Topic Area: Trauma & Protective Factors

This statewide survey of 1,001 young adults (ages 18-22) measures recalled childhood maltreatment prevalence and community protective factors in New Mexico, providing critical baseline data for designing trauma-informed behavioral health interventions and prevention strategies.

The 2023 New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (NM-YRRS) for Bernalillo County middle school students (grades 6-8) provides critical prevalence data on mental health, substance use, safety behaviors, and protective factors that should inform school-based and community behavioral health interventions targeting adolescents.

This LFC Policy Spotlight examines New Mexico's juvenile justice system reforms emphasizing diversion over incarceration, finding that while youth are successfully diverted from secure confinement, the state lacks adequate evidence-based behavioral health and treatment services, leading to high rereferral rates back into the system.

This is New Mexico's official funding application framework for the Behavioral Health Reform and Investment Act (Senate Bill 3), establishing regional behavioral health planning requirements that will guide $3+ billion in behavioral health investment across 13 regions over four years.

New Mexico's State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) FY24-26 establishes a comprehensive statewide framework with 29 goals across 8 focus areas including behavioral health, providing strategic alignment opportunities for county-level systems change initiatives.

This 2022 New Mexico Department of Health report provides comprehensive statewide data on youth and adult mental health prevalence, suicide rates, risk factors, and protective factors, offering critical epidemiological evidence to inform behavioral health systems planning and resource allocation.

This comprehensive toolkit provides a research-backed strategic framework, self-assessment tools, planning guides, and financing strategies for jurisdictions seeking to expand the System of Care approach to children's mental health — making it one of the most actionable national resources available for behavioral health systems change planning.