Statewide program redesign in works to reunite families faster

Published February 11, 2011

Statewide program redesign in works to reunite families faster
In the past several months, the numbers of children being removed from their parents is increasing compared to the same period last year because of prescription-drug abuse. The problem has prompted new programs as part of a statewide foster-care redesign initiative to get treatment and services to parents more quickly.
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Community leaders call for Abbot John Henry to take leave from St. Herman’s House of Hospitality after police find …
With Henry’s consent, police last month confiscated 80 guns and hundreds of boxes of ammunition from a home near St. Herman’s. On Friday, another 150 guns and tens of thousands more rounds of ammunition were recovered from a Trumbull County farm the shelter owns.
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Syringe exchange program approved
The Portsmouth Health Department Board has given the go-ahead to Bobbi Bratchett to move forward with a syringe exchange program, designed to eliminate the use of used needles. Bratchett said IV dr…
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