Advocacy, Inc.

Is a non-profit organization incorporated in New Mexico in 1986. Their mission is to promote the interests of at-risk children by providing legal advocacy and other supportive services.

Casey Family Programs

Casey Family Programs provides an array of services for children and youth, with foster care as its core. Casey services include adoption, guardianship, kinship care (being cared for by extended family), and family reunification (reuniting children with birth families). Casey is also committed to helping youth in foster care make a successful transition to adulthood. As a direct service operating foundation, Casey Family Programs does not make grants.

Child Welfare League of America:

The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the oldest and largest national nonprofit organization developing and promoting policies and programs to protect America's children and strength America's families. 
 

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

Since its founding in 1937 by a group of judges dedicated to improving the effectiveness of the nation's juvenile courts, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) has pursued a mission to improve courts and systems practice and raise awareness of the core issues that touch the lives of many of our nation's children and families.

Connect for Kids

An award-winning multimedia project of the Benton Foundation helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. The Web site offers a place on the Internet for adults, parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others‚ who want to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind.

Foster Club's

Their mission is to provide foster children with a network that allows them to communicate with others children and provide them with education, motivation, and benefits that the foster care system does not usually provide.

National Association of Social Workers

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world, with 150,000 members. NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.

National Foster Care Review Coalition

The mission of the National Foster Care Review Coalition is to serve as a national coalition of independent foster care review programs to ensure, through individual case review and advocacy for systemic change, the safety, well-being and timely achievement of permanency for children in foster care by: Informing and influencing individual state and national policy makers, as well as the public; - Promoting the establishment of an independent review system in each state to assess the status of these children; and supporting the work of active independent review systems

National Foster Parent Association

The National Foster Parent Association is the only national organization which strives to support foster parents, and remains a consistently strong voice on behalf of all children.

New Mexico Access and Visitation Network

New Mexico Access and Visitation Network provides training, technical support, quality assurance and standardization for more than 22 providers of safe exchange and supervised visitation services around New Mexico. Local providers offer safe environments in which children can be exchanged between parents and warm, home-like atmospheres for conducting visitation between children and their non-custodial parents.

New Mexico Alliance for Children with Traumatic Stress

New Mexico Alliance for Children with Traumatic Stress offers help to identify signs and symptoms, treat, and serve children and teens that experience effects of child abuse and neglect,
rape, violence, or other forms of trauma.

New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks

New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks (NMCAN) is a visionary champion for New Mexico's most vulnerable children. We operate a statewide network of advocates dedicated to children, providing program support, community education, legislative education and information collection and dissemination.

New Mexico Children's Law Institute

Children's Law Institute is held in Albuquerque each January. The website contains handouts and Power Point presentations from past workshops and current registration information.

New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department

Government agency dedicated to enhancing the safety, dignity, and well-being of the children, youth, and families of New Mexico. Also the home of "Foster a Future" listing information for adopting or fostering a New Mexico child.

New Mexico Court Appointed Special Advocate Network

New Mexico CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Network. The New Mexico CASA Network provides training, technical support, public outreach materials and management support for 21 local CASA program offices around New Mexico. Local CASA programs train volunteers to advocate in court for the best interests of abused and neglected children. CASA volunteers, appointed directly by the judges, are involved in one-to-one personal relationships with children in foster care, their families, teacher, therapists, social workers and attorneys. The volunteers make reports to the judge on the most appropriate placement and services for the children.

New Mexico Friends of Foster Children

While basic life necessities are provided to children in foster care, there are many unique needs which are not funded by State programs. With assistance from our friends and supporters, NMFFC can help those children in ways that shape the course of their lives.

New Mexico Voices for Children

A statewide advocacy organization serving as a voice for children, youth and families and those who love them.

The Children's Law Center

The goal of the Children's Law Center is to increase the effectiveness of civil and criminal proceedings related to child abuse and neglect and other proceedings under the New Mexico Children's Code by improving the knowledge and skill of the participants-- primarily the judges and court appointed attorneys in child abuse and neglect case.