Location: 5100 Second St. NW Albuquerque NM, 87107
Phone 1: (505) 468-7236
Complaint/Grievance Hotline: (505) 468-7708
Fax: (505) 462-9917
Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Email: bcysc@bernco.gov
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Some sobering statistics as cited by the American Humane Association, longstanding national experts in child maltreatment and animal welfare:
The Paz Project
The youth and families served by YSC are those essential to target if traction is to be gained towards reducing violence, and this pilot will be named The Paz (Spanish for “Peace” and sounds like “paws”) Project – an initiative aimed at:
The Paz Project will do this by becoming an effective youth-driven/staff-directed foster and adoption vehicle for homeless pets. More specifically, select staff and teachers will voluntarily become certified foster parents for a partner animal adoption agency. This core team will be permitted to bring their foster pets to work, where during the day, facility youth will have the opportunity to participate in structured activities such as positive socialization, pet grooming, games, agility, basic training, feeding, and walking. And with proper judicial permission, select facility youth eligible for the Community Custody Program (CCP) but not yet released will be permitted to participate in supervised off-site adoption clinics held every Saturday morning.
Subject-expert speakers from the community will also present on a regular basis about topics relevant to the project such as:
When this pilot proves successful, we will consider expanding the program to a canine-specific housing unit whereby select residents would reside with the dogs full-time at the facility and follow a nationally-proven model. Until then, we’re exceptionally privileged to have the People’s Anti-Cruelty Association (PACA), Custom K9 Performance, Hart to Heart Canine and Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM) as our primary partners for this project.