Judge Agnes says 12- 20 courthouses will close Maybe your courthouse in North Adams, or Ayer, or Fall River or Gardner, or Concord or Palmer or Barnstable will be the next one to turn out its lights. As the Courthouse lights go out, I think … [Read more...]
NO MORE CUTS TO HUMAN SERVICES!
AND - AS revenue rebounds, reverse the cuts. The reality is that there are fewer safety net services today to help struggling families care for children or manage mentally ill children's care then there were 10 years ago - DCF no longer has … [Read more...]
Good News: Well deserved Angel Award to Etta Lappen Davis
Without Etta Lappen Davis, and people like her, more families would fail and more children would find themselves living on the streets. As it is, 800 kids a year on average find themselves homeless, with out families, and aged out of … [Read more...]
New DCF Protocol Is this research lacking? Opinions please? Guess cost
Link to research: CLICK LINK BELOW http://www.nccd-crc.org/crc/pu... … [Read more...]
37 % of the kids who age out of foster care at 18 are homeless – BUT I have a proposal
The first time, a friend in Utah called and said she was afraid her 18 year old would run away and was anorexic, could she stay with us for a while. We had known "L" since she was 5 years old and said certainly. With us, … [Read more...]
Donnelly is a policy oriented candidate who cares about governance
As some of you know, before 2003 I was not active in Massachusetts politics at all. My time and energy was totally taken up with both earning a living and being a wife - and mother of two very demanding special needs kids. When … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Legislature passes major over haul of DSS today
While press is beginning to come out that omnibus legislation to overhaul child welfare law and practice in Massachusetts passed today, I haven't found the actual bill online as yet. Apparently, it passed this afternoon. Here is the … [Read more...]