Las Cumbres Community Services Case Study

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Since 1971 Las Cumbres Community Services (LCCS) has been dedicated to providing quality services, public awareness, and integrated community support by serving families in the northern New Mexican counties of Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, and Taos. In the past 45 years, Las Cumbres has reached out to people of all ages in rural communities and has helped improve people’s health and well-being through various programs that focus on behavioral health, therapeutic preschool programs, and parenting support for different groups of caretakers. Las Cumbres specializes in serving families dealing with trauma, poverty, substance abuse, incarceration, domestic abuse, custody concerns, and parental mental health issues. Health care providers, educators, or the Child Protective Services Division of New Mexico, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) refer families to Las Cumbres, among others.
There are multiple programs that focus on the well-being of children zero to six years old in LCCS’s Child and Family Services Department. The Santa Fe Community Infant Program (CIP) serving Santa Fe County and its sister program, the Northern New Mexico Early Childhood Behavioral Health (BH), serving Rio Arriba County, are the two primary programs focused on the mental health of infants prenatal to age six. These programs promote safe and healthy relationships between
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The main objective of this evaluation is to learn if the CIP and BH programs are collecting comprehensive data to produce feedback on the effectiveness of LCCS’s programs and to measure client benchmarks and outcomes. LCCS is currently using Electronic Medical Record (EMR)-Bear to collect data. The evaluation seeks to understand the extent that the EMR-Bear can be utilized as a common data collection tool for assessing outcome

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