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NM Lacks Mental Health Services for Troubled Foster Kids

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4.14.23 – Gene and the Panel discuss Lujan Grisham’s pocket veto and respond to an investigation from Searchlight New Mexico and ProPublica exposing the state’s failures in caring for foster children in need of mental health care.    Host: Gene Grant  Line Opinion Panelists: Michael Bird, former President of the American Public Health Association  Tom Garrity, founder &…

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Improving the Health and Safety of Indigenous Mothers and Infants

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4.14.23 – A new report spotlights some of the federal government’s shortcomings when it comes to Indigenous health care — specifically for mothers and newborns. Maternal mortality among American Indians and Alaska natives ranges from 2 to 4-and-a-half times the rate for non-Hispanic white women. New Mexico in Focus correspondent Antonia Gonzales spoke with the…

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