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Arroyo returns to Probate office Court’s report finds employees worked to undermine his admin. By YAWU MILLER

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Mayor Martin Walsh (left) and challenger City Councilor Tito Jackson (right) sat down for a debate at Hibernian Hall moderated by The Boston Globe’s Adrian Walker (center).

Jackson, Walsh debate live from Dudley Square Clash over housing policy, school funding, policing By JULE PATTISON-GORDON and YAWU MILLER

Mayor Martin Walsh and District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson clashed over issues of police accountability, economic development and education in the first of two debates scheduled before the Nov. 7 general election. In Walsh’s assessment of his first term in office, his administration has invested more in schools than ever before, built more affordable housing than at any time in recent history and presided over a police department lauded by

former President Barack Obama for its community policing work. “We’re creating opportunities in every neighborhood,” Walsh said, speaking of the city’s unprecedented construction boom. To hear Jackson tell it, Walsh has cut schools by $142 million, refused to implement simple police reforms like body-worn cameras embraced by other major U.S. cities and facilitated the development of luxury condominium projects unaffordable to most Boston residents. “This administration put forward an idea to have a helicopter

pad built on your dime [for General Electric] and actually the same night that that helipad was being proposed, this administration was closing the Mattahunt school in Mattapan,” Jackson said. While Jackson and Walsh had appeared at candidates forums, last week’s debate marked the first time the two have gone head-tohead in a debate with rebuttals. Questions on economic and racial inequality figured prominently in the debate, sponsored by the RoxVOTE Coalition and moderated

Suffolk County Register of Probate Félix D. Arroyo is back at work after an investigation found he was undermined by longtime court staff who bristled at his efforts to diversify his office and better serve its largely non-English speaking clientele. Arroyo was suspended in February by Massachusetts Trial Court administrators, who alleged Arroyo mismanaged the office. Trial Court administrators tapped former Trial Court Judge Anthony Nesi to conduct the investigation. While Nesi issued the report in April, the Trial Court has not made the report public. The Boston Globe obtained a copy of the report and quoted from it Monday. According to the Globe report, Nesi concluded that staff showed a lack of respect for Arroyo based on his ethnicity as a Puerto Rican and his lack of knowledge of the Probate Court. “This lack of respect for him limited his ability to produce results,” the Globe quoted Nesi’s report. A spokesman for Arroyo said the register remains concerned about what he said are ongoing problems related to racism in the Trial Court. “Félix is back doing the job he was elected to do at the Registry of Probate and Family Court, and we’re happy about that,” said

spokesman Patrick Keaney. “The reality is, however, that while the institutional racism that he experienced has been exposed, it has not been eradicated. There is more work to be done.” Arroyo was elected Register in 2014, after the previous administrator, Patricia Campatelli was suspended for misconduct, including striking an employee. Arroyo inherited an office with a well-documented history of mismanagement. Nesi’s report found that Arroyo did little to improve the functioning of the court. But Arroyo supporters have argued that he has been undermined in his efforts to bring reform to the court and that Trial Court administrators denied him funding to hire senior staff. Former Trial Court Administrator Harry Spence instead brought in Terri Klug Cafazzo, who issued a report finding that Arroyo mismanaged the court. Cafazzo was then appointed to acting register of the probate while Arroyo was placed on paid suspension. After his suspension in February, Arroyo fired back at the Trial Court, alleging a pattern of discriminatory conduct in his office and in the Trial Court itself. After Arroyo made public his allegations, the United States Attorney’s Office launched an investigation into allegations of discrimination in the Trial Court. That investigation is ongoing. Arroyo returned to work two weeks ago.

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Minorities get slim share of contracts City requests proposals to study disparity By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

In mayoral forums and debates, City Councilor Tito Jackson has charged that the city directs miniscule amounts of spending toward firms owned by people of color. According to Jackson, 2 percent or less of city contract spending goes to minority-owned businesses. “In the City of Boston we spend $2 billion annually on contracts and less than 2 percent goes to people of color, and less than 0.5

percent in this administration goes to black-owned businesses,” Jackson said during last week’s mayoral candidate debate hosted by the RoxVote Coalition. By Mayor Martin Walsh’s administration’s count, the spending share going to people of color is even smaller than Jackson alleges. According to figures provided by a Walsh administration spokesperson, the city spends less than half a percent on minority-owned business enterprises (MBEs). The city did not provide MBE spending

ON THE WEB Disparity study RFP: www.boston.gov/sites/ default/files/city_of_boston_rfp.disparitystudy_10-09-17.pdf

information broken down by race. According to the spokesperson, in fiscal year 2017, the city’s operating budget included $609 million in contracting, of which $2.7 million went to MBEs. That comes to about 0.44 percent. The prior year, FY 2016, 0.45 percent of contracting expenditures went to MBEs, and in FY15, only 0.37 percent.

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Suffolk County Register of Probate Félix D. Arroyo returned to work two weeks ago.

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continued from page 1 by Adrian Walker of The Boston Globe.

Policing and safety

Jackson said he would achieve a police department more reflective of the city population, and he assailed Walsh on lacking diversity in police and fire, noting that 75 percent of new police officers and 90 percent of firefighters hired under Walsh were white. Jackson criticized the 4 percent arrest rate for non-fatal shootings, while Walsh said even that represents a 21 percent increase in the clearance rate for such crimes. To deter violence, Jackson said he would find ways to engage youth in other activities, including creating 5,000 youth summer jobs and 1,000 year-round youth jobs as well as reopening the Grove Hall Community center. He called for the return of more locally-focused police and for creation of a more powerful civilian review board, something that body had recommended. Walsh refrained from committing to implementing body cameras and said that he instead improved safety by using peace walks, informational meetings with clergy and community leaders and greater command staff diversity to build trust.

Economics

Walsh said the city’s unemployment rate declined in Boston, but acknowledged that Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan still have higher unemployment rates than is the citywide average. He

said one way he helped was by increasing the Boston Residents Jobs Policy, while Jackson said these requirements for hiring local often are not enforced and asserted that less than 2 percent of city contracts go to people of color. Walsh defended pursuit of companies like G.E. and Amazon saying that when such companies locate in the city, they create a number of jobs for Boston residents thus helping to build local wealth. Meanwhile, Jackson said the city should not use resources to lure large for-profit companies, asserting that he would offer nothing to entice Amazon to locate its second headquarters here.

Housing and development

Walsh said the city is on track in its housing plan to serve a growing population’s needs, with nearly 9,000 low- and middle-income housing units permitted, completed or in progress. He highlighted the increase in the portion of affordable units that developers are required to make and praised voters’ passage of the community preservation act. “Our housing plan is right on pace where we need to be,” Walsh said. He added that low-income housing cannot just be concentrated in some neighborhoods but most be spread throughout. Jackson charged that 87 percent of housing in Boston is unaffordable to city residents. “We are not building housing for the people who live in the city of Boston,” he said. Jackson promised to raise the affordability requirements even further and demand that housing developers using public land

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The audience was at capacity in Hibernian hall for the first of just two debates in which the mayor has agreed to participate. price one-third of their units as affordable to low-income individuals, one-third for moderate-income and one-third market-rate. He claimed he could work with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to create 1,000 homeownership units within several years, which he said would create community stability and wealth. Furthermore, Jackson called to dissolve the Boston Planning and Development Agency and replace it with a professional planning organization he said would be more attentive to the people’s needs.

Schools

Jackson said that while Walsh added funding to Boston Public Schools he cut heavily as well, and that schools suffer from chronic underfunding. Results of this are felt such as in some schools lacking nurses and psychiatrists, he said. Walsh said he has brought initiatives such as more pre

kindergarten seats and extended learning time at some schools, as well as more supports for low-level schools, and that he has narrowed achievement gaps. Jackson said Boston’s teaching staff has gotten less diverse, while Walsh asserted that teaching diversity has increased under his tenure.

Racial equity

The fact that the questions were being posed by a coalition of Roxbury-based social justice-focused organizations seemed to give Jackson somewhat of a home court advantage. That advantage seemed most palpable when the questions included a racial slant. For example, when asked whether blacks in Boston wield a measure of political power commensurate with their share of the population, Walsh lauded black elected officials in the auditorium, noted that 44 percent of the city’s hires during his administration were people of

color and cited the high number of blacks, Latinos and Asians in his cabinet. He also noted that he was the first Boston mayor to initiate open discussion on race. “We know there’s a problem with race in our city and we have to deal with it,” Walsh said. Jackson’s initial answer was much shorter: “On Tuesday, Nov. 7 we have a great opportunity to ensure there is power for people of color in the city of Boston.” The predominantly black audience included supporters of Jackson and Walsh, many of whom wore teeshirts and stickers bearing their candidate’s name. Walsh’s appearance at the Dudley Square venue underscored his campaigns determination to beat Jackson on his home turf. During the Sept. 26 preliminary, Jackson garnered just 29 percent of the vote to Walsh’s 63 percent. Jackson won just three wards: 12, which is located in Roxbury; 11, which is a Roxbury/Jamaica Plain ward; and Jamaica Plain ward 19. When asked about Boston’s reputation as a racist city, Walsh highlighted his administration’s efforts to contend with issues of inequality, including holding a town hall meeting and a series of race dialogues. “If you don’t deal with the past, you can’t look forward to the future,” he said. Jackson criticized Walsh for policies he said disproportionately harmed people of color while seeking to site and install a sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. “It is unacceptable to build a Martin Luther King statue when you cut funds for the Martin Luther King school,” he said.

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State legislators produce sweeping criminal justice reform bill By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

The senate’s sweeping criminal justice reform bill was the focus of a State House press conference last Thursday. The legislative package aims to reduce unnecessary incarceration, and measures encourage less severe responses to offenses and remove policies that disparately burden the poor. “However we got here, there’s no question that in communities of poverty, incarceration itself has become a problem,” said Sen. William Brownsberger, who has been championing the bill and received praise for engaging affected communities and formerly incarcerated people in the legislation’s development. “We need to lift people up instead of locking them up. And we need to cut the chains that hold people down when they’re trying to get up back on their feet.”

Poverty

The criminal justice system is packed with fees that raid the pocketbooks even of those who have served their time, creating financial burdens that could return them to jail, said Sen. Michael Barrett. “We [the state] are absolutely addicted to the money we extract from you as you move through the criminal justice system. Even after you pay your debt to society and begin to knit your life back together again, we want to extract user fees at every point in the system,” Barrett said, stating that this practice must end. These include probation fees, victim witness fees — including for

cases where there is no victim or witness — and other items, Barrett said. “Even when you have constitutional right for a lawyer before you’re sent away, we will make you pay a user fee to access that lawyer — $150,” Barrett said. The bill provides for waiving, eliminating or reducing many fees. Another reform would revise bail policies in light of increasing awareness that too often, people of little means are jailed pretrial only because of inability to afford the bail price, not due to flight risk or likelihood of causing harm if released.

Criminal records, sentencing and solitary

Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) checks can present a barrier to attaining housing, which is addressed by a measure allowing individuals not to disclose a sealed record in such cases. Another issue: After people serve their time or are found guilty, whichever is later, they must wait five years before being able to get the record of a misdemeanor sealed and ten years for a felony. “No one of us could imagine being unemployed for ten years,” said Pauline Quirion, director of the Greater Boston Legal Services’ CORI and re-entry project. “Studies show employers will not hire you with a CORI even for a dismissed case.” The bill reduces wait times to three years for sealing a misdemeanor record and seven years for a felony record. Dismissed cases no longer would go on a person’s record. Resisting arrest convictions would now be able to be sealed,

instead of following an individual for life; Quirion said those charges often are incurred by youth, people with mental disabilities or victims of police brutality. Other pieces reduce the use of solitary confinement and repeal mandatory minimum sentences for many drug-related offenses, particularly those regarded as affecting low-level dealers who sell to afford their own habit.

The young and the ill

Noting that studies demonstrate that the human brain’s planning centers continue to develop until the mid-20s, Sen. Karen Spilka praised a provision that raises the age at which an offender is considered a juvenile to include 18-year-olds, saying this allows young people to learn and recover from mistakes, rather than be impeded by them for the rest of their lives. Another measure would allow for expungement of juvenile misdemeanor records and non-convictions. To encourage trust toward parents, a provision would prevent parents and children who are minors from testifying against each other in most cases. Another piece would require the court to provide written justification before incarcerating a child’s primary caretaker, which supporters said is unacceptably harmful to the child. To encourage less severe handling of misbehaviors where possible, the bill decriminalizes offenses such as disturbing a school assembly. Media attention also has focused on a “Romeo and Juliet” measure protecting two underage

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Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said the senate’s more than 100-page criminal justice bill brings long needed, long demanded, reforms. individuals who are close in age and engage in consensual sex from being charged with statutory rape, an offense that carries sentences of up to life imprisonment and registry as a sex offender. As for the elderly, Sen. Pat Jehlen pushed for allowing permanently incapacitated inmates to be released on parole to their families, calling the move not only humane and public-safety-conscious, but also a cost saver, as in such cases the federal government would pick up hospital bills the state currently pays. She said the bill should extend to those suffering mental incapacitation as well, such as dementia.

Limits and opposition

The Retailers Association of Massachusetts says some measures go too far. A blog post from the organization states that legislation to raise the threshold at which credit card fraud or theft is a felony and not a misdemeanor from $250

to $1,500 would encourage theft. Meanwhile, the legislation is less than some activists seek. For instance, it adds a mandatory minimum sentence for fentanyl trafficking, and falls short of allowing felonies to be expunged from juvenile records. Still, advocates said the bill is a critical advancement. “This bill the Senate is going to take up this month is the bill we need today,” said Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, recalling years of delay on reform. “It does not go as far as other states have. It does not include all the things I have asked for. But it is comprehensive in breadth. It recognizes the criminal justice system is broken and tackles that. … We should fight like hell for this bill and not accept anything less.”

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An American con job America has produced a number of confident men whose skill is to make their prospective victims believe that the most unlikely outcome is readily possible for them. Hundreds of thousands of working-class voters have come to believe that Donald Trump, a billionaire who enjoys a lavish lifestyle, really intends to improve the standard of living of the average man. That is the political hype, but voters had better pay close attention to determine whether they really benefit from Trump’s strategies to “Make America Great Again.” The way the hype works is to convince the working class voters of his empathy. Trump has to convince them that he is one of the boys. It is flattering for them to believe that a man who has amassed sufficient wealth to travel in his own plane really identifies with the working class. Trump is a master at understanding the mores of this group. We saw that recently in his condemnation of football players protesting police brutality against blacks during the national anthem ceremony before professional football games. Trump is undoubtedly the least patriotic of any president in recent memory. As a young man he was a serial draft dodger. During his election campaign Trump ridiculed Sen. John McCain, one of the nation’s leading heroes in the Vietnam War. Trump indicated that he disrespected McCain, whose plane was shot down over enemy territory, for being taken prisoner. And several times Trump denigrated America’s president, Barack Obama, as being inferior as a leader to Vladimir Putin, the despotic president of Russia, a nation hostile to America. This is hardly the conduct of a person

who is considered to be patriotic. But Trump knows that working-class men and women serve in the military and risk their lives for the country. By attacking the football game protest, Trump gets a twofer. He adroitly attacks black football players, in keeping with his Alt-right influences, and he gains the confidence of his base by inducing them to believe that he shares their patriotism. In most con games, the objective is to relieve the victim of his or her funds. Trump’s con is much more subtle than that. He wants to assure his supporters so profoundly that their concerns are of such primary importance to him that they will not even bother to evaluate his performance. But it seems to be working. Trump supported a health care revision that would cause thousands of low-income citizens to lose health insurance. And he just signed an executive order to deny payment to cover the cost of insurance for older Americans who are more likely to have health problems. While making these changes, Trump deceptively claims to be helping the working class. However, most measures that he supports benefit business interests. It is wise for voters to assess the performance of every politician they support to determine whether he or she really aids their objectives. After many generations of suffering from racial discrimination, African Americans have become leery of political promises. Trump’s demeanor and mendacity caused blacks to view him as a huckster. Only 9 percent of blacks who voted in the 2016 election voted for Trump. What will it take for the majority of the electorate to come to that awareness?

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The NFL will never give up the National Anthem — here’s why

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON The NFL will never give up the national anthem salute. The NFL owners in one form or another will make it official when they meet to hammer out a policy on what players must do when the national anthem is played. Let’s be clear, the NFL’s tie to the national anthem has nothing to do with the oft-cited contention that the Defense Department bribed the NFL to the tune of $5 million between 2011 and 2014 to honor soldiers and vets at its games. This supposedly required players to stand at rapt attention during the playing of the anthem before games. $5 million is not even pocket change to a multi-billion-dollar league. It also has nothing to do with a bunch of ticked off NFL owners hectoring the players to beat back their sideline protests and show them who is boss. And it certainly isn’t because one owner, namely Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, has been screaming loudly that the national anthem must be respected no matter what. The national anthem and the flag are not just the nation’s enduring symbols and paean to American patriotism, they are the standard for America’s military tradition and might. From its very inception and its rising popularity in the latter part of the 19th century, football has been inseparable from both. West Point and the military academies used football as a training vehicle to recruit, train, instill toughness and discipline and most importantly prepare its cadets for warfare. By the turn of the 20th century, football was played on 20 of the nation’s military bases. During World War I, football was virtually enshrined on the military bases to instill military discipline and combat toughness. By World War II, football had virtually become part of the curriculum within the military academies. It got a virtual exemption from the tight constraints put on civilians during the war. Even when some college games were cancelled at the mid-point of the war in 1942, and non-essential civilian travel was barred, the Army-Navy game was still played. Government officials considered the game vital to the nation’s morale. Football crowds were revved up with military bands, flag salutes and displays, and cannon and gun blasts. The ritual included continual reminders of, and tributes to active servicemen and women and veterans bedecked in full military regalia, decorations and medals. The NFL quickly fell in line and embedded the rituals of military pomp, flag and patriotic displays into all pre-game activities. The players and coaches and even team owners have dutifully answered the call to arms over the years. More than 1,200 have served in combat and other service capacities in World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. For more than a half century, NFL players, under the league’s official auspices and in tandem with the USO, have trekked to military bases, ships and even combat areas from Vietnam to Iraq on goodwill tours to boost troop morale. The military and patriotic rah-rah came easy for an NFL which is not, and never has been, a democracy. It’s a quasi-militaristic, topdown organization. It’s run by an entrenched elite core of billionaire owners who set the tone and determine policy for the league. They are mostly conservative Republicans, some very outspoken Republicans. They have contributed money, lots of it to Trump and other GOP presidential candidates over the years. Then there’s the NFL’s majority fan base. They have made it clear in informal polls, surveys, and by raining loud boos down on the relative handful of NFL players that have knelt during the national anthem that they will have no regard for any player who “disrespects” the flag. Many go much further than Jones and are not content with benching them, but want them out of the league. They certainly have made that clear about the man who started it all, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. They don’t want him in the league, and the owners have heard them. They listened to them and blackballed Kap because they are the ones who pack stadiums and plop down tens of millions for tickets and assorted NFL paraphernalia. Some players, some sportscasters, some elected officials, and all civil libertarians will shout that compelling NFL players to stand for the national anthem is crass, crude, employer bullying and a blatant disregard of the First Amendment. They’re right. But the brutal reality is that the NFL power brokers have the supreme dominance to enforce their “take it or leave it” dictate on the players, and a big part of that will remain standing bolt upright for the national anthem.

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The way it is right now, things are getting worse.

Eddie Velazquez Unemployed Boston

Right now, things are worse. We’re going backwards with gentrification, income inequality, poor schools and lack of unity.

Priscilla Flynt Banks Organizer Hyde Park

It depends on what you mean by better. People can’t afford to live here. Everybody’s moving out.

I think so. The city is a lot cleaner and there’s a lot of new construction.

Stephanie Edwards

Jeffrey Gilliard

Child Care Teacher Dorchester

I think Boston is getting better. It’s up to us to take care of it.

Lance Laborer Boston

Maintenance Worker Jamaica Plain

Worse. The school system is in bad shape. There’s no affordable housing. The mayor thinks he’s heading toward a coronation and people are being forced out of the city.

Bob Marshall Retired Roxbury

IN THE NEWS

KEVIN SIBLEY Kevin Sibley has been appointed director of the Office of Returning Citizens, a newly formed office that will support the 3,000 individuals who return to Boston after being released from state, federal and county facilities each year, as well as others who were previously incarcerated. As Director, Sibley will work within the Office of Public Safety Initiatives. Sibley brings over 18 years of experience in human resources, program development and grant funded initiatives specific to the well-being of underserved individuals to his new role. “The Office of Returning Citizens has the important role of giving individuals a second chance, and building them up with the support they need to reach their full potential,” said Mayor Martin Walsh. “Kevin has worked for his entire career as a change agent in his community, working to provide upward pathways for people looking to improve their lives. He is a tremendous asset to our office, and I look forward to our work together to create stronger and safer neighborhoods.”

The Office aims to help individuals who have taken healthy steps and prepared themselves to move past the consequences of their past actions, and coordinate the work done by our social service and law enforce partners. This office will incorporate best practices from local, state and federal partners and include a review of similar offices in Washington DC and Philadelphia. According to The Boston Reentry Study from Harvard University, individuals reentering society need assistance accessing resources to help them find permanent housing and employment.

The new Office of Returning Citizens aims to empower men and women reintegrating into their communities to reach full potential as individuals, family members and residents of Boston. “It is an honor for me to serve as the new Director of the Office of Returning Citizens, bringing my years of experience in helping those reentering society to a citywide level,” said Sibley. “I know the power a second chance can have on a person’s life, and I look forward to supporting every individual in need of that chance under the leadership of Mayor Walsh.” Walsh created the Office of Public Safety in 2014 with the mandate of establishing crossagency and cabinet coordination to tackle the challenging and complex problems in our neighborhoods that lead to and perpetuate violence. Part of the work of the office has included looking at services and opportunities available for individuals that are returning home. The new office will help fill gaps that exist within local, state, federal and county efforts.

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Walsh rejects charter bill with his name on it By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Mayor Martin Walsh is seeking to distance himself from a bill bearing his name that parent education activists say was filed quietly and would facilitate a controversial school policy known as unified enrollment, in which Boston families would see both charter and district schools in their lists of the public schools they can choose. Such a policy has been given little public debate in Boston since the idea received fierce pushback two years ago. As such, some parent activists were surprised when legislation seeming to be paving the way for unified enrollment appeared among more than two dozen bills slated for an Oct. 3 State House hearing.

Whose bill?

In an Oct. 11 statement to the Banner, a Walsh administration spokesperson said that the bill’s language was altered and that the mayor disavows the legislation, which lists him as a co-sponsor. “Mayor Walsh has been clear from the start that the community will be fully involved in any conversations related to unified enrollment,” the spokesperson said. “As long as this bill includes the added language on opt-out and if that impacts the unified enrollment discussion, Mayor Walsh will not be supporting this legislation.” To back this up, the spokesperson provided a letter Walsh submitted on the day of the hearing that calls for passing his bill,

H.2876, but which specifically references only some aspects of it and labels the bill with a different name. However, according to the bill’s lead sponsor, Rep. Alice Peisch, Walsh supplied the text and she filed it at his request. “This particular bill I filed at the request of the mayor of Boston, which is a common practice as a courtesy. I filed exactly what his office sent to me,” Peisch said in a Banner phone interview. “I was contacted yesterday [Oct. 12] by his office indicating that they had sent me the wrong draft and his intent was only to pass the portion of the bill allowing neighborhood charter schools in Boston. The first section had to do with the opt-out lottery was not intended to be included.” According to Peisch, the mayor’s office said they were unaware what they filed until the bill’s hearing. The bill’s filing deadline was January 2017. In that same month, Rahn Dorsey, Boston’s education chief, told the Banner that the Boston Compact, a private entity that includes representatives from charter, Catholic and district schools, was 90 percent done with a formal proposal on unified enrollment. Dorsey is one of the Compact’s members. Last week, a Walsh administration spokesperson provided a statement in Dorsey’s name saying that the Compact is working on addressing questions that parents and educators had raised about unified enrollment. On Oct. 16 a spokesperson provided the Banner with a letter on behalf of Rachel Weinstein, the Compact’s chief collaboration

officer, stating that the Compact is not involved with the bill. According to a Compact spokesperson, Weinstein says the Compact has received accusations that they are secretly pushing this legislation.

Is it about unified enrollment?

The letter attributed to Weinstein states that the bill does not advance or in any way connect to unified enrollment. “The bill referenced, H. 2876, has nothing to do with unifying enrollment for district and charter schools,” the letter says. “The legislation proposed three options for how charter schools could amend their enrollment processes — none of which place district and charter schools into the same system.” However, some parent activists say the bill sets the stage for such a change. Enacting unified enrollment, in which the enrollment system for charter schools is blended with that of district schools, requires a change in state law to allow charter schools to have one common lottery, instead of individual ones for each school. The final paragraph of H. 2876 would make this change. Walsh neither referred to nor denied association with this provision. The portion of the bill that Walsh explicitly supports in his Oct. 3 letter allows willing charter schools to adopt a local geographic enrollment preference suggestive of the home-based model used by Boston Public Schools. This may not be necessary for a Boston unified enrollment system, but facilitates smoother integration.

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The third aspect of the bill allows charter schools to choose to automatically enter all eligible students into their enrollment lotteries, without the students choosing to submit applications. Students selected through the enrollment lottery could choose not to attend. Any students who did not wish to be included in the lottery would have to actively opt out. Walsh’s spokesperson now says he opposes this opt-out, automatic enrollment lottery system.

Cons, pros, public comments

The parent activist group Quality Education for Every Student (QUEST) issued a report last month outlining concerns over unified enrollment. One concern is that such a policy may restrict school choice. Giving charter schools slots on a family’s list of school options could displace some district school options, unless lists are lengthened. And switching charters from citywide enrollment to local enrollment would mean that access depends on where a student lives, removing that charter school as an option for students who live farther away. Other concerns are that unified enrollment may not necessarily be accompanied by reforms to ensure charter schools also educate the same proportion of students with higher needs. Because such students traditionally perform less well on standardized tests, if district schools end up serving greater shares of that population while charters siphon off better-scoring students, this would disadvantage district schools’ test scores compared to charters and thus jeopardize their school rankings. At present, such concerns linger because there was no robust public debate in Boston prior to the legislation’s filing and because the fourpage bill does not provide answers to them. Despite this, the public still can weigh in. According to Peisch, who is the Senate chair of the Joint Committee on Education, members of the public may submit comments and concerns to the committee by email until the legislators make their final decision on the bill, which could happen anytime between now and the final decision deadline in February 2018. Most bills will not receive decisions until December or January, she said. Should the Committee believe more study of the bill is necessarily, it will not report it out favorably, Peisch said. It is not clear what that will mean for this charter

enrollment bill, given that Peisch says similar language to that which Walsh now opposes was passed in the House three years ago as part of a larger package. She had supported that bill. Further debate on H.2876 would occur, should it advance to the House and Senate. In contrast to QUEST and Walsh, Peisch supports this current bill H.2876. She stated that because it enters all students into charter lotteries, it should resolve concerns that charters do not serve all students. While critics of charters charge that some charter schools push out students post-enrollment or fail to provide services necessary for them to be served at the school, Peisch says that to her knowledge, charter schools are generally doing a good job of meeting students’ needs.

Future of the bill

Walsh’s apparent rejection of the legislation filed on his behalf is expected to have some impact, but not necessarily stop it from advancing. Peisch said that first and foremost, committee members consider whether they believe the bill represents good policy — which Peisch believes it does. Then, among the other factors they consider is whether the stakeholders are supporting it.

Other State House efforts

This bill is not the only measure aired at the State House on Oct. 3 that would substantially change charter enrollments. H.259 from State Rep. Colleen Garry and H.2011 from Rep. Paul Brodeur and co-sponsored by Sen. Jamie Eldridge provide for automatically entering all eligible students in opt-out admissions lotteries for charters. These legislators did not respond to requests for comment. House bill H.245 from Rep. James Dwyer, and its Senate companion bill S.272 , lead sponsored by Sen. Pat Jehlen and co-sponsored by Sen. Jamie Eldridge, Reps. Kenneth Gordon and James O’Day, pair new charter enrollment policies with a host of other measures regarding charter school behavior.

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TREATMENT FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER The family: An overlooked resource

The number of estimated deaths in the US in 2016 from drug use has been updated, and the news is not good. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) increased the estimate from 50,000 to more than 64,000 deaths, the sharpest increase due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, which accounted for one-third of the deaths. In addition, there are approximately 22 million people struggling with substance use disorder (SUD). While there are a growing number of facilities providing specialized treatment, many of them overlook, or even prohibit, a potentially valid resource — the family. Persons suffering from substance use disorder do not exist in a vacuum. They are often part of a family and a community. They are members of society. Yet, despite the influence and support family members can offer to complement and enhance treatment, they are often ignored or even banned from participation. That’s a mistake, according to Alicia Ventura, director of operations and specialized products of the Office Based Addiction Treatment at Boston Medical Center, home to the Grayken Center for Addiction. “Engaging the family (however defined) is not only possible, but optimal,” she explained. “Increased family functioning and

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support protects against adverse SUD treatment outcomes and can help to promote treatment engagement and retention in care.” A substance use problem changes the entire dynamics of a family. Family members have to overcome stigma and misinformation. Some may be in denial and have difficulty understanding or accepting that their child has a SUD, explained Sarah Bagley, M.D., director of the CATALYST Clinic, BMC’s adolescent and young adult addiction program. “It’s a process for them as well.” Some may even wonder if they are to blame. Not so, assures Bagley. Developing a SUD is complicated, and cannot be attributed to one specific source. Undoubtedly, individuals suffering with the disorder have a tough road ahead of them. But family members

don’t have it easy either, and also suffer. Studies have shown that families with loved ones with substance use disorder have a higher than expected incidence of medical and emotional conditions, such as depression, guilt and helplessness. They also utilize a greater amount of health services and incur high health care costs. Yet, before families can help their loved ones, they have to help themselves. Some may prefer group therapy with families with similar experiences. Others may fare better with private sessions with a therapist who specializes in family therapy. “Finding time to share with their partner and other children is also really important,” explained Bagley. When family members are emotionally healthy they are in a better position to help their loved one suffering from SUD, although it is still a

challenge. The affected child, sibling or parent is almost a stranger. A person who uses drugs may eventually feel flat, lifeless and depressed, according to NIDA. It rests on the families to communicate in such a way to both advise and encourage their loved one to seek treatment but also to stay in treatment once it is arranged. This is a long haul since substance use, like diabetes, is a chronic disease. Many times this step requires specific training to enhance skills in positive reinforcement, building rapport and problem solving; but the type of training is key, according to Ventura. “There are several evidence-based programs that have been shown to improve treatment and recovery outcomes for both the family and individuals with a SUD,” she explained. One such program is CRAFT (Community Reinforcement

and Family Training), which has proven to be particularly effective in helping families positively influence those who are resistant to treatment. Providers at BMC are in the process of creating a curriculum to educate families on substance use disorders and what to expect from treatment as well as effective communication skills to enhance that treatment. This curriculum will be integral to the services offered through the Grayken Center for Addiction, and enhance its position in the treatment, prevention, research and training in substance use. Bagley and Ventura co-authored a Commentary on SUD prevention, treatment and recovery that was published by the American Society of Addiction Medicine. The point of their commentary was clear. “Family members are not disempowered bystanders. They can be motivators of change.”

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Walsh’s appeal to black, progressive voters points to shifting power in Hub By YAWU MILLER

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh made a push for progressive voters on Sunday when he appeared with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren at Doyle’s Café in Jamaica Plain for her endorsement of his reelection. Warren praised Walsh for his resistance to President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and push to deport undocumented immigrants. “This is not the vision Marty and I share,” she said. “Marty has made it clear. He fights for a city for all of us.” Sunday’s event followed a “Housing Advocates for Walsh” event held Saturday at Walsh’s 315 Centre Street campaign office and a canvassing event, also in Jamaica Plain. The events, attended by local politicians, city officials and several prominent progressive activists, underscored the incumbent mayor’s apparent aim to strike at Jackson’s core of support in Wards 11, 12 and 19 — the three predominantly black, Latino and progressive white wards that were alone in supporting Jackson during preliminary balloting. While Walsh held no public events in Roxbury-based Ward 12 last weekend, his campaign hit that neighborhood hard in the weeks leading up to the preliminary with phone calls, text messages and door-to-door canvasses to identify and turn out supporters. The Walsh campaign’s push

for votes, along with outreach from city council candidates, helped push voter turnout in that ward to 20 percent, substantially higher than the citywide average of 14 percent. Whether Walsh is able to prevail among voters in those communities in the November final election may hinge on whether voters take more stock in progressive endorsements from officials like Warren or heed Jackson’s call to look critically at the mayor’s record on housing, public safety, education and other key issues. “Walsh is smart enough to know that black people make the difference in this election,” said longtime Democratic activist Louis Elisa, who is supporting Jackson. “But knowing that doesn’t make him more responsive to our needs. He’s taking advantage of the fact that we don’t understand that our votes put him in office.” When Walsh faced off against then-at-large City Councilor John Connolly in the 2013 mayoral race, Walsh won predominantly black wards 12, 14 and 18 with leads of 17, 20 and 21 percentage-points respectively. This helped offset losses in West Roxbury, Back Bay and Charlestown. Yet, as Elisa points out, Walsh has taken policy positions often at odds with those embraced by black activists. Black activists and elected officials have consistently called for police to be required to use body-worn cameras, for increased recruitment of black and

Latino officers in the police department and for an independent, civilian-led review panel to investigate allegations of police misconduct. But despite his success with black voters in 2013, Walsh has lagged on these demands: he has been noncommittal on the implementation of body cameras and has resisted calls for civilian oversight of police, and the numbers of blacks in the Boston Police Department has been declining. Jackson has hit Walsh hard on issues including his backing of the city’s controversial 2024 Olympics bid, $142 million in cuts to school budgets and a construction boom many say is only exacerbating the city’s yawning wealth gap. When Warren’s supporters approached Elisa to ask whether he’d attend Sunday’s endorsement, he declined. “I told them I’m going to be out with the working class people who can’t afford $1,700 studio apartments,” he said.

Second time around

In this year’s election, Walsh has nothing to fear from the communities that backed John Connolly in 2013. He won 60 percent of the preliminary election vote in East Boston to Jackson’s 25 percent. In Charlestown, he won 47 percent to Jackson’s 28 percent. In 2013, the well-heeled Back Bay voters backed Connolly with 76 percent of the vote. In September, Walsh walked away with 71 percent of

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reversal illustrates the declining voter power of white ethnic voters — a trend that also played out in East Boston, where Lydia Edwards, a black woman, beat Italian-American Stephen Passacantilli by 17 percentage points, garnering 52 percent of the vote. Italian-American voters had long dominated that neighborhood. In 2007, when Latina activist Gloribel Mota ran against Italian-American longtime residents Carlo Basile and Jeffrey Drago, she won just 16 percent of the East Boston vote. Even though she came in second to Passacantilli overall, Edwards’ victory in East Boston, and in Charlestown — a former stronghold of Irish American voters — signals a profound change in Boston politics. The declining turnout in traditionally white ethnic communities has shifted electoral power in the direction of the city’s black and Latino communities.

Black voters still waiting

While white candidates running citywide have long appealed to communities of color for votes, their interest in black voters hasn’t always translated into policies that black communities favor. Housing affordability and displacement are among the top concerns facing not only voters of color, but Bostonians in virtually every corner of the city, including the neighborhoods surrounding Doyle’s Café, notes Jamaica Plain activist Horace Small. “If 50 percent of the people in Boston make less than $35,000 a year, how on God’s green earth can they afford to pay $2,000 a month in rent?” he said. Walsh has staked much of his political capital on rebuilding the city, presiding over the very construction boom that has seen South Boston shift from a working class, predominantly Irish-American enclave to one of the city’s most rapidly-gentrifying neighborhoods. As the wave of displacement moves deeper into the city’s neighborhoods, Small says Walsh has done little to stop it. “There are cities in America where mayors and city councils have strategized to slow it down,” he said. “Our city is hemorrhaging people.”

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Kristen Ransom, founder and CEO of IncluDe software design and development agency, was in college studying human factors engineering at Tufts University when she landed an internship at Harley-Davidson motorcycle company. There, she tackled the problem of designing motorcycles to fit women’s bodies. “How do you design the footpads and seats for someone five feet tall?” she says, in a recent interview. “Harley-Davidson was very big on sticking with their traditional style — so I became passionate about designing for people left in the margins.” And in her courses, she kept an eye on problem-solving with a larger social purpose. “If my assignment was developing a robotic arm, I would think, ‘I want to develop this for someone with muscular dystrophy. What would their needs be?’” After earning her bachelor’s degree, she spent four years at MITRE Corporation in Bedford, where she worked to improve software used in military and crisis situations. But the urge to start her own business rose to front and center in her mind when she was on maternity leave after the birth of her son Pierce in 2015. “I had this baby, and I felt I needed to be working,” she recalls. “I love design and I love development, so I took on some freelance projects with people in Roxbury. After a while, people were telling each other about my services. And so I wondered, how can I keep this going after I go back to my job?” For a year, she continued

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At a Mass Innovation Nights event in June, Ransom had some extra support from 2-year-old son Pierce and husband Brandon. working the 9-to-5 job while also nurturing IncluDe. In August, 2016, she took a leap, leaving the security of the workplace to focus fully on her own business.

Growing the business

IncluDe, which stands for “inclusive design and development,” aims to serve social impact organizations, solving problems of branding and website presence for nonprofit and philanthropy organizations, churches and small and local businesses. IncluDe’s team is a diverse group of women and people of color, and clients now range from small

startups — many of them minorityand women-owned businesses based in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan — to larger clients such as OneUnited, MassBudget, Tufts and Morehouse College. “It’s run the gamut,” Ransom says. Ransom has taken a cautious approach to staff growth, with just one part-time employee, who is head of technical support, and a roster of 10 contractors doing sales, project management, design and development. “Often startups wear themselves down by hiring too quickly, before the business is up to scale,” she says. “I’m trying to test out

things with clients ... I use a short list of designers and developers. It works really well. We’re tight knit, we’re all part of a team.” Ransom’s entrepreneurial path was paved in part by participation in local business support programs, including Epicenter Community’s Accelerator program and a MassChallenge boot camp sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. Early on, IncluDe won a year of free office space in the Fields Corner Business Lab in a competition co-sponsored by Boston Impact Initiative.

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continued from page 12 With the free office space in the past, Ransom and her team all work remotely now, which keeps costs down. “The beautiful thing about that is there’s no overhead. It’s about having a lean operation,” she explains. “An office space would be cool, but we find other ways to bond. We go out for lunch or for drinks — but most of my contractors are working mothers as well. I don’t want to try so hard to become like other businesses that I end up tying people to a 9-to-5 schedule.”

Conquering imposter syndrome

Ransom now has a new baby, three-month-old Harrison. In addition to caring for him, she is squeezing in graduate studies in engineering management at Tufts University to add a layer of business expertise on top of her technology and design skills. This time around, school is

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What’s next?

Often startups wear themselves down by hiring too quickly, before the business is up to scal. I’m trying to test out things with clients ... I use a short list of designers and developers. It works really well. We’re tight knit, we’re all part of a team.” — Kristen Ransom

more comfortable, she says. As an undergrad, she faced some insecurity coming into a technology program as a woman and as a person of color. “I definitely struggled at the beginning of school, dealing with imposter syndrome, feeling that I didn’t belong,” she recalls. “I felt I had to prove myself, prove that I made it into Tufts’ engineering program on my own merits, that even though I looked different, I still belonged.” She found community in the Society of Black Engineers, serving as president of her college chapter, and found her academic footing

in design work. “I felt much better when we were doing projects. I could delve in and really get involved,” she says. “I found I wanted something where I could create, all day. In my first 9-to-5 job, I kind of lost sight of that.” Recently, the entrepreneur has discovered she enjoys motivational speaking. She has told her story at events such as the Next Generation Women of Color Summit and the Blueprint Conference for Girls in Boston, and the Sharing Solutions: Advancing Girls in STEM Conference in Pennsylvania, helping to put down a ladder for other women and girls.

Having brought some salespeople into IncluDe’s mix and promoted one team member to an executive manager role with project sign-off power, Ransom has created some breathing room to focus on what she as CEO needs to do. “The smartest decision I’ve made is backing away a little. It’s so easy, when you’re passionate about it, to just go full force and do everything, wear every hat,” she said. “Now I can focus on getting more sales ... and looking over our operations and supply chain. My goal is for this business to run without me, like a well-oiled machine.” One of her visions for IncluDe’s future is to start a nonprofit research and development arm. The R & D would focus on serving underrepresented people, she says, on products that make it easier to develop websites usable by people with special needs, for instance, or that make workplaces better for nursing mothers. “Every day I come up with five different projects,” she says, “and I want to be able to pursue them.”

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continued from page 1 According to the city’s Equity and Inclusion Agenda, released by Walsh in 2016, about 20 percent of privately-owned firms with paid employees in Boston are owned by people of color. While this is low compared to the share of the city population that is of color, it remains significantly higher than the spending share. Karilyn Crockett, the city director of economic policy and research, told the Banner that it’s early to speculate on reasons for the low spending on MBEs without more concrete data — something the city seeks to attain through a planned disparity study. The Walsh administration issued its requests for proposal on the study earlier this month. “The reality is, a complex set of factors are there,” Crockett said. “We’re hopeful the disparity study gives us a better sense of what’s happening, what we’re doing well, what we’re not doing well.” Jackson, too, recently promised to conduct a disparity study if elected.

Equity efforts

Walsh appears aware of the disparities and in March 2016, he signed an executive order calling upon all city departments to actively pursue conducting contracting, purchasing and other business contracts with MBEs and women-owned business enterprises (WBEs). The order set goals for MBE spending in the areas of engineering, architecture and professional services, which ranged from 10-15 percent to 20-25 percent of

spending, depending on the contract type. Other provisions encouraged each city department or office to engage in further efforts such as attending outreach events for MBEs and providing support to such businesses in navigating the city’s bidding process. The executive order is slated to expire on Jan. 1, 2018, according to its text. In 2016, Walsh also announced that he would be conducting a disparity study. At that time, city officials said disparity studies would be conducted annually to analyze the city’s procurement processes for signs of racial, ethnic or gender bias, with the information used to update hiring and contracting goals. Although Walsh stated in his executive order the expectation that a disparity study would launch in 2016, the request for proposals to conduct the study was released on Oct. 11, 2017. Crockett said the study will have two parts. The first involves a scan of the city’s history and practices regarding utilization of businesses, including details such as what firms the city traditionally spends on and what businesses are available in the market. This portion is expected to take 8 to 10 months to complete and will provide the baseline for determining the shape of the full study, Crockett said, which in turn is expected to require about 18 months to complete. Those interested in bidding on the disparity study RFP may attend a proposer’s conference at City Hall, 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25 in the Boston Planning and Development Agency board room on floor nine. Responses to the RPF are due by noon on Friday, Nov. 3.

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ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC ALICE SMITH

PERFORMS AT THE RISE MUSIC SERIES By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

illing Calderwood Hall from the floor to the rafters with her singular and powerful voice, Alice Smith made it clear that she came to perform last Thursday night at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Smith’s Oct. 12 show, part of the museum’s RISE music series, was all about the music for the Grammy-nominated singer. Backed by a three-member band and a sparse set, she lit up the evening with the songs “Dream” and “Love Endeavor” from her 2006 debut album, “For Lovers, Dreamers & Me.” Smith also captivated the audience with “The One” and her cover of “Fool For You” from her 2013 album, “She.” Although “Fool For You” was originally sung by Cee Lo Green, Smith has made the song her own. “I just like covers,” the singer said in a phone interview before her Boston show. “Covers are cool because they already have their own life. You can do what you want. It’s not the

same as somebody saying, ‘Oh, I wrote this song and I want you to sing it, to be the first to sing it.’” She added, “I like covers, and I pick what I like. I heard it on the radio and I was like, ‘That’s kind of cool.’ I do that all the time. If I like them, I try them out.” Three songs into her RISE performance, Smith introduced herself to the audience with a simple “Hi, I’m Alice Smith. How’re you doing?” before moving onto her next song — further reinforcing that the focus of the evening was the music. Known for her four-octave vocal range, Smith’s voice is raw and full of power and emotion, yet also soothing, soulful and playful, often leaving one wondering what the chameleon-like singer will do with it next. With a voice that pierced through the sonic cube known as the Calderwood Pavilion, Smith said, “It’s probably the best place I’ve played in Boston.” See ALICE SMITH, page 17

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Forging forward & looking back Emerging artists bring a fresh perspective to the Museum of the NCAAA By CELINA COLBY

The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury features exhibits by artists Nygel Jones and Jason E. Smith through Jan. 7, 2018. The emerging artists represent a new wave of black talent that presents contemporary commentary rooted in history and tradition. “Origins,” by Rhode Island based artist Smith, presents an expansive display of acrylic paintings inspired by mythology. Smith created his images by painting creatures pointillist-style on Dura Lar, a transparent surface associated with animation. In his installation, images are mounted above the background so they appear to be floating in the middle of the frame. In addition to the creation myths that so captivate the artist, Smith’s exhibit includes a series called “The Lost Races,” which, he says, “questions the accepted timeline of history for the Americas, as well as the races that inhabited it.” Here he draws a distinct difference between ancient cultures that imagined creation myths to explain their existence, and American history, which was whitewashed for convenience. Smith’s work is intimate and dynamic. Each piece requires you to stand close to it and engage directly with the subject matter. Some have textual explanations

See ORIGINS, page 17

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“The really simple answer to all of this is, I decided to do this because I love my son,” says filmmaker and producer Paige Goldberg Tolmach, speaking recently about directing the film “What Haunts Us.” “As I got older and became a mother,” she explains, “I realized that I didn’t know how to protect my kid. I was like, ‘I’m really good at a lot of things, but I don’t know how to protect him from a sexual predator.’” “What Haunts Us,” which had its world premiere at the Boston Film Festival this past September, reveals the sexual abuse that took place at the Porter-Gaud School in Tolmach’s hometown of Charleston, South Carolina in the 1970s and early 1980s. One of the factors that propelled Tolmach toward making the documentary was a call from Mackie Krawcheck Moore, one of the first girls to be accepted to the elite allboys’ school. Moore told her that another former Porter-Gaud student had committed suicide. Out of 49 boys in the class of 1979, six had taken their lives over the years. With this latest news, Tolmach realized that something was really wrong at Porter-Gaud and that she needed answers or she would

be forever haunted by the school she loved. As she states in the beginning of the film, “With each death, I’m 16 again, back in high school, trying to figure it all out.” As Tolmach began her research in 2012, she began to hear the awful truth about a much-admired teacher who manipulated and molested many of his students for years. It became her obsession to understand how it could have happened in plain view and, as it turned out, with the knowledge of Porter-Gaud administrators. When the sexual abuse scandal broke in 1998, through a lawsuit filed by Harold Glover, the father of a former Porter-Gaud student, “It was shocking to us. But then we didn’t talk about it,” Tolmach says. She realized that the Charleston community didn’t talk about it because “they didn’t know how to talk about it.” The scandal became a call to action for the first-time filmmaker, who believes that people deserve to hear the story. “Let’s uncover it, and then have this film be the start of a conversation. That’s why I made it. To start the conversation,” explains Tolmach. It was a conversation that a lot of people in Charleston and at Porter-Gaud didn’t want to have. Even though Tolmach grew up in the port city, there were many people

“What Haunts Us” will next screen at the Ojai Film Festival in Ojai, California in November. For more information on the docu-

mentary, visit www.whathauntsusfilm.com. who questioned her motives, who yelled and screamed at her. Some even went so far as spitting in her face. Over the course of the five years that it took to make the film, people would say things like “How dare you? Why are you doing this to people you care about? It didn’t happen to you. Who do you think you are? If more people die, their blood is on your hands. Why did you bring this up again?” recalls the director. Making the documentary was a sobering and very personal journey for Tolmach. She wasn’t a filmmaker “for hire,” she says — this was also her story and she, too, had to figure out how to deal with it. Despite the hostility, negativity and numerous calls from attorneys representing the high school, she was determined. She knew that she needed to pursue the truth on behalf of the former students. “They needed to be honored — the ones who aren’t here anymore and the ones who are still living today,” stresses Tolmach. “People deserve to hear this story, and if they heard it maybe they would see themselves and realize that we can stop this. We have a hand in stopping this before it starts.”

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Dance perfects Halloween choreography By CELINA COLBY

Jose Mateo’s “Assault on the Senses,” running through Oct. 29 at the Sanctuary Theatre in Harvard Square, provides an eerie look at a homogenous otherworld that feels alarmingly close to our own. The performance features three vignettes, each with an underlying feeling of “us vs. them.” The show opens with “Isle of the Dead,” a 1993 symphonic poem written by Sergei Rachmaninoff and inspired by the Arnold Brocklin painting of the same name. At once beautiful and disturbing, the choreography moves from a touching love story to a threatening cult with disturbing speed. Rachmaninoff’s music is meant to mimic the rhythm of oars rowing out to the Isle of the Dead. Similarly, the dancers who move together as one body imitate death itself, the imminent fate of humanity beckoning

to the two lovers. The power of the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre company can be seen in its minimalism. With no traditional narrative or gaudy costumes to cling to, the success of the performance comes from skill alone. Act two, “Covens,” set to the score by James MacMillan, pays homage to the Scotland witch trials of the 16th century. The subject matter hits close to home here in Massachusetts and seasonally relevant. But the idea of the masses rising up against the perceived “other” parallels our polarized national political climate as well. “Covens” is visually stunning. In several moments, one dancer lifts another and carries her through the crowd in a sacrificial gesture. The stark angles of the lifted dancer’s body against the deep purple backdrop look like a twisted modernist painting. The final vignette, “Fearless Symmetries,” brings eeriness of a different kind. The music is high-energy and the choreography has an almost retro, jazz-age feel. The dancers wear

big, forced smiles and bounce around the stage with false bravado. The tension runs so high it feels as though the dancers might pop from their incessant stepping. Near the end, the piece takes a brooding, meditative turn. The show, like all of the company’s Sanctuary Theatre performances, is presented cabaret-style. The intimate stage setting makes the dancers’ impact all the more powerful. They’re on our level, in our world, and that makes the problems they’re dealing with much closer to our own reality. “Assault on the Senses” combines the best of all worlds for a Halloween-time show. It has the creepiness we crave in the month of October, the beauty and precision of an impeccable dance troupe and the self-reflective ending of a muchneeded societal mirror.

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continued from page 15 of the creation myths, others beg viewers to invent their own. While Smith looks backward, Jones looks forward to the future of industrial design and urban environments in “Debut & Departing.” Jones’ oil-on-canvas paintings present imagined landscapes with a science fiction twist. “Visually, my work embraces ideas and aesthetic interests similar to those of early 20th-century Futurism,” he says. “Like these productions, my focus is on scale, proportions and perspective.” As a frequent user of public transportation, Jones invites viewers to imagine seeing his landscapes from the window of a bus or train. The wood frames that he hand-crafts for each painting mimic the frame of a window. The frames, a signature of Jones’ work, are cut in sharp, geometric angles and shapes to accommodate the unconventional canvases. A Roxbury native, Jones’ meditations also are a commentary on gentrification. He has seen Boston’s landscape change dramatically, leaving historical buildings positioned next to shiny new high-rises. His paintings beg the question, Where will we end up if

Alice Smith continued from page 15

Moving right into her next number, she teased the audience with a song from her upcoming album, which she called “Mystery.” Those who attended the RISE Music Series that night were fortunate to have experienced her live. Smith didn’t tour much last year, and in the interview with the Banner, she commented that she’s been “working on music mainly, and just getting back into moving around more.” Ending the hour-long concert with a haunting performance of the Nina Simone classic “I Put A Spell On You,” Smith left the Pavilion to a standing ovation with the audience chanting her name and wanting her back.

PHOTO: CELINA COLBY

Nygel Jones’ “Debut & Departing” is on display at the Museum of the NCAAA through Jan. 7. this continues? Interestingly, there are no people in Jones’ landscapes. The more buildings that go up, the less room there is for the people who inhabit them. “Origins” and “Debut &

Departing,” pump fresh blood into the Museum of the NCAAA. Though rooted in ancient themes and traditional practices, Jones and Smith look to the future of art, and of the city.

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eing a child of the North, I never ate succotash. My introduction to the word came via the exasperated utterances of Sylvester the Cat, who would sputter “Suffering succotash!” when things were not going his way. A staple of the South, succotash fed people through hardship and depression, as it did the Native Americans who invented it. The indigenous root of the name relates variously to cracked corn, boiled corn or other preparations of corn. As Native American cultures are known to have understood, when beans are added to corn, complete protein happens. “Seaboard Algonquin” specifically, says food historian Michael Twitty, author of “The Cooking Gene,” fielding my succotash questions via Twitter. Twitty also admitted to not liking succotash very much, at least the traditional version made with lima beans. I have to admit, I haven’t found a way to really like it myself when it’s made with lima beans, or black beans, or kidney beans, or any number of other shelling beans. Combined with the corn kernels, the dish becomes too seedy, and I much prefer making it with string beans. The protein isn’t as high, but that deficit can be erased with bacon and mayonnaise (one of my favorite healthy cooking tricks). Twitty steered me toward a southern Louisiana version of succotash, macque choux, that does not contain shelled beans but does allow the likes of tomatoes, green bell peppers, onions, garlic and celery. And bacon, of course. And shrimp, unsurprisingly. It’s a model roughly in keeping with my own protocols, minus the shrimp. Without the shell beans, a pan of succotash becomes like a pan of fried rice. Along with string beans and the above ingredients, one can use other veggies like collard greens, zucchini and hot, sweet and roasted peppers. Allen Broach, who comes from an old Southern family and has fond memories of his grandma’s succotash, has given me some of my best recipes. He’s fine with people using string

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Succotash with beaten eggs.

beans in succotash, although the closest they ever came growing up was to use “shellies,” the beans inside overgrown string beans. Here is his family recipe, which is lima bean-based.

Grannie Smith’s succotash n Equal amounts of baby lima beans and corn cut from the cob. You should also “milk” the cob once the corn is cut off by scraping the cob with a knife to get all the juice from it. n Use bacon drippings and sauté the limas for a couple of minutes. Season with salt and pepper then add water to cover and cook until they are nearly done. n Add a small onion, diced, and the corn. Cook until the corn is done. Most of the liquid should be cooked out. Just a few minutes. That was it. Broach confessed to having modified grandma’s recipe by adding any number of the following to the average batch of succotash. n 4 tablespoons butter n Garlic (minced) n 1 cup whole grain hominy n 1 pound cooked beef brisket or country ham, chopped n 2 oz. salt pork in one piece n Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste n 1 boiling potato (about ½ pound)

such as Yukon gold, boiled and diced n 1 small turnip, boiled and diced n ∑ cup or so chopped red or green bell pepper (or a combination) Among other parts of this recipe, I was intrigued by his country ham idea, so I picked one up at the farmers market, brought it home and diced it up. Into the pan it went, and as the greasy cubes sizzled pleasantly, I proceeded to prep the veggies, adding them in layers, in the order of how much cooking they need. After the meat, which sometimes includes deer meat as well as the ham/bacon, I will add the onions, then the beans, then peppers, diced zucchini, butter and olive oil as necessary, and finally the corn on top. I let it cook like this undisturbed for a while, allowing the meat at the bottom to cook in the accumulating juices. When it’s finally time to stir, somewhere between when the veggies give up all of their moisture and when the bottom starts to burn, I add minced or grated garlic and dried thyme, and stir it up. I’ll stir again once or twice until it’s ready, and serve with cheese, parsley, salsa, roasted peppers and whatever else. Succotash, like the kitchen sink, can absorb practically anything you can throw at it. Ari LeVaux lives in Montana and New Mexico and can be reached at flash@flashinthepan.net. Follow him on Twitter at @arilevaux.

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No transparency in Trump resort guest list Trump administration says it doesn’t maintain a list of Mar-a-Lago visitors. Experts and visitors are skeptical By LEORA SMITH AND DEREK KRAVITZ PROPUBLICA

Last month, the Trump administration said it could not comply with a court order to disclose the names of people who met with the president at Mar-a-Lago in part because they do “not maintain any system for keeping track” of them. In response to a lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, seeking to make the records public, Department of Justice lawyers insisted “the Secret Service does not maintain any ‘visitor logs’ at Mar-a-Lago.” But seven Mar-a-Lago members and their guests told ProPublica that uniformed officers, who appear to be Secret Service, stand at the doors of the resort on weekends when the president is there, and hold lists of people approved for access. Anne Weisman, CREW’s attorney on the case, said the visitor lists, whether they are compiled by Trump Organization employees or the federal government, are subject to the Freedom of Information Act and should be made public. Several Mar-a-Lago members and guests said security checked their names against lists if they entered the club on weekends when Trump was present. When Lynn Aronberg, who runs a public relations firm in West

Palm Beach, visited the resort this year during one of the president’s visits, she had to provide her driver’s license to officers at the door. While she is not certain the officers were Secret Service agents, Aronberg said they were dressed very differently from the police officers she is used to seeing around Palm Beach. The officers held a clipboard, and checked her name against what looked to her like a list of names attached to it. Other visitors remember officers holding a clipboard at the door. Boca Raton resident Heidi Klein has visited Mar-a-Lago “probably 10 times” as a member’s guest or for charity events. She also said the officers looked at a list before allowing her through, and that they always check guests’ names. Phil Nicozisis, a Mar-a-Lago member who runs his own real estate development company, says that every time he brings a guest to the Palm Beach club, he has to email the club and provide the visitor’s full name. (This was true before Trump’s inauguration but Mar-a-Lago is now stricter about the rule.) Members are told of the president’s visits in advance, Nicozisis said, so that they can prepare for the heightened security and scrutiny of those entering. T he Secre t Ser vice and

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Department of Justice declined to comment on the Mar-a-Lago visitor lists, citing the ongoing lawsuit with CREW. The Trump Organization did not respond to ProPublica requests for comment. Former Secret Service officials and other experts say it’s exceedingly unlikely that the government does not know who is getting close to the president. In addition to keeping track of people coming into the club, the Secret Service also regularly conducts criminal background checks on any guests or staff members who will spend more than a passing moment in physical proximity to the president. This protocol applies at Mar-a-Lago in the same way it does everywhere else the president goes. “It makes zero sense to me that they would have no records related to [protective intelligence] name checks or background checks at Mar-a-Lago,” said Jonathan Wackrow, who served on the Secret Service’s presidential protection detail for 14 years. “You would never want to be surprised.” Watchdog groups and journalists have tried to find out who has had audiences with Trump at the place he’s dubbed the “Winter White House.” Advocates contend the public has a right to know who has access to the president, especially since it can be bought for $200,000 a year, the current price of a Mar-a-Lago membership. This money flows into the

Trump Organization, enriching the president. Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University Law School who writes and teaches about government ethics, says the list of presidential visitors at Mara-Lago would give the public necessary information. “The president is enriching himself, probably at the expense of the country, because he’s inducing people to pay him and his companies so they can have access,” Clark said. Trump has spent 25 days of his presidency at Mar-a-Lago. The Secret Service recently told the court that the division responsible for conducting background checks did not have any records related to presidential visitors between Trump’s inauguration and March 8. During that span, Trump visited Mar-a-Lago three times and was spotted at a 500-person cancer fundraiser sitting next to former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Boston financier and club member Howard Kessler, along with their spouses. Trump has known Kessler for years and Mulroney is a former head of state. It’s unclear if they avoided a background check by the Secret Service or if their background checks simply went undisclosed in the administration’s legal response. In response to the CREW lawsuit, the government only disclosed the names of 22 people they considered to be presidential visitors. All 22 were government, diplomatic or support staff who went to Mar-aLago as part of Japanese Prime

Minister Shinzo Abe’s delegation in February. The federal judge in the case, Katherine Failla, also expressed “surprise” at the minimal visitor records handed over, but declined CREW’s motion to sanction the government. During President Obama’s two terms, the White House released its visitor lists, with some national security exemptions, as part of a settlement of lawsuitsseeking the records. Media pool reports would sometimes fill the gaps, namely on presidential trips to Camp David; flights aboard Air Force One; and vacations to Martha’s Vineyard. Previous administrations, including those of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, refused to voluntarily disclose presidential visitor lists altogether. Over eight years, Bush spent roughly 490 days at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, which he called the “Western White House,” and guests included former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Such visits were typically made public through the media pool reports. But the differences between previous presidential vacation spots and Trump’s are stark. “Mar-a-Lago is a commercial establishment,” Clark said. “There was no indication that President Bush was charging any of the people who visited his ranch. It was not a commercial relationship, and he was not enriching himself, so there was not the same kind of public interest in knowing who was paying for access.”

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New federal data show a student loan crisis for African American borrowers By BEN MILLER

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education provided the first-ever look at long-term outcomes for student loan borrowers, including results by race and ethnicity. The data shows that 12 years after entering college, the typical African American student who started in the 2003-04 school year and took on debt for their undergraduate education owed more on their federal student loans than they originally borrowed. This holds true even for students who finished a bachelor’s degree at a public institution. One reason they might not be paying down their loans? Nearly half of African American borrowers defaulted, including 75 percent of those who dropped out of forprofit colleges. These results show that the U.S. Department of Education cannot ignore the interaction of race and student loans. Traditionally, the agency has not collected any data on the race of borrowers, except in irregular sample surveys conducted by its quasi-independent statistical arm. Unfortunately, not collecting this information has allowed for the disparate outcomes by race to go unnoticed. Seeing even African American students who earned a bachelor’s degree struggle also reinforces that we cannot pretend the federal student loan program exists in a vacuum. The median African American household has just $1,700 in accumulated wealth. Racial discrimination in hiring has not improved over the past quarter century. Perhaps it’s too much to expect student loans and postsecondary education to solve these structural problems, but sending African American students into an

inequitable adulthood with large debts from college can put them even further behind than they already started. These are not problems that will be fixed easily. But the first step is conducting a full analysis of the problem. The Department of Education must start collecting data on the race and ethnicity of its borrowers. It should carefully review outcomes such as completion, repayment, and default by race and ethnicity within institutions to identify colleges with sizable gaps in results. Institutions with particularly awful results for racial and ethnic subgroups—such as default rates of more than 75 percent—should be further reviewed to ensure that they are not engaging in intentional discrimination. This could include recruiting people who they know will struggle to repay just so the institution can pocket students’ federal financial aid dollars or disproportionately directing financial aid to white students.

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This column presents five key findings on the new student loan outcomes data by race and ethnicity. 1. African American students are more likely to borrow than their peers: Regardless of the type of institution first attended, African American students were more likely to borrow than their peers (see Table 1) — differences that speak to the disparities in levels of financial means that African American students have upon entry. African American borrowing rates are higher than those of other students even at public institutions, which typically carry lower price tags than private options. Even at community colleges, more than 60 percent of African American students borrowed, compared

with less than half of white or Latino students. 2. The typical African American borrower made no progress paying down their loans: Borrowing for college is not inherently bad if it unlocks opportunities that are not otherwise available — and if the borrower can retire their debt in a timely manner. Unfortunately, 12 years after entering college, the median African American borrower owed more than they originally borrowed. By contrast, the typical Latino and white student had made progress retiring their debt. Although this problem is not new, the situation has gotten worse, with the African American students who began college in 2003-04 owing 113 percent of what they originally borrowed. By comparison, African American borrowers who started college in 1995-96 owed 101 percent a dozen years later. 3. Bachelor’s degree completion does not insulate African American borrowers from bad outcomes: The common narrative in student loan policy today is that dropping out is by far the biggest threat to repayment. Unfortunately, even African American students who completed a bachelor’s degree still struggle to repay their loans. Twelve years after entering school, the typical African American borrower who completed a bachelor’s degree owed 114 percent of what they originally borrowed. The corresponding figure for white students is 47 percent, and the figure for Latino students is 79 percent. The results for African American students also cannot be solely attributed to income. Overall, the median bachelor’s degree graduate who received a Pell Grant and also borrowed owed 80 percent of their original balance 12 years after entering. The story holds true for every

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Date: August 11, 2017

Docket No. SU17P0607GD

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Benjamin Healthcare Center of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Miko Dowling is in need of a Guardian and requesting that A Suitable Person (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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DOCKET NO. SU17P1818PM

It’s popular to talk about higher education as the great equalizer. It is true that all things being equal, people are better off obtaining a college degree than not. But these new federal data show that college completion is a necessary but insufficient solution to inequality challenges. To be sure, not all structural racial problems can be solved by higher education alone, but some can. Policymakers can strive to create a world where African American students are not more likely to start their careers with large loan debts to repay, delaying their ability to accumulate wealth compared with their white peers who either did not borrow or who carry lower loan balances. Admissions practices and funding systems could be fixed so that African American students do not end up disproportionately underrepresented at institutions with the greatest resources to educate them. These results also underscore the need for greater accountability around federal financial aid. The precarious position faced by even bachelor’s degree graduates shows that policymakers need to push institutions to do all they can to ensure African American students receive affordable, high-quality credentials. While these changes will not end structural problems around wealth, employment, and race, they would be a down payment on creating a federal student loan system that provides better than a 50-50 shot for its African American borrowers.

Ben Miller is the senior director for Postsecondary Education at the Center for American Progress.

Witness, Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 10, 2017

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU06P1507GM1

CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L c. 190B, §5-304 & §5-405

NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Resignation or Petition for Removal of Guardianship of a Minor

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 11/02/2017. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court.

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

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In the interests of Latiea Wilson of Boston, MA Minor

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Bruce Hague of Fall River, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Alexandre D Rosa is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to serve With Personal Surety on the bond.

The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

As bad as the statistics might be, the results for more recent students could be worse. The data here cover students who started college in 2003-04. However, the peak of the private for-profit college market did not occur until several years later. In fact, private for-profit college enrollment more than doubled from 2004-05 to 2010-11. Default rates for students at for-profits also rose.

In the matter of: Alexandre D Rosa Respondent (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Boston, MA

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

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More recent numbers might be even worse

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Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Miko Dowling Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

level of attainment, or lack thereof. Regardless of whether they graduated or dropped out, the median African American student owed more than they originally borrowed. 4. Nearly half of African American borrowers defaulted on a student loan: One of the reasons African American borrowers may carry debt burdens higher than their original loans is that they are highly likely to default on their loans. Forty-nine percent of African American students who borrowed for their undergraduate education defaulted on a federal student loan. The default rate for African American students is high even for those who succeeded. For instance, nearly one-quarter of African American borrowers who completed a bachelor’s degree defaulted on the loan, compared with 9 percent of all borrowers who earned this credential. Even African American bachelor’s degree graduates who started at a public four-year institution had a default rate of nearly 25 percent. Similar to the amount owed, the results for African American borrowers are worse than those for Pell Grant recipients overall. The results also show the need to rethink loan policies for certificate programs. A majority of African American or Latino students who borrowed and completed one of these credentials defaulted within 12 years of entering college. 5. Seventy-five percent of African American dropouts from for-profit colleges defaulted: Nowhere is the default problem worse than for individuals who attended a private for-profit college but didn’t finish. Twelve years after first entering college, three-quarters of African American students who borrowed and dropped out of a private for-profit college had defaulted on a federal student loan. Admittedly, the default rates for dropouts are still bad in other sectors. Nearly two-thirds of African American borrowers who dropped out of public or private nonprofit four-year colleges defaulted on their loans within 12 years of entering college.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 11/23/2017. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition to Resign as Guardian of a Minor or Petition for Removal of Guardian of a minor filed by Valerie Wilson on April 26, 2017 will be held 01/23/2018 08:30 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon St, Boston, MA 02114. Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to: File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice. Date: October 6, 2017

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Docket No. SU17P2138EA Estate of Paul A. Restuccia Date of Death 07/28/17

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Robert J. Cataldo of Providence, RI a will has been admitted to informal probate. Robert J. Cataldo of Providence, RI has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond. The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. M542-C1, WI-FI AND LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, CONLEY TERMINAL, SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2017, immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal will be opened and read publicly. NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE LARGE ADMIN CONFERENCE ROOM OF CONLEY CONTAINER TERMINAL, 700 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON, MA 02127, ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017 AT 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME. ALL ATTENDEES MUST BRING A VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE, US PASSPORT, OR TWIC TO OBTAIN ENTRY TO CONLEY TERMINAL. PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST 1/2 HOUR EARLY TO OBTAIN SECURITY CLEARANCE PRIOR TO ENTRY. The work includes INSTALLATION OF NEW SINGLE-MODE FIBER OPTIC BACKBONE NETWORK TO HIGH MAST LIGHT POLE LOCATIONS (AS NOTED IN THE CONTRACT DRAWINGS). INSTALLATION OF WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS ON HIGH MAST LIGHT POLES, RUBBER TIRE GANTRY (RTG) CRANES, SHIP TO SHORE CRANES AND FIXED BUILDING SITES. INSTALLATION OF WIRELESS HEAD-END CONTROL SYSTEMS IN THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE FACILITY. UPGRADE AND INSTALLATION OF ALL HIGH MAST LIGHTING FIXTURES, ON TWENTY-THREE (23) HIGH MAST LIGHT POLES, TO NEW LED LIGHT FIXTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED MOUNTING HARDWARE. INSTALLATION OF NEW LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM IN THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND MPA GUARD SHACK. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2017. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. The estimated contract cost is ONE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,900,000.00). A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. Bidders must submit a Buy American Certificate with all bids. Bids that are not accompanied by a completed Buy American Certificate must be rejected as nonresponsive. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and/ or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance, Auto Liability Insurance, and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details. This contract is subject to a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than ONE PERCENT (1%) of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible. The Recipient, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that for any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in Article 84 of the General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246). This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

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A Contractor having fifty (50) or more employees and his subcontractors having fifty (50) or more employees who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the contract commencement, be required to develop a written affirmative action compliance program for each of its establishments. Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if: (a) The Contractor has not submitted a complete compliance report within twelve (12) months preceding the date of award, and (b) The Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100. The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address:

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Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Invitation to Bid The Trustees of Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Awarding Authority, request bids for the restoration of Steinway Library, which is listed in the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Work of this project includes restoration of a Guastavino tile vaulted ceiling, restoration and painting of plaster wall surfaces, restoration of the mosaic tile and terrazzo floor, and cleaning of interior stone. The project is being partially funded with a grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund through the Massachusetts Historical Commission. All work must be performed in accordance with the documents prepared by Building Conservation Associates, Inc. (BCA), (10 Langley Road, Suite 202, Newton Centre, Massachusetts 02459, Telephone: 617-916-5661 x103) and meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. State law prohibits discrimination. Awarding of this contract is subject to Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity guidelines. A copy of the bidding documents may be obtained by writing or telephoning BCA at the above address. Pre-bid site visits are available by appointment. Bids shall be evaluated on the basis of price, previous experience with similar types of construction projects, ability to perform the work in a timely manner, and references. All bids must be delivered to BCA’s offices at the above address prior to Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 5:00 PM, to be eligible for consideration and all of the grant-funded work must be completed by April 30, 2018. The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

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WRA-4438 Trash Removal Services for MWRA Deer Islandreatment Plant

10/31/17

12:00 p.m.

WRA-4435 Purchase of 600V Generator Docking Station, Double-Throw Safety Switch and Piping

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7361

11/29/17

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DeLauri Pump Station Upgrades (Revised)

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311 LOWELL STREET ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS 01810

$1,437 $1,024

2BD Min Max

N/A

$43,110 $54,400

$43,110 $61,200

$43,110 $68,000

N/A

3BD Min Max

N/A

$30,720 $39,450

$30,720 $43,800

$30,720 $47,350

6 N/A

Units distributed by lottery. Application Availability: Download @ mcohousingservices.com or Pick Up: Public Library 99 Main St Groton MA Or Town Hall, 173 Main St

$30,720 $50,850

Income Restricted Homeownership Opportunity 170 West Broadway Condominiums 170 West Broadway

4 Income Restricted Units Available

Income Limit

Estimated Square Footage

Estimated Condo Fees

# of Units

Type

Price

1 Bedroom

$179,600

Up to 80%

674

$196.12

1 Bedroom

$239,00

80% - 100%

671

$196.12

2 Bedroom

$214,300

Up to 80%

1057

$298.57

2 Bedroom

$277,100

80% - 100%

1125

$318.18

Maximum Income per Household Size

80% - 100%

$57,900

$57,901 - $72,400

$66,200

$66,201 - $82,750

$74,450

$74,451 - $93,100

$82,700

$82,701 - $103,400

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9 WILLIAMS STREET RENTAL HOUSING 9 Williams Street, Roxbury, Ma 02119 Type

Studio

Section 8-PBV from BHA 30% AMI

1 BR

2 BR

3 BR

See below*

60% AMI

Gross Rent**

N/A

$1,164

$1,396

$1,613

70% AMI

Gross Rent*

N/A

$1,448

$1,630

UNIT TOTALS

*Preference for persons with mobility impairment 1- (1br PBV-BHA unit) 1- (2br 60% AMI unit) *Rents are based upon adjusted gross income. Section 8 available through the Boston Housing Authority (BHA). To apply, households should contact the BHA, 52 Chauncy Street, Boston, MA 02111 ** Gross Rent includes utility allowance with tenant payment for heat, hot water, and electricity.

South Boston, MA 02127

Lottery Tuesday, November 21, 2017 6:00pm Groton Town Hall 173 Main St 1st floor

Affordable Rental Housing

*Minimum income requirements do not apply to Section 8 Voucher holders. All utilities, except electricity are included in rent. Voucher holders are eligible. Applications are available at the property daily between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday – Friday or call the office @ 978-623-8155, TTY:711 or 800-439-0183. You may also email Lisa Perez at lperez@thehamiltoncompany.com.

80%

1 person: $47,600 2 person: $54,400 3 person: $61,200 4 person: $68,000

Application Deadline Nov 7, 2017

Tenants pay for Electricity only Utility Allowances are as follows: 1BR - $69; 2BR - $93; 3BR - $115

HH size

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Public Information Meeting 6:00 p.m, Thursday Oct 19th Groton Town Hall 173 Main Street

Rental Amounts and Minimum and Maximum Income Limits as of January 2017 ** All information based on the Area Median Income (AMI) Household size

OPEN HOUSE Sunday, October 29, 2017 10:00 am—12:00 pm 7A Lilac Cir Groton MA

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Applications can be picked up in person or by e-mail from South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation 273 “D” Street, South Boston, MA 02127 E-mail: 170westbroadway@sbndc.org (Applications cannot be sent prior October 28, 2017) Please note the application distribution period is only for ten (10) consecutive days (six business days) starting on October 28, 2017 and ending on November 6, 2017. Households must include their full name and complete mailing address to receive an application. *Saturday– October 28, 2017 – 10:00 am – 2:00pm at 170 West Broadway Note – this day only at the site* Monday – October 30, 2017 – 10:00am – 6:00pm Tuesday – October 31, 2017 – 10:00am – 6:00pm Wednesday – November 1, 2017 – 10:00am – 6:00pm Thursday – November 2, 2017 – 10:00am – 7:00pm Friday – November 3, 2017 – 10:00am – 6:00pm Monday – November 6, 2017 – 10:00am – 6:00pm Deadline for completed applications to: South Boston NDC – 273 “D” Street - South Boston, MA 02127 In Person by 6:00pm, November 13, 2017, or mailed and postmarked by that day. Selection by lottery. Asset, Use & Resale Restrictions apply. Minimum income limits apply. Preference for Boston Residents. Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom. Preference for First-Time Homebuyers. For reasonable accommodations or more information call Michelle Zenga, South Boston NDC, 617-268-9610

Use and Occupancy Restrictions Apply Applications may be requested by email at 9williams@winnco.com or picked up during the following dates and times at: 207 Dudley Street Roxbury MA 02119 (Management Office) Reasonable accommodations made Applications available: Monday-Friday 10/16/17 – 10/27/17 & Monday 10/30/17 Hours: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday 10/21/17 Hours: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. AN INFORMATION SESSION WILL BE HELD AT 464 TREMONT STREET BOSTON MA (Castle Square Apartments Community Room) THURSDAY OCTOBER 19, 2017 6PM-8PM Applications will be available at the information session. For more information or an application to be sent by mail or alternate means, call Madison Park Management Office during the application period of 10/16/17 to 10/30/17. Phone: 617-445-8338 Deadline for completed applications to be in the Lottery is: In person at the Management Office by 4:00pm 11/10/17 or mail postmarked by 11/10/17 SELECTION BY LOTTERY Two units have a preference for persons with mobility impairment. Preference for households of at least one person per bedroom. Maximum Income Limits by Household:

HH size

60%

70%

1 Person

$43,440

$50,700

2 Persons

$49,680

$57,950

3 Persons

$55,860

$65,200

4 Persons

$62,040

$72,400

5 Persons

$67,020

$78,200

6 Persons

$72,000

$84,000

**Voucher Holders not subject to minimum income requirements or rent at payment standard** Contact (617) 445-8338 or TDD: 1-800-439-2370 for Reasonable accommodations regarding the application process or to request an application by mail Translation assistance is available. 2101 Washington Street Rental Housing is an equal housing opportunity Managed by WinnResidential

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Units distributed by lottery. Assets to $75,000 For Info and Application: Pick Up: Ashland Town Hall, Town Clerk and Public Library Phone: (978) 456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com

Off Randolph Street in Canton, MA Open House: Saturday, November 11, 2017—10:00—12:00 p.m. 90 Saddleback Road Public Information Meeting 6:30, Monday, November 6th Canton Public Library Thomas Aldrich Meeting Room Application Deadline December 9, 2017

MAX INCOME 1—$54,750 2— $62,550 3— $70,350 4— $78,150

5— $84,450 6— $90,700 7— $96,950 8— $103,200

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Employment Opportunities: Early Care and Education Center: Roxbury

n Lead Teacher*

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*Must be in a degree program or have already obtained a degree in Early Childhood Education.

Behavioral Health Services – Roxbury CSA: Community Service Agency (Specialized in Black Families): This program provides support to families with young people with Severe Emotional Disturbances: Roxbury n Family Partners: Individuals who are experienced caregivers of youth with emotional challenges and are able to support and coach other families. n Intensive Care Coordinator: An individual that facilitates the Wraparound care planning process and coordinates services and natural supports for youth experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges. n Community Support Program Worker: Provides outreach, care management monitoring, follow-up, and general assistance for clients in dealing with day-to-day activities or problems that may impede access to treatment or the progress of recovery *Must have a Bachelor’s degree in human services field from an accredited university and one (1) year of experience working with the target population. n In Home Therapist: Providing strength-based therapeutic relationship between a Master level clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of treating the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote his/her healthy functioning within the family. * Must be a master’s level (or above) with at least 3 years experience in providing outpatient Behavioral health services to youth and families. Experience managing a home-based or Wraparound program models is preferred. Must be certified in the Massachusetts CBHI CANS. n Outpatient Mental Health Therapist: Performing assessments; formulating clinical diagnoses; providing individual, family and group counseling; collaborating with other agencies, family members and other relevant parties involved in the client’s care; providing consultation to CSR non clinical and home-based clinical staff; and participating in research/evaluation activities to ensure the delivery of evidence-based trauma informed care and best clinical practices.. * Master’s level degree is required in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a related field with 2 years experience in providing Behavioral health services to youth, adults and families. Experience in home-based or wraparound program models is preferred. Must be

n In Home Therapist - Therapeutic Training and Support:

a service provided by a qualified paraprofessional working in collaboration with a Master level clinician, using the co-clinician model, to support implementation of the therapeutic objectives of the treatment plan designed to address the youth’s mental health, behavioral and emotional needs. This service includes teaching the youth to understand, direct, interpret, manage, and control feelings and emotional responses to situations and to assist the family to address the youth’s emotional and mental health needs. * Must have a valid driver license without restrictions and have reliable transportation, Bachelor’s degree in human services field from an accredited university and one (1) year of experience working with the target population, or Associate’s degree in a Human Service field from an accredited school and one (1) year of experience working with children/adolescents/ transition age youth, and a minimum of two (2) years experience working with children/adolescents/transition age youth n Clinical Supervisor: Provide weekly supervision to Clinicians and Therapeutic Training & Support Staff. Offer guidance to direct care staff in addressing client management, crisis intervention, and emergencies. Ensure adherence to professional standards and policies. Provide quality assurance through chart review. Facilitate peer review and related activities to ensure quality of services. Oversee charting and documentation to ensure that clients meet medical necessity criteria for the services. Provide Clinical Supervision for license eligible interns. * Must be Massachusetts CANS certified. Must be a Master’s level (or above) clinician with at least three (3) years supervisory and/or management experience. Experience managing a home-based or wraparound program is preferred. Must be Independently Licensed to meet programs requirements. Must have at least five (5) years post graduate experience providing behavioral health services to youth and families. Experience in navigating any of the child/family serving systems and experience in advocating for family members who are involved with behavioral health systems is preferred. Must have a valid driver license without restrictions and reliable transportation with valid state minimum insurance coverage. n Recovery Coach: The Recovery Coach (RC) will provide peer recovery support services to adult /adolecent client’s with substance use disorder (SUD). Recovery Coach Services allow the coaches to meet client’s where they are both in the community and in their stage of change. This position will facilitate client access to recovery-oriented substance use disorder treatment, resources, and community recovery groups to assist the client. These services are individualized and help the clients

identify their needs and plans for next steps. The RC will bridge the segregated treatment system into a more holistic care model through providing support across multiple systems and frameworks of care. In addition, the RC will maintain ongoing client support regardless of relapse and will serve as a motivator, role model, recovery guide,and encourages hope for clients with substance use disorders. n Substance Abuse Counselor: The Substance Abuse Counselor will provide quality substance abuse counseling services according to the program’s established policies and procedures. The Counselor reviews referrals, conducts screening to assign to outpatient counseling services, and if deemed appropriate, conducts bio-psycho-social assessments for use in treatment planning and referrals. The Counselor will conduct individual, couples, and family counseling. Furthermore, the Counselor will also provide case consultation, in-home therapy, and group therapy. As a group therapist the Counselor will be expected to participate in the development of group content. S/he works closely with treatment providers and referring organizations to expedite the referral processes and avoid duplication. Substance Abuse Counselors are expected to accurately complete all required record keeping forms, insure that clients’ charts are complete, and keep progress notes up to date at all times. S/he works to obtain and/ or maintain clinical credentials and licensure by receiving supervision and attending training opportunities

Intensive Foster Care Program: Tewksbury & Northampton

n Child Specific Worker (Spanish Speaking- Tewksbury &

Northampton Office): CSR’s Intensive Foster Care Program works to place children in stable, loving, nurturing foster homes. Our goal is to find both short-term and long-term placements for at-risk children and youth with a broad range of emotional, physical and developmental special needs. Reunification with the child’s biological family is our goal. When that is not feasible, care providers and staff work together to formulate an alternate plan for permanency such as kinship care, guardianship, or adoption. * Bachelor’s level; and/ or 2-5 years of experience. Must be LCSW, LSW, LSWA, or LICSW eligible. Must have a valid driver’s license without restrictions and have reliable transportation.

Program Supervisor: Northampton

n Overall responsibility for compliance with contract regarding utilization,

policy and procedures and licensing. Must hold a Master Degree in Social Work or a related field preference LICSW, LCSW. Must have a minimum of three years of experience working in an Administration Capacity. Must have a valid driver’s license. Must be bilingual English/Spanish.

For more information regarding these listings and/or other employment opportunities, please visit our website at www.csrox.org and send your resume to Children’s Services of Roxbury, Inc. 520 Dudley St. n Roxbury, MA 02119 n Attn: Human Resource Department n OR email to cshropshire@csrox.org NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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