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Sununu’s final request: a Dartmouth takeover of Hampstead Hospital.
12-04-2024 5:15 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chris Sununu has one ask before he leaves the corner office: to see Dartmouth Health take over operations at Hampstead Hospital.He knows it’s a unique proposition – the private hospital would lease the facility from the state, gaining full control...

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‘Supposed to protect me’: For kids in state custody, NH’s foster care system can lead to placements thousands of miles from home
03-21-2025 3:53 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Her case worker said Tennessee would be a new beginning. Brie Lamarche thought so, too.


Children’s psychiatric residential facility at Hampstead Hospital to expand, hopes of meeting full capacity
11-18-2024 3:46 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When the doors to New Hampshire’s first psychiatric residential facility for children opened last May, advocates and state leaders celebrated the new resource that could house up to a dozen kids. Over a year later, that maximum capacity has yet to be...


Lawsuit reveals New Hampshire's child protective services failure to safeguard children after Harmony Montgomery's death
09-17-2024 5:41 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Efforts to bolster child protective services in New Hampshire over the past decade didn’t do enough to save the life of 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, according to a lawsuit filed by the girl’s mother.Harmony, who died at the hands of her father, has...


‘Being closer to New Hampshire is better’: Sununu signs child welfare reforms, prioritizing in-state residential care
08-26-2024 3:40 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Cassandra Sanchez’s visit to a Tennessee facility last year raised an alarm for the New Hampshire child advocate.One of the children held at the facility told her he had one goal: to do “whatever it takes” to return to the Granite State.A new law,...


Child advocate raises concerns about youth detention center plans after proposal withdrawn from Executive Council
08-07-2024 7:01 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Words like institutional and hardened type of secure construction raise alarm bells for Cassandra Sanchez.When the Office of the Child Advocate supported legislation to build a new youth detention facility, a requirement was that the center take on a...


Director of DCYF resigns after seven months in the role
04-12-2024 12:07 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After seven months leading the Division of Children, Youth and Families, Jeff Fleischer has resigned from his post as director.Flesicher began in the role in August after coming out of retirement to lead the state agency. He previously served as the...


Superior Court judge rules against DCYF on confidential records
04-14-2017 9:54 AM

By ALLIE MORRIS

A New Hampshire Superior Court judge has sided with a family suing the state child protection agency in a ruling that could pave the way to making confidential abuse and neglect records open to the public.“The Court finds defendants’ interests in...

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