Chapter 240, An Act Regarding Families and Children Engaged in Services

1. Procedural History and Bill Versions

2. Committee Documents

3. Floor Documents and Conference Committee Documents

4. Executive Action Documents

5. Press Reports (links only)

The Boston Globe: Fair hearings for children September 15, 2006
The Justice Research Center: Process and Outcome Evaluation of the 2007-2009 Connecticut Families with Service Needs Initiative – Final Report By: Dr. Stephanie Bontrager Ryan, Dr. Kristin Parsons Winokur, Lindsey Devers, M.S. March 2010
The Justice Center: “Families With Service Needs: Outcome Findings Demonstrate Success” 2010
“DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE? A Report on Massachusetts Youth Unlawfully Held Without Bail” By: Barbara Fedders and Barbara Kaban
The Dangers of Detention: The Impact of Incarcerating Youth in Detention and Other Service Facilities – A Justice Policy Institute Report By: Barry Holman and Jason Ziedenberg
Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute: Implementing the Rosie D. Remedy: The Opportunities and Challenges of Restructuring a System of Care for Children’s Mental Health in Massachusetts By: Holly A. Kenny
National Alliance on Mental Illness: Massachusetts Emergency Behavioral Health Services Program By: Christine E. Previtera and Laurie Martinelli March 29, 2010
ABA Child Law Practice: “The Amazing Teen Brain: What Every Child Advocate Needs to Know” By: Linda Burgess Chamberlain
The Report of the Massachusetts Court Management Advisory Board: Legislative Action Required to Achieve Managerial Excellence in the Trial Courts By: Leo V. Boyle, Esq., Linda Carlisle, Gene D. Dahomey, Esq., Janet Fine, David S. Friedman, Esq., David G. Fubini, Robert Gittens, Esq., Michael B. Keating, Esq., Honorable Neil Lynch, Anne Marguiles, Thomas O’Brien, Elizabeth Pattullo March 2010
Florida Bar report
ABA CAP 2007 Conference:
- NISMART National Estimates and Characteristics By: Heather Hammer, David Finkelhor, and Andrea Sedlak
- Changing the Status Quo for Status Offenders: New York State’s Efforts to Support Troubled Teens By: Tina Chin and Sara Mogulescu
- Status Offenses By: David J. Steinhart
- A Model Response to Truancy Prevention: The Louisville Truancy Court Diversion Project By: Judge Joan L. Byer and Jeffery Kuhn, Esq.
- Trends in the justice system’s response to status offending: OJJDP Briefing Paper Prepared by: Charles Puzzanchera – National Center for Juvenile Justice
- Youth At Risk: Keeping Adolescents Out of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Court Systems By: Kathi Grasso Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, April 13, 2007
- American Bar Association Commission on Youth at Risk Fact Sheet
- The American Bar Association Commission on Youth at Risk presents: “Youth at Risk: Keeping Adolescents Out of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Court Systems by Aiding Teens in Conflict With Their Families” in partnership with Harvard Law School Child Advocacy Program (CAP)

6. Misc.

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