A former juvenile justice reintegration center in Albuquerque is serving as the state Children, Youth and Families Department’s newest way, at least in the short term, to house youths taken into state custody because of abuse or neglect by their parents.
But state lawmakers learned last week the federal government is now discouraging group home settings for most youths in foster care and won’t pay for foster children at New Mexico’s new “multi-service” foster home, which opened in late May.
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