Help a Child’s Dream Live On
Every so often, I find a story that really touches me in the news. One that isn’t full of violence, destruction or hatred. Although the story of Matthew McIntyr’s wish to help adopted children, like himself, is not the one that his family would have necessarily written since Matthew passed away at age 9 last [...]
E-Prescribing: What is it and Why you should Care
E-prescribing is a method by which we could improve patient care. E-prescribing helps to improve safety in prescribing many ways, as described here. One important way it helps is by eliminating the illegibility problem of many doctors’ handwriting. It also helps by providing a warning and alert system at the point of prescribing with the [...]
Greg Hessoin, JD, Writes About Medicating Children
This is an interesting article. It’s one-sided, providing mainly the opinions of Dr. Peter Breggin and Kevin Hall of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, both of whom see little or no value in prescribing psychiatric medications to children. It’s important to remember that there are lots of parents out there and adults with psychiatric [...]
The Perils of Foster Care
Hartford Courant staff writer Charles Proctor asked child welfare professionals in Connecticut about the recent study performed by Joseph Doyle on foster children, which we posted about here. This study is being considered the first empirical evidence that children taken out of the home have more problems with teen pregnancy and illegal behavior, and also [...]
Foster Care for Illegal Immigrant Children Criticized
Speaking of thorny issues, the issue of illegal immigrant children in the US is one that continues to be a very difficult one to get a handle on. We had a terrible situation recently in New Bedford where illegal immigrants were rounded up for deportation and their children were suddenly parentless and very afraid, as [...]
Study Says Foster Care Worse Than Abusive Homes
In case the bad news on Rhode Island’s foster care system wasn’t enough, here’s some bad news on the foster care system in Illinois — a larger, longer-term study that may have broader implications. From USA Today: Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they [...]
Substandard Foster Care in Rhode Island
This is sad stuff. When you work for over a decade in the child welfare system in Rhode Island as I have, you like to think that our system is better than most, but the painful reality is that it is not. In fact, if the statistics cited in the Child Advocate’s lawsuit against DCYF [...]
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