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| 8 post-decree services
and coordinated 68 days of |
| respite. We hired two Spanish
speaking contract |
| workers to increase our ability to provide
services |
| to Spanish speaking families hoping to adopt through |
 the state foster care
system.
Adopt US Kids
La Familia collaborates with the
Adoption Exchange and the
Children, Youth and Families
department to provide quick
response to families responding
to the enormous media campaign with the tag line, “You
don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent”. We provide bridging, referrals and resources to over 130 families per year through our contract with the ‘Adopt US Kids’ program.
Infant Adoption Awareness
Training Project
La Familia is in its sixth year of funding to provide trainings
to healthcare providers throughout the state about
presenting adoption as an option to their patients and clients.
We hold a minimum of 25 trainings per year and are
required to train at least 250 individual participants.
PERFORMANCE & EQUITY
IMPROVEMENT (PQI)
Darla Wilson, BS
PQI at its very essence has only one goal: to improve the
quality of life for those whom we are privileged to serve.
It involves every department, every program, clients; families;
employees; board members and members of the community
outside of the agency. In short, PQI is an ongoing,
evolving, agency process that looks at all sorts of things,
evaluates what it sees, and then decides whether or not to
make changes. If changes are made, it evaluates those as
well, to determine their effectiveness.
The PQI planning component develops a performance and
quality improvement plan that serves to guide and structure
specific performance measurements and performance improvement activities. |
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In PQI planning seven areas are
monitored:
• Client Case Records (Peer Reviews)
• Client Outcomes
• Program Performance
• Employee Satisfaction
• Client Satisfaction
• Stakeholder Input
• Risk Assessment (Incidents, Accidents, and
Grievances)
All these activities are to ensure continuous improvement
in the quality of our programs and in clinical outcomes.
Performance improvement activities include the implementation
of action plans; i.e., performance improvement
projects which will positively impact our programs and
existing systems.
We then communicate to all stakeholders (the agency
programs and departments, consumers, families, providers,
and the community) how well the agency has performed fiscally, how well it has performed in achieving program
outcomes, and to identify areas in the agency that improvement
is needed. The vehicle for reporting is Darla Wilson
and our annual report.
FREIND RAISER
Emily Koplik, MSW
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, August 19th, 2007 we
gathered at Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Cultural Center in
Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, for La Familia’s first FRIEND
RAISER. We joined with friends, staff, and Board members
to hear about the origins of La Familia, from Senator Jerry
Ortiz Y Pino and to learn about the children served by
the agency. A jazz trio lead by Steve Figueroa played on
the patio and light hors d’oeuvres were enjoyed by the
75 friends who attended. It was really amazing to have so
many gathered to hear about the agency and to celebrate
together the first 20 years of La Familia’s service to the
children of New Mexico. |
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