News and Announcements
Executive Director Candidate Presentations
Current Job Openings
Attorney – Albuquerque
For more information about this role and to apply, click here.
Requests for Proposals
No active RFPs at this time.
Notices
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking:
The New Mexico Office of Family Representation and Advocacy Commission (“Commission”) gives notice of its initiation of a formal rulemaking to promulgate rule Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 2 of the New Mexico Administrative Code, entitled “Rulemaking.”
News
OFRA Staff Share their Knowledge and Expertise Nationally and Locally
In September, OFRA Family Peer Support Navigator Lead, Audelio Florez, and Legal Services Division Director Leslie Jones, presented at the ABA’s National Parent Representation Virtual Conference. Along with two other experts, Audelio spoke on a panel about handling child and family welfare cases involving criminal incarceration or immigration detention. Leslie joined speakers from the Washington State Office of Public Defense and the Foster Care Advocacy Center in focusing on the importance of due process protections in investigations and the removal (custody) hearing.
Looking forward, we are thrilled to announce that Family Peer Support Navigator, Catherine Pavelski, was recently chosen as one of two keynote speakers for the 2027 Children’s Law Institute, New Mexico’s premier child and family welfare conference.
Free Food Resources
In the Albuquerque Metro/Central NM area
- https://www.cabq.gov/health-housing-homelessness/homelessness/connect-to-resources )(see sections: Free Meal Sites, Food Assistance, and Homeless Services)
- Free Groceries for Low Income Seniors
- Food Box Resources in Albuquerque
Statewide
The Family Justice Initiative (FJI) congratulates OFRA on its opening!
The Family Justice Initiative is a national collaborative of children’s attorneys, parents’ attorneys, educators, researchers, national policy advocates, and lived experience experts who share a common goal: to increase access to high-quality legal representation for children and parents in child welfare cases.