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Foster children are caught in a cycle of abuse
By Searchlight New Mexico | 5 hours ago
By Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico One evening last December, a 14-year-old foster youth sexually assaulted a child four years younger than himself in the Albuquerque office of New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department.
ECECD hosts baby showers to let parents know about resources
By Nicole Maxwell | 5 hours ago
Friday afternoon, a line of people formed outside a room in the Explora Science Center and Children’s Museum in Albuquerque. The line was made up of expectant parents, some with children, who came to a baby shower put on by the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department to bring attention to the home visiting program.
NMED secretary: PFAS drinking water standards are a start, but not a silver bullet for addressing the contamination
By Hannah Grover | May 28, 2023
New Mexico Environment Department Secretary James Kenney compared the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed drinking water standards for PFAS to chapter one in a novel.

ECECD will soon see a nearly 68 percent increase in funding
By Susan Dunlap | May 26, 2023
On July 1, a constitutional amendment to increase the distribution from the Land Grant Permanent Fund t toward educating the state’s youngest children goes into effect.
CYFD: Repeat maltreatment in decline, but higher than average
By Susan Dunlap | May 25, 2023
New Mexico has 360 more repeat child maltreatment cases annually than the national average.