April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and we're kicking off Youth Heartline's observance of this important month with a feature on one of our Board Members! Photo credit: Santa Fe New Mexican You may not know that YHL's Board President Wiz Allred has dedicated the majority of his adult life to mentoring young men and women - nearly 400 of them at last count! He's done so out of a powerful need to give back, an important element of his continuing sobriety - and he's done it with a vengeance. Wiz loves his "kids" and has developed an inspirational model wherein he is a stable, loving, consistent, and non-judgmental adult in these young people's lives. "I love you and I will never jud
We're live with a new Youth Heartline Website! Hopefully you're enjoying the redesign! We've been working on this for a little bit, sprucing it up, and getting ready for reopening. We're also going to do a bit more content creation on this blog, so I want you to know what our posting schedule is! We'll post a short article once a week about an aspect of child welfare that we find interesting, and once a month, we'll feature a specific Youth Heartline story. It could be a profile of one of our volunteers or staff, a success story, or office milestones. I hope you'll look around the new site, settle in and follow our stories, and when the time comes, support us by donating your time or finan
