Why are me and Sharon here? Because GOD put us here to plant seeds and carry out The Great Commission, to go against the wave of sin here. Never go anywhere unless God tells you, let the Lord guide your steps everyday, those steps get messy at times, because true ministry does.
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God will have the final say on all of us……..
FGGAM received this email from New Mexico Child First Network
ABQ Journal, Colleen Heild, November 10, 2024
Carmen was on her way to her “forever” home in late 2021. Or so the 15-yearold hoped after she completed treatment foster care.
Instead, her life in New Mexico’s child welfare system became more uncertain and even perilous. She realized there was no such forever home waiting.
The teenager cycled through a stint with a newly licensed foster family who called 911 to remove her. She spent weeks sleeping on the floor of a state Children, Youth and Families Department office; tried to live with friends’ families; and was moved to Española, where her uncle was eventually arrested for drug dealing and her aunt reportedly beat her.
The story of Carmen, who ended up running away last year and is now living in Georgia, punctuated an unusual dayslong hearing last week in Albuquerque that focused on whether the state has failed to comply with a settlement agreement designed to improve the lives of abused and neglected children and youth in state custody.
Back in 2018, Carmen’s attorney, Sara Crecca, was one of the lawyers involved in a federal lawsuit filed against CYFD and the then-state Human Services Department on behalf of 14 foster children in New Mexico. They were joined by Disability Rights New Mexico and the Native American Disability Law Center in alleging the state’s “broken system of child welfare” was violating the rights of children in its care. The lawsuit demanded systemic changes.
By 2020, plaintiffs dismissed the lawsuit — referred to as the Kevin S. case — after reaching a final settlement agreement with the state.
But implementation of the reforms, such as decreasing caseloads of CYFD staff, has faltered, especially with the recent increase in the number of abused or neglected kids taken into custody and high staff turnover. More Here
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