Scope and Content: In its statutory role as advocate for services to children in Massachusetts, the Office for Children coordinates such services in privately funded and particularly public programs, evaluating and monitoring programs in departments and agencies within the Executive Office of Human Services and other executive offices (MGLA c 28A, s 4).  Through FY1991 the office’s advocacy unit in its Help for Children Program provided comprehensive information, referral, and advocacy services to assure children appropriate social, health, or financial support, administered on a community basis through ca. 43 area offices grouped under ca. six regional offices.  Series was created by the office’s director (commissioner from 1987) to provide policy and procedural background in administering advocacy unit programs.
Arrangement: Arranged in part chronologically
Notes: Scheduled as: Director’s subject file
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