An investigation by propublica and SearchlightNM looks into why the highest-needs teens in New Mexico’s foster care system are being kept in shelters with no psychiatric services:
Shortly after opening, Belt said, CYFD staff started asking if the shelter could house kids who didn’t have foster homes. “I remember one of the first state-custody kids that we had was here well over a year, almost two years,” Belt said.
But the facility has a distinctly sterile feel. The walls are bare. Kids sleep in clusters of beds arranged in rooms without doors. Staff rotate between the shelter and the juvenile jail next door. According to a year’s worth of data for one shelter, 43% of CYFD placements stayed for more than two weeks.
CYFD Secretary Barbara Vigil acknowledged the difficulties workers face when trying to find beds for youth who otherwise may end up on the street.
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