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  • April 24, 2018

Advocating for her daughter’s care got a woman banned from DDS-funded group home; and her daughter got an eviction notice

April 24, 2018 By dave-from-hvad Leave a Comment

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) When Susan Fernstrom got her developmentally disabled daughter, Holly Harrison, into a group home in Danvers in June of 2015, she thought it would lessen some of the growing burden on her of caring … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities

DPPC seeks to keep all investigative records in death case secret

April 12, 2018 By dave-from-hvad Leave a Comment

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) It would be nice if the Disabled Persons Protection Commission was on the side of the disabled and their families, but it often seems that the agency is more interested in protecting its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities

Alleged union bashing by CEO of DDS provider confirms the plan is keep direct-care wages low

March 20, 2018 By dave-from-hvad 3 Comments

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) We hope a federal investigation of Triangle, Inc., a corporate provider to the Department of Developmental Services for alleged anti-union activity brings public attention to the potential for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, executive-compensation, privatization, unions

Wrentham Center supporters want you to to know: ‘It’s a community’

March 9, 2018 By dave-from-hvad Leave a Comment

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) As is the case with many of the staff at the Wrentham Developmental Center, John Maxell, supervisor of adapted physical education, sees his job as serving both the center's residents and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities

More info emerging that the attack on Franken was coordinated from within the alt-right

February 19, 2018 By dave-from-hvad 33 Comments

[Editor's note: Newsweek has retracted this story. As such I'm demoting it from the front page. -- Charley] Information is starting to come out that a coordinated alt-right-wing plot was carried out last year to bring down Al … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User

BU and WBUR join the “get him too” movement

February 17, 2018 By dave-from-hvad 26 Comments

So Tom Ashbrook, who hosted On Point, a first-rate, in-depth, call-in show on NPR, has been dismissed by Boston University's WBUR for having created "an abusive work environment." But what does that really mean? You -- I know I did -- … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: sexual harassment

Father and sister now told they must wait for long-delayed trial before they can visit disabled woman

February 13, 2018 By dave-from-hvad 1 Comment

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) The state's story keeps changing as to why the father and sister of a developmentally disabled woman have been banned for more than two years from having any contact with her. The woman, whose … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities

17 years later, a man hopes some good will come of his brother’s scalding death in a DDS group home

February 9, 2018 By dave-from-hvad 1 Comment

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) Richard Buckley desperately wanted an explanation as to how it was possible that his older, intellectually disabled brother could have received injuries in his group home that were serious enough to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities

Children and Families Committee needs to show it’s serious about investigating the DDS group home system

January 22, 2018 By dave-from-hvad Leave a Comment

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) At the start of a legislative hearing last week on the Department of Developmental Services, state Representative Kay Khan made what seemed to be a major announcement about a new federal report on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities, group-homes, privatization

Committee won’t allow DDS clients and families to speak at oversight hearing on DDS care

January 11, 2018 By dave-from-hvad 3 Comments

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) On Wednesday (January 17), the Legislature's Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities Committee will hold what may be the first oversight hearing in its history to examine problems with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities

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