The First Born Program is founded on the belief that supported families create healthy communities, focuses on strong relationships and health in the early years. The program is relationship-centered and curriculum-based. Families who participate in home visits receive coaching, support, information about early childhood development, health, nutrition and safety and learn fun activities to help build brain development and learning. The First Born Program was named one of the nation’s 10 most innovative and exemplary prevention programs in 2002 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, along with several other agencies.

Through weekly home visits, families identify personal goals, recognize challenges and opportunities for growth and build a healthy, loving, playful relationship with their child.

The First Born Program supports child development in the areas of social emotional development, language, literacy and problem solving skills. Investing early means better outcomes for children, happier families and healthier communities.

First Born is for first-time parents. In many communities, the program is offered as First Born and More and is available to any family who is expecting or has a child under 3.

Please visit https://firstbornprogram.org/ for more locations.

La Clinica de Familia offers prenatal support and education for low-income families with infants, toddlers, and pregnant women. La Clinica de Familia partners with parents in establishing goals for their infants, toddlers and family, however there is no first-time parent requirements. Children are eligible for enrollment until 3 years old. La Clinica de Familia serves families that meet income guidelines and who live within Las Cruces city limits, and Las Cruces Public Schools District.

We offer home visits that encourage the development of skills and knowledge around infant growth and development, nurturing positive relationships, and creating safe environments. Services are available to women having their first child, first-time families, and families adopting their first baby. Available to children prenatal to 3 years of age. Serving Grant County.

Ben Archer Health Center Healthy Start provides parenting educational services, child developmental guidance, and local community resource information to families with children prenatal to age 2 for Healthy Start program and prenatal to age 3 for CYFD program. There are no first-time parent requirements and individuals can be enrolled prenatal until age 2 for Healthy Start program, and prenatal to age 3 for CYFD program. They serve Doña Ana, Luna, and Otero Counties, and Sierra County.

Apple Tree Education Center Little Things Matter provides parenting educational services, child developmental guidance, and local community resource information to families with children prenatal to age 3 in the home, or at alternative locations at the family’s request. There are no first-time parent requirements and individuals can be enrolled prenatal until age 3. Apple Tree Education Center Little Things Matter serves Sierra County.

Services: Aims to increase access to high quality early childhood services. Supports optimal child and family development, healthy lifestyles, and strong connections to family, community, culture, and tradition. Services until child’s 5th birthday.
Eligibility/Ages: No first-time parent requirements. Serving Native American families, enroll prenatal until child is 4 years old. Services available during pregnancy, for grandparents who are primary caregivers, foster, and adoptive parents. Serves Taos County.

Española Presbyterian Hospital First Born Program offers home visits that encourage the development of skills and knowledge around infant growth and development, nurturing positive relationships, and creating safe environments for children prenatal to 3 years of age. Children that are prenatal or newborn under 2 months of age are eligible. Services are available to women having their first child, first-time families, and families adopting their first baby. Services are offered to residents of Rio Arriba County.

Home visits encourage the development of skills and knowledge around infant growth and development, nurturing positive relationships, and creating safe environments. First Born Los Alamos serves prenatal to 3 years of age. Available to women having their first child, first-time families, and families adopting their first baby. Serves Los Alamos County.

Serve infants and toddlers under the age of 3, and pregnant women. EHS programs provide intensive comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families, and to pregnant women and their families.

Region 9 Developmental Services Program provides comprehensive developmental and early intervention activities that benefit families and children from birth through age three who have or may be at risk for developmental delays. Some options of this program include family counseling and education; health services; Child Find and screening services; assessment and evaluation services; special instruction provided by developmental specialists; nutritional consultation; occupational, physical, speech, and language therapy; transportation; family service coordination; and respite care services. An Individual Family Service Plan is developed for each child and family based upon determined needs.

The UNM Center for Development and Disability (UNM CDD) serves children and adults with developmental, intellectual or physical disabilities throughout New Mexico. Programs include Autism Programs, Clinical Evaluations Programs, Early Childhood Programs, and other disability programs. The CDD also houses the Mi Via and Supports Waiver Consultant programs, the UNM CDD Information Network that provides resources to the community, and the Information Network Library. Services include home visits, screenings, evaluations, early intervention services, case management services and trainings.

Services offered focuses on a child’s health and development from prenatal to age 3. First-time mothers and families receive weekly home visits by a trained health educator. Enroll prenatal or newborn under 2 months of age. Services available to women having their first child, first-time families, and families adopting their first baby. CHI Home Based Education & Enhanced Referral Program serve Bernalillo, Sandoval (certain areas) Valencia, Luna, and Doña Ana Counties.

Blue Star's Therapy provides home, community, and center-based early intervention therapy services for young children with Autism and other developmental delays using the Early Start Denver Model Curriculum. Services include ESDM Services, Parent Empowerment Program, The Blue School, Speech-Language Pathology, ABA: Behavioral Intervention, Occupational Therapy, Consultation, and Educational Setting Observation. Bilingual services are also available.

Zia Therapy provides Early Childhood Intervention (ECI). ECI is a service for families of children (birth to 3 years of age) with developmental delays, disabilities, or certain medical diagnoses that could impact the child's development. This service is provided at no cost to the family, as part of the federal Family Infant Toddler (FIT) Program. Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs) are developed in collaboration with the family and Zia's ECI professionals help to identify goals and strategies to meet these goals. Types of services include developmental screening (birth-3 yrs); developmental evaluations; evaluations and therapy for speech/language, physical, occupational therapy, and nutrition; cognitive intervention; and functional vision services.

The Navajo Nation Growing In Beauty program (GIB) meets the needs of Navajo children with delays or disabilities from birth to five years of age while honoring the unique culture and language of the Navajo people. The Growing In Beauty staff provides service coordination and direct services. Services include receiving and processing referrals from pediatricians, health care professionals, and other service providers. Providing developmental assessment and evaluation for at-risk children along with GIB Partnership Program staff from Northern Arizona University-Institute of Human Development (NAU IHD), St. Michaels Association for Special Education (SMASE), and University New Mexico Center for Development and Disability (UNM CDD). GIB also makes referrals and ensuring that support and services are provided via a Team-Based approach by Early Intervention specialists, provides transition supports into appropriate early childhood settings or preschool programs, ongoing developmental screening and family support, and advocacy and training for families. Hozhóogo Jinoosééł -Growing In Beauty’s mission is to assure that all Diné children with a developmental delay or disability, between the ages of birth to five, grow into beautiful individuals. For other locations for please visit: http://www.nnosers.org/contact-us.aspx

Las Cumbres Community Services, Inc. began in 1970 with a structured program of day habilitation services for developmentally disabled adults residing in Los Alamos. We added a therapeutic preschool for children in the Española Valley in 1979. Services for children, adults, and families have continued to expand since then in order to best meet the growing and changing needs of Northern New Mexico. Our offices are located in Española, Los Alamos, Taos, and Santa Fe. In 2019 Las Cumbres expanded to the Borderland Region of Las Cruces, El Paso, and Ciudad Juarez. Today, the agency is one of the largest social service providers in New Mexico. Direct services are offered in Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Taos Counties, and along the Borderland region, while education, outreach, and referral activities make a strong impact throughout the state and country.

Aprendamos Intervention Team is a therapist-run organization that serves children and families’ needs through early intervention. Team services include speech-language, occupational, physical, and family therapists. A nurse, nutritionist, family services coordinators, developmental instructions, infant massage therapists, and pediatric specialists are also available. Mental health clinicians specializing in play therapy interventions, MDMR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and more. The Autism program has 16 Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) and about 50 Registered Behavior Therapists (RBT).

Amplified Therapy is a New Mexico Family Infant Toddler provider in Catron, Grant, Hidalgo, and Luna Counties. The NM FIT program provides early intervention services and supports to families of children aged birth to three who have or who are at risk for developmental delays or disabilities. In addition to working with the FIT program, ATI also provides occupational and speech-language pathology services to various school districts in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.

The UNM CDD FOCUS Early Intervention Program (formerly known as Los Pasos, SELECTT and GRO) provides supports and services for families of children with developmental delays aged birth through 3 years of age. Services are not limited to children with disabilities but also include children experiencing delay due to family substance use, violence, low birth weight, parental mental illness, prematurity, pre-natal exposure to drugs and alcohol, and unsupported teen parenting. FOCUS offers developmental assessments, early intervention services (service coordination, developmental guidance, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech and language therapy services), referrals, infant mental health services, and primary care and access to a family medical home. The service delivery team includes pediatricians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, service coordinators, developmental specialists, occupational therapists, and speech and language pathologists. Services are available in both English and Spanish.

CARC offers child and adult services including FIT and child development services, adult habilitation, work services, supported employment, nursing, money management, socialization, and opportunities for the Special Olympics. CARC also supports individuals throughout their life span and improves quality of life by providing transportation, therapy pool, on-call services, case management, crisis intervention, and other activities and life skills.

MECA Therapies, LLC is a NM Family Infant Toddler (FIT) Early Intervention provider, serving children birth to 3 years old. They also provide children's outpatient therapy for ages 3 to 21 (not available in Clovis); Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for children ages 2 to 21; and several home visiting programs for prenatal to 3 years old. Bilingual services are also provided. They have offices in Las Cruces, Hobbs, Clovis, and Roswell. They accept a variety of private and Medicaid-based insurance plans. All MECA therapies services can be conducted via in-person or telehealth visits as of April 2022.

Neuropsychological Services of New Mexico provides various clinical services to adults, children and adolescents. Their mission is to help clients achieve results through excellence in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of brain based disorders. Services may include: neuropsychological evaluations; neurobehavioral evaluations; psychological evaluations; and psychotherapy focused on psychological adjustment to neurological conditions. Additionally they provide personalized neuropsychological and psychological information and analysis to insurance providers, case managers, attorneys, health-care providers, and other professionals in order for them to make informed decisions on behalf of clients or companies.

Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico Neuropsychology, LLC provides comprehensive outpatient neuropsychological evaluations for children and adolescents ages 3-17 years. Pediatric neuropsychology is a specialized branch of clinical psychology that focuses on understanding how brain function impacts learning, behavior, and other cognitive skills that are important for daily functioning. They provide pediatric neuropsychological evaluations using a private interview and standardized testing and a comprehensive report that discusses results, diagnoses, and recommendations.

Zuni Public School District has a Special Education Pre-K program at Shiwi Ts'ana Elementary School, as well as a Special Education Program at Zuni Head Start. They support students who have been receiving Early Intervention through Dungarvin/ELFs program (0-3 years of age) by transitioning them into the Head Start Program. The Special Education Program provides speech/language therapy, occupational and physical therapy, as well as nursing services and social work/psychological services to students who have been identified through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). To qualify for services in the State of New Mexico, students must be evaluated and identified as gifted students. Once a student has met the state criteria and has been found eligible for gifted services an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) can be developed.

West Las Vegas Head Start/Early Head Start Programs provide comprehensive early childhood services to Las Vegas and surrounding areas. Services include speech and occupational therapy, family services, special education, parent trainings, school-aligned curriculum and developmental, vision and hearing screenings. Contact the Special Education department for Child Find screenings.

The Wagon Mound Public School District is located in the Northeastern part of New Mexico, along I-25. It is 40 miles North of Las Vegas and 60 miles South of Raton, NM. The Elementary school has a Full day NM Pre-K/Title I Pre-K Program that serves 4 year-olds. Kindergarten and 1st grades are in a combined classroom, as well as 2nd and 3rd grades and 4th and 5th grades. 6th grade is in a single classroom. The High School is 7th through 12th Grade with a seven period class schedule. Contact the Child Find Coordinator for Child Find screenings.

The mission of Vaughn Municipal schools is to make available for students the opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes, habits, values and character essential to enrich student's lives. Contact the Special Education Director for Child Find screenings.

Contact the Special Education Secretary for Child Find screenings.

Texico offers all three elementary, middle, and high schools.

Contact the Special Education Secretary for Child Find screenings.

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Contact the Educational Diagnostician for Child Find screenings.

The Department coordinates Child Find activities, screening, and referrals, with formal educational and specialized evaluations. The department coordinates initial placements in special education instructional programs and support services throughout the district maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations. These services are provided in a variety of settings ranging from regular classroom settings with support services, resource room services, small self-contained classrooms to home bound services.

Contact the Special Education Secretary for Child Find screenings.

Pojoaque Valley has an Elementary, Middle, and High school.

Contact at the Secretary for Child Find screenings.

Contact the Support Services Secretary for Child Find screenings.

Pecos has all three, Elementary, Middle, and High school.

Contact the Child Find Coordinator for Child Find screenings.Mountainair has a High school and an Elementary school.

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Contact the Early Childhood Transition Specialist for Child Find screenings.

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Contact the Early Childhood Disabilities Specialist for Child Findscreenings.

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Contact the Health Aid Intake Coordinator for Child Find screenings.

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Contact Child Find at 575-769-4490 Ext. 3205 for Child Find screenings.

Contact Region IX Education Cooperative for Child Find screening.

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To schedule a Child Find screening, please contact the Medicaid Coordinator.

Contact the secretary at (505) 598-4500 to schedule a Child Find screening.

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Contact the Medicaid Liaison at 575-234-3320 extension 2808 to schedule a Child Find screening.

Contact Region IX Education Cooperative at (575) 257-2368 to schedule a Child Find screening.

Contact the Early Child Interventionist for Child Find screenings.

Contact the Diagnostician at (505) 404-5714 for Child Find screenings.

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Call 505-334-9474 to contact the Preschool for Child Find screenings.

Contact the DD Preschool Coordinator at (575) 746-3585 for a Child Find screening.

Contact School Psychologist for Child Find screenings.

Call 575-548-2299 to contact the Special Education Director for Child Find screenings.

Bilingual Multicultural Services, Inc. (BMSI) provides therapists that diagnose and treat individuals of all ages who are impacted by mentally, physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabling conditions. Various programs for all ages, providing occupational, physical, speech and language, psychological, social work, professional development and consulting, and birth-3 (FIT) services. BMSI special project include Project CIERA, Project TALES, Project BRIDGE, Project PLAY and promoting early literacy in young children.

The Early Childhood Evaluation Program (ECEP) provides specialized evaluations for concerns such as developmental delay, complex medical conditions, autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, behavioral/regulatory issues, and more. The ECEP travels to many different locations throughout New Mexico to assist families and their children from birth to age 3. The ECEP team of professionals includes a physician or nurse practitioner, a psychologist, a speech-language pathologist and a physical or occupational therapist.

The UNM CDD Autism Spectrum Evaluation Clinic (ASEC) provides diagnostic evaluations for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or related conditions. The clinic sees children ages 3 and older to evaluate social and emotional development, communication, thinking and problem-solving ability, adaptive skills, and behavior. Teams have strong expertise in ASD and developmental disabilities and may include a pediatrician, clinical psychologist, speech-language pathologist, family therapist, and/or clinical social worker, depending on need. Following evaluation, ASEC assists families in finding resources for their children, or provides recommendations for treatment or other assessments if needed. If a child is diagnosed with ASD, ASEC makes referrals to other services in the Autism Programs at the CDD or to community services.

Region 9 Developmental Services Program provides comprehensive developmental/early intervention activities that benefit the families and children from birth through age three who have or may be at risk for developmental delays. All services are designed to educate, support, and strengthen the child's primary caregiver in the decision-making process regarding the developmental intervention services. Staff members work with families to identify the outcome desired for the child and explore the strategies to achieve that outcome.

Provides services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that children with disabilities are given full access to quality education, support, and resources.

Services Include:

• Early Intervention
• Early Childhood Education
• Make the First Five Count Childhood Development Screening Tool
• Nationwide Directory for Inclusive Child Care Programs
• Camping and Recreation Programs
• Family Support and Resources
• Transportation Assistance and Support
• Employment and Training
• Financial Capability and Homebuying