Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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1.8KNewsNewly Updated Technology Helps CYFD Stay in Touch
When Brian Blalock entered his new job as cabinet secretary at the Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) approximately a year and...
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1.5KNewsFor New Mexican, Tribal Leaders, It’s ‘All Hands on Deck’ in 2 Counties
Government officials and public health professionals say there’s no sugar-coating it: The coronavirus outbreak that’s done a number on the Gallup area...
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2.5KNewsCOVID-19 Challenges Don’t Stop Carlsbad Transitional Housing Program
“On call” means something different these days for Johnnie Bradford. As the longtime housing supervisor for Carlsbad Transitional Housing, she has always...
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1.6KNewsLas Cruces Caseworker Helping Youth Who Have Aged Out of Care Plus the System-involved
Transitioning out of juvenile justice is already laborious for many young people. It’s infinitely more difficult during a global pandemic. “They’re literally...
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2.0KNewsNew Mexico Tribal, State Leaders Pulling Together Against Pandemic
The arrival of the coronavirus in New Mexico in mid-March toppled the lives of the state’s foster and at-risk youth, who were...
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4.7KGuest Opinion EssayPandemic Affecting Adolescent Development; We Must Help Them Handle New Traumas
The COVID-19 pandemic spotlights the disproportionate impact of crises on our most vulnerable communities, particularly here in New Mexico. Reports across the...
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2.1K► NewsmakersNemours Children’s Health System Appoints James Digan as Enterprise Chief Development Officer
The Nemours Children’s Health System recently announced the appointment of James Digan as its next enterprise chief development officer, effective in July....
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1.6K► ReportsEarly Estimates of the Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal and Child Mortality
New modelling research published in The Lancet indicates a worrying surge in maternal and child mortality is coming due to the ongoing...
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1.4K► ReportsLost At Home: The Risks and Challenges for Internally Displaced Children
A new report from UNICEF takes a comprehensive look at the global internal displacement of children due to conflict and violence.
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3.0KGuest Opinion EssayNew Mexico Must Do More For Homeless Youth
As a longtime advocate for children, youth and families in New Mexico, I wholeheartedly believe in the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage...
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3.1KGuest Opinion EssayNative American Children Protected in Groundbreaking Foster Care Settlement
For decades, we have repeated and recapitulated: Our nation’s foster care system is broken. New Mexico, which receives the lowest markers of...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayCOVID-19 Makes Delivering Services to New Mexican Immigrant Families, Children Harder
Las Cumbres Community Services is providing crisis services to immigrant families and children in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our organization is...
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssayNew Mexico Foster Care Challenges Need Proper Policy, Oversight, Leadership
New Mexico is known as the Land of Enchantment and that certainly holds true. In the four years I had the joy...
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1.7K► ReportsStrategies and Challenges in Feeding Out-of-School Students
Urban Institute researchers examine and assess the challenges both school districts and families face when ensuring proper food and nutrition access for...
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1.9KNewsCOVID-19 Changes in Eddy County Mean Fewer Referrals, More Donations
The child welfare challenges brought about by the current COVID-19 pandemic have easily been the most disquieting for Maria Calderon, protective services...
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2.8KNewsCOVID-19 Adds to Woes of Homeless New Mexican Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care
Javier seems like a well-adjusted teenager on the surface. He’s gregarious, funny, sometimes brutally blunt and also a bit awkward. When the...
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2.0KNewsNew Mexico Foster Care Intends to Become ‘Trauma Responsive’ in Lawsuit Settlement
New Mexico’s already low performance in child welfare hit rock bottom on Sept. 22, 2018: Thirteen foster youth, represented by Disability Rights...
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2.5KNewsYear-old Las Cruces Shelter for Homeless Youth Newly Challenged by Coronavirus
For a couple of years, homeless foster youth, runaways and other at-risk children in southern New Mexico had a handful of emergency...
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2.2KNewsHomeless Youth in Northern New Mexico the Focus of 2-Year Project
When the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness applied for a HUD grant on youth homelessness in 2018, they weren’t expected to...
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11.5KGuest Opinion EssayChild Welfare’s Response to COVID-19 Is Sickening
All over America, there are people who can’t stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some always knew their jobs carried risks: Doctors...
