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Lawmakers hear testimony supporting Harmony Commission to study child-welfare failures
Summary
Advocates, a former juvenile court judge and child-welfare organizations urged the committee to create the Harmony Montgomery Commission (H.218 / S.164) to investigate systemic problems in Massachusetts’ child-welfare system and to include members with lived experience on the panel.
Speakers urged the Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities to report House Bill 218 and Senate Bill 164 favorably, which would create the Harmony Montgomery Commission to examine systemic failures in child-protection and care-and-protection proceedings. Charles Lerner, state director of Massachusetts CASA, said the bill should center individuals with lived experience. “I strongly urge that if this bill is passed, that it includes those critical voices,” Lerner said, praising the bill’s proposed…
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