Children and Famillies

The Department of Children and Families, formerly the Department of Social Services, issues a quarterly report on their activities.

Included in the report are placement statistics by race, age, Hispanic origin; foster home profiles; those entering placement and those leaving; those with a goal to adoption; and foster homes by type, race, marital status and Hispanic origin.

The report also delineates cases and information by the state and specific regions and includes charts.

The report is available in the Library (room 341) in paper under the call number MR 363M3 D76. It is also online at: http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/37929.

The Government Documents Department

High School Dropouts

The Massachusetts Department of Education's 2007-2008 annual dropout report provides education leaders with data to develop and strengthen prevention programs. Entitled High School Dropouts 2007-08, Massachusetts Public Schools, rates are taken from one year of statistics for grades nine through twelve. These are broken down by race/ethnicity and gender, school type, special populations, and summer/school year. Trends over time and final enrollment status of those in the latest count are presented. The appendices track annual dropout rate by district and school beginning in 2000 and by grade, gender, and race/ethnicity for individual school districts in 2007-2008.

Massachusetts Receives Poor Grade on Abuse and Neglect of Children

The following report, written by the Children's Advocacy Institute and First Star is available in the State Library State Secrecy and Child Deaths in the U.S. (PDF).

-Pamela Schofield, Reference Librarian