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All posts tagged "CYFD"
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1.3KNewsThese foster kids need mental health care. New Mexico is putting them in homeless shelters.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Hours after Jaidryon Platero attempted suicide, an employee of New Mexico’s child welfare agency visited...
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1.4KNewsNew Mexico child welfare agency gets funding boost
New Mexico’s child protective services department is set to receive a funding boost officials say will be used to improve services for...
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3.2KNewsNew Mexico lags in mandated foster care reforms
Two years after New Mexico agreed to overhaul its foster care system in response to a lawsuit claiming it systematically re-traumatizes children...
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2.2KNewsNative activists hail passage of New Mexico Indian Family Protection Act
New Mexico lawmakers have passed a bill that strengthens protections for Native American children in state care. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is...
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1.8KNewsNew Mexico child welfare agency seeks more funding as lawmakers convene
The New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD), which oversees child protective services, is asking the state Legislature for a $41.5...
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2.1KNewsNew head of New Mexico child welfare department pledges to ‘listen and learn’ in face of challenges
When former New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil retired from the bench in June, she didn’t know what was next, but...
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3.4KNewsA New Mexico foster mom posted about missing children on Facebook. Child services is suing her for it.
The brutal abuse of a New Mexico toddler, allegedly by her parents, has pitted the state’s child protective services against the girl’s...
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1.0KNewsMesilla Valley CASA Helping Youth Past CYFD Age Cutoff
In April, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) extended its foster care services...
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2.9KNewsPandemic Accelerated Rollout of Extended Foster Care ‘in Really Good Way’
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) had been working for over a year toward launching...
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayNew Mexico, and U.S., Needs Help With Both Immediate Needs, Ultimate Causes
A few years ago I attended a workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, an approach to community education based on the use...
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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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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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2.7KGuest Opinion EssayWe Are New Mexican Foster Youth Who Help Others in the System
I am 20 years old. I was a foster kid for the majority of my life. CYFD (New Mexico Children, Youth &...
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3.2KNewsCYFD Forging Ahead With Native American Court, Kinship Care
It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...
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5.2KNewsNew Mexicans See Foster Care Challenges, But Are Encouraged by Changes
Jordan, a teenaged foster youth, has lost count of all the places she’s lived in the state, including the streets of New...
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2.7KNewsCarlsbad, NM, Oil Windfall Makes It Harder to Keep Caseworkers
People in southeast New Mexico find it hard to live with the oil boom, but folks across the state can’t live without...
