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All posts tagged "Foster Care"
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1.3KNews‘From crisis to death’: Probing teen’s last, desperate hours
Y'all here to protect me," the youth asked the officers, beseechingly. "Right?" The 17-year-old's foster father, unable to deal with a teen...
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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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2.1KNewsGeorgia aims to keep more kids out of foster care with new specialist teams
Georgia plans to launch a new program this summer intended to prevent children from entering the foster care system. The $1.5 million...
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3.3KNewsNew 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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2.5KNewsNew Mexico officials hope to open state’s first safe house for sex trafficked youth
Though popular portrayals of human trafficking tend to conjure ideas of violent kidnappings and cross-border human smuggling, the majority of sexual exploitation...
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5.8KGuest Opinion EssayIn child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty
In the beginning, the builders of what would become a system of massive intrusion into families, and, ultimately, the separation of millions...
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2.0KNewsNew Mexico to create new legal aid office for child welfare cases
Child welfare professionals in New Mexico are applauding passage of a bill they say will improve legal representation for youth and families...
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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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5.3KNewsNew Mexico’s first Native family court points to success keeping kids in tribal communities
New Mexico’s first Native family court, based in Albuquerque, is dedicated to hearing child welfare cases that fall under the Indian Child...
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5.2KNewsQ&A: UPenn Prof. Dorothy Roberts makes the case for abolishing the child welfare system
For Dorothy Roberts, a scholar of race and gender at the University of Pennsylvania law school, there is nothing well-meaning or compassionate...
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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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2.9KNewsPhoto essay: Former foster youth navigate motherhood
Photo essay: Two young women share stories of their experiences in the foster care system and their lives as young mothers.
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2.9KNewsMonths after pandemic aid lapsed, former foster youth struggling
Not long after the federal government passed a pandemic relief package last December to help former foster youth struggling to make ends...
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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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3.5KNewsPredictive analytics in child welfare raise concerns
A contentious debate on the value of using predictive analytics within the child welfare system is unfolding between proponents who say the...
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1.1KGrantsYouth conflict resolution and prevention project grants
GRANT FOCUS: Youth Development/Welfare, Conflict Resolution, Foster Youth, Homeless Youth, School, Afterschool | Amount: $15,000 - $40,000 | Deadline: Jan. 14, 2022
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3.0K► ReportsSupportive housing for young people formerly in foster care
The Urban Institute takes a look at the current state of supportive housing for former foster youth across the nation; discussing the...
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1.3KNewsNew Mexico pledges support for tribal adoptions in state law
In her first prepared speech Tuesday the new leader of New Mexico's child protection department pledges to restore the agency's credibility following...
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3.8KGuest Opinion EssayThe forgotten ones: Congress must extend pandemic aid to foster youth like me
Protections that foster youth like me fought for to safeguard us during the pandemic will disappear today, September 30, if our representatives...
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2.6KNewsPandemic relief for foster youth expires, ending aid to thousands
A pandemic relief bill providing aid to transitional age foster youth will expire today unless Congress makes an 11th-hour decision to extend...
