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ALERT – Rosie D. leads to improved mental health services for minors receiving MassHealth

May 23, 2009 By AmberPaw

[I received this information via a Special Education listserv in which I participate, as I am also active in the field of Special Education.  This information is critical for teachers, social workers, police, parents, and others. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: behavrioral-health, child-welfare, masshealth, mental-health, rosie-d.

Remember the “Adoption Parties” and the legal orphans? Here is something YOU can do to help.

May 21, 2009 By AmberPaw

The Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange - MARE for short - is a nonprofit that works to try and find adoptive parents for kids who have been freed for adoption.  "Freed for adoption" means that their parent's rights were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: child-welfare, kinship-system, legal-orphan, mare, massachusetts-adoption-resource-exchange, open-adoption

Helping kids – and saving big $$$ at the same time – with POLL!

April 18, 2009 By AmberPaw

Using this approach: From 2002 to 2009, for the month of February, Guilford County's rate of children in custody steadily decreased from 573 to 396, a 31 percent decline . This approach would require a change in attitude by our state's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: child-support, child-welfare, family-stabilization, fatherhood, fathers, foster-care, kinship-placement, reactive-attachment-disorder

House budget went online at noon – see link

April 15, 2009 By AmberPaw

Here is the link:  http://www.mass.gov/legis/10bu... I suggest reading the Executive Summary.  Frankly, I am impressed.  Despite having a shorter than usual time frame, Rep. Charles Murphy, the new Chairman of the Ways and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: autism, child-welfare, childrens-services, foster-care, house-budget, indigent-services

Line items matter – and a little transferability can be a dangerous thing – a case study

April 2, 2009 By AmberPaw

Here is a case study.  In our state, the Chief Justice for Administration and Management [CJAM] has total control over a line item, 0330-0300 in which there is no itemization, nor any requirement that anything be spent on anything … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9c, budget, child-welfare, cjam, gal, guardian-ad-litem, line-item

What is an “Adoption Party”?

February 18, 2009 By AmberPaw

Thanks to the Boston Globe, there is a link where you can view a slice of one and hear participants talk about it: http://www.boston.com/news/loc... Maybe one of the tech types could embed it for me? (Sure! -David) A bunch of would be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: adoption-party, child-welfare, foster-care, legal-orphan

DMH lays off 100 case mgrs in response to having funding cut – lets throw more kids under the bus!

January 8, 2009 By AmberPaw

DMH had its funding cut - and laid off 100 case managers, stripping them from 3000 cases and adding those cases to the 350 remaining case managers.  Once again, that is "throw the kids and the mentally ill under the bus."  There … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: case-load, child-welfare, dmh, foster-care, mental-health, when-kids-age-out-of-foster-care

Office of the Child Advocate launches website

December 22, 2008 By AmberPaw

First, here is the link:  http://www.mass.gov/childadvoc... Note that the website has a link where you can file complaints as to poor service or abuses by the Department of Children and Families, or other state agencies and also a link … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: child-abuse, child-advocate, child-protection, child-welfare, gail-garinger

Why I did not “celebrate” National Adoption Day on November 21

November 23, 2008 By AmberPaw

I will be taking an 18 year old legal orphan out to lunch to congratulate her on good grades.  I am no longer paid to represent her, but ... for example she has come to terms emotionally with the fact that her adoptive parents dumped … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: adoption, child-welfare, termination-of-parental-rates

“Child-prostitution raids nab over 600” WHERE is the outrage?

October 28, 2008 By AmberPaw

Here is the link, you do not have to take my word for it: http://www.boston.com/news/nat... The story was buried on page two.  642 adults were arrested for supporting themselves in style and making money by pimping out children. 47 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abortion, child-prostitution, child-welfare, compassion, slavery

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