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Child and Family Resources

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The College's Family Resource Center and Child Development Center (CFDC) support families throughout San Juan County and at the College?

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Our Mission
Our Values
Guiding Principles
Highlights

We offer:

Early care and education

Resource and referral

Training and technical assistance

Family Support Services

  • Services provided in homes or schools
  • Support for pregnant women
  • Support for families with children up to 12 years of age
  • Educational and developmental information and community referrals
  • Support groups for families and children with attachment issues

We envision:

A community committed to honoring, nurturing, and empowering children, families, and those who work with them; creating a safe, strong, healthy, trusting world.

Our mission:

To improve the lives of children and families of San Juan County.

Our values:

We believe that families define who families are.
We believe in building respectful, accepting relationships with families.
We believe everyone has the capability of building on their strengths.
We believe in modeling collaboration in community through non-judgment, respect of privacy, and maintaining confidentiality.
We believe in nurturing community through peace, trust, and integrity in every step.

Guiding principles:

  • Easy access to service; family-friendly hours.
  • Confidentiality and up-to-date information delivered with the customer's cognitive and emotional capability in mind.
  • Prompt response.
  • Work collaboratively at the local level.
  • Involve key stakeholders.
  • Focus on results that can be quantitatively measured.
  • Model national standards of best practice for children and families.
  • Model leading edge methodologies at supervisory and adminstrative levels:
    • family centered practice
    • reflective supervision
    • relationship-based organization

A few of our highlights:

Grant or contract funding for all programs at the Family Resource Center. External funding allows us flexibility to serve the community with over $600,000 of services each year.

More than 10,000 children, families, and service providers are served yearly.

Partnerships with Early Childhood Education Department, Human Services, Highlands University (early childhood education and social work), UNM (elementary education), and Ft. Lewis College (early childhood education).
New funding to provide training around latch key kids and maternal mental health.

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