Welcoming a new baby into your family can be isolating. It is a transformative experience not meant to be dealt with alone. With care and compassion, our trained volunteers provide companionship, guidance, and support to mothers and caregivers during a vulnerable and precious time with their infant.

Families will be matched with one volunteer to provide 36 hours of in-home support for a 12-week period if they enroll their baby by the age of 6 months. Many Mothers will provide a village so that your family will experience less stress and have an extra pair of hands when caring for a new baby.

The following programs are available at Many Mothers Family Center, located in Santa Fe. At the Family Center, we provide same-day drop-in assistance.

Any eligible New Mexico family is welcome to visit our Center.

BASIC NEEDS

The following Basic Needs programs provide tangible resources to pregnant women and families with children up to 3 years old.

• Baby Needs: With support through Baby Needs, families can receive diapers (available sizes include preemie to size 6), wipes, baby food, and infant hygiene products.
• Farm-to-Families: Through Farm-to-Families, we provide mainly organic food items to pregnant as well as breastfeeding moms, infants, and their families.
• Village Closet: The Village Closet offers baby clothes, infant equipment and supplies, postpartum maternal supplies, toys, and books. A selection of maternity clothing is also available.

SAFE SLEEP

Our Safe Sleep Program promotes current safe sleep practices. We utilize the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)’s Safe to Sleep campaign model to provide research-based education that is proven to reduce the incidence of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) in our community.

Our Safe Sleep program offers free cribs to families in need, as well as informational Q&As with a Certified Child Sleep Consultant. Our informationals are open to all families, and our cribs are available to families with infants up to 6 months old.

The following programs are available to families with children up to 12 months old that live in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, or Los Alamos counties.

Emergency Support

Through our Emergency Support program, we are able to provide emergency financial assistance to prevent occurrences such as evictions and utility shut-offs. Through this program, we also provide infant formula as well as necessary baby equipment that we do not have in stock at our Center.

Navigation

The Navigation Program connects families to community resources that support positive outcomes. Navigation focuses on parenting education, mental health, housing and rental support, transportation, food, safety, utilities, and more.

Golden Caregivers Program / Teen Parent Program

At Many Mothers, we understand that very young as well as older caregivers may face additional obstacles when caring for an infant or toddler. Please reach out to Many Mothers and our staff will guide you through additional opportunities we have available for you.

Caregivers Meetup Group

The purpose of this group is to connect, hold space for one another, and to strengthen the new caregiver network within Santa Fe. This group is for Many Mothers past and present participants of our Maternal Support Home Visiting Program. If you are interested in enrolling and/or learning more, please email Marissa Visscher at marissa@manymothers.org.

Caregivers Helping Caregivers

Are you a new mom/caregiver interested in teaching a class at The Family Center? Many Mothers is pleased to offer our Caregivers Helping Caregivers experience. For more information, please visit here.