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Baker administration concedes some congregate care for the developmentally disabled is good, but will still largely prohibit it

August 4, 2016 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) In responses to comments made to a federally required plan for community-based care of the developmentally disabled, the Baker administration is conceding that not all congregate care is bad or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, privatization

Limited federal IG probe faults state’s reporting on group home abuse in MA

July 20, 2016 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) In one of the few investigations of the community-based system of care for the developmentally disabled, the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, privatization

Gov. Baker’s FY ’17 budget continues race to the bottom in care of the developmentally disabled

February 2, 2016 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) In his proposed Fiscal 2017 budget, which he filed last week, Governor Baker is continuing to boost funding for privatized care for the developmentally disabled at the expense of state-run … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, privatization

Few people moving from sheltered workshops to “integrated” jobs

January 20, 2016 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) While the Baker administration appears to be moving ahead with a policy of closing all remaining sheltered workshops for developmentally disabled persons in Massachusetts, records show that relatively … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, sheltered workshops

Andy and Stan McDonald gain a small victory in a system that has been pitted against them

November 3, 2015 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) In a Middlesex County Probate Court hearing last Monday (October 26), Andy McDonald, an intellectually disabled man, finally got the opportunity to tell a judge his long-sought wish -- that he be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, guardianship

Federal government reviewing group home data in MA and two other states

May 11, 2015 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, community-based-care, developmental-disabilities

The federal government’s cruel pursuit of deinstitutionalization

May 5, 2015 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, community-based-care, deinstitutionalization, developmental-disabilities, privatization

The HW&M budget has great news for sheltered workshops, not so good news for state care in general

April 20, 2015 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, sheltered workshops

Human service providers’ lawsuit boosts their state funding despite deficit

April 7, 2015 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities

Public Health Department needs to release report on death of developmentally disabled man

February 13, 2015 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The Department of Public Health has completed an investigation of the case of a developmentally disabled man who died enroute to Lowell General Hospital in February 2012 after having been turned away … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, community-based-care, developmental-disabilities

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