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Wrentham Center supporters want you to to know: ‘It’s a community’

March 9, 2018 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) As is the case with many of the staff at the Wrentham Developmental Center, John Maxell, supervisor of adapted physical education, sees his job as serving both the center's residents and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities

Father and sister now told they must wait for long-delayed trial before they can visit disabled woman

February 13, 2018 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) The state's story keeps changing as to why the father and sister of a developmentally disabled woman have been banned for more than two years from having any contact with her. The woman, whose … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities

17 years later, a man hopes some good will come of his brother’s scalding death in a DDS group home

February 9, 2018 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities

Children and Families Committee needs to show it’s serious about investigating the DDS group home system

January 22, 2018 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities, group-homes, privatization

Committee won’t allow DDS clients and families to speak at oversight hearing on DDS care

January 11, 2018 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities

Parents continually frustrated by DDS and group-home provider in advocating for adequate care for their son

January 9, 2018 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) Ryan Tilly, who has Down Syndrome, had been living in his provider-operated group home in Haverhill for only four months in March of 2016 when he was allegedly assaulted by a staff member of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse, developmental-disabilities, neglect, privatization

Committee to schedule one or more oversight hearings on DDS system

December 12, 2017 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities, privatization

It’s time for the Legislature to investigate the privatized DDS system

November 13, 2017 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, developmental-disabilities, group-homes, privatization

New Yorker article on guardianship abuses has familiar ring

November 8, 2017 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) An article last month in The New Yorker magazine on abuses in the guardianship system in Nevada is beyond disturbing, and its findings echo many of the concerns we have raised about the dysfunction … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse, developmental-disabilities, guardianship

DDS report faults provider and charges cover-up in near-fatal, group home food aspiration case

October 26, 2017 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) (Update: The Essex County District Attorney’s Office confirmed this morning (October 26) that they have opened a criminal investigation into this matter.) As The Salem News reported this morning … [Read more...]

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

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