All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

New 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...

Foster care racism: Black woman with young Black child sitting at table doing homework.

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Many Say Now is the Time to Fight Racial Bias in Foster Care

LIDERINA/SHUTTERSTOCK Cheri Williams looks back with regret at the start of her career as a child welfare caseworker in 1998. Systemic racism...

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Childhood in the Time of COVID

Save the Children releases a new report analyzing how COVID has impacted children and families around the nation while ranking each state...

Kids, Families, and COVID-19 report cover; sad looking girl with medical facemask on hugging someone

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Kids, Families and COVID-19: Pandemic Pain Points and the Urgent Need to Respond

The Annie E. Casey Foundation analyzes data from U.S. Census Bureau surveys to discuss how households with children are faring during the...

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Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth Serving Organizations

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University created this comprehensive desk-guide for youth-serving organizations to learn to more effectively prevent and address child sexual...

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The Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson Appointed President and CEO of Children’s Defense Fund

The Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson will be the next president and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), succeeding civil rights leader...

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So, 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...

Child Care and Feeding Young Children During Pandemic report; young boy drinking orange juice with bowl of food on table

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Child Care and Feeding Young Children During the Pandemic

A new brief from the Urban Institute discusses whether and how kids will be fed going forward through the COVID-19 pandemic, providing...

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Collective 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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Foster 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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America’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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How 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...

Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children cover, eyes of diverse children from around the world

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Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020

The World Health Organization and UNICEF analyze the actions and policies of governments around the world implemented to prevent violence against children...

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Gallup 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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Mesilla 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...

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State Outreach Helping Aged-out Foster Youth Amid Anxiety About Lost Oil Field Jobs

Jade Collins really needs her driver’s license to get to her doctor’s appointments. She was 29 weeks pregnant in late May and...

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Pandemic Accelerated Rollout of Extended Foster Care ‘in Really Good Way’

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) had been working for over a year toward launching...

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NM Schools Providing Academic Coaches, School Packets, Food to Struggling Students

The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning have exposed a number of unexpected and difficult educational achievement gaps for New...

2020 KIDS COUNT Data book report cover; older black youth hugging younger child

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