December 30, 2022
Some recent news stories from around Massachusetts and the nation pertaining to child welfare and family well-being.
In Massachusetts:
- Mass. health secretary Marylou Sudders to step down (Boston Business Journal)
- Sudders, state’s longest-serving health secretary, to step down (Boston Globe)
- New Community Behavioral Health Centers Target Gaps in Care (State House News Service)
- Baker-Polito Administration Marks Opening of Community Behavioral Health Centers, Highlights Progress Strengthening Access to Behavioral Health Care Over Past Eight Years (Mass.gov)
- Vouchers for all? Housing groups call for $3.2b investment to provide ‘universal’ rental aid in Mass (Boston Globe)
- 'Baby Bonds' program touted as a way to shrink the wealth gap in Massachusetts (WAMC Northeast Public Radio)
- Young adult homelessness declining in Boston, officials say (Boston Globe)
- Some Chelsea residents got $400 a month, no strings attached. Here’s what happened next. (Boston Globe)
- They brought their sick baby to the hospital. Three days later, the state took their kids away. (Boston Globe)
- Regulators Flag Pediatric Care Consolidation Trend (State House News Service)
- Board of Early Education and Care Gives Initial Approval to Regulation Changes That Will Make Child Care Easier for Families to Access (Mass.gov)
- Boston-based Breaktime working to end young adult homelessness (WCVB)
- Harmony Montgomery case shows that Mass. child welfare system is still troubled (MetroWest Daily News)
Stories from across the country:
- Treehouse, a WA Success with foster youth education, gets D.C.'s attention (Seattle Times)
- The Child Welfare System Needs an Overhaul - Opinion (The Progressive Magazine)
- Foundation Launches Initiative to ‘Disrupt’ Child Welfare (The Imprint)
- Associations Between State TANF Policies, Child Protective Services Involvement, And Foster Care Placement (Health Affairs)
- Kinship care is the future of the child welfare system — let’s make it accessible to everyone - Opinion (The Hill)
- Drug testing policies for pregnant patients vary dramatically from hospital to hospital, new study finds (North Carolina Health News)
- ALL IN: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness (U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness)
- The “Death Penalty” of Child Welfare: In Six Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever (ProPublica)
- A closer look at the practice of billing parents for their child's foster care (NPR)
- Fostering tragedy: Experts say system designed to protect children can break up families (CBS Sunday Morning)