The
Center for Development and Disability, Cate
McClain, M.D. Director, consists of numerous programs funded
by a variety of different state and federal agencies. All CDD
programs are committed to the mission of the CDD and to providing
services and supports to individuals with disabilities and their
families throughout New Mexico. CDD programs and projects support
the mission of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Center as follows:
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The Administrative Division
Melody Smith,
MBA, Director, directs and oversees
administrative and operational support services including
accounting and award/proposal processing, human resources,
computer services and data coordination, JCAHO compliance,
policy/procedure development, facility and resource management
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Accounting
Services Contact Person: Joe Davis, Accountant III
(505) 272-2942, JDavis@salud.unm.edu |
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Computing Services
Contact Person: Todd Weissenberger, Manager Computer Services
(505) 272-3035 TWeissenberger@salud.unm.edu |
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Research
and Evaluation Services
Coordinates a statewide disability & health alliance;
utilizes current New Mexico data sets to estimate disability
prevalence, and analyzes data gathered in New Mexico through
the National Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
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Case Management Initiatives Division, Christy
Barden, B.S.N, Director, provides individualized, statewide
service coordination for individuals who are medically fragile
and their families through community and state partnerships,
teaching, quality assurance, utilization review, and advocacy. |
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Medically
Fragile Case Management
Provides Registered Nurse Case management/service coordination
services statewide for children who are Medically fragile and
their families via nine satellite offices.
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Early Childhood and Specialized Personnel Development Division,
Mette Pedersen,
MA, Director, serves young children and their families through
teaching, research and service for early intervention and preschool
programs. Specialized Personnel Development supports Early Childhood
and school-based efforts including the Bureau of Indian Affairs
on the Navajo Nation. |
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Preschool
Network
Addressing priorities of the New Mexico State Department
of Education including young children, families, and those who
serve them in the public schools |
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Early
Childhood Network
A statewide training, technical assistance program for those
serving young children and their families through the NM Family
Infant Toddler Program. |
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Early
Childhood Evaluation Program
Supporting best practice in early childhood evaluation
through direct service, training, consultation and research. |
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BIA/Navajo
Nation CSPD Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)/ Navajo Nation
Comprehensive System for Personnel Development (CSPD). Regional
training and technical assistance programs to support those
working with students, including students with special needs,
in BIA funded schools across the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New
Mexico and Utah. |
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REACH
TeleHealth Project
Providing information, consultation and evaluation services
to families and providers of children with complex developmental
and health care needs. The intent is of the grant is to provide
these services where and when they need them. Services include
clinical consultation, technical assistance and training.
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FOCUS
A home visiting program, FOCUS supports families of children,
birth to three, at risk for developmental delay, through a strengths-based
service approach. |
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Quality
Childcare
Through support from New Mexico Children Youth and Family Department
and the New Mexico Public Education Department, Quality Childcare
for All works to promote quality inclusive childcare through
a variety of initiatives. |
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VISION
This home visiting program for families of first born children
provides on-going information and support to young families
in Bernalillo County. As part of the Center for Development
and Disability, and funded through CYFD and Value Options, VISION
is one of several new programs in the state working with new
parents through direct home visitation. |
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Division of Family and Community Partnerships, Tanya
Baker-McCue, Director, works to promote full participation
of people with disabilities and their families in their communities
through systems change, building community alliances, and providing
accessible training and technical assistance.
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The
Community Support Alliance is involved in projects
that support adolescents and adults with diverse abilities to
create, enrich and celebrate the lives they desire in partnership
with their families, communities and organizations. Together,
we create quality supports, training, products, processes and
more, Judith Stevens, M.Ed., Program Director |
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Supporting Diverse Customers to Employment
Success is a project funded by the U.S. Department
of Labor to build One Stop disability expertise and capacity
through the development of a Navigator System and mentoring
process, increasing employment outcomes for people with
disabilities, and development and implementation of an on-going
external quality assurance process. JEStevens@salud.unm.edu.
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Family
Support Services - The primary goal of Family support
services is to provide an array of support options to people
with developmental disabilities and their families that enable
them to stay together and be contributing members of their communities.
Tanya Baker-McCue, M.Ed., Program Director |
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Family-Directed Support Services - Partners
with families and individuals with disabilities statewide
to develop their Individual Service Plan for the Self-Directed
Support Program based on their choices and preferences.
TBaker-mccue@salud.unm.edu
Pueblo Connections - A collaborative project
with Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Inc. to do the planning
to implement a Family Support Center in each of the five
Pueblos to provide a comprehensive array of culturally appropriate
services and supports for families who have a son or daughter
with a disability, TBaker-mccue@salud.unm.edu
Information Outreach - A collaborative
project with Parents Reaching Out and Parents of Behaviorally
Different Children to provide training, technical assistance
and bi-lingual information to families and Division of Children
Youth and Families staff. TBakermccue@salud.unm.edu
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Information
Services - Programs and services that enable people
with disabilities, their families, students, providers, and
the general public to obtain information and resources. Stormy
Davis-Costanza, MS, Program Director |
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Library
and Information Network for the Community (LINC)
- offers the most comprehensive collection of disability resources
in all of New Mexico. You can search our online collection
of books, journals, videocassettes and information kits using
our ONLINE
CATALOG. Our other services, including reference librarian
assistance, literature searches, interlibrary loan, access
to full text articles and Internet information may be accessed
using LINC'S
ASK A LIBRARIAN service. Csuniga@salud.unm.edu.
Internet Access to Digital Libraries -
Provides digital health information resources, products
and services for CDD satellite health professionals, people
with disabilities and their families, caregivers, and advocates.
Sdavis-Costanza@salud.unm.edu
Closing the Gap - provides individualized
training and technical assistance to health professionals
at Continuum of Care clinical sites to enable them to use
the databases of the National Library of Medicine in providing
care to their patients with developmental disabilities.
Sdavis-Costanza@salud.unm.edu
On-line
Self-Study Computer Training Tutorials for People with Disabilities
- A series of seven tutorials that provide a way for people
who have no knowledge of computers to learn about computer
basics and keyboarding, and then be able to learn skills
e.g. Windows, Word, searching the Internet and doing e-mail.
Assistive Technology
Providing links to life-long assistive technology solutions
for people. Medicaid Training Initiative information package
online provides training and technical assistance for professionals,
consumers and family members on how they can access Medicaid
funding for augmentative and alternative communication devices.
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Information
Center for New Mexicans with Disabilities and Babynet
is a statewide Information and Referral service, Sandra
Skaar |
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Information
Center for New Mexicans with Disabilities provides
information to individuals with disabilities, families,
advocates, therapists and case managers about service providers,
support groups and other local state and national resources.
Sskaar@salud.unm.edu
Babynet
helps pregnant women and families with small children gain
information to access and utilize medical and support services;
promotes baby wellness by identifying and promoting prenatal
and perinatal services. Babynet also provides Early Intervention
resource information. Sskaar@salud.unm.edu
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Division of Leadership Education, Carolyn
Richardson, EdD, Director, provides both pre-service and
in-service didactic and clinical experiences to develop leadership
skills in the area of disability research, education and service.
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Cultural Aspects
of Healthcare developed and presented three regional continuing
education conferences that addressed the relationship of culture
to healthcare. Contact Person: Carolyn Richardson, Training
Director; (505)272-3022; CRichardson@salud.unm.edu. |
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NMLend
An interdisciplinary pre-and post-service graduate leadership
training program in neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD). Contact
Person: Carolyn Richardson, Training Director; (505)272-3022;
CRichardson@salud.unm.edu. |
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NM
Safe Program
Provides a team evaluation and recommendations to assist individuals
with developmental disabilities, their families or caregivers
in developing eating skills with the purpose of improving health
and preventing aspiration.
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Neurodevelopmental Services Division, Pat
Osbourn, Director, encompasses both typical and atypical
neurodevelopment and seeks to provide excellence in teaching,
research and service, for both families and professionals, in
specific areas of neurodevelopmental disability. |
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Functional
Behavioral and Positive Supports Project developed a
web-based course for educators and families. Contact Person:
Pat Osbourn, Program Director (505)272-0387, POsbourn@salud.unm.edu |
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Indian
Children's Program (NMICP) is a community-based program
that provides supplemental services to Native American children
from birth through 18 years old, who have developmental disabilities
and special needs. Licensed personnel provide services with
motor, speech and language, cognitive and medical expertise.
In addition to evaluation and diagnostic services, ICP also
provides training, technical assistance and limited therapeutic
services. ICP responds to referrals from community-based agencies.
NMICP is funded by the IHS (Indian Health Service) and is part
of a UCEDD consortia (University Centers of Excellence in Developmental
Disabilities Education, Research, and Service) including Utah
State University and Northern Arizona University. Contact person:
Maru Hartman, Supervisor for Admin Support; 272-3012; mhartman@salud.unm.edu;
Toll Free 1-800-866-427-8661 |
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Project
for New Mexico Children Who Are Deafblind
A statewide program designed to provide technical assistance,
training, distance education, and networking information to
families, service providers, and individuals, birth through
21, who are deafblind. Contact Person: Molly McLaughlin, Program
Manager (505)272-4349, mmclaughlin@salud.unm.edu.
Toll free 1-877-614-4051. |
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Southwest
Autism Network
A collection of programs and projects that provide family
support, technical assistance and, and training regarding
autism spectrum disorders. Services are statewide and the
network is staffed by parents and professionals with unique
knowledge of the special needs of people with autism spectrum
disorders. Contact person: Cal Wright, Manager of Health Education;
272-0134; karwright@salud.unm.edu;
Toll Free 1-800-270-1861.
Family and Community
Education in ASD (FACE) Provides statewide training,
consultation, and family support for all ages. Training
is provided free to families and NMDOH (New Mexico Department
of Health) programs; fees may apply to others. For training
information please contact Karen Wright, (505) 272-0134,
all other requests please call Rita Crozier, (505) 272-1852.
Project SET
(Specialized Early Teaching for Young Children with ASD).
A statewide program focused on the needs of young children
birth - 5 with autism spectrum disorders. Services include
family support, training, and consultation. For information
contact Fletcher Scott, (505) 272-8739.
Autism
Diagnostic Clinic is interdisciplinary and
sees children ages 3 through 21 to confirm or rule out a
diagnosis of ASD. For further information contact Jessica
Cave, (505) 272-0275.
Health
Care Systems and Persons with Autism in New Mexico
is a one year project to develop a plan to meet the intensive
service needs of chilren with ASD in New Mexico who are
covered by Medicaid. For further information contact Gay
Finlayson, (505) 272-1046.
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