Many teachers have little or no formal training about climate change, much less about how to teach it, and what students learn...
New federal policies that took effect last month now offer some immigrant children protection from deportation and an easier path to legal...
“Youth homelessness is largely hidden,” said Forrest Verde-Dudek, housing youth project manager for the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness. “They might...
LGBTQ+ youth experience homelessness at significantly higher rates than their peers. In Albuquerque, New Mexico's only shelter specifically for queer young people provides...
New Mexico lacks treatment facilities to help housing insecure youth struggling with addiction. Serenity Mesa in Albuquerque, one of the only programs...
New Mexico consistently ranks toward the bottom among states for child welfare. In an under-resourced state with an overburdened system, a tight-knit group...
Today, students in New Mexico schools can study many of the eight indigenous languages of New Mexico’s 23 tribal entities. It’s an...
Since moving to New Mexico from her home country of Malaysia in 2017, Nuraisyah A Mohd Hilmi has paused her college education...
Thomas Wescott, 24, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, said he has been rejected by multiple employers due to a six-year-old conviction for...
Ghost guns — so-called because they are nearly impossible to trace — are sold in parts and assembled by the buyer. Until...
La Mancha Wetland Park in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a cool oasis in the spring heat of the surrounding desert for...
Summer of 2022 is shaping up to be one of economic opportunity for millions of young people, from teens looking for summer...
New Mexico’s child protective services department is set to receive a funding boost officials say will be used to improve services for...
Two years after New Mexico agreed to overhaul its foster care system in response to a lawsuit claiming it systematically re-traumatizes children...
Though popular portrayals of human trafficking tend to conjure ideas of violent kidnappings and cross-border human smuggling, the majority of sexual exploitation...
In addition to providing basic prenatal and early childhood development education to parents, home visitors are also trained to screen for violence...
New Mexico will begin to offer equal pay to dozens of Indigenous language teachers as part of a new law aimed at...
Child welfare professionals in New Mexico are applauding passage of a bill they say will improve legal representation for youth and families...
New Mexico lawmakers have passed a bill that strengthens protections for Native American children in state care. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is...
New Mexico’s first Native family court, based in Albuquerque, is dedicated to hearing child welfare cases that fall under the Indian Child...