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Seven courthouses across the state will join Governor Deval Patrick and the Middlesex Probate and Family Court today in finalizing more than 200 adoptions of children from foster care as part of a statewide celebration of National Adoption Day.

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The Patrick Administration’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) today released its Annual Statistical Report for Fiscal Year 2009 that showed the agency has exceeded the national standard for re-unification; reduced by 66% the number of inappropriately ‘stuck’ youth in acute psychiatric settings; and reduced by 14% the number of out-of-home placement for children less than 18-years old.

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The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren will be hosting the first of seven statewide listening tours in Bourne on Monday, September 14.

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The Patrick Administration today announced the creation of the Foster Child Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights, developed by the Department of Children and Families' (DCF) Youth Advisory Board consisting of current and former DCF foster youth who participate on a volunteer basis, was created to ensure that foster children across the state are treated with respect and actively included in the decisions that affect their lives.

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The Patrick Administration announced today that 50 youth from the Youth Summer Jobs Program, a collaborative initiative in the Boston area between the Department of Children and Families (DCF), Communities for People, and the Center for Public Management at Suffolk University have embarked on a summer job experience provided by a number of private and public employers.

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The Patrick Administration announced today that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is awarding 2,500 rental assistance vouchers to 37 public housing authorities across the U.S. to reunite more than 7,500 children in foster care with their parents.

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In anticipation of the warm summer months, the Massachusetts Departments of Children and Families (DCF) and Public Health (DPH) would like to remind families and caregivers with young children of useful summertime safety tips.

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