An in-service event for 600 educators in Grant County shows how schools play a pivotal role in both preventing and addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences, strengthening student health, safety, and academic achievement.
Discussing adverse childhood experiences with the school community offers a powerful opportunity for identifying challenges and solving them.
Seeing the challenges our children endure is not easy, yet it’s how we heal our families.
How public safety and the goals of the 100% New Mexico initiative can align to ensure all children, families, and communities can thrive.
When considering how to “fix” Child Welfare, it’s vital not to confuse the strategies, staff, and frameworks for prevention with those required for intervention.
Eight-year-old Anna was set up to fail from the very beginning and the tragedy of her death has not resulted in the necessary change to prevent another child from falling between the cracks. How did this happen?
We are asking courageous questions five years after her story launched the Anna, Age Eight Institute.
Creating a New Mexico where childhood is trauma-free is only possible when we make every child’s health, safety, and education the number one priority. We have the proposal for a groundbreaking strategy ready to implement.
Distracted and disempowered by the mass media, social media, and the entertainment industry, do we have the steadfast courage to focus our attention on the harm being done to our children today? The answer may surprise you.
Fixing child welfare to ensure the safety of our children can be done, but only by doing what’s never been tried in New Mexico.