All Faiths

Comprehensive community support services during the fiscal year, 517 community clients were assisted through this program, which offers life skills training, case coordination, case management, - in-home advocacy support services, and community-based advocacy support to individuals with the goal to educate and aid in creating healthy outcomes. The agency offers high-fidelity wraparound. In this program children and youth (many who have been institutionalized)and who have no family supports and nowhere to go are provided an all faiths'facilitator who assists in finding natural supports and supports the client in creating a community to heal and become a contributing member of our society. Approximately 454 clients received wraparound services, the majority of them are low income or live below the poverty level.

Child advocacy center (cac) & forensic support services - during the fiscal year, 1,513 safehouse clients received interviews and/or victim advocacy through the agency's forensic program. The cac supports victims and their families by offering forensically sound, age appropriate interviews by the agency's highly trained staff. These clients are referred by one of our partner agencies, such as law enforcement, the district attorney's office, the children, youth and families department (cyfd) and others who are part of the investigation. Children seen for forensic interviews disclose what they have allegedly experienced or have witnessed and the interview is recorded so that investigating bodies will use it as evidence, rather than asking the child to repeatedly talk about their traumatic experience. Interviews are provided to children and youth, ages 2 - 21, and developmentally delayed adults who reside in bernalillo, sandoval, valencia and neighboring counties. Case coordination services are also provided by advocates to assist clients with additional needs for community services. Additionally, support services are provided, referrals offered, and emergency supplies such as food and clothing are available. Therapy services are offered to the alleged victims and their non-offending family members, which helps educate guardians to learn to support their children as they recover from trauma, while addressing any issues that might create an unsafe family environment so that further trauma will be avoided.

Training institute: the training institute provides professional training to community partners, such as schools, other non profits and governmental agencies. The training supports them to view children's behavior through a trauma sensitive lens so that child victims can get the help and support that they need instead of being mislabeled as "problem children". In addition, the institute provides community education to parents and other adult child caregivers on nurturing parenting and understanding the signs of abuse. Expenses: 78,776 revenues: 0 placement services: placement services includes all faiths adoption services, home study services, and the new mexico fiesta project. All faiths adoption service works to help children find permanent, loving, and safe homes with a family. We work with birth families to provide comprehensive pregnancy options counseling and with prospective adoptive families to facilitate adoptions within new mexico and between states. Home study services are conducted through a contract with the new mexico children, youth, and families department (cyfd) to provide detailed assessments and recommendations for licensure for both prospective foster families, kinship guardianship, and cyfd adoptive families throughout the state of new mexico. All faiths manages the new mexico fiesta project through a contract with new mexico children, youth and families department (cyfd). The new mexico fiesta project focuses on creating a support system for adoptive families throughout the state by providing networking events, trainings, and connection to resources. Expenses: 1,054,384 revenues: 210,062 ccbhc: in 2023, all faiths children's advocacy center was awarded a significant four-year grant totaling 4 million from the u.s. Department of health and human services, administered through the substance abuse and mental health services administration (samhsa). This grant is a component of a broader initiative under the community mental health act of 1963, aiming to expand the reach and efficacy of certified community behavioral health clinics (ccbhcs) across the united states. As one of the 63 clinics selected nationwide, our organization received this grant to establish and implement ccbhc programs through the ccbhc planning, development, and implementation (ccbhc-pdi) program. This initiative will enable us to broaden our trauma-informed care services, expanding to add adult, veterans and substance use programs and to focus on integrating behavioral health with physical health to enhance overall health outcomes. Our clinical staff, specializing in traumainformed treatment methods, are poised to use these funds to substantially improve our service delivery, expanding our capacity to support clients across the lifespan in healing from trauma. The grant facilitates a significant expansion of our services and underscores the trust placed in our organization by a major federal body. It not only enables us to scale our operations but also solidifies our commitment to enhancing mental health care within our community. This funding is instrumental in allowing us to provide comprehensive, evidence based care and supports our goal of ensuring better health outcomes for a substantial number of individuals and families affected by mental health and substance use issues. Expenses: 29,929 revenues: 0