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All posts tagged "New Mexico"
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1.3KNewsNew Mexico awards $157M in grants to child care providers
New Mexico's child care department is sending millions to child care centers in an effort to keep them in business, awarding grants...
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825GrantsNew Mexico and Louisiana community, human services, education and environment nonprofit support grants
GRANT FOCUS: Community, Education, Nonprofit Support, Social Change, New Mexico, Louisiana | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Dec. 1, 2021
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1.2KNewsData on child abuse in New Mexico called into question
Data on child abuse in New Mexico has been called into question after lawmakers raised concerns that the former director of 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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7.6KNewsBehind bars since age 16, juvenile lifer watches New Mexico struggle over sentencing reform
Michael is one of dozens of people in New Mexico who received what juvenile justice reformists call “de-facto life sentences” — sentences...
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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...
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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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4.5KNewsNew 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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6.4KGuest 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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3.5KGuest 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...
