Child Abuse Prevention & Intervention

The focus of the Albuquerque Family Advocacy Center will be to decrease victim trauma and intimidation while providing supportive services in respectful and culturally appropriate ways. They are a victim friendly and safe environment with reduction in the investigation time and the number of interviews from as many as five to one per case, while increasing the quality of investigations. Travel time is eliminated for victims and is significantly reduced for all service providers. Albuquerque Family Advocacy Center improves coordination of multi-disciplinary teams including medical evaluation, forensic, interviews, law enforcement, child/adult protective service investigations, crisis counseling and prosecution. They also makes it possible to eliminate language and cultural barriers to service across all service systems and increases the number of convictions, guilty pleas and plea bargains through the appropriate prosecutorial divisions.

Las Cumbres Community Services, Inc. began in 1970 with a structured program of day habilitation services for developmentally disabled adults residing in Los Alamos. We added a therapeutic preschool for children in the Española Valley in 1979. Services for children, adults, and families have continued to expand since then in order to best meet the growing and changing needs of Northern New Mexico. Our offices are located in Española, Los Alamos, Taos, and Santa Fe. In 2019 Las Cumbres expanded to the Borderland Region of Las Cruces, El Paso, and Ciudad Juarez. Today, the agency is one of the largest social service providers in New Mexico. Direct services are offered in Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Taos Counties, and along the Borderland region, while education, outreach, and referral activities make a strong impact throughout the state and country.

The New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department provides an array of prevention, intervention, rehabilitative and after-care services to New Mexico children and their families. These include Protective services such as Adoptions or Child Abuse & Neglect, and Early Childhood Services. Juvenile justice services can provide access to Reintegration Centers and Facilities. Behavioral health services include Domestic Violence and Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health.

Provides website-based resources for parents and caregivers who play an essential role in helping children and teenagers recover from traumatic events. The website has a number of resources including definitions and types of child trauma, treatments and practices, screenings and assessments, information on trauma-informed care, as well as tip sheets and trainings in English and Spanish.

Internet-based resource

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse. Serving the U.S. and Canada, the hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who—through interpreters—provide assistance in over 170 languages. The hotline offers crisis intervention, information, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls are confidential.

Also offers a variety of Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment programs.

• Internet Safety Education
• Child Kidnapping Prevention
• Child Sexual Exploitation Reporting
• Disaster Survivor Inquiries

Provides a 24/7 reporting hotline (phone, text, live chat, email), information, and confidential referral to social and legal services for victims and survivors of human trafficking. The Hotline also receives tips about potential situations of sex and labor trafficking and facilitates reporting that information to the appropriate authorities in certain cases. The hotline is operated by Polaris, a non-government organization leading the fight to end human trafficking.COVID-19 Update: following all CDC and state guidelines.

• Human Trafficking Hotlines
• Human Trafficking Prevention

The Hotline is operated by Polaris, a non-profit, non-governmental organization working exclusively on the issue of human trafficking. The Trafficking Hotline is not a government entity, law enforcement, or an immigration authority.

RadKIDS teaches and trains children with skills that help them recognize, avoid, resist, and if necessary escape violence or harm in their lives. Instructors at many elementary schools and local police officers are trained by the national organization radKIDS to teach classes on these skills. Partner with Elizabeth Smart Foundation

• Self Defense Training

Partner with Elizabeth Smart Foundation

Promotes the safety, permanency and well being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and referral professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information.

Provides access to print and electronic publications, web sites and online databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption search and reunion and much more.

To report child abuse or neglect, please contact Child Help USA at 1.800.4 A Child (1.800.422.4453) or see our list of State child abuse and neglect reporting numbers.

Provides a free online service to help locate registered sex offenders by address and zip code.

Focuses on meeting the needs of professionals engaged in all aspects of services for maltreated children and their families.

Serves Include:

• Promoting research
• Connecting professionals to promote the best response to child maltreatment
• Educating the public about child abuse and neglect