The Early Childhood Mental Health program offers an integrated range of services for children ages birth to 6 who have social-emotional vulnerabilities and/or special developmental needs.  All services are relationship-based and address the impact and importance of early relationships and promoting healthy social-emotional development for all family members.

Families with infants prenatal to age 3 who live in the Santa Fe area may participate in the Santa Fe Community Infant Program, offering infant mental health via home visits by Masters-level therapists who work with the family to strengthen the infant-parent relationship.

Home-based infant mental health services are also available to families in the Espanola area, as are center-based and group programs. Families with infants or toddlers may participate in the Mi Hijita/Mi Hijito Therapeutic Infant-Parent Groups at our Espanola site.  For children ages 3-5, the Conjunto Therapeutic Preschool is a model learning environment that addresses the developmental needs of children in an integrated setting (1/3 children with special needs, 1/3 at risk, and 1/3 “mainstream”).  This innovative program focuses on the importance of social-emotional development, diversity, and communication.

Las Cumbres also offers child-parent psychotherapy and play therapy for children ages 4 to 6 in Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, and northern Santa Fe Counties.  Some specific areas of focus are attachment issues, child-caregiver work, child and family trauma, and filial and play therapies.

Additional services include Behavior Respite, Parenting Groups, and a Father’s Group. Las Cumbres also maintains a Community Resource Center at its Espanola site, where parents can check out books and videos that focus on a wide variety of developmental and social issues, and a toy lending library that offers developmentally appropriate toys for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

An Access and Visitation program, funded by the First Judicial Court and offered at the Espanola site, allows non-custodial parents to have supervised visitation with their children in a safe and positive environment.

Other Child and Family Mental Health Initiatives

SPARK – Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids is an initiative of the New Mexico Community Foundation through grants from the WK Kellogg Foundation, McCune Charitable Trust, and the Daniels Fund. The Espanola SPARK project, part of Las Cumbres, has a local coordinator, a local council made up of community leaders, and a Joining Hands Team consisting of both preschool and elementary teachers.

Training and Consultation

CHILD CARE PROVIDER and Training and Technical Assistance (TTAP) are offered through funding from the CYFD Child Care Bureau.

Las Cumbres also finances and operates the Early Childhood Mental Health Training Institute (please see this page of our website for further information).