I'll take David up on his suggestion that we post comments on today's Globe editorial about the gubernatorial candidates. The editorial is pretty unintentionally hilarious overall, although I do agree with the recommendation that the … [Read more...]
A birthday celebration for a man who can’t return home
[Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog] [Note: This is one of a number of cases we have reviewed in which the state, courts, and providers have acted to reduce and even eliminate contact by family members with their loved ones with … [Read more...]
Pelletier case reversal shows gov’s power to affect guardianship cases
[Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog] The Patrick administration has dramatically reversed itself in the Justina Pelletier case, and asked a judge to reunite her with her family, The Globe reported this week. I think this reversal shows … [Read more...]
DDS expands privatized services despite family preference for state care
[Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog] Patricia Murphy had to file a federal lawsuit in order to get her intellectually disabled sister out of a corporate, provider-operated group home, where she says she was subjected to abuse and … [Read more...]
NBC Nightly News finds Bowe Bergdahl guilty–let the impeachment begin
I understand and expected the Republicans and their Fox News outlet to try to manufacture yet another "scandal" to rev up the ever-sputtering and puttering impeachment machine against President Obama, this time out of the deal to free Bowe … [Read more...]
Let’s honor Ally, Kim, Allison, and Gail’s choice to stay in their sheltered workshop
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) It's now up to a legislative conference committee to decide whether Ally, Kim, Allison, Gail and many others will continue their longtime participation in sheltered workshops for the intellectually … [Read more...]
Setting the record straight yet again on the Fernald Developmental Center
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Every year at budget time, the corporate providers funded by the Department of Developmental Services trot out the Fernald Developmental Center and the families that have appealed the transfers of their … [Read more...]
Arc, ADDP, DDS putting out misleading information about sheltered workshops
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) It seems the Department of Developmental Services and their corporate provider allies are spreading misleading and at times false information about sheltered workshops in their joint effort to close … [Read more...]
Our proposal to Senate Ways and Means to redirect some DDS funding in Fiscal Year 2015
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Governor Patrick and the state House of Representatives have specified funding for the Department of Developmental Services budget for the coming fiscal year that is way out of balance. Budget … [Read more...]
It’s time to stop playing budget games with the ‘Real Lives’ bill
(Cross-posted from the COFAR Blog) Once again, proponents of the 'Real Lives' bill have attempted an end-run around the normal legislative process by inserting the measure into the state budget bill in the House. As we've pointed out … [Read more...]
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