The Disability Rights Center-NH has announced that it too has found evidence of potential abuse occurring at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly known as the Youth Detention Center or YDC, in Manchester — just weeks after the Office of the Child Advocate independently released its own findings of potential abuse and neglect. In a […]

New Hampshire Associate Attorney General Christopher Bond said during Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting that the state Department of Justice is doing its own investigation into potential abuse and neglect at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester. The allegations were first reported last week by the Office of the Child Advocate — a state watchdog […]

The Sununu Youth Services Center, which for several years has been embroiled in perhaps the largest youth detention center abuse scandal in U.S. history, is facing new concerns about abuse and neglect. “We’re still right in the middle of our investigative phase right now,” Cassandra Sanchez, New Hampshire’s child advocate, said. “But we did learn […]

During a meeting meant to address safety gaps in New Hampshire’s disability care system, a group of care providers said they believe the state doesn’t have enough investigators looking into abuse and neglect. “There’s too few investigators,” Michelle Donovan, the New Hampshire director for the care agency Living Innovations, said. “Quite frankly, there’s not enough […]

After the New Hampshire Senate passed a bipartisan bill aimed at strengthening oversight of care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state, the House is preparing to vote on the legislation, which was introduced as a response to reports of abuse, neglect, and untimely deaths. The bill targets the state’s developmental disability […]

Following high-profile reports of abuse, neglect, and untimely deaths, a bipartisan group of New Hampshire state senators have proposed legislation aimed at protecting people with disabilities in state care from future abuse and neglect. “This is a very vulnerable community, some of the most vulnerable people that are living amongst us,” Sen. David Rochefort, a […]

A state committee tasked with evaluating New Hampshire’s disability care system has launched a formal review and scheduled a series of public meetings to discuss the system in the wake of reports of systemic abuse and neglect. In New Hampshire, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are entitled to care services paid for and overseen […]