As a CYFD foster parent, you provide safety and nurturance to children who cannot live at home with their families because it is not a safe place for them. Foster parents open their homes and their hearts to children in custody by allowing them to feel safe, grow and learn in a family setting. Foster parents encourage children in their home to remain connected to their religion, culture, and community. Foster parents can be a part of a child's life even after they have returned home, if they choose to and the child and family are willing. Each year about 100 youth emancipate from the foster care system without a family. Are you ready to be a family? Be a foster parent for a young person.
CYFD's Protective Services Division (PSD) is the state agency designated to administer Child Welfare Services in New Mexico. The PSD is mandated, in accordance with the New Mexico Children’s Code, Section 32A-4 et. seq., NMSA 1997, to receive and investigate reports of children in need of protection from abuse and/or neglect by their parent, guardian or custodian, and to take action to protect those children whose safety cannot be assured in the home. The Protective Services Division is committed to providing for the well-being of the children in its care and to securing permanency for those children as quickly and as safely possible.
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