The Southeastern Colorado Area Health Education Center (SECAHEC), created in 1978, is one of five such centers throughout the state of Colorado which make up the Colorado Area Health Education system.  This system in Colorado and in all other states is part of a national AHEC system established by Congress in 1972.               

  SECAHEC serves 16 counties in Southern Colorado, providing health care education for consumers, training for health care providers and students studying to enter the health care system and undertaking programs to encourage more people, especially children and young adults to choose some aspect of the health care field as a career.           

   Primary funding for these programs includes contracts and from other health care organizations.