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Office of the Child Advocate In the News

Today, New Futures, a statewide health policy and advocacy organization, and the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire released a Carsey School research brief presenting new data on the children and caregivers impacted by the ongoing addiction epidemic.

The New Hampshire House Finance Committee voted in favor of a bill (SB 592) to provide more funding for the DCYF.

Efforts to reform the New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth and Families are getting a big boost from a division of the House Finance Committee giving its support to a plan to give more staff and resources to the child protection agency.

Close Up: Child Advocate says DCYF Reforms at Risk

More funding for at-risk families could have helped avert tragedy in Derry. SB 590 would include voluntary services to support these families.

Child advocate: Support services might have saved New Hampshire boy's life

Moira O'Neill, who heads the brand-new Office of the Child Advocate, said a program that's no longer funded could have made a difference.

N.H. Office of the Child Advocate investigating DCYF after Derry murder-suicide.

Child Advocate to Oversee Child Protection: An Interview with new Director of the Office of the Child Advocate.

State's new child advocate will see the full picture. New Hampshire's first child advocate will have unusual independence and authority, including subpoena power, as she takes office today in yet another move by lawmakers to address problems in the state’s troubled child protective services.

The Executive Council has approved Governor Sununu's nomination of Moira O'Neill as director of the new office to help better protect children.

Candidates were interviewed to lead the new Office of the Child Advocate.

N.H. child deaths 'hard to address' without data. Reporter for Concord Monitor finds tt's impossible to know the total number of child deaths in New Hampshire related to abuse and neglect - or even the instances of child mistreatment - because no single entity in the state is tracking all the data.

Part 1 of 4-part series on the flaws in the child welfare system found to have contributed to the deaths of children by maltreatment.

Part 2 of 4-part series on the flaws in the child welfare system found to have contributed to the deaths of children by maltreatment.

Part 3 of a 4-part series on the flaws in the child welfare system found to have contributed to the deaths of children by maltreatment.

Part 3 of a 4-part series on the flaws in the child welfare system found to have contributed to the deaths of children by maltreatment.

A legislative commission set up to review child abuse fatalities in New Hampshire is working on its most ambitious proposal yet - a watchdog agency to keep an independent eye on the state's child protection system ...

The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is reviewing recent child deaths in the state and any actions of the state's child protection agency before the deaths took place.