New Mexico delivers several evidence-based services to improve family and youth outcomes:
- Residential Drug Abuse Treatment (Corrections Department) offers nonpunitive rehabilitation for youth, providing behavioral health services near families. The program has served over 6,000 families, with 4,200 receiving evidence-based care, funded at $20.2 million.
- Missouri Model (Children, Youth, and Families Department) rehabilitates youth by focusing on family proximity and behavioral health services, funded at $298 million.
- Home Visiting Programs (Early Childhood Education and Care Department): These include:
- Nurse Family Partnership for low-income families, funded at $11.2 million.
- Parents as Teachers, peer home visits for children up to age 5, funded at $45 million.
- Family Connects, universal nurse home visits after childbirth, funded at an estimated $2.9 million.
- First Born, support for first-time parents from prenatal to age 3, funded at an estimated $18.6 million.
- PreKindergarten, an extra year of learning before Kindergarten, funded at an estimated $645.7 million.
Beginning in FY25, the state funds three-year pilot funding for direct services of some evidence- and research-based programming including Differential Response, Screening, brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs), Safe Care home visiting, and salary differentials for teachers in hard to fill positions. For FY25, the funding for these programs totalled $14.4 million, with similar funding for FY26 and FY27.
NM is also funding behavioral health services, including Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), both in community settings and at correctional facilities, totaling approximately $6.8 million in FY25.