PARTNERS IN HEALTH
ARC of New Mexico Socorro County
Boys and Girls Club of Socorro County
Casa Alegra
City of Socorro
DOH/HPT
Healthy Family Initiative
HSD
Literacy Volunteers of Socorro County
Magdalena Medical Center
New Mexico GRADS
NMT Performing Arts Series
Puerto Seguro
Socorro Senior Center
Socorro Community Health Center/PMS
Socorro Consolidated Schools
Socorro County DWI Program
Socorro Mental Health
Socorro Police Department
SSA/DOL Navigator
Socorro Storehouse
Trinity Church
Wells Fargo
Early intervention services for children ages birth to three years old.
Casa Alegre provides services to children with developmental delays or who
are at risk for delays due to medical or environmental conditions. It also
provides:
- service coordination
- speech therapy
- physical therapy
- occupational therapy
- nursing
- social services
- nutrition
- family training
These services are provided at the home and/or the Casa Alegre Center.
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Socorro
General Hospital’s
Healthy
Family Initiative (Formally MCH)
Socorro
General Hospital HFI is committed to the health and wellbeing of families in
Socorro County. Through community collaboration they are able to provide,
both directly and indirectly, a variety of services.
• Bilingual perinatal case
management to Socorro County residents
• Adolescent Risk Avoidance
• Transportation services
(Limited)
• Parenting education and
support through thirty six months
• Low cost child safety seat
education and seats
• Tobacco Prevention
Education and local classes
• Statewide Youth Coalition
Activities
• Yearly Family Retreat
• Sun Safety Education
• Youth Advocacy
HFI reported impact on Healthy
Family Initiative in 2006 is as follows:
• HFI case managed clients,
100% up-to-date on immunizations, 95% breastfed at least seven months, 100%
enrolled under Medicaid, 85% of mothers contracepting, and Ages and Stages
through 36 months.
• Decreased teen birth rates
since 2000 of 26.8%
• Socorro County mothers
have a higher level of prenatal care than mothers in other parts of state
(PRAMS data)
• Over 144 clients and
families served directly through bilingual case manager
• Over 16,000 individuals
impacted through HFI educational opportunities
• Over 965 individuals
impacted by transportation services
Socorro
General Hospital's HFI program has been working on teen pregnancy prevention
since 1994 through a comprehensive community approach involving parents,
students, schools, community, and faith community. The program emphasis is
goal setting, healthy relationships, refusal skills, choices and
consequences, and life promoting skills. Their program starts in the Second
grade and are in 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th and 11th grades in Socorro, 2nd , 6th,
7th, 8th and 9th in Magdalena. 6th , 8th , & 11th in Alamo with reinforcing
assemblies for all middle and high school students prior to prom and
homecoming. Parents are the primary educators and HFI has programs to reach
parents.
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Literacy
Volunteers of Socorro, Inc. (LVS) is a fully integrated national network
of local, state, and regional literacy providers that give adults and their
families the opportunity to acquire skills to be effective in their roles as
members of their families, communities, and workplaces. They provide
student-focused tutoring, one-to-one or in small groups, at no charge to the
student. Their mission is to change lives through literacy.
They offer:
- Free ESL (English as a second language)
- Pre-GED
- Basic reading tutoring
- Free vocational computer classes
- Family literacy services.
LVS has 31 tutors and 40 students.
- 195 hours have been put into ESL since July 1, 2003.
- A group of adults comes from Tresco each Tuesday for tutoring.
- LVS has five adults working in the schools tutoring children. They
have put in 89 hours since the beginning of school.
- LVS has had computer classes all fall. The next class will begin
January 7th.
- An LVS volunteer has been going to Evenstart and Alamo each month,
talking to the parents about reading to their children, playing and
singing with their children and being involved in their children’s
education. LVS always gives a free children’s book.
- LVS helped with the RIF program in October.
- LVS did a workshop at Aim High to the GRADS program.
- LVS attends Birthing classes at SGH giving talks on reading with
children.
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Puerto Seguro, Inc.
Day Shelter
For The Homeless & Needy
Mission: To
combat homelessness and poverty by supporting those determined to create
better lives for themselves
Puerto Seguro
has been serving the needs of Socorro and the surrounding area since 2001.
Puerto Seguro
has on average 30-50 client visits per day, three days a week.
In 2005, 322
individual clients were served, averaging 3 new clients each open day.
Puerto Seguro
seeks to meet the immediate needs of our clients as well as long-term
assistance in order to remedy the client’s individual needs.
Puerto Seguro, Inc (PSI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3)
corporation chartered for the purpose of offering a “safe place” where
clients may use shower facilities, acquire clothing and food, and be
connected with other service agencies that can provide help with housing,
employment, education, GED testing, rehabilitation, counseling, medical, and
other needs. PSI does not charge for any service and is publicly
supported. PSI’s clients include men, women, and children of all ages
including veterans. PSI is a daytime facility only, but under some
conditions and when funds are available, clients may receive temporary
lodging at a local motel.
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Socorro County DWI Program
The Socorro County DWI Council is established for the purpose of preparing
comprehensive community DWI prevention and treatment plans for Socorro
County. These plans shall address problems and issues related to:
Education programs in schools and work places
Public information activities aimed at the driving public
DWI enforcement activities
Other activities and programs aimed at reducing DWI related problems
Assisting the City of Socorro and Socorro County in the development of
spending initiatives for grant monies related to DWI treatment and
prevention.
Services Offered:
-
DWI Compliance/Probation
-
ADE (Alcohol and Drug
Evaluation) Assessments
-
Prevention
-
Protecting You/Protecting Me (PYPM)
-
In-House Treatment Provider (LADAC)
-
Counseling: Individual, Family,
Group
-
Victim Impact Panel
-
Tracking
Phone numbers:
Compliance - 838-0998
Coordinator - 838-2208
Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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