Taos First Steps Program
Holy Cross Hospital’s First Steps Home Visitors provide support to women who are pregnant for the first time, and to first-time parents including fathers, adoptive parents and foster families.
Taos First Step home visitors foster a healthy transition to parenthood for the first three years of the child’s life. Through one-on-one relationships with their home visitor, parents gain knowledge about nutrition, preventative health care, preschool readiness and access to community resources.
Taos First Steps aims to achieve a community where:
- Babies are born healthy
- Children are physically and mentally healthy
- Children are safe
- Children and parents have safe and nurturing relationships
- The family is connected to formal and informal support in the community
First Steps coordinates services with:
- UNM Early Childhood Resource Center
- Northern New Mexico Midwifery Center
- New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department
- Taos Clinic for Children and Youth
- New Mexico Public Health Department
- Family Practice Associates
- Women’s Health Institute
- Taos Pueblo
- Taos Pueblo Head Start
- Los Angelitos Early Childhood Services
- WIC
Contact Taos First Steps at:
118 Este Es Road Suite F
Taos, New Mexico 87571
(575) 751-3652
Fax: (575) 751-7052
Visit Taos First Steps online at www.taosfirststeps.org

Winner of the American Hospital Assocation's 2009
NOVA Award for Community Collaborations for improving health status.
