A Brief Legislative History of the Child Welfare System

PATERNITY ISSUES - masslegalservices.org

and Statutory notes to Massachusetts General Laws Annotated, G.L. c. 209C, § 11. If a child was six months of age or older when the parents filed the voluntary acknowledgment out of court, the right to genetic marker testing was waived and the acknowledgment has the …

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Department of Transitional Assistance ... Massachusetts residency is an eligibility requirement for applicants and clients (hereafter called clients) for TAFDC, EAEDC and SNAP. ...

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Do you know a woman with breast or cervical cancer who is ...

• Women age 21- 64 with breast or cervical cancer or a precancerous condition who are in need of treatment, and • uninsured or underinsured for cancer treatment or insured by Commonwealth Care or MassHealth Family Assistance, Basic or Essential

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GUARDIAN AD LITEM - Mass Legal Services

guardian ad litem. The Standards for “Category E” Guardian ad Litem/Evaluators are included as Exhibit 10B. GAL/investigators and GAL/evaluators—or any other kind of GAL that might be assigned to your case—should be independent (neutral) investigators who examine several aspects of the child’s life. The GAL talks to the child’s

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OVERVIEW OF THE PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT

Dec 01, 2017 · CHAPTER 2: OVERVIEW OF THE PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT 10 Family Law Advocacy for Low and Moderate Income Litigants, 3rd Edition 2018 G.L. c. 119A Child Support Enforcement G.L. c. 190B Guardianship and Conservatorship of Minors

The Relationship between Poverty & Mass Incarceration

impedes poverty reduction Imposes barriers to employment: A year after release, 60 percent of formerly incarcerated people remain unemployed.vi Sixty-five million Americans – 1 in 4 adults – have a criminal record that may show up in a routine background check report.vii

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Getting a Driver’s License in Massachusetts

Getting a Driver’s License in Massachusetts Who needs to apply for a driver’s license? * If you live in Massachusetts and you want to drive, you must apply for a driver’s license in Massachusetts. Warning: Driving without a license is a crime! Driving a car that is not registered with the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) is also a crime.

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Family Engagement: Partnering With ... - Child Welfare

Child welfare agencies should provide training for their staff on how to effectively engage fathers and work to create greater opportunities to partner with fathers and paternal relatives whose children are involved in the child welfare system. The benefits of involved fathers include the following (National Fatherhood Initiative, n.d.): ...

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Indigenous Children and the Child Welfare System in …

child welfare “service” provided to Indigenous communities (Bennett, Blackstock, & de la Ronde, 2005). Indigenous communities began forming their own child welfare agencies in the late 1970s and early 1980s in order to provide culturally relevant child welfare services to children, youth and families both on and off reserve. While these

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Anti-oppression in child welfare laying the foundation for ...

Mar 31, 2008 · caregivers. With that authority, child welfare workers have the ability to apply sanctions on service users if they are not compliant with direction and orders. Further, child welfare agencies have the support of other state agencies such as the police and the court, all of which can be used to add further reinforcement to these sanctions.

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The B.C. Handbook for Action on Child Abuse and Neglect ...

Child: in British Columbia, under the Child, Family and Community Service Act (CFCSA), a child is anyone under the age of 19. Child Welfare Worker: a person delegated under the CFCSA to provide child welfare services, including responses to suspected child abuse and neglect.

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