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CHILD ADVOCATE REPORTS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
CHILD FATALITY PANEL RECOMMENDATIONS ON ANNIVERSARY OF CHILD’S DEATH
October 31, 2006
Over the past year, the Office of the Child Advocate (OCA), an independent state agency statutorily mandated to protect the legal, civil and special rights of children in the custody and care of the state, has been monitoring the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF),’ implementation of the Child Fatality Review Panel’s recommendations in the In Re T.J. matter...
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RHODE ISLAND CELEBRATES UNITED
NATIONS DAY
October 24, 2006
Providence, RI . . . . “Each year more than a half million women die throughout the world due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth with the overwhelming majority of such deaths occurring in developing nations,” states Jametta O. Alston, Rhode Island Child Advocate and Honorary United Nations Day Chair for Rhode Island, in announcing the program for the State’s observance of United Nations Day on October 24, 2006, in the Rhode Island State House Rotunda from 12 Noon to 4 P.M. . . .
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Providence, RI. . . .“ Rhode Island’s youth are vulnerable and when they are gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender or questioning their sexual orientation, they are often at a higher
risk,” stated Rhode Island Child Advocate Jametta O. Alston in announcing today that the Office of Child Advocate has partnered with the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Issues and the Law Committee and the Thurgood Marshall Law Society to sponsor a free continuing legal education seminar on Thursday, June 8, 2006 in Providence to train attorneys to be sensitive to the issues faced by GBLTQQ youth and to explore what legal protections are available to such youth navigating the juvenile justice system...
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OFFICE OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE AND THE CHILD FATALITY PANEL RELEASES INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON DEATH OF CHILD
October 31, 2005
The murder of the child who was in the custody of the state shook the system to its core but also eroded the public’s confidence in the state’s ability to care for its most vulnerable citizens. If there are systemic failures that contributed to this tragedy, they need to be identified and corrected as soon as possible...
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