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A pattern of failures
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A Searchlight investigation reveals serious abuses within New Mexico's treatment foster care system.
Experts: Our earliest experiences, good or bad, can be our most important
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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.
On her watch
In this four-part series, Searchlight New Mexico evaluates the impact of Gov. Susana Martinez' two terms in office. Our journalists focused in particular on how her policies and appointees influenced the lives of and prospects for our state's children.
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.
New Mexico's Children
Searchlight awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
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The two-year grant will support news coverage “directed toward child well-being, policy change, and a healthy, just New Mexico."
New Mexico's Children
Warrant: Psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care
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Albuquerque doctor is under investigation in 36 patient deaths.
New Mexico's Children
Experts weigh in on New Mexico’s challenges
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We asked five national experts in child well-being, health, education and policy to write short essays in response to recent stories we have covered. Here's what they had to say.
New Mexico's Children
Lujan Grisham, Pearce lay out visions for top children’s issues
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If any one person has the power to determine the fate of New Mexico’s next generation, it is the next governor.
Education
Foreign teachers pay dearly to fill jobs in New Mexico
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More than 200 foreign teachers are risking their financial security for an opportunity to work in public schools.
Government
Who should get home visits? New Mexico can’t say
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The state knows relatively little about the people served by its nearly three dozen contracted home visiting providers. Nor is there an answer to how many families the program should serve.
Government
New Mexico’s home visiting puzzle
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Despite strong evidence that home visiting promotes healthy families and children, state officials have diverted millions of dollars from the program in order to fund child care assistance.
New Mexico's Children
Lawsuit: New Mexico is wrongly denying child care benefits
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Attorneys say the state is using secret eligibility rules to disqualify applicants.