(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Alleged state credit card misuse and other financial irregularities at the Life Focus Center of Charlestown are the latest in a series of mini-scandals involving human service contractors to the … [Read more...]
Trial in alleged assault of intellectually disabled man is put off again
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Today (Tuesday) marked the fifth time Sheila Paquette has traveled from her home in western Massachusetts to Cape Cod to seek justice in the alleged assault of her brother, John Burns, an intellectually … [Read more...]
Dying, intellectually disabled man sent home twice from hospital
(Cross-posted from the COFAR Blog) The disabled are often treated as second-class citizens, even in hospitals, says Dorothy O'Rourke. O'Rourke is concerned that may have been the case with a resident of a state-operated group home in … [Read more...]
It’s budget time — time to blame the Fernald families
(Cross-posted from the Cofar blog) The Massachusetts human service vendors are at it again -- blaming the families of Fernald Developmental Center residents for the state's budget problems. In an online email to members this week, … [Read more...]
DDS vendor executives not sharing the pain of their workers
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Direct-care workers in the state's contracted human services system have seen their wages stagnate in recent years, but the executives who run the largely nonprofit contractor agencies that employ those … [Read more...]
Gov’s budget continues cuts to intellectually disabled
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) With a few exceptions, Governor Patrick's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, which he unveiled last week, appears to continue the trend in recent years of cutting funding for care for the … [Read more...]
DDS stonewalling on cost, care information
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) (Part 2 of 2-part series on transparency issues in the Patrick administration) The Patrick adminstation contends it is striving to be "transparent" in the way it conducts the public's business, and … [Read more...]
Alleged assaulter of disabled man is no-show on trial date
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Sheila Paquette's long-running quest to bring the man who allegedly assaulted her intellectually disabled brother to justice took yet another turn this week. After months of delay, Monday, January … [Read more...]
The Globe tells half the story about Fernald
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) A front-page article that ran Thanksgiving Day in The Boston Globe depicts with great sensitivity the lives of four men who were moved out of what was then the Fernald School 40 years ago and have lived … [Read more...]
Funding for DDS clients falling through the cracks
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) There are few burdens greater than having to care for a loved one with a severe intellectual disability, particularly when the state declines to provide any help. At a public hearing earlier this … [Read more...]
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