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All posts tagged "Foster Care"
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2.1KNewsNew 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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1.9KFrom the BureausFoster Parent Expert Advises Support Groups, Online Training to Cope With Anxious Kids During COVID-19
John DeGarmo is the founder and director of the Foster Care Institute. He and his wife Kelly have been foster parents for...
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2.0KNewsIntensive Coaching, Group Therapy Helped California Foster Youth at Risk for Homelessness, Chapin Hall Study Shows
In the transition from adolescence to adulthood, even the best-prepared kids can be expected to stumble.
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4.4KGuest Opinion EssayInclusion of Homebuilders Model Makes Family First Act a Much More Useful Law
The first time I saw the photo, nearly 20 years ago, I was so moved it almost made me cry. That may...
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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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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayLet’s Boldly Reimagine Child Welfare System to Strengthen Families In Post-COVID-19 World
A crisis — such as the COVID-19 global pandemic — has a way of shaking up our worlds. And while this can...
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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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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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1.9KNewsCOVID-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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2.9KNewsCOVID-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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3.7KGuest Opinion EssayTop 3 Things States Need to Know to Use FFPSA to Remake Child Welfare Systems
Following a year when it was hard to see much that Washington could agree on, in December Congress passed and the president...
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3.0KFrom the BureausConnecticut’s Child Welfare System Conscious It Will Need to Keep Pivoting
How do you check on a child who lives in a home flagged as abusive during a global pandemic? How do you...
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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...
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4.9KGuest Opinion EssayWe Can Prevent Neglect, Child Abuse by Working ‘Upstream’
For a child, separation from a parent — even one who may have been neglectful or abusive — can be very traumatic....
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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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9.5KGuest Opinion EssayStop Traumatizing Teens in Foster Care With Negative Stigma
As a young person who was in foster care as a teenager, I have come to realize that there are many misconceptions...
