Cayla Sanderson is a Program Manager for Bernalillo County’s Metropolitan Court Urban Native American Healing to Wellness Program in Albuquerque, NM. Prior to her role as the Program Manager for Healing to Wellness, she worked as a Court Probation Officer II for seven years in various different units such as Misdemeanor Pre-trial, Felony Pre-trial, and the Intake/Pre-Sentence Report Unit at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court. In these roles she monitored court compliance and collaborated with community resources to aid in access to treatment services such as substance abuse and a variety of different mental health needs. She has also worked for New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department as a Permanency Planning Worker for three years. In this role, she helped children and their families develop treatment plans with aT/TAinable goals to help build a healthy foundation to achieve reunification. In this capacity, she collaborated with various Native American Pueblo’s on ICWA cases to ensure cultural needs of the families were being met. She earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from New Mexico State University in 2012. She earned her master’s of social work from Western New Mexico University May 2024. She feels fortunate to be a part of a program that incorporates traditional healing and has a team that is truly invested in the participant’s success.