are experiencing heat waves and climate disasters that continue Right now, New Mexico has the vision and the resources to to worsen with every year that our policymakers don’t choose center equity in our policy choices and to provide programs and energy policies that focus on equity and the health of our children resources to alleviate poverty and address many other challenges and communities. [...] Because children and parents of In the tables where the counties are ranked, two or more counties color generally tend to face more barriers to good health and may share the same rank because they have the same percentage well-being, it is critical that policies are implemented that focus of individuals, families or households in the indicator that is being on racial and ethnic equity and that pro. [...] • Ensure sufficient funding for rapid expansions of home • S upport policies that prioritize kinship care for foster visiting, child care, and pre-K programs by avoiding children; support and promote the availability of the supplanting of the general fund with distributions resources and assistance for grandparents helping from the Early Childhood Trust Fund and the new to raise their grandchildre. [...] 61 | NEW MEXICO KIDS COUNT DATA BOOK 2023 ABOUT THIS INDICATOR: The child and teen death rates are the number Child and Teen Death Rates (per 100,000)— of deaths of children ages 1 to 14 and teens ages 15 to 19 for every BY RACE AND ETHNICITY (2021) 100,000 children and teens in those age ranges in the population. [...] Ensuring that children - 40 and teens live in safe, supportive homes and communities, have 47 access to safe public spaces and to a full range of physical and mental health care services, and do not have unauthorized access Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Multiple Causes of Death to f.
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