Youth suicide is on the rise — and Kris Hallstrom, manager of a national teen suicide prevention hotline based in Nebraska, is...
“Gay kids in a shelter that is predominantly straight are very vulnerable, they’re in a very hard position and it makes it...
I am 20 years old. I was a foster kid for the majority of my life. CYFD (New Mexico Children, Youth &...
Many students are challenged with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem today and do not have the tools or strategies to combat this....
Gun violence in the United States has rapidly become a problem that has touched the lives of millions of people. Whether directly...
As a young person who was in foster care as a teenager, I have come to realize that there are many misconceptions...
Youth who enter the foster care system in New Mexico and nationally tend to be between the ages of 1 and 10...
With some time to kill the day before the 2018 Thanksgiving break, William Soules, a math and social studies teacher at Oñate...
With Family First Act implementation underway, editorials and articles proliferate, many articulating nervousness among residential providers. With their revenue models under attack,...
The 2017 closure of the McKinley County Juvenile Detention Center was largely viewed as a positive. New Mexico, which has shrunk its...
There were both victories and setbacks for foster youth during the 2020 New Mexico Legislature in terms of bills that directly deal...
A cursory look at the proposed laws sponsored by southeastern New Mexico lawmakers during the 2020 Legislature gives the impression that they...
With Family First Act implementation underway, editorials and articles proliferate, many articulating nervousness among residential providers. With their revenue models under attack,...
Last week, a committee of the Idaho Legislature did something that, in the politics of child welfare, is revolutionary. The committee took...
On Nov. 14, Gary Ervin attended a vigil for a young life cut tragically short by gun violence. Days earlier, a 15-year-old...
A black and white picture of schoolchildren hangs on the wall of Paul Tutwiler’s office. He’s not related to any of the...
On a sunny afternoon in 2006, I was driving my four sons to a cookout in Newark, N.J., my hometown. We had...
Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad would not be where she is today were it not for her mentor, also an Olympic medalist in...
From training to practicing to now teaching, one of the key factors in psychotherapy that continually surfaces is countertransference (sorry self-care), which...
What comes to mind when you hear the term foster care? More than likely, it is not the placement of children with...