At adult ed on April 23, Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico, presents “Investigating New Mexico’s Foster System Work.” To learn more about how youth in crisis are handled in our foster care system, watch the video of his presentation.

With few other options, child welfare workers place youth in crisis shelters hundreds of times every year. Some of these teenagers are suicidal, PTSD, or developmentally disabled. These dorm-like facilities don’t offer intensive mental health treatment, and the teens are often abruptly moved to another shelter. And then another. Youth advocates and attorneys call it the “shelter shuffle.”

This continues our series on The Radical Christian Alternative.