Family Health
The Family Health Bureau implements preventive services to reproductive age women, mothers, infants, children, adolescents/youth, including children and youth with special health care needs, and their families. The needs of these populations are assessed and data collected for use in policy decision making.
- Children's Medical Services
- Commodity Supplemental Food
- Family Planning Program
- Families FIRST
- Farmers Market
- Nutrition
- Maternal Child Epidemiology
- Midwife Rosters
- Newborn Screening
- NM-PRAMS - New Mexico Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention
- Title V MCH Block Grant
- WIC - Women, Infants and Children
These services include:
- Direct safety net health care services to individuals
- Enabling services: family support, transportation, peer parent support, case management, outreach, translation, health education, food assistance, nutrition support, and referrals to other health and human services
- Population-based services: newborn screening, surveillance, SIDS education & counseling, injury and violence prevention, and marketing campaigns to increase healthy birth outcomes
- Capacity-building services: assessment, evaluation, planning, and policy development, training, monitoring, information systems, and helping to develop systems of care.
Family Health Bureau Contact Information
Emelda Martinez, RN, Chief
Phone: 505-476-8901
email:Emelda Martinez
Positions are funded for region and local public health offices to implement these services. Ten programs, along with a Medical Director, Bureau Chief, and support staff, are in the state office. The Bureau develops various reports annually, such as the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Report and Application, Title X Report and Application, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), Birth Defects, and the WIC State Plan.
