(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) In a reversal of her earlier decision, the state's Public Records Supervisor has issued a final determination that the state Disabled Persons Protection Commission can keep investigative reports … [Read more...]
DDS appears to look the other way as provider illegally bans guardian from daughter’s group home
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) Despite a broadly worded state regulation that gives residents of state-funded facilities the right to be visited, a human services provider agency is upholding a directive barring a guardian of a … [Read more...]
Channel 5 uncovers tip of the DDS system iceberg
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) A Channel 5 investigative report earlier this week disclosed that group homes and other providers of services to the developmentally disabled are often not informed about substantiated abuse … [Read more...]
Advocating for her daughter’s care got a woman banned from DDS-funded group home; and her daughter got an eviction notice
(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...]
DPPC seeks to keep all investigative records in death case secret
(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...]
17 years later, a man hopes some good will come of his brother’s scalding death in a DDS group home
(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...]
Children and Families Committee needs to show it’s serious about investigating the DDS group home system
(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...]
Committee won’t allow DDS clients and families to speak at oversight hearing on DDS care
(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...]
Committee to schedule one or more oversight hearings on DDS system
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) In the wake of findings by the state of negligence by the staff of a human services provider that almost resulted in the death of a developmentally disabled man, a legislative committee plans to … [Read more...]
It’s time for the Legislature to investigate the privatized DDS system
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Although seven employees of a corporate provider have been found to be at fault in a case in which a developmentally disabled client nearly died in a group home after aspirating on a piece of cake, we … [Read more...]
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