Maine Voices: Endangered kids need new approach | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Things have gotten better in the decade since Logan Marr's death, but more can be done with a $300 million budget.
BRUNSWICK - It was with great interest that I read this paper's review of Maine's child welfare system.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Newell Augur, a resident of Brunswick, is a lawyer who represents parents in child custody cases and serves on the Maine Bar Association’s subcommittee on child protection issues.
Ten months after Logan Marr was killed 10 years ago, I began working as legislative and public affairs director at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Four years later, I left state service and started a law practice representing parents in child custody cases. I currently participate on the Maine Bar Association subcommittee that reviews child protection issues.
The changes at DHHS are significant. They have reduced the number of children in care and increased the number of children who, after taken into custody, are placed with relatives. Training and recruitment of foster parents has improved. The system is much better today than it was 10 years ago.
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
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