New Mexico is known as the Land of Enchantment and that certainly holds true. In the four years I had the joy...
Urban Institute researchers examine and assess the challenges both school districts and families face when ensuring proper food and nutrition access for...
The child welfare challenges brought about by the current COVID-19 pandemic have easily been the most disquieting for Maria Calderon, protective services...
Javier seems like a well-adjusted teenager on the surface. He’s gregarious, funny, sometimes brutally blunt and also a bit awkward. When the...
New Mexico’s already low performance in child welfare hit rock bottom on Sept. 22, 2018: Thirteen foster youth, represented by Disability Rights...
For a couple of years, homeless foster youth, runaways and other at-risk children in southern New Mexico had a handful of emergency...
When the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness applied for a HUD grant on youth homelessness in 2018, they weren’t expected to...
All over America, there are people who can’t stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some always knew their jobs carried risks: Doctors...
The Child Mind Institute recently named Mimi Corcoran as its new executive director. She brings more than 25 years of children-focused philanthropic...
For a child, separation from a parent — even one who may have been neglectful or abusive — can be very traumatic....
I am 20 years old. I was a foster kid for the majority of my life. CYFD (New Mexico Children, Youth &...
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...
A new report commissioned by the WHO and UNICEF lays out a bold-but-necessary vision for the future of our children in an...
Last week, a committee of the Idaho Legislature did something that, in the politics of child welfare, is revolutionary. The committee took...