The task force was made up of 13 members, including CYFD Cabinet Secretary Teresa Casados, Rep. Eleanor Chávez, D-Albuquerque, a representative from the Kevin S. settlement agreement and others. The ...

Four years into a legal agreement aimed at improving care of abused and neglected children, the state Children, Youth and Families Department has yet to achieve key promised reforms, according to ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE ... In two of those cases, CYFD was also sued. Both lawsuits claimed CYFD failed to protect the victims. CYFD settled the case with the 14-year-old girl for $700,000 ...

CYFD Secretary Teresa Casados says the state ... All those proceeds will go to after-school programs that the organization ...

Youth & Families Department (CYFD). And just like the all-boys program, this new building would also be in Albuquerque. “We chose Bernalillo County because they have a large array of services ...

Police say she allegedly shoplifted at a Circle K in northeast Albuquerque and drove away with the baby on her lap. Judge Stan Whitaker said he wasn’t going to blame CYFD for what happened ...

Carmen was on her way to her "forever" home in late 2021. Or so the 15-year-old hoped after she completed treatment foster care. Instead, her life in New Mexico's child welfare system became more ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Cops ... Torrez said the state’s current Children’s Code lets CYFD’s Juvenile Justice Unit resolves up to three misdemeanor cases, including threats of a school ...

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Committee chair Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, seemed to agree with that assessment, saying his experience has been that CYFD immediately gets defensive when outside entities make ...

However, the arbitrator, Albuquerque attorney Charles Peifer ... in his office was planning a wrongful death lawsuit against CYFD. Plaintiffs argued a recusal wasn't warranted and would delay ...