2019

For Immediate Release 11.19.2019 CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE Public Meeting Thursday, November 21, 2019 @6:00 PM NEW LOCATION: Children, Youth & Families Department's Pinetree Office 4501 Indian School Road NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 Web...

For Immediate Release: Melody Wells, Public Information Officer 10.18.2019 The Department’s Juvenile Justice Division was Honored for 21-Day Equity Challenge SANTA FE – New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department’s Juvenile Justice Services Division and...

For Immediate Release: Melody Wells, Public Information Officer 10.15.2019 The Child Protective Services Task Force Includes Behavioral and Physical Health Experts, Foster Parents, Kinship Caregivers and Guardians Santa Fe – The Children, Youth & Families...

For Immediate Release: Melody Wells, Public Information Officer 10.10.2019 New Regulation Ensures More Families Can Receive Financial Support Santa Fe – On October 1, 2019, new regulations took effect that allow families with incomes up to 200% of the federal poverty...

For Immediate Release: Human Services Department 06.20.2019 SANTA FE, N.M. – The New Mexico Human Services Department encourages the public to watch the nonprofit documentary film The Shake-Up by filmmaker Ben Altenberg, made in partnership with the New Mexico...

For Immediate ReleaseEnergy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department 06.13.2019Free Admission to State Museums and Parks for Foster Families Begins June 14 SANTA FE, NM – House Bill 303 (HB 303), Foster Family Park and Museum Free Admission, goes into effect...

By Charlie Moore-Pabst 06.05.2019 SANTA FE -- The state of New Mexico was among just 13 states acknowledged by a national foster care organization for passing new legislation or executive orders to improve foster-parenting policies. Lawmakers and the Children, Youth...

CYFD hopes new laws will bring positive changes by KRQE 04.16.2019 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - The Children, Youth, and Families Department Cabinet Secretary is hoping new laws will help the department step in to save children a lot sooner. This comes after Gov....

CYFD says peak call wait times reduced by Albuquerque Journal 04.12.2019 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The state Children, Youth and Families Department said Friday that it has reduced the peak call wait times at its Statewide Central Intake system from hours to around 20...

Conversations with the state's new cabinet secretaries, By Searchlight Staff 02.26.2019 SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has made her commitment to children a mainstay of her next four years in office. By every metric, New Mexico is considered the worst state in...