New Mexico Department Of Children Youth And Families

• New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families.

Dorian Dodson has been named secretary of the New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families after Tommy Jewell, a former chief judge of the Ch...

• Policy & Practice
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 3, September 2006

• Rebecca Cisneros, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Heather Wilson, Cabinet Secretary; Christine Romero, in Her Individual Capacity, Defendants, and Children, Youth and Families Department, as a Branch of the State of New Mexico, Defendant-Appellee. United States of America, Intervenor., 226 F.3d 1113 (10th Cir. 2000)

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO (D.C. No. CIV-96-1493 LH/DJS)[Copyrighted Material Omitted] Donna L. Dagn...

• Federal Circuits

• State Receives $1.4m Grant

New Mexico will benefit from $1.4 million in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Justice. The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department will receive $600,000. The New Mexico Department of Public Safety will receive $808,675 to reduce forensic DNA sample turnaround time and reduce DNA forensic casework backlogs. "During these difficult economic times, it is extremely helpful to have federal funds coming to New Mexico to help both solve crimes and keep young people on the right track," said U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• August 30, 2011

• Mary Dale-Bolson, secretary of the New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families, has resigned.

Mary Dale-Bolson, secretary of the New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families, has resigned. Her replacement is Tommy Jewell, a former chie...

• Policy & Practice
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 2, June 2006

• Maria Consuelo Chavez, Diane Contreras, Lori Lucero, Olga Rodriguez, and Teresa Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Melanie Schipper, Plaintiff, v. State of New Mexico D/B/a Children, Youth and Families Department; Deborah L. Hartz, Secretary, New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department; Art Murphy, Individually and as Director, Juvenile Justice Division, New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department; Leroy Garcia, Individually and as Deputy Director, Juvenile Justice Division, New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, New Mexico Boys' School; Martin B. Bochenek, Individually and as Correction Administrator Ii, New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, Juvenile Justice Division, New Mexico Boys' School; Danny Cruz, Individually and as Correction Administrator Ii, New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, Juvenile Justice Division, New Mexico Boys' School; Glen Hill, Individually and as Staff Development Specialist, New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Departmen..., 397 F.3d 826 (10th Cir. 2005)

Mark E. Comer, (Judith C. Herrera, on the brief) Herrera, Long, Pound & Komer, P.A., Santa Fe, NM, for Defendants-Appellees. Before LUCERO, McCONNELL...

• Federal Circuits

• Winners & Losers

Last year, SFR reported on the spate of lawsuits filed by New Mexico inmates against Wexford Health Sources, the company Jhat handled New Mexico's prison health care until an SFR investigation upturned massive institutional negligence. Most of those suits were filed by the inmates themselves or by pro-bono attorneys and ended in dismissal. Now, however, Wexford will have to face the briefs of Frank "2006 Public Lawyer of the Year" Weissbarth, who is suing for breach of contract on 'behalf of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department. That case, however, won't receive a docket call in Judge James Hall's court until June 2009.

• Santa Fe Reporter
• August 29, 2009

• Grant to Improve Services for Children

Hundreds of Santa Fe children will get a better chance at a successful future, thanks to successful grant-writing by employees in the New Mexico Department of Health and the Children, Youth and Families Department. A recently approved five-year, $4.3 million grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will expand aspects of the United Way's Santa Fe Children's Project. The program provides home visits and school- based services for young children, including developmental screening, parental education and training. The grant proposal was one of only six accepted by SAMHSA out of hundreds of applications from agencies around the country. The grant- writing team from the Health Department consisted of Family Health Bureau Chief Emelda Martinez; Carol Ty...

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• October 20, 2008

• Newsmakers

Susan Birch is now executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Finance, replacing Joan Henneberry. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary Dennis Smith has a new leadership team - Kitty Rhoades will serve as deputy secretary, Brett Davis will serve as Medicaid director and Kevin Moore will serve as executive assistant.

... been confirmed as the secretary of the New Mexico Human Services Department. Yolanda BerumenDeines, ... as Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department. She is a licensed ...

• Policy & Practice
• Vol. 69 Nbr. 2, April 2011
• News Makers

• Taylor Selected for Cabinet

By John Hanna THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

... led a state social services agency in New Mexico. He has held city and county jobs in Kansas and Mi... Justice Division in New Mexico's Department of Children, Youth and Families in 1997-99. Taylor...

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• March 02, 2011

• Kids' Smiles Earn Employee Cyfd Nod

Family activities most children enjoy are often nonexistent for kids involved in state Protective Services programs. So Edwina Leal, an investigator with the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department's Protective Services Division, goes out of her way to "put a smile on (kids') faces and make them feel safe," according to coworkers who nominated Leal as the division's latest employee of the month. In CYFD's Early Childhood Services Division, Steve Hendrix was recognized as employee of the month for his "dedication and innovative ideas." Hendrix, a data unit manager, was commended in particular for creating a timesaving and error-reduction tool for the calculation of client income and co-payments.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• June 29, 2009