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CLM’s FY2023 budget agenda includes requests for investments in all facets of the broad system of child welfare: Family preservation and stabilization Human services workforce and provider capacity Transition-age youth Children's health, mental health, access to education, and more. We e...

We’re excited to announce the passage of CLM priority legislation Expanding Access to Adoption! The legislation now goes to Governor Charlie Baker for his signature. This legislation makes a technical change allowing kin to adopt their younger siblings, aunts, or uncles. Previously, only guardians...

The Juvenile Justice Policy and Data Board, of which CLM is a member, released its annual report, describing work and areas of study by the JJPAD in 2021. These topics included: juvenile justice trends and data availability the impact of COVID-19 on the juvenile justice system and youth at risk of i...

The newly launched Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma (CCWT) is a resource for child-serving organizations in Massachusetts, delivering trauma-informed and responsive (TIR) information, tools, and training. The CCWT was established by the Massachusetts legislature in 2021 following recommendations...

The Child Trauma Task Force, of which CLM is a member, released an interim report on trauma screening and referral practices. The CTTF is tasked with determining how the Commonwealth can better identify and provide services to youth who have experienced trauma and are currently involved with the juv...

On December 17, the CLM TAY coalition hosted a legislative briefing to discuss solutions to challenges faced by young adults who are leaving state care without permanency. Thank you to Representative Liz Malia for your sponsorship, The Home for Little Wanderers for hosting us in person, Matt Stone f...

In December, the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families released its annual report for FY2021. The report includes new data on disproportional representation of various racial categories of children throughout the child welfare system. The report also sheds new light on the impact of the ...

September 1, 2021 As we all know, FY2021 brought about many challenges to our workforce, organizations, children, and families. Throughout the past year and an unprecedented pandemic, CLM has been focused on supporting our members and advocating for critical financial support for the field, and...

Yesterday, CLM ED Tammy Mello attended the ribbon cutting of the Mercedes Ramirez-Newkirk Memorial Playground at DCF’s Worcester West Area Office. The project was a partnership between Rise Above Foundation and the Massachusetts Department of Children & Families (DCF). The playground provides ...

On Sept. 22, CLM Executive Director Tammy Mello donned a wedding dress and joined Representative Kay Khan and Unchained at Last for a Chain-In event at the State House aimed at building awareness and calling on the Legislature to end all child marriage in Massachusetts this session.  In bridal ...