After being sued by disability rights advocates, the state of New Mexico is making slow but steady progress on a series of foster care reforms, according to lawyers representing 13 children in a 2020 class-action settlement. They include placing foster children in the least-restrictive settings, expanding access to behavioral health services, creating a “trauma-responsive” system of care and following the federal Indian Child Welfare Act more closely.
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