An expert report found that New Mexico’s child welfare system has housed foster kids in homeless shelters and other inappropriate settings.
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These Foster Kids Need Mental Health Care. New Mexico Is Putting Them in Homeless Shelters.
Youth crisis shelters aren’t set up to deal with foster youth who need intensive mental health treatment. When teens try to harm themselves or others, staff resort to calling 911.
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New Mexico Struggles to Follow Through on Promises to Reform Child Welfare System
New Mexico Struggles With Reforming Child Welfare System
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Off the radar
2,300 homeless youths in Albuquerque — and most of them out of sight