Hidalgo County Schedules Behavioral Health Listening Session in Lordsburg March 17

Hidalgo County will hold a Behavioral Health Community Listening Session in Lordsburg on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Hidalgo County DWI Conference Room, an announcement presented as an opportunity for residents to share perspectives on behavioral health, according to the county notice. The announcement lists the date, time and venue but does not provide registration, contact or agenda information.

The Lordsburg meeting is one of multiple Region 6 outreach sessions tied to statewide planning, John Krehbiel at Kotsam reported. Krehbiel wrote that the sessions are part of the Behavioral Health Reform Act community outreach for Region 6, which includes the Fort Sill Apache Tribe and the counties of Grant, Luna and Hidalgo. “The goal is to gather public input on both mental health and substance-related issues, helping shape what an ideal behavioral health system should look like at the local level,” Krehbiel wrote, and he added that “Facilitators will guide discussion focused on identifying gaps in services, community priorities, and potential improvements to strengthen access to care.”

A neighboring Region 6 session will be held in Deming on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 700 South Silver Avenue. Krehbiel’s coverage notes that the Deming session includes a virtual participation option for residents who are encouraged to register in advance; Spanish facilitation and native-language facilitation are available for virtual participants upon request. The Deming event is hosted and facilitated in partnership with the New Mexico Judiciary, the New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils and local county representatives, per Krehbiel.

Hidalgo County’s March 17 meeting follows earlier local outreach. The Opioid Remediation Collaborative of New Mexico hosted a Lordsburg Community Listening Session on Aug. 22, 2024 at the County Manager’s Office, where attendees emphasized reduced stigma around seeking treatment, enhanced provider education on evidence-based services, fostered collaboration among service providers, the identified need to expand Recovery Housing and local treatment options, emphasis on addressing basic needs as part of treatment, and strengthened crisis response systems and support for families affected by addiction. ORCNM materials also recorded community concerns about the overwhelming burden on law enforcement, and the need for practical treatment recommendations for court-ordered individuals and consistent follow-up. ORCNM lists its address as 444 Luna St, Los Lunas NM 87031 and has announced that Grant County, Luna County and the Village of Los Lunas have joined the collaborative.

The county announcement for the March 17 Lordsburg session did not specify whether virtual participation, advance registration, or language facilitation will be available, nor did it name facilitators or partnering agencies; those details are available for the March 10 Deming session but remain unlisted for Hidalgo. March 17 will give Lordsburg residents another chance to raise specific priorities identified in prior meetings, including recovery housing, provider training on evidence-based care, crisis response improvements and the role of law enforcement in addiction cases, all issues that could feed into Region 6 planning for Behavioral Health Reform Act implementation.