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Compromise bill expands DDS services to some, but not all people with developmental disabilities

October 28, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) After months of negotiations with a limited group of advocates for the developmentally disabled, key state legislators have approved a draft of a bill intended to expand services to people who are not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: autism, developmental-disabilities, intellectual-disabilities

A disappointing update on sheltered workshops in Massachusetts

October 4, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) In a post the other day, I suggested that state Department of Developmental Services Commissioner Elin Howe talk to family members of sheltered workshop participants, who maintain the programs have … [Read more...]

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

Sheltered workshops under fire in Massachusetts

September 30, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from the COFAR Blog) Paul Buonomo enjoys his job stuffing envelopes, collating papers and carrying out other tasks in a program in Danvers known as a sheltered workshop. His parents, Doris and Joe Buonomo, maintain that … [Read more...]

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

Bedford group home resident’s injuries raise disturbing questions

September 16, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) We don't yet know what happened to cause the serious injuries suffered in late August by Paul Stanizzi, a resident of a group home for the intellectually disabled in Bedford. The incident is … [Read more...]

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

The story of a remarkable woman

September 10, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) I never met Joanna Bezubka, who lived at the Fernald Developmental Center for 39 years and then spent the final seven years of her life in a state-operated group home in Lynnfield. But after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, Down syndrome, intellectual-disabilities

We can do better than the final DDS budget for current fiscal year

July 8, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) As we start the 2014 fiscal year, there was some good news, but mostly bad news for people with intellectual disabilities and their families in the final budget produced by the Legislature last … [Read more...]

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

State-run facilities being asked to do more with less

June 27, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) State-operated care appears to be in increasing fiscal trouble in Massachusetts even though that type of care remains the choice of many families, including those whose loved ones have been transferred … [Read more...]

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

Will we finally get a national background check for DDS hires?

June 24, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog)  A little more than two years ago, I wrote about a man who had served a year in prison in California for having sex with a minor before violating probation and fleeing to Massachusetts where he took a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: intellectual-disabilities, national background check

DDS, in dispute with parent over care of her disabled son, seeks to remove her as guardian

April 10, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from the COFAR Blog) Apparently unable or unwilling to resolve a dispute over the proper residential placement for a developmentally disabled man, the state is seeking to remove the man’s mother as his guardian.  The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: intellectual-disabilities

Autism’s crisis in care

March 6, 2013 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The SAGE Crossing Foundation Blog) Many young adults with autism are more likely to spend their days watching TV and playing video games than participating in life skills or job programs. It's not that these people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, intellectual-disabilities, special-education

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