Foster care – Jo Comerford

By Jo Comerford

In Testimony, Testimony, Letters, Reports & Statements

Posted September 26, 2023

Joint Testimony from Senator Comerford and Representative Farley-Bouvier on An Act establishing the Massachusetts Foster Care Review Office

By Jo Comerford

In Press Releases, Testimony, Letters, Reports & Statements

Posted May 22, 2023

Comerford Receives Legislator of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Alliance for Foster Families (MAFF)

By Jo Comerford

In The People's Blog

Posted February 14, 2023

A (Policy) Love Letter: Our Legislative Agenda for the 2023-2024 Session

My team and I are thrilled to launch “Toward the Future,” our legislative agenda for the 2023-2024 session. We’re releasing this on Valentine’s Day because policy is one of the […]

By Jo Comerford

In Press Releases, Testimony, Letters, Reports & Statements

Posted June 30, 2022

Senate Passes Foster Parents’ Bill of Rights Legislation

By Jo Comerford

In Audio & Video, The People's Blog

Posted June 30, 2022

Standing Up for a Foster Parents’ Bill of Rights

Today the Senate passed S.2954, An Act establishing a foster parents’ bill of rights, one of the legislative proposals I filed this session. The bill creates a framework to ensure […]

By Jo Comerford

In Newsletters, The People's Blog, Updates from Jo

Posted November 3, 2021

Big public health news

Warm Greetings (literally), I write from Tampa, where I traveled to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Legislative Summit, joining Senate President Karen Spilka who serves on [...]

By Jo Comerford

In Op-Eds & Columns, Updates from Jo

Posted October 26, 2021

A year after David Almond’s death in DCF care, what has changed?

By Tricia Farley-Bouvier and Jo Comerford When we learned of David Almond’s death on Oct. 21, 2020, we were heartbroken. Tragically, this was not the first time we had […]