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Our mission is to provide quality services, public awareness, and integrated community supports for children, adults, and families facing social, emotional, and/or developmental challenges. |
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NEWS AND EVENTS
Click here to see our calendar. September, 2011 - ALL THE TRIMMINGS
All The Trimmings is a Holiday Market and fundraising event to benefit Las Cumbres Community Services – featuring the sale of handmade, artist designed holiday items (such as ornaments, wreaths, candlesticks, tableware, tree-toppers, decorations, crosses). Items also will be made by children and adults affiliated with Las Cumbres Community Services. The goals of All The Trimmings are:
All The Trimmings Dates, Times, Etc.:
Location: Sanbusco Center (former Borders Books space) Other Sponsors:
KHFM Classical Radio
April, 2010 - LAS CUMBRES AWARDED THREE-YEAR CARF ACCREDITATION
This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards. An organization receiving a Three-Year Accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable, and accountable. “This is probably the best report of any service I’ve been associated with in my 37-year career in social services,” said Rex Davidson, Executive Director of Las Cumbres, who prior to January of this year served for 30 years as President and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey Inc. “This award confirms that Las Cumbres meets quality standards that enhance the lives of the many individuals we serve.” CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served. Founded in 1966 as the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, and now known as CARF, the accrediting body establishes consumer-focused standards to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and services. October, 2009 - COMMUNITY INFANT PROGRAM TURNS 10!
Las Cumbres thanks everyone who attended and contributed to our 10th birthday party for the Community Infant Program on October 1st, 2009! The party celebrated ten years of service and therapeutic support for at-risk families with infants and toddlers in Santa Fe County. This success would not be possible without the strong collaboration and partnership of so many other providers and businesses in the community. Special thanks to the business that donated food and beverages for the party, including La Choza Restaurant, Cowgirl Hall of Fame, La Montanita Coop, Panda Express, Santa Fe Baking Company, Trader Joe’s, and Whole Foods Market. Special thanks also to the Brindle Foundation for helping to underwrite the event. CIP was conceived in 1998 when a number of collaborating agencies, including the Santa Fe County Maternal and Child Health Council, recognized the need for a program to address the factors of at-risk infants and toddlers up to age 3 and their families in Santa Fe County. CIP was launched in 1999, and has been under the umbrella of Las Cumbres since 2001.The program is based on the precepts of infant mental health, which recognizes that infant-parent relationships shape the course and quality of social-emotional development, and early experiences set the stage for how each individual will perceive his/her environment at home and in the world at large. Children who have not experienced a consistent, secure, and nurturing relationship with a parent or caregiver could experience significant social and emotional problems, such as difficulty developing empathy for others, regulating their emotions, and developing healthy relationships in the future. From a single full-time employee and two families in service at its inception, CIP has grown to a staff of eight serving more than 100 vulnerable children and their families each year. The program works with families where there are concerns about the parents’ or caregivers’ ability to provide a secure and trusting relationship with their infant or child, or are determined to be at risk for abusing or neglecting their children. Licensed Master’s level therapists provide assessment, intervention, education and treatment to strengthen parent-infant attachment in these families, who are referred to CIP through primary care physicians, hospital discharge social workers, therapists, the judicial system and other agencies in Santa Fe. Current funders include Santa Fe County (which provided the initial funding to launch the program), the City of Santa Fe, Brindle Foundation, Doris Goodwin Walbridge Foundation. The Buckaroo Ball and SF Community Foundation also have been supporters. The most frequent reasons for referral are concerns for the risk of—or substantiated cases of—child abuse or neglect; substance abuse; domestic violence; maternal depression; and/or significant lack of parenting skills. Many client parents have experienced the same type of emotional trauma in their own childhoods, and without early identification and intervention, the cycle is perpetuated from generation to generation at an extreme cost to families and society. Long-term studies indicate that crime statistics, teen pregnancy rates, drug use and incarceration all decrease for people who experienced mental health intervention as an infant. CIP enables parents and caregivers to have greater understanding of their child’s behavior, development and non-verbal cues, to better respond to their children’s needs, and feel a greater sense of competence and satisfaction in their role as parents. Current funders include Santa Fe County (which provided the initial funding to launch the program), the City of Santa Fe, Brindle Foundation, and the Doris Goodwin Walbridge Foundation. The Buckaroo Ball and SF Community Foundation have also been supporters. For more information on the program, please contact Kathleen Benecke, Program Director, by phone at (505) 955-0410, ext 101, or by email at kathleen.benecke@lascumbres-nm.org.
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On April 12, 2010, CARF International announced that Las Cumbres Community Services has been accredited for a period of three years for its wide range of community and employment services supporting adults with developmental disabilities, including Community Housing, Community Integration, Respite Services, Supported Living, Job Development, Job Supports, and Job-Site Training.
