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HOUSE BILL 534
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
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2025
INTRODUCED BY
E. Diane Torres-Velásquez and Elizabeth "Liz" Thomson
AN ACT
RELATING TO CHILDREN; CREATING A TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE USING
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES TO TEACH CHILDREN TO RETELL THEIR STORIES TO
SUPPORT LANGUAGE AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. A new section of the Children, Youth and
Families Department Act is enacted to read:
"[NEW MATERIAL] AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STORYTELLING AS A TRAUMA-
INFORMED STRATEGY.--The department shall:
A. contract with speech-language pathologists to
provide training and workshops to families and case workers and
to develop language support and emotional development services
to support language development and coherent storytelling
skills with children in foster care using family experiences in
mathematics, science or history exploration as the context and
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content for shared stories;
B. establish standards for the delivery of training
and workshops by speech-language pathologists for foster
parents and case workers, including quality management and
improvement, accessibility, availability of services, rights
and responsibilities of providers, evaluation and documentation
and confidentiality of client records; and
C. create, implement and continually evaluate the
effectiveness of a framework for storytelling and language
development for children in foster care through the department
to develop children's autobiographical memory."
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