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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.
Who will lead New Mexico’s Public Education Department?
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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.
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.
For healthcare, please take a number
Throughout much of New Mexico, finding a doctor can be difficult. In a small village, the specialized services required for a diagnosis of autism are hard to come by, and treatment is nonexistent.
Fever pitch
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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
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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.
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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."
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On her watch
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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.
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Prescription for disaster: New Mexico’s lax oversight puts kids in danger
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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
Warrant: Psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care
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Albuquerque doctor is under investigation in 36 patient deaths.
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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.