We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Margaret Winchester Award to honor excellence in child welfare advocacy, in recognition of Margaret’s long-lasting and deep commitment to her CAFL […]
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On October 10, the Boston Globe published several letters to the editor regarding DCF and the courts, including the following one from Deputy Chief Counsel Michael Dsida: GOVERNOR BAKERÂ has rightly […]
The Family Resource Centers (FRCs) of Massachusetts is a statewide network providing community-based, multi-cultural parenting programs, support groups, early childhood services, information and referral resources and education for families whose […]
September 14, 1953 – June 16, 2015 With sadness, we are writing to let you know that Margaret Winchester, the Attorney in Charge for CAFL’s trial office in Worcester, passed […]
BOSTON — On May 11, EOHHS Secretary, Marylou Sudders, announced that Joan Mikula, has been promoted to serve as Commissioner of Mental Health; a position she has held on an […]
Nancy Hathaway, a supervising attorney in CPCS’s Children and Family Law Division office in Boston, was honored by the Juvenile Bar Association (JBA) with the Leo J. Lydon award at […]
The SJC recently held in Guardianship of V.V., 470 Mass. 590 (2015)Â that indigent parents have a constitutional right to counsel in private guardianship-of-a-minor proceedings. A summary of the case and […]
In a Letter of Findings made public Monday, the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights ordered the Massachusetts Department […]
The current lists of individuals eligible for appointment as guardians ad litem in all categories and in all divisions of the Juvenile Court will be null and void on July […]
In a recent letter to the Boston Globe, CAFL’s Deputy Chief Counsel, Michael Dsida, emphasized the importance of frequent parent-child visits for children in foster care.  Read Letter Image Credit
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