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Posted inChild & Family Welfare

These Foster Kids Need Mental Health Care. New Mexico Is Putting Them in Homeless Shelters.

Avatar photo by Ed Williams, with data analysis by Joel Jacobs, ProPublica and photography by Kitra Cahana, special to ProPublica October 7, 2022February 16, 2023

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.

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

New Mexico Struggles to Follow Through on Promises to Reform Child Welfare System

Avatar photo by Ed Williams October 7, 2022February 16, 2023

New Mexico Struggles With Reforming Child Welfare System

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Helter shelter

Avatar photo by Michael Benanav September 19, 2022February 7, 2023

New Mexico cities resist building encampments, despite one’s success to the south

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Fire sale

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán July 14, 2022November 3, 2022

‘Is your land for sale?’ Alarming offers to buy property in the burn zone leave some New Mexicans affronted

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Off the radar

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán June 22, 2022January 12, 2023

2,300 homeless youths in Albuquerque — and most of them out of sight

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After the fire

Avatar photo by Lindsay Fendt June 20, 2022November 3, 2022

Northern New Mexico residents are left on their own to face major flooding.

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Redlined and reeling

Avatar photo by Michael Benanav May 18, 2022November 29, 2022

Here’s what happens when rural New Mexicans are priced out of homeowners insurance. Or denied it altogether.

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Diminishing returns

Avatar photo by Lindsay Fendt May 11, 2022January 31, 2023

In the San Juan Basin, small oil and gas firms like Hilcorp reap profits from high-polluting wells. The impacts are major.

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When the new suicide hotline debuts, will New Mexico drop the call?

Avatar photo by Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi May 4, 2022January 12, 2023

As the 988 rollout looms, demands for improved mental health services go largely unanswered

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At the border of the American dream

Avatar photo by Don J. Usner April 27, 2022October 28, 2022

The hidden world of New Mexico’s colonias

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