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Coming Home Connection
Santa Fe, NM

Through the Coming Home Connection, low-income children and adults with severe chronic or terminal illness receive free, in-home, long-term care provided by trained volunteers. Up to 24 hours per day personal and bedside care provides respite for family members and fills gaps when no coverage is available from Medicaid, Medicare, insurance and hospice. Program expansion from Santa Fe to additional rural northern New Mexico counties includes outreach to veterans who may become volunteers or clients. Half of the volunteers in the pilot project were health professionals including nurses, nursing students, physical therapists, massage therapists and personal trainers.

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Venturing Beyond Prevention
Gallup, NM

An award-winning American Indian model of substance abuse prevention combines with an effective community-based mental health program to interrupt the cycle of substance abuse and co-occurring serious mental illness. Operating in both a rural and an urban New Mexico location, this program features cross training of prevention and mental health staff to expand cultural competency and focus on assets such as extended family structure, perception of mental/physical harmony and traditional connections to the natural world. The prevention component offers high-risk American Indian youth an outdoor experience emphasizing problem-solving and cultural reconnection to promote greater self-esteem. After two years the project successfully met their benchmark objectives; this grant completes the final two years of their four-year funding.

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Strengthening New Mexico Families (SNMF)
Santa Fe, NM

Strengthening the capacity of eight geographically and ethnically diverse community based organizations to serve New Mexico's rural families by incorporating a community health nurse into programs that currently provide multidisciplinary center-based and home visiting early intervention programs, and by providing a system of ongoing training, support and evaluation for the nurses.

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Crisis Response of Santa Fe
Sante Fe, NM

The project will divert adults and youth in crisis from the jail and hospitals through the implementation of a treatment and rehabilitation based crisis response system.

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