A chaotic first day as a foster parent dealing with the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department led Maralyn Beck to have a panic attack after thinking a baby had been lost due to a failure of communication by the department. Things didn’t get better from there, and the serious issues she witnessed and learned of in the months to follow led her to found a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children in foster care and empowering those who serve them.

Beck, who is the executive director of the New Mexico Child First Network, has been working as an advocate to hold CYFD and New Mexico’s leaders to account over the past several years. She joins Santa Fe New Mexican senior politics reporter Daniel J. Chacón in the latest episode of “Around the Roundhouse” to

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