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Sununu’s final request: a Dartmouth takeover of Hampstead Hospital.
12-04-2024 5:15 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chris Sununu has one ask before he leaves the corner office: to see Dartmouth Health take over operations at Hampstead Hospital.He knows it’s a unique proposition – the private hospital would lease the facility from the state, gaining full control...

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Children’s psychiatric residential facility at Hampstead Hospital to expand, hopes of meeting full capacity
11-18-2024 3:46 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When the doors to New Hampshire’s first psychiatric residential facility for children opened last May, advocates and state leaders celebrated the new resource that could house up to a dozen kids. Over a year later, that maximum capacity has yet to be...


Lawsuit reveals New Hampshire's child protective services failure to safeguard children after Harmony Montgomery's death
09-17-2024 5:41 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Efforts to bolster child protective services in New Hampshire over the past decade didn’t do enough to save the life of 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, according to a lawsuit filed by the girl’s mother.Harmony, who died at the hands of her father, has...


‘Being closer to New Hampshire is better’: Sununu signs child welfare reforms, prioritizing in-state residential care
08-26-2024 3:40 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Child advocate raises concerns about youth detention center plans after proposal withdrawn from Executive Council
08-07-2024 7:01 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...


Director of DCYF resigns after seven months in the role
04-12-2024 12:07 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After seven months leading the Division of Children, Youth and Families, Jeff Fleischer has resigned from his post as director.Flesicher began in the role in August after coming out of retirement to lead the state agency. He previously served as the...


Parents with lived experience are leading others through the DCYF process
09-12-2023 7:28 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ashley Cheney knows the state’s child welfare system through and through – for better or for worse.A few years ago, her three young children got on the bus to school. At the end of the day, they never came back.Instead, they were sent off to foster...


Child advocate calls for end to out-of-state placement for youth following Tennessee visit 
08-20-2023 11:00 AM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In a lime green jumpsuit, a child cleaned glass windows, mopped the floor and took the trash out from an area that served as the main entrance to the Bledsoe Youth Academy in Gallatin Tennessee. It’s a youth residential placement program for boys...


New Hampshire Public Defenders to provide legal advice on youth assessment process 
08-03-2023 4:34 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Before any charges are filed against a child in New Hampshire in juvenile court, parents and children are asked the same question each time: Would you like to participate in the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessment? Most need a little...


Meet Jeff Fleischer: Community non-profit leader and new director of DCYF 
07-24-2023 1:33 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For $1 in North Newark, New Jersey, Jeff Fleischer and the organization La Casa de Don Pedro, bought an old burned furniture warehouse. Three years later, that abandoned space became a youth center – with street outreach, afterschool programs,...


Jeff Fleischer, retired nonprofit director, tapped to lead NH DCYF
07-05-2023 12:37 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The former CEO of a national youth diversion program will lead New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth and Families beginning Aug. 1.Jeff Fleischer is known for decades of work with the Youth Advocate Program, a nonprofit based out of...


NH Juvenile Justice: Life inside the Sununu Center
06-06-2023 10:21 AM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jerry Rocha steps through a metal detector and then waits for a large secured door to unlock each morning. Next, he enters into a small holding space. And once the first door locks behind him, he can push open the next.He walks into a well-lit...


NH Juvenile Justice: Giving families a voice in the process
06-06-2023 10:16 AM

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 Juvenile Justice: A new foundation for child services
06-06-2023 10:03 AM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In Joe Ribsam’s first year working in New Hampshire, following legislation in the State House was practically a full-time job.Ribsam, the new head of the Division for Children, Youth and Families, found himself reiterating requests for funds and...


Programs like FAST Forward allow kids to remain at home while accessing care
05-30-2023 10:35 AM

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...


Superior Court judge rules against DCYF on confidential records
04-14-2017 9:54 AM

By ALLIE MORRIS

A New Hampshire Superior Court judge has sided with a family suing the state child protection agency in a ruling that could pave the way to making confidential abuse and neglect records open to the public.“The Court finds defendants’ interests in...

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