(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Despite the Patrick administration's determination to close the Glavin Regional Center by next June, families of residents in the facility are prepared to wage a legal battle to save it, The Worcester … [Read more...]
DDS proposes to reduce services and family rights in care plans
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The state Department of Developmental Services is proposing changes to its regulations that we believe will take away guardian and family rights and water down the scope of services that are listed in … [Read more...]
Update: Assistant D.A. blames trial delays on administrative mistakes
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Three of the four postponements in the scheduled trial of a former West Springfield group home care worker charged with assaulting an intellectually disabled man were due to separate scheduling mistakes … [Read more...]
Justice delayed is justice denied
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Sheila Paquette has now traveled from her home in western Massachusetts to Falmouth District Court on Cape Cod three times to testify in an assault trial involving her brother that never seems to … [Read more...]
Saving the Glavin Center comes down to one man
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) In many of the photographs that Rosemary Dumont has of her son Stephen, a red vertical wound can be seen at the top of his forehead, almost seeming to divide his forehead in two. That wound is the … [Read more...]
DPPC faults care plan in group home resident’s death
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) A state investigative agency has concluded that a Tyngsborough group home resident died last year as a result of having ingested an inedible object, and that there was sufficient evidence to conclude … [Read more...]
House Ways & Means budget plan continues many of the governor’s cuts
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Last week, Department of Developmental Services Commissioner Elin Howe described the House Ways & Means Committee's proposed Fiscal Year 2013 budget for DDS programs and services as "the best budget … [Read more...]
We need to take a larger view on monitoring human services vendors
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Alleged state credit card misuse and other financial irregularities at the Life Focus Center of Charlestown are the latest in a series of mini-scandals involving human service contractors to the … [Read more...]
Trial in alleged assault of intellectually disabled man is put off again
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Today (Tuesday) marked the fifth time Sheila Paquette has traveled from her home in western Massachusetts to Cape Cod to seek justice in the alleged assault of her brother, John Burns, an intellectually … [Read more...]
Are they really cutting that program?
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) "I want to shake you all," the woman said through an interpreter. It was a plea to the impassive panel before her of members of the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees, none of whom could … [Read more...]
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