Funding cuts, healthcare shortage harm N.M.’s autistic children
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Fever pitch
Bitter competition between Presbyterian and UNM has meant kids who need specialized care are getting sent out of state — instead of to the competitor. Now the hospitals are finally talking about a partnership.
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Experts: Our earliest experiences, good or bad, can be our most important
New Mexico’s infant mental health pioneers aim to eradicate “the myth,” as they call it, that babies cannot remember what they see or hear. Rather, they say, those early experiences can be life-defining for early childhood.
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Searchlight awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
The two-year grant will support news coverage “directed toward child well-being, policy change, and a healthy, just New Mexico.”
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Oh Susana! How governor’s popularity eroded
Martinez will exit as one of the nation’s least-popular governors, with even the Republican who seeks to succeed her saying “New Mexico is in a crisis moment.”
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Governor-driven understaffing keeps N.M.’s kids at risk
Ushered into office on a conservative wave that swept statehouses around the country, Martinez espoused classic Republican views on small government and fiscal conservatism. Eight years on, she can truthfully say she has kept state government lean.
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Measuring Martinez on education
Searchlight examined eight education-related claims and promises Martinez made during her two successful campaigns for governor, using publicly available data to learn whether New Mexico has managed to move the needle since then.
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Grading the team
A look at the Martinez appointees who head the state’s three most important agencies for child well-being.
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Prescription for disaster: New Mexico’s lax oversight puts kids in danger
At least 44 states have introduced formal protocols or programs to boost oversight and monitoring of psychotropic drug use by children. Yet while other states work to limit psychiatric drugs, 30,000 NM children have prescriptions.
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Warrant: Psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care
Albuquerque doctor is under investigation in 36 patient deaths.