Community School-Services: Food pantry; After-school programs; Homework assistance; Nurturing Center; Homeless student and family liasion; Community garden; Reading Quest; Tutoring; Twirl science enrichment; Summer School

Childcare center for infants, toddlers, preschool, and pre-k children.

We respect all children by treating them as capable intelligent individuals, setting and meeting individual goals based on their own interests and providing a safe and nurturing environment for exploration and discovery.

We Believe Every Child:

• Is a capable and competent being
• Is a unique and complex learner
• Is deserving of an environment that nurtures the whole child.
• Learns through child-initiated, child-directed, educator-supported play
• Is a social being who learns through the development of relationships and collaboration with peers and adults
• Is by nature a creative and curious researcher and learns best through hands-on exploration that is relevant to his or her experiences
• Deserves trust, respect, and meaningful relationships to facilitate confidence and healthy risk taking
• Has diverse strengths rooted in his or her family’s unique culture, heritage, language and beliefs.
• Is a subject of rights, a whole citizen from birth, worthy of citizenship in the world
• Possesses hundreds of languages with which to describe their beliefs and experiences, and with which to express their learning. To respect and respond to cultural diversity

Childcare and home visiting services for children birth to 5.

Youth Development, Inc. (YDI), founded in 1971, is a nationally recognized youth and family service organization in New Mexico. We can help you with preschool and child care, prenatal care, alternative education, job training employment assistance, mental and behavioral health services, homeless assistance, emergency housing, mentoring, family development services, family counseling services, and supervised visitation.

Childcare and home visiting services for children birth to 5.

Youth Development, Inc. (YDI), founded in 1971, is a nationally recognized youth and family service organization in New Mexico. We can help you with preschool and child care, prenatal care, alternative education, job training employment assistance, mental and behavioral health services, homeless assistance, emergency housing, mentoring, family development services, family counseling services, and supervised visitation.

Legal Clinics, ESL Classes, linkage to community resources, civil rights training, dual citizenship, clothing donation, toys, and diapers.

The Talpa Community Center is proud to host a weekly Friday market from 7:30 am-2:00pm for neighbors to buy fresh fruits and veggies, as well as support local agriculture. This market began in 2021 and has become a neighborhood favorite location for regional growers, farmers, artisans, and youth vendors.

Helps immigrant adults with job applications and resume and interview preparation.

Rocky Mountain Youth Corp offers internships and job training for high school and college age students.

Offers veterans assistance in enrolling in school, finding funding or jobs that will help them earn a degree. Veterans upward bound also assists in connecting veterans with tutors and advocates for accessibility.

The food service department manages the day-to-day operations of TMS schools, modular buildings, annexes, and administrative offices. Taos Municipal Schools facilities staff are critical to support educational function and student safety. 

College student focused food pantry. Snacks, fruits, ingredients, toiletries.

We distribute food on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of every month, all year long.  We open to the public from 8:30 – 12 noon in El Prado and also distribute from 3:00-4:00 at the Talpa Community Center.