Skip to content

Keeping children fed during the summer months, behavioral health resources for immigrants and refugees, a conversation with “The Radium Girls” author Kate More, and a push to add more information to an ethics commission measure that heads to the ballot next fall

NMiF: Mental Health

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with local advocates who work with immigrants and refugees in part two in our series on behavioral health needs across our state. And she talks with Kate Moore, author of “The Radium Girls,” about how the poisoning of women who worked in factories…

Read More

Rebuilding Behavioral Health Services In New Mexico

NMiF: Mental Health

June 2, 2017 – In 2013, the Martinez Administration accused 15 nonprofits providing behavioral health services in New Mexico of fraud and froze their Medicaid payments. The Attorney General subsequently cleared the providers of fraud, but many had already gone out of business. Most of the providers were replaced by firms from Arizona. Out of…

Read More