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All posts tagged "New Mexico Child Welfare Project"
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3.3KNewsNew Mexico head of child services steps down following controversies
ALBUQUERQUE, NM—Brian Blalock, the embattled cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department, stepped down as the leader of...
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1.7KNewsNew Mexico to begin distributing $1.8 million in pandemic aid to former foster youth
A first round of pandemic aid payments to young adults transitioning out of foster care is expected to go out this month...
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3.0KNewsFired New Mexico child services employees file whistleblower lawsuit
Cliff and Debra Gilmore say they didn’t have any ties to New Mexico when the married couple uprooted from their lives in...
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2.6KNewsNew Mexico moves up from last in nonprofit’s child welfare ranking
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Recently released data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows improvements to New Mexico’s child well-being, but the state...
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3.3KNewsA 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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1.1KNewsNew Mexico Summer Programs for Youth Include New Internships
As many as 2,600 students across New Mexico could participate in the internship program, according to the Public Education Department, which announced...
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737NewsCan Monthly Cash Payments Cut Child Poverty By Nearly Half?
Child Tax Credit payments are a key part of Democrats' COVID-19 aid bill passed in March, but for policymakers they are more...
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2.3KNewsBan On Juvenile Life Without Parole Fails In New Mexico
A bill that would have prohibited life sentences and mandated earlier probation eligibility for juveniles has failed to become law in New...
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4.4KNewsNew Mexico CYFD Routinely Deletes Information That Could Be Life-Saving for Kids, Attorneys and Lawmakers Charge
For at least the past two years, Albuquerque lawyer Antonia Roybal-Mack says that whenever she’s representing some of the most vulnerable children...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayYouth Themselves Must Help Design Supports To Protect Them From Homelessness
There are policies and practices that have been proven to work for communities that embrace them. Adopting such measures need not be...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayTo Work On Youth Homelessness, Brainstorming, Decision Analysis Strong Tools
Generating alternatives is key to effective decision-making because it provides the decision-makers in a collective body with an array of choices from...
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2.8KGuest Opinion EssayNew Mexico Shouldn’t Double Down On Failed System of Child Abuse Reporting
Even as we finally come to grips with the racial bias that permeates so many aspects of American life, some people in...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayYouth Homelessness Is a Symptom, Not a Cause
SERIES: PART 5 OF 7 Part 1: How Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan? Part 2: America’s Biases Marginalize Youth, Drive Them to...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssaySo, How Does This Collective Decision-making Work?
We described in the previous column how the approach is four-tiered, beginning with collaboration. Collaboration is a term that has been bantered...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayCollective Decision-making Can Neutralize Politics of Fear
Judge Teske first used collective decision-making beginning in 2003 to reform his local juvenile justice system, which has netted an 80% decline...
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6.3KGuest Opinion EssayFoster Youth Need More Than Their Basic Needs Met — Especially During a Crisis
Youth in foster care experience significant barriers as it relates to their physical, mental and emotional well-being. The impact of these barriers...
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayAmerica’s Biases Marginalize Youth, Drive Them to Homelessness
Social psychology has found that someone may decide someone else's behavior has one of two causes: dispositional or situational. Dispositional attribution assigns...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayHow Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan?
4.2 million. That’s the number of homeless youths in America every year. This opinion piece is about the 4.2 million, how and why...
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2.4KNewsGallup Schools Hope For CARES Funding for Tech Purchases
The perfect storm analogy might be apropos when assessing the dire situation of Gallup-McKinley County Schools (GMCS) as it attempts to slog...
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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...
