For those still on the fence re Boston 2024: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-08-02/how-the-2004-olympics-triggered-greeces-decline [Here is the first para of the piece - Ed: As they watch the London Olympics, many Greeks … [Read more...]
Family and guardian rights bill gathering momentum
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) After years of being stalled in the state Legislature, a bill that would boost the guardianship rights of family members of the developmentally disabled appears to have a chance of passage. The bill … [Read more...]
DDS still hasn’t applied for available funding for critical background check program
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The Department of Developmental Services is on the hook to create a national background check program that will cost the Department more than $500,000 in the current fiscal year alone and will involve … [Read more...]
‘Real Lives’ contract with private firm raises questions
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) As part of a push toward so-called self-directed services for the developmentally disabled, the state has established a payment system for those services that has exclusively benefited a Boston-based … [Read more...]
Redacted state report appears to clear hospital that failed to treat developmentally disabled man
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) An investigative report by the Department of Public Health appears to have concluded that Lowell General Hospital was not at fault in the case of a developmentally disabled man who died after having … [Read more...]
Federal government reviewing group home data in MA and two other states
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The Inspector General in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has spent the past two years conducting a review of data on abuse and neglect in privatized group homes in three states, … [Read more...]
The federal government’s cruel pursuit of deinstitutionalization
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) When is the federal government -- particularly the Department of Justice -- going to recognize or admit that deinstitutionalization of the developmentally disabled hasn't worked as planned? The DOJ … [Read more...]
The HW&M budget has great news for sheltered workshops, not so good news for state care in general
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The great news is the House Ways and Means Committee re-inserted protective language last week in the proposed Fiscal Year 2016 state budget that would protect vital sheltered workshops from … [Read more...]
Human service providers’ lawsuit boosts their state funding despite deficit
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) While programs and services are being cut throughout state government as a result of projected budget shortfalls, corporate human services providers have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars in … [Read more...]
Following the money on three new DDS-related laws
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) More than five months ago, three important pieces of legislation affecting people with developmental disabilities were ceremonially signed into law with a lot of fanfare by then Governor Patrick; but … [Read more...]
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