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Agencies Participate in Make a Child Smile Giving Tree
New Mexico Parent & Child Resources, Inc.
is a non-profit agency that provides treatment foster care for severely emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children from 3-18 years of age. These children are too seriously disturbed to be a part of traditional foster care.
Our treatment foster children have been abused and neglected by their families and therefore most have spent a great deal of time in psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment centers. These children are now living with a Treatment Foster Family as an alternative to being in an institution.
We are working extremely hard to help these deserving children return to society and a chance at life as you and I know it.
We would like to thank the Co-op community for the support you have shown us and the many holiday gifts you have provided over the past years for our children. Thank you! Happy holidays from the NMPCR staff and children!
New Mexico Children,Youth and Families Department
The Children, Youth and Families Department/Protective Services Division here in Berna-lillo County is the largest Protective Services Operation in the State of New Mexico. Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) receives hundreds of reports monthly regarding possible abuse/neglect of children and often our Department needs to intervene with families in order to assist them and ensure the safety of their children.
In New Mexico, everyone is mandated by law to report child abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The number to call for making reports of child abuse or neglect are in the metro area, 841-6100 or Statewide at 1-800-797-3260.
CYFD has a need for foster parents for the children that must be placed. Although we have a group of very dedicated foster parents currently, we are in dire need of additional help. All of us together can make a difference in the lives of the children who live in our community. Thank you for your dedication to the children of New Mexico again this year and for the many gifts you have provided in past years with the Make a Child Smile project.
Get their Child Abuse Prevention kit by calling 841-4740.
Peanut Butter & Jelly Day School
PB&J is a non-profit, certified children’s mental health center and therapeutic school. Since its inception in 1972, PB&J has impacted the lives of over 8,000 high-risk families in New Mexico.
Families receiving PB&J services typically live in poverty, and encounter disabilities, substance abuse, child abuse, neglect, domestic violence and/or parental incarceration. PB&J’s goal is to strengthen all aspects of a child’s growth and development, to provide parents with skills
needed for daily living, and teach effective parenting and self-advocacy Now, PB&J provides services to families in Bernalillo County, Sandoval County, seven Native American pueblos, parts of the Navajo nation and inmates in our state’s correctional facilities and their families, an area encompassing over 5,000 square miles.
The focus of PB&J is to help families try and improve their lives without being labeled. Families are viewed in a wholistic way, so that both children’s needs and parent needs are focused on.
Thank you to all members of the Co-op for sharing the holiday spirit with the children at PB&J and for helping their New Year start out a little bit brighter.
All Faiths Receiving Home
All Faiths Receiving Home was founded in 1956 to provide emergency care and protection for non-delinquent children. At that time, children who had been abused, neglected or abandoned were taken to the juvenile detention center until a more permanent home could be found.
The five community-minded women who founded the organization were from differing religious beliefs, hence the name All Faiths.
Since then, All Faiths Receiving Home has expanded to provide additional services to the families affected by issues of childhood abuse and neglect. There are a variety of parent education, counseling, and therapy programs available for families.
In addition, our Children’s Safehouse program interviews children about alleged abuse and our Treatment Foster Care provides a more normal residential setting in which behaviorally disturbed children and adolescents can begin to adapt to life without abuse.
Home Based and Family Services Program provides individual, family and group therapy, as well as parenting and life skills building, for families experiencing the impact of childhood abuse or trauma.
Family Services offers a comprehensive and integrated range of therapeutic services for all family members, and is committed to helping people create a safe, healthy, abuse-free home environment.
The staff and volunteers at All Faiths would like to thank the members of La Montanita Co-op for helping to make the holidays bright for the children in the Crisis Shelter
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