New Vistas: A New Mexico Center for Independent Living

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Over the last five years, New Vistas Board, staff, volunteers, community agencies, consumers and families have helped change how New Vistas operates. We have become very cost effective in each program, while at the same time attempting to have our salaries and contracts reflect competitive market place standards.

The Production Center currently performs a variety of assembly “jobs” for two large corporations under contract with New Vistas.

All small assembly contracts with New Vistas have to be valued at a minimum of $24,000 per year.

New Vistas seeks contracts requiring clean small assembly work.

As a micro enterprise, the Production Center has several key goals:

  • Generate surplus revenues to financially support the mission of New Vistas.
    • This endeavor reflects New Vistas leadership’s intent to further diversify New Vistas funding streams.
  • Generate sufficient revenues to “grow” the micro enterprise.
    • This represents New Vistas effort to become more independent from the traditional government related funding while at the same time advocating for adequate public funding for services to individuals with disabilities and families of children with special needs.
 

Testimonial

"Our family works with New Vistas Early Childhood Program. Our two year-old son, Brian, has hemiplegina a type of cerebral palsy that typically results from a stroke in pregnancy or early infancy. His motor skills were impaired on his right side as a result of the stroke, in much the same way that an elderly person experiences debilitations from a stroke.

 

In contrast to elderly patients, the brain of a young child is developing at a very rapid rate, implying that therapies are likely to be particularly effective in helping the patient realize their full potential. My husband’s employer transferred him from Los Angeles in June of 2006. While the Santa Fe community has a great deal to offer, I was reticent about moving our son from a metropolis that is a medical powerhouse to a smaller community.

 

To my relief and Brian’s benefit, New Vistas has not only helped us gain access to outstanding standard therapies—physical and occupational therapies as well as music class and referrals to other opportunities, such as swimming and therapeutic riding—but they also have provided us with the opportunity to be “early adopters” of a cutting-edge therapy, which is only beginning to be offered around the country. I am referring to Constraint-induced Movement Therapy or CIMT."

 
 
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