Prenatal/postnatal Home Visitation

Youth Empowerment Services is a non-profit organization offers home visiting for families in Colfax and Union Counties in New Mexico. Services include drug and alcohol prevention, home visiting, and health counseling. Home visiting is a free service offered to pregnant women and families with children from 0-5. They help prepare parents to cope with the everyday stressors associated with the transition to parenting, which are inevitable when a new baby enters a family. There are no first-time parent requirements and individuals can enroll prenatal until child is 3 years old. They serve Colfax County and areas of Union County, specifically the Clayton area.

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.

Parents as Teachers partners first-time mothers with Certified Parent Educators. Visits focus on the parent-child relationship to support optimal development and social-emotional health and assistance with community resources. Services are available until child turns 3 years old. To be eligible, participants must be first-time parents and children from prenatal to age 3. Serves McKinley County.

Parents as Teachers Luna County aims to provide the information, support and encouragement parents need to help their children develop optimally during the crucial early years of life. The visits focus on the parent-child relationship to support optimal development and social-emotional health and assistance with community resources. Services provided until the child is 5 years old. There are no first-time parent requirements and children can be enrolled prenatal to 4 years 6 months. They serve Luna and Hidalgo Counties.

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.

The Parent Education Home Visiting Program serves parents and caregivers of children through five years of age. This includes adoptive and teen parents, as well as expectant parents. The goals are to provide educational services and child development guidance, to ensure that babies are born healthy, and that children are healthy and safe. They also seek to make sure that children and parents have a nurturing relationship, that parents and caregivers are connected to formal and informal supports in the community, and that children are ready for school.

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.

Services: Home visits provide new parents with information, support, and access to resources in the community that promote early childhood development and a positive family foundation.

Eligibility/Ages: Prenatal to 3 years old. Available to women having their first child, first-time families including fathers, adoptive parents and foster families. Serves Taos County.

Las Cumbres provides information, support and encouragement through home-based services for families of infants prenatal to age 3. Spanish-speaking staff are available in both Rio Arriba County and Santa Fe County. Eligible to enroll from prenatal to age 3. No first-time parent requirements.

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.

The Native American Professional Parent Resources, Inc.(NAPPR) Tribal Home Visiting program offers supportive service to Native families who are expecting and have children between the ages of 0-5 years. Home Visiting is for anyone who wants to learn what makes their baby do the things they do, learn about their child’s growth and development, grow their own skills when parenting gets hard, and learn how to be a better parent for their child. Services are delivered to families by a Home Visitor in a family’s home or other comfortable space. Tribal Home Visiting gives Native families a chance to succeed and thrive so children can grow healthy and happy. Who qualifies for NAPPR Tribal Home Visiting? Native American families who are expecting and/or have a child between 0-3 years (family can remain in the program until the child’s 5th birthday). Caregivers who have legal custody such as a grandparent, sibling, family relative, or adoptive parent.

They work in partnership with tribal communities to raise the health status, self-sufficiency, and health leadership of Native people to the highest possible level. Some services include Home visiting that focuses on the parent‐infant relationship. Also, Adolescent Health, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention, Early Child Development, Entrepreneurship & Workforce Development, Environmental Health, Infectious Disease Prevention, Injury Prevention, Mental Health, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Obesity & Diabetes Prevention, Sexual & Reproductive Health. Family Spirit focuses on practical lessons for parenting. Circle of Security provides parents with support in fostering strong and healthy behaviors. They provide services to women who are first‐time mothers, expectant teenage mothers, and families at risk for substance abuse. Serves Sandoval county.

The UNMH Young Children's Health Center provides home-based services to first-time parents. Services cover prenatal to age 3. Pediatric professionals can furnish information, support and encouragement to families with infants and young children. The Young Children's Health Center serves zip codes 87108 and 87123 in southeast Albuquerque.

Nurse-Family Partnership is a free, voluntary program that partners first-time moms with nurse home visitors. When mothers-to-be enroll in the program, a specially trained nurse will visit throughout the pregnancy and until the baby turns 2 years old. During these visits, the nurse will offer knowledge and support for the mother to create a better life for baby and self. Through this partnership pregnant women experience improved prenatal health and babies experience improved birth outcomes; parents/family is available, responsive, attuned with their infants and young children, supporting optimal social-emotional and cognitive development; and infants and young children experience optimal social-emotional and cognitive development so they are prepared for school success.

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.

Parents as Teachers Home Visiting Program connects parents and caregivers with trained professionals who conduct frequent personal home visits during a child's early years of life, from prenatal to age 5. Trained parent educators work with families in their homes, focusing on the parent-child relationship as the foundation of learning, and on parenting that takes into account the needs of children at different developmental stages. Parents as Teachers also offers health and developmental screenings to assess the needs of the family, group connections to meet other families enrolled in the program, and assistance locating and accessing community resources.

The Early Childhood Education and Care Department was launched on July 1, 2020. Their mission is to optimize the health, development, education, and well-being of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers through a family-driven, equitable, community-based system of high-quality prenatal and early childhood programs and services. They organize a range of programs including: child care services, early childhood special education, Early Head Start and Head Start, Families FIRST program, Family Infant Toddler (FIT) program, the family nutrition bureau, home visiting programs, and NM PreK.

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.

ENMRSH, Inc. provides services to enhance the lives of adults with differing abilities and supports the development of children and families in our programs. Adult Services include: Community Integrated Employment Services, Customized Community Supports, Customized In-Home Supports, Environmental Modification Services, Independent Living Transition Services, Living Supports – Family Living, Supported Living, Intensive Medical Living, Non-Medical Transportation Services, Adult Nursing Services – Nursing Assessment and Consultation (LPN and RN), Personal Support Technology, Respite Services. Child Services include Early Childhood Services (FIT: Family Infant Toddler Program), Home Visiting, Infant Mental Health & Parent-Infant Psychotherapy, and Respite. Eligibility/Ages: No first-time parent requirements. Enroll prenatal until child is 3 years old. Serves Curry, De Baca, and Roosevelt Counties.

Native American Professional Parent Resources, (NAPPR) Inc. is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and was founded in 1981 as a joint project between the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the New Mexico Department of Health to provide early intervention services to Native American families with young children experiencing developmental delays. Since that time, NAPPR has established itself as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and grown from serving approximately 30 Native American children/families in 6 Pueblo communities to serving 400+ Native and Non-Native American families across a four county area. In addition to direct services to families with young children in these four counties, NAPPR also serves a much wider geographic range through the Albuquerque Area Dental Support Center.

Tresco, Inc. has offices in Las Cruces, Socorro, and Truth or Consequences. Services include Tresco Works, which provides work opportunities to persons with varying disabilities, and development and skills training for upward employment to people that work; Children's Services, through Tot's Early Intervention Program (ages 3 and under, evaluations and hands-on help in the setting where the child is, i.e. home, daycare, etcetera) and Day One Home Visiting Program (supports families from prenatal through age 3, for free- no eligibility requirements).

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.

Builds strong communities, thriving families and children who are healthy, safe and ready to learn by matching parents and caregivers with trained professionals who make regular personal home visits during a child’s earliest years in life, from prenatal through kindergarten. Local program locator available on website.