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5/9/2025
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Homevisiting Grant Program - New Mexico Early Childhood Education & Care Department-Home Visiting 1120 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe NM 87502 Mayra A. Gutierrez, Family Support and Early Intervention Division Director Email: mayra.gutierrez@ececd.nm.gov Mobile: 505-660-7738 http://nmececd.org Requesting $3,980,007 million Project Abstract Summary a. Purpose: To provide high-quality services and programs, New Mexico uses the MIECHV federal funding to pay for evidence-based home visitation direct services and makes investments in infrastructure supports for data storage and ongoing professional development. For direct service delivery, New Mexico has created provider agreements with four Home Visiting provider agencies. For infrastructure support, including data administration and professional development, New Mexico has established two intergovernmental agreements with the University of New Mexico. The well-established Home Visiting program in New Mexico is dedicated to developing and widening relationships to improve early development and health outcomes for at-risk children and their families. The following goals and objectives are strategically met by home visiting services that are strategically provided in at-risk populations using evidence-based methods. The LIAs in New Mexico offer home visitation services to pregnant women and their unborn children up to the age of five. To provide adequate and evidence-based services to serve the most vulnerable families and their children, the LIAs collaborates closely with state-funded programs. Home visitors help families by establishing the groundwork for early prenatal care and the promotion of healthy deliveries. Teaching effective parenting techniques, risk assessment, and pointing families in the direction of necessary community supports are further forms of support. b. Evidence-based Home Visiting Models: The evidence-based programs Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) and Parents as Teachers (PAT), as well as the Healthy Families America (HFA) initiative, will continue to be used in New Mexico. Through the Thriving Families Prevention Plan, HFA is listed as one of New Mexico's measures to enhance maternal and infant health and early education outcomes. The National HFA office and New Mexico have been collaborating to integrate the concept into the state's home visiting program. ECECD will use the Family Connects, Healthy Families America, Child First, and new models. The Family Connects or Child First models will not be implemented in New Mexico using the MIECHV Formula Grant. Instead, it suggests moving MIECHV American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-funded families to the MIECHV Formula grant by using the Healthy Families America model. To better serve the needs of the community and the area in New Mexico and to help families and young children, ECECD's home visiting program is diversifying, investigating, and researching evidence-based methods. The model improvement should assist in the creation of a thorough home visiting system that ranges from low touch to high intensity. c. Communities to be served: The New Mexico Home Visiting system plans to serve the same communities this award cycle except for Chaves County. In addition, New Mexico is transitioning LIA, MECA, who originally served Chaves and Curry counties. Therefore, New Mexico will serve the following communities with FFY23 MIECHV Formula Grant, inclusive of the following LIAs: Dona Ana and Otero Counties - Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico; Roosevelt and Curry Counties - ENMRSH; Luna, and Hidalgo Counties - Luna County; and Bernalillo and Valencia Counties - UNM CDD. Please note that Home Visiting services areas are based on the 2020 MIECHV Needs Assessment and have been designated as high-risk communities. d. Proposed caseload of slots: New Mexico Home Visiting is attempting to fill every position in the approved allocation. To maintain enrollment in the 560 MIECHV-funded family slots, New Mexico wants to keep up marketing and recruitment
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