Community Crisis Resources
Community Crisis Resources
Suicide Textline – 741741
Emergency Room – 911
24-7 Emergency – 575-758-1125
Golden Willow Retreat – 575-776-2024
Ted Wiard – 505-690-0126
Jill Cline – 575-770-1327
Taos Behavioral Health 575-758-4297
Tri-County Behavioral Health Services – 575-758-5857
Dream Tree – 575-758-9595
Youth Hotline – 877-968-8454
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -1-800-273-(TALK) (8255)
Sky Center. 505-473-6191
Introducing STOPit at Taos Academy
We are excited to announce that TACS is using STOPit, a powerful safety and wellness platform designed to support our students, staff, and community.
STOPit provides easy-to-use tools that help keep everyone safe—both on and off campus—by empowering students and staff to speak up and access resources when they need them most.
With STOPit, you can:
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Report concerns safely and anonymously – whether it’s inappropriate behavior, bullying, mental health concerns, or safety issues.
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Access resources and support – including social and emotional learning materials and counseling information.
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Foster a stronger learning environment – by improving attitudes and behavior, supporting well-being, and helping classrooms thrive.
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Enhance school safety – with stronger risk assessment tools, clear safety protocols, and improved incident outcomes.
We urge all students, staff, parents and guardians to download the STOPit app.
The STOPit app is available on Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.
For more information on the STOPit App, please watch this Parent University.
HB 43 Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression Hotline
In New Mexico, the Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression (ARAO) Hotline is a resource for reporting school-based incidents of racism, injustice, or discrimination, as required by the Black Education Act (HB 43).
You can call a trained department employee at 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. If calling after hours, you can leave a message or use other methods, such as sending an email to ARAO.Hotline@state.nm.us” or completing the online form at bit.ly/ARAOHotline.
Who can use the hotline? Students, Families, Community members, School staff, and Any stakeholder.
What can be reported? school-based incidents of racism, injustice, and discrimination against anyone in a school setting.
How to use the hotline:
To report an incident:
Call (833) 485-1335
Email Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression Hotline
Fill out the online form
McKinney Vento Information
Eligibility and Contact Information
The McKinney-Vento Act requires schools to enroll students experiencing homelessness immediately, even if the documentation requested for enrollment is not available.All students have a right to a free and appropriate education.
Eligibility:
- Families who are doubled up, due to hardship (living with friends or relatives)
- Families who live in a shelter
- Families who live in hotels/motels
- Families who live in public abandoned places
- Family lives in a place that does not have appropriate accommodations (Such as:lacks water, lacks electricity or heat, lacks working kitchen or working bathroom, is infested with vermin or mold; presents danger to adults, children, or persons with disabilities)
If you think you may be eligible please contact:
Michelle DeHerrera or Deborah Branchal, McKinney Vento Liaison
575-751-3109
For more resources, check out the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program
NMPED Student Success EHCY Program
Reunification Process in the event of an evacuation
Release and Reunification
In the event of an evacuation, students and staff will assemble in a reunification site. This location will be communicated to parents at the time of the incident. At the reunification site, parents and guardians should report to the check-out station. Students will only be released to a parent, guardian, or emergency contact as listed on the emergency contact card. Parents, guardians, or emergency contacts may be asked to show identification. The adult will be asked to sign for each student to assist us with attendance and to prevent confusion. A staff member will then retrieve the student from the waiting area and reunite the parent and child at the check-out table. No student will be released without an adult signature, and phone calls will not be an acceptable substitute for a signature. While this may seem formal, these procedures will allow us to keep an accurate record of students and ensure the safety of everyone in our school community.
The release and reunification protocol has been created both to keep all students and employees safe to reunite students with parents in a calm, orderly manner. Because students will ONLY be released to a parent, guardian, or emergency contact as listed on the emergency card, please consider those names carefully as you complete the yellow emergency information card.
COMMUNICATION DURING AN EMERGENCY
Communication from the School:
- The school will send an automated “message” through emails, phone calls, and texts as soon as possible.
- Please do not call the school in response to the automated message. You will be given instructions on what to do next.
The Parent/Guardian Role:
- Please wait for the school or your child to contact you.
- Please do not call the school because this overloads our phone system and prevents us from making emergency calls.
- Please do not call your child’s cell phone because a ringing phone could alert an intruder to a student’s whereabouts.
- WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS through automated message system.