We
are happy to serve the families of New Mexico within the Albuquerque Metro
area, including the Bernalillo, Valencia, and Sandoval counties. We now have
started to offer Family Living Support and Relief Care services in the South East Region of New Mexico, which
includes the counties of Eddy, Chaves, Lea, and Curry. In the Southwest Region we are serving soccorro county for Family Living, community supports, Respite services.
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First Step, LLC provides many services: Family Living Support, Customized
Community Support (Day Habilitation Program), Customized In-Home Support, Relief
Care, and Adult Nursing. These services are focused on providing support to
families who care for people with disabilities in homes and in learning
environments within the community.
Family Living Support FLS) is a 24-hour residential habilitation services that is
individually tailored to assist people with developmental disabilities who are
assessed to needing daily supports or supervision on the Developmental
Disability Waiver (DDW). This service is intended to increase and promote
independence, and support individuals to live as independently as possible in a
setting of their choice, while helping them to improve and/or develop skills
related to community living. Skills may include but are not limited to cooking,
cleaning, safety skills, personal hygiene, and accessing community
participation. A host or a natural family member may provide these services.
Customize Community Support’s (CCS) is a day habilitation service,
which are commonly known as day programs through the DDW. This service is
designed to assist individuals with developmental disabilities develop and/or
strengthen skills that will increase their independence in the community. The
services are tailored to the individual’s vision of success, and may be
provided in a variety of settings including the community, classroom and/or
agency-operated sites.
Customized In-Home
Support service primary
purpose is to provide supports needed for the person served to be successful
and increase their ability to live independently in the community. Supports provided will comply with the ISP
and outcomes.
Family Living ReliefCare service
is for individuals who live with a paid provider. The service allows the paid
caregiver to have time away from their duties. Relief care provider description
of service is the same as respite services with the exception that the provider
may reside in the same home as the individual receiving services.
Respite service is for the main caregiver who is not a paid staff gets relief from their ongoing duties
Adult Nursing Services are a nursing service in compliance
with the New Mexico Nurse Practice Act and is designed to meet a variety of
health conditions adults may be diagnosed with who are receiving services on
the DD waiver. This service is intended for individuals twenty-one (21) and
older who are receiving family living, supported living, customized in-home
supports, or participate only in customized community supports, or supported
employment. They provide ongoing nursing services as needed, and perform annual
assessments per the DD waiver requirements.
We
are a bilingual company and provide services in both English and Spanish. all services provided are individualized to meet the need of the indivdual and the family/ guardian. Please reach out to us for more information! on how we can assit the individual in meeting their vison of living a productive life.