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TRIAL
COURT JUDGES IN BOSTON AND GREENFIELD FINALIZE SEVENTY-FOUR
ADOPTIONS
IN
CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY
Judges
of the Juvenile Court and the Probate and Family Court finalized
the adoptions of 74 children by families from throughout
Massachusetts on Friday, November 21, in celebration of National
Adoption Day. This is the first year that the Massachusetts
Trial Court, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Adoption
Resource Exchange and the Massachusetts Department of Social
Services, has participated in the national program to raise
public awareness of the need for adoptive homes.
Festive
ceremonies honoring the adoptive families were held at
the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse in Boston and at the Franklin/Hampshire
Juvenile Court in Greenfield. Speakers at the Boston ceremony
included Juvenile Court Chief Justice Martha P. Grace,
Probate and Family Court Chief Justice Sean M. Dunphy,
Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healy, Massachusetts Executive
Office of Health and Human Services Secretary Ronald Preston,
Massachusetts Department of Social Services Commissioner
Harry Spence, and Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Executive Dierctor Adam Pertman. In Greenfield, the speakers
included Franklin/Hampshire Juvenile Court First Justice
Lillian Miranda, Juvenile Court Judge James G. Collins,
Clerk-Magistrate Christopher D. Reavey, Northampton Mayor
Claire M. Higgins, Greenfield Mayor Christine Forgey, and
local legislators.
<See photos of
the Boston ceremonies>
<See
photos from Franklin/Hampshire Juvenile Court>
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