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Help on the way for struggling families?

June 12, 2010 By AmberPaw 1 Comment

For the first time in the House Budget released by Charles Murphy and the Senate Budget released by Steven Panagiotakos, funding for family preservation has its own trackable, breakout line item in both the Senate and the House Budget; line … [Read more...]

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Lack of over sight kills; one size does not fit all

June 11, 2010 By AmberPaw 6 Comments

Community care without controls can be lethal if no one is watching the watchers.  In this case, while a child was supposed to be visited two times a week and her care monitored, those visits did not happen.  No one monitored and … [Read more...]

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Executive order establishes new Office of the Child Advocate on 12/20/07

December 22, 2007 By AmberPaw 23 Comments

Executive Order No. 494 has as a goal to protect the children involved with four agencies:  DMR, DMH, DSS and DYS.  That would be a change, as there is little oversight and little public scrutiny of any of these agencies unless or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: child-abuse, child-welfare, dmh, dmr, dss, dys, executive-orders, over-sight, residential-care, services

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This old quote from Hank Aaron in The NY Times obituary just left me speechless. I had not seen this before.

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jglarussoJoe LaRusso 🔌 🕳🐇 😷@jglarusso·
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1/3 NY awarded contracts for 2.5 GW of OSW the day before @MassGovernor vetoed the #NextGenClimate bill, which included 2.4 GW of OSW for MA. The result? NY is now positioned as the “undeniable center of gravity” for the E. Coast OSW industry.

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