen local food systems, advance physical, mental, and behavioral health, and support community-led solutions across Archuleta County.  We do not deliver services in isolation. Instead, we convene, coordinate, and support the people and organizations already doing the work,  helping systems function more effectively, equitably, and sustainably.

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🌱 Our Mission & Values
Our Mission
Healthy Archuleta drives strategic systems change by engaging community members to advance nutrition security, health equity, and greater social belonging.
Our Vision
A community where everyone contributes to and benefits from an equitable, resilient, and sustainable food and healthcare system.
Our Values

• 🤝 Community-led: those most impacted help shape solutions
• ⚖️ Equity-centered: systems must work for everyone
• 🔗 Collaborative: lasting change happens together
• 🌿 Preventive & upstream: support early, not only in crisis
• 🏔 Rooted in place: solutions reflect local strengths and realities

📖 Our Story
Healthy Archuleta was built on the foundational learning that emerged from the work of the Food System Food Equity Coalition for Archuleta County. That early work was grounded in a shared understanding that strengthening food access requires a deep understanding of the local food system and the many stakeholders within it.

​Over time, community conversations, partnerships, and assessments revealed the need for broader systems-level coordination, connecting food systems, health access, youth leadership, and community collaboration, with the recognition that health outcomes and community well-being are deeply interconnected.

Today, our work continues to evolve alongside the community, guided by listening, learning, and shared leadership.

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🔄 How We Work
Our Role in the Community:
​Healthy Archuleta plays a backbone and convening role, supporting systems-level change while staying grounded in community relationships.
How we work:

• 🤝 Bring people together across sectors and lived experience
• 🧭 Support shared planning, learning, and coordination
• 🧩 Strengthen alignment and reduce duplication
• 📊 Translate data and community insight into action
• ⚙️ Support systems change while ensuring people can access help when needed

What that looks like in the community:

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Supporting residents seeking food or health resources
• 🏥 Strengthening coordination among organizations and providers
• 🚀 Creating pathways for participation, leadership, and workforce development
• 📍 Aligning planning, funding, and community priorities

We believe healthier systems lead to healthier communities.

📊 Grounded in Data & Lived Experience
Our work is shaped by both community voice and data.
​We regularly learn from the community and apply that learning in practical ways:

• 🗂 Community assessments helped identify the types of food neighbors prefer at local pantries
• 💬 Listening sessions and learning circles guided garden education and insurance assistance initiatives
• 🔍 Shared reflection and evaluation informed planning for the Annual Archuleta Health Fair & Expo

This approach helps ensure our work remains responsive, relevant, and grounded in local reality.
👉 Explore Data & Learning

Community Impact Snapshot (2025)

• 👥 150+ residents engaged through learning circles, assessments, and events
• 🥕 7 food pantries supported through coordination and local food efforts
• 🏫 4 community-wide events co-hosted, including the Archuleta Health Fair & Expo
• 🤝 20+ partners collaborating across food, health, and youth initiatives

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🧭 What We Focus On

🌿 Food Systems & ​Food Access ​	❤️ Health & Well-Being Physical, Mental & ​Behavioral Health	🌱 Youth & Families ​	🤝 Community     Collaboration ​
We strengthen the full local food system — from production to distribution to shared learning — so healthy food can move more effectively from local sources to households, schools, and community programs. 👉 Explore Food Systems & Food Access ​	We advance whole-person health through prevention, early support, and access, helping people navigate systems, reduce barriers, and connect to care before challenges become crises. 👉 Get Health Support ​ ​ ​	We support youth and families through belonging, prevention, leadership, and opportunity, while building pathways to skills, careers, and long-term community resilience. 👉 Explore Youth & Family Opportunities ​	We help create and sustain shared spaces for learning, leadership, and coordination, where community members and partners work together across systems. 👉 Learn About Community Collaboration 🤝 Community Collaboration ​

🌿 Food Systems & Food Access
We strengthen the full local food system — from production to distribution to shared learning — so healthy food can move more effectively from local sources to households, schools, and community programs.
👉 Explore Food Systems & Food Access

❤️ Health & Well-Being
Physical, Mental & Behavioral Health
We advance whole-person health through prevention, early support, and access, helping people navigate systems, reduce barriers, and connect to care before challenges become crises.
👉 Get Health Support

🌱 Youth & Families
We support youth and families through belonging, prevention, leadership, and opportunity, while building pathways to skills, careers, and long-term community resilience.
👉 Explore Youth & Family Opportunities

🤝 Community Collaboration
We help create and sustain shared spaces for learning, leadership, and coordination, where community members and partners work together across systems.
👉 Learn About Community Collaboration
🤝 Community Collaboration

"Thank you again for hosting a health fair in our community. Our residents deserve every opportunity for improved health care at a cost relative to the average income for the working class Pagosan." - Community Member

🧭 What We Focus On
🌿 Food Systems & Food Access
We strengthen the full local food system — from production to distribution to shared learning — so healthy food can move more effectively from local sources to households, schools, and community programs.
👉 Explore Food Systems & Food Access

❤️ Health & Well-Being
Physical, Mental & Behavioral Health
We advance whole-person health through prevention, early support, and access, helping people navigate systems, reduce barriers, and connect to care before challenges become crises.
👉 Get Health Support

🌱 Youth & Families
We support youth and families through belonging, prevention, leadership, and opportunity, while building pathways to skills, careers, and long-term community resilience.
👉 Explore Youth & Family Opportunities

🤝 Community Collaboration
We help create and sustain shared spaces for learning, leadership, and coordination, where community members and partners work together across systems.
👉 Learn About Community Collaboration
🤝 Community Collaboration

"Thank you again for hosting a health fair in our community. Our residents deserve every opportunity for improved health care at a cost relative to the average income for the working class Pagosan." - Community Member

👥 Coalition, Leadership & Community-Led Spaces​
Coalition & Partners
Healthy Archuleta works with a broad coalition of residents, organizations, growers, providers, agencies, and funders. Together, we align efforts, share learning, and strengthen systems that support community well-being.
👉 See our coalition and partners → Coalition & Partners

Our Team & Leadership
​Healthy Archuleta is guided by a small professional staff and supported by a volunteer board and advisors who bring lived experience, professional expertise, and deep connection to Archuleta County.
👉 Meet our Staff & Leadership → Staff & Leadership

Community-Led Spaces
Healthy Archuleta supports community-led spaces where people gather, learn, and lead together.
These include:

• Community Learning & Leadership Circles (CLLCs) — spaces where neighbors learn, plan, and lead together
• CLAC en Español — a Spanish-language group that builds connection and supports wellness
• Working groups and forums that support food systems, health, and collaboration

Leadership and direction in these spaces are shaped by participants, with shared responsibility encouraged over time.
👉 Participate in CLAC en Español

🤲 Partner With Us
Healthy Archuleta collaborates with community members, growers, organizations, providers, and funders who share a commitment to equitable, community-led solutions.

Whether you want to join a learning circle, share your expertise, partner on a project, or help shape solutions, we’d love to connect.
👉 Contact Us​

Building a healthier, more connected Archuleta County together.