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Abrazos Family Support Services
P.O. Box 788
Bernalillo, NM 87004
(505) 867-3396
Fax: (505) 867-3398
Section 508 Approved

Family Survey - Early Intervention

Number of Surveys: Distributed = 134
Completed = 65
Response Rate = 49%
Services Families Currently Receive:

Early Intervention Only (EI) = 97%
Early Intervention  and Respite = 3%

Months Receiving Services:

5-12 = 58.5%
13 to 24 = 22%
25 or more = 7.7%

SUMMARY OF RESULTS

  YES SOMETIMES NO
Workers show respect for lifestyle, culture and language 99% 1%  
Workers provide information that is easy to understand and useful 100%    
Child made progress in development 97% 3%  
Services helped family to support child’s health and development 100%    

Examples of Comments Received from Families

What they like best about our services:

“Every session I gain useful and valuable tips on how to best teach my daughter.”

“He is doing great. Before he would just sleep all the time, now he crawls and is starting to pull up.”

“That is in home-care and you are considerate of our family’s schedule.”

“The services are convenient and professional. Our worker is wonderful! She offers us ideas on how to work with our two boys and improve speaking skills.”

“Flexibility of schedule, answers to questions we’ve had have been helpful and if they haven’t had an immediate answer, they look into it and get back to us.”

What they recommend we do to improve:

“Talking more to your therapists about being on time when they are late it messes up my day/other appointments.”

“More consistent schedule, better correspondence.”

“Better coordination with other agencies, such as school for the deaf and blind.”

Health Care and Education Professionals Survey

Number of Surveys: Distributed = 50
Completed = 22
Response Rate = 44%
Services Familiar with: Early Intervention = 100%
Early Intervention  and Respite = 9%

SUMMARY OF RESULTS

  BENEFICIAL ACCEPTABLE
Overall rating of services we provide to children and families 100%  
Ability to work collaboratively with providers 86% 14%
Have referred a family to Abrazos 95% 5%

Examples of Comments Received from Providers

What are our agency’s strengths:

“Transition packets have been complete and follow up is always quick.”

“On-going communication with family/providers.”

“I can send a referral and know it will be taken care of rather than land in a black hole.”

“Have a coordinated response to families.”

“Good coordinators.”

“Great with families.”

“High quality providers.”

What we can do to improve:

“Increase number of therapists to provide more frequent therapy.”

“More communication back to provider.”

“Easier access when parents call.”

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