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Last year, lawmakers gave the state Department of Health and Human Services until March 1, 2023, to close the Sununu Youth Services Center and relocate the five to 10 juveniles typically detained there. Last week, they killed the bill that would have...
Unless lawmakers find a way to extend the deadline, the Department of Health and Human Services will have to send juveniles out of state if it can’t find other options here.
Last year, lawmakers gave the state Department of Health and Human Services until March 1, 2023, to close the Sununu Youth Services Center and relocate the five to 10 juveniles typically detained there. Last week, they killed the bill that would have given the department the money, guidance, and authority to meet that deadline.
Five organizations focused on protecting children and their access to mental health treatment have called on Gov. Chris Sununu and executive councilors to reject the state’s proposed contract with Wellpath Recovery Solutions to provide psychiatric care to children at Hampstead Hospital.
A month after an employee called the police on Black couple Magalie and Barry Lawrence at a state office in Concord, activists are criticizing how the Department of Environmental Services and the Department of Health and Human Services handled the...