What comes to mind when you hear the term foster care? More than likely, it is not the placement of children with...
True Colors United looks at 61 metrics in all 50 states to provide an overview of the challenges and barriers homeless youth...
“You just don’t get it! When I emancipate I don’t want to move away and go off to college. I’m going back...
It was a bleak time for many foster youth and their families in need when Kids’ Safehouse ceased operations in January 2015,...
It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...
Before Kasandra A. Gandara first became a member of the Las Cruces City Council, she was in the trenches as a case...
Rhonda Goodenough, an employee of the Children, Youth and Families Department in McKinley County for more than 15 years, claims that she...
It’s already tough sledding for New Mexico children and families in the state’s fractured foster care and child welfare systems. Those challenges...
Racial and class bias are child welfare’s original sins. So it’s no wonder so many in the field are desperate to whitewash...
Youth Villages recently named Jessica Foster as its new chief strategy officer. The appointment is a promotion from within, as Foster has...
The Bureau of Justice statistics releases the most current figures on youth-reported instances of sexual victimization during incarceration at juvenile detention facilities...
Jolene Martinez of Las Cruces couldn’t be more thrilled to be an adoptive parent to a second foster child, who she adopted...
Jordan, a teenaged foster youth, has lost count of all the places she’s lived in the state, including the streets of New...
It's November 2019, and the hysteria from the emergency meeting in 2013 is still palpable for Yasmin Haque. After then-New Mexico Gov....
Annie Rasquin believes in difficult conversations with her staff and volunteers, especially when the complex needs of a foster youth require immediate...
People in southeast New Mexico find it hard to live with the oil boom, but folks across the state can’t live without...
Researchers at the Urban Institute discuss the policies and practices best suited for meeting the needs of foster youth through the age...
The CDC quantifies the effects that adverse childhood experiences have on one's health and socioeconomic outcomes through to adulthood. The report makes...
Together for Girls, in partnership with the Equality Institute and the Oak Foundation releases a comprehensive and easy-to-read review of effective solutions...
Child Trends discusses how school district and charter policies affect the health of student populations around the country and how these policies...