If a city or county applies for continuum funding, they are required by the New Mexico Juvenile Continuum Act to develop an Advisory Board to create and guide a continuum of services. Currently there are twenty Juvenile Justice Continuum Boards in New Mexico. Under the Juvenile Continuum Act, all Continuum Boards are required to have officials and public agencies, and tribal equivalents, whose partnership in the juvenile justice continuum is statutorily required.

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Required Stakeholders

• a unit of local or Tribal Government

• the Children’s Court

•  the District Attorney

• the Public Defender

• a local (municipal, county, tribal) Law Enforcement agency

• the Public School district

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Besides the required partners, many boards encourage community involvement by inviting representatives of public agencies (advocacy organizations), private nonprofit organizations, families, and youth membership to sit on the Board.