by Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico, and Joel Jacobs, ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Nowhere to Go New Mexico’s Troubled Foster Care System Near the pumps of a gas station in Las Cruces, New Mexico, […]
The state places foster teens with serious mental health conditions in shelters that don’t offer psychiatric services. When a crisis erupts, shelters call 911.
Youth crisis shelters aren’t set up to deal with foster youth who need intensive mental health treatment. When teens try to harm themselves or others, staff resort to calling 911.