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Jan. 26—Two nationally recognized experts on child welfare reform issued a blistering report Friday calling on New Mexico to take "immediate action" amid crushing caseloads at the Children ...
Mar. 9—New Mexico's embattled child welfare agency says it has made considerable progress reducing a jarring backlog of more than 2,000 reports of alleged abuse and neglect. Two nationally ...
Aug. 19—A former juvenile justice reintegration center in Albuquerque is serving as the state Children, Youth and Families Department's newest way, at least in the short term, to house youths ...
The New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department is a state agency of New Mexico, headquartered in the PERA Building in Santa Fe. [1] It is the state agency responsible for child protective services and juvenile justice services. It was created as a cabinet department by statute in 1992 under Ch. 9, art. 2A NMSA 1978. [2]
The case, which resulted in the state of New Mexico agreeing to pay a $5.5 million settlement last month, should send a resounding message to the state's troubled child welfare agency, which ...
The payouts in the first eight months of 2024 represent more than half of the total $21 million in CYFD settlements since July 2021, ... CYFD civil rights settlements $21 million since 2021 Skip ...
The Senate Chamber of the New Mexico State Capitol. The New Mexico Legislature is a bicameral body made up of the 70-member New Mexico House of Representatives and the 42-member New Mexico Senate. The New Mexico Constitution limits the regular session to sixty calendar days, and every other year it is thirty days.
Valencia County (Spanish: Condado de Valencia) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,205. [1] The county seat is Los Lunas. [2] Valencia County is included in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.