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‘Being closer to New Hampshire is better’: Sununu signs child welfare reforms, prioritizing in-state residential care
08-29-2024 2:30 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Cassandra Sanchez’s visit to a Tennessee facility last year raised an alarm for the New Hampshire child advocate.One of the children held at the facility told her he had one goal: to do “whatever it takes” to return to the Granite State.A new law,...


Child advocate raises concerns about youth detention center plans after proposal withdrawn from Executive Council
08-08-2024 3:47 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Words like institutional and hardened type of secure construction raise alarm bells for Cassandra Sanchez.When the Office of the Child Advocate supported legislation to build a new youth detention facility, a requirement was that the center take on a...


Kenyon: Readers chip in so Claremont girls can attend summer camp
07-05-2024 7:30 PM

By JIM KENYON

During a visit to the summer day camp run by a southern Windsor County YMCA on Wednesday morning, I talked with Ashley Denofrio’s 11-year-old niece.I asked her what she’d be doing, if not attending camp.“I’d be home, probably sleeping,” she said....


NH Juvenile Justice: Giving families a voice in the process
06-11-2023 9:28 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

It only took Tonya McMurray’s child a few seconds to realize something that was said in a moment of anger would become words to regret.In a heated conversation, a back-and-forth between teenagers taunting each other, McMurray’s child threatened...


NH programs allow kids to remain at home while accessing mental health care
06-02-2023 6:41 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Gavin Dubois sometimes doesn’t have the words to express how he feels. But when he picks up a pair of drumsticks, he can read his emotions as clearly as notes on a sheet of music. Amid the sounds of the snare, the melodies of his marimba, his rage...


N.H. to Pay $6.75 Million to Settle DCYF Abuse Case
05-04-2018 9:48 AM

By Lola Duffort

The state has agreed to pay $6.75 million to settle a suit brought by the grandparents of two young girls who were sexually abused by their parents while under the supervision of New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth and Families.The lawsuit...

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