ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) was created to protect the state’s most vulnerable kids. Instead, too many children have slipped through the cracks.
In this episode of New Mexico News Insiders, our KRQE colleagues Ann Pierret and Jessica Garate take us inside their hour-long news special about the agency’s origins, its intended mission, and why it keeps failing families generation after generation.
For decades, both Democratic and Republican leadership have promised to improve the state agency. But there’s a continued theme of the children getting hurt or dying under CYFD’s radar…