New Mexico Agrees To Create Trauma-Responsive System For Children In Foster Care

New Mexico is developing a trauma-responsive system for children in state custody as the result of a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit. The state intends to create a system of care that fully integrates Medicaid behavioral health screening and service delivery for children in foster care. The state Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) and the Human Services Department (HSD) will expand and offer community-based, evidence-based, well-supported, and promising trauma-responsive services, which include mobile crisis response services, intensive case management, intensive home-based services, and trauma-based therapies. As of May 30, 2020 . . .