by CARRIE SCHLUTER | May 20, 2016 | Initiatives, Kids in crisis
May is National Foster Care Month and the statistics are staggering. According to the Department of Health & Human Services, on September 30, 2014, there were an estimated 415,129 children in foster care. It’s probably safe to assume these numbers have continued...
by CARRIE SCHLUTER | May 7, 2016 | Initiatives, Kids in crisis
No fewer than three articles in today’s Boston Herald illustrate the severity of the opioid crisis in our communities. The first is about a Westfield mother whose unconscious one-year- old son was brought back to life with the overdose-reversing drug Narcan. The child...
