Across New Mexico, grandparents have become an unofficial safety net, stepping up to raise the grandkids when their own children can’t. Cases of “kinship guardianship,” as it is known, are hardly unique to the state. But in New Mexico, where family ties run deep, grandparents are playing an unusually common role in caring for their grandkids.
New Mexico’s Children
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The way forward
Advocates for New Mexico’s children weigh in on solutions the Legislature and governor should pursue.
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Who will lead New Mexico’s Public Education Department?
In the coming days, governor-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham will take the first major step to fulfill her sweeping campaign promises on education – appointing a secretary to lead New Mexico’s troubled Public Education Department.
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La Familia-Namaste to shut down following reports of safety lapses
With the closure of La Familia-Namaste, options for treatment foster care in New Mexico will be reduced further, leaving families scrambling to find vital services for their kids.
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For healthcare, please take a number
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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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.
