March is National Social Worker Month!!
The theme for Social Work Month 2024 is Empowering Social Workers!
During Social Work Month take time to learn more about the many positive contributions of the profession, and use the items in our toolkit to celebrate all the social workers you know.
Read MoreNew Mexico Child First Network has been selected to be one of three nonprofit organizations to be a beneficiary for the esteemed 2024 Community Charity Golf Classic. Golfers from around the country come to New Mexico to play in this popular golf event scheduled for June 8, 2024. Grab your tickets now.
Read MoreSounding the alarm, another child death rocks our community.
Read More2023 was a big year for us. Thank you for your support. See our achievements here.
Read More"Healthcare professionals are developing more than a thousand safe care plans a year for new mothers giving birth to babies exposed to drugs and other substances, but many substance-exposed newborns are falling through the cracks and follow-up for those mothers with plans is often ineffective."
Read MoreJoin New Mexico Child First Network once again for our annual night-in for foster, kinship, guardians and adoptive families at Explora! Saturday December 2, 2023 from 6pm-8pm. This is a no-cost event full of fun activities, community resources, free pizza, hot cocoa, pictures with Santa, and more!
Read MoreNew Mexico Child First Network is proud to present the findings of the New America New Practice Lab University of Chicago Center for RISC in partnership with New Mexico's CYFD. This team reviewed CYFD placement issues and has created an adverse placement report for New Mexico - which they will present in this training along with Q&A. About the presenters: Noah is a Senior Analyst at the University of Chicago’s Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC). He leads a team of data analysts who help child welfare agencies create data-driven resource home recruitment plans through analysis of adverse placements. His team would be happy to provide pro-bono support to anyone interested in creating their own adverse placement report!
Read MoreNew Mexico Child First Network is proud to partner with Safe Passages for Children of Minnesota to bring you this training and Q&A. Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota trains volunteers to advocate with their elected representatives for improvements to child protection and foster care; this includes better training and additional resources, but most importantly we promote practices that reduce prolonged periods of trauma and high risk for children. This report on over 80 child fatalities from maltreatment identified a number practices that consistently contributed to the children’s deaths.
Read MoreJoin New Mexico Child First Network, our friends, family and community as we celebrate foster care with our annual FREE Foster Family Picnic. This year, we will also be celebrating the passage of HB35- expanding free cultural services, like fishing and camping, to foster families!
Read MoreJoin New Mexico Child First Network as we host a mental health awareness training related to suicide prevention. The New Mexico Department of Health will be presenting this 90-minute training.
Read MoreMay is National Foster Care Month
Read MoreJoin New Mexico Child First Network as we host the APS Foster Care Clinic Team to teach us about what they do and how they work to serve and support our youth in foster care during their school days.
Read MoreRegister now for New Mexico Child First Network’s 3rd Annual Benefit Golf Tournament; to be held Monday October 9th at Albuquerque Country Club.
Read MoreJanuary is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. This month is dedicated to raising awareness about different forms of human trafficking, ways to support trafficking survivors, and educating the community about the issue so that people are equipped to notice potential trafficking situations and report them to their local law enforcement.
Read MoreNew Mexico Child First Network is dedicated to improving the lives of children in New Mexico foster care and empowering those who serve them through training, policy reform, direct mentorship and support. With more than 1,800 children in foster care across the state, and thousands more in kin and guardianship care, our legislative mission is to improve their lives by strengthening their rights, illuminating systemic failures and ensuring necessary reforms.
Read MoreEvery time you shop on Amazon, support the mission of New Mexico Child First through our partnership with Amazon Smile.
Read MoreTraining: Join us for a one-hour training to understand the Indian Child Welfare Act (“ICWA”), the current constitutional challenge to ICWA (the Brackeen case), and how both affect New Mexico’s native children in state custody.
Read MoreNew Mexico Child First Network is honored to celebrate Native American Heritage Month the entire month of November 2022. We celebrate Indigenous peoples past and present and rededicate ourselves to honoring Tribal sovereignty, promoting Tribal self-determination, and upholding our responsibilities to Tribal Nations.
Read MoreNovember is National Adoption Month. Join New Mexico Child First Network as we celebrate forever families!
Read MoreNew Mexico Child First Network presents Cindy Chamberlin, President of "To the Moon and Back, Inc" WV to discuss substance exposure in utero, its impacts on early development as well as challenges experienced as these children grow older and transition into school. We
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