Budget Amendment ID: FY2020-S3-584

EHS 584

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Opioid Study

Messrs. Cyr, Feeney, Collins, Timilty, Welch, Moore and O'Connor and Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting after item 4590-2001 the following item:

“4590-2010  For the department of elder affairs, which shall contract with the University of Massachusetts medical school to conduct a study on opioid use in the commonwealth specifically related to the impact opioid use has had and may continue to have on grandparents and other relatives raising related children; provided, that the study shall investigate and report on, among other topics: (i) the number of individuals in the commonwealth raising related children of relatives; (ii) the number of individuals in the commonwealth raising grandchildren because 1 or both parents are addicted to an opioid drug; (iii) resources available to provide services to both the grandparent or other relative and to the children; and (iv) whether such services are coordinated in a manner that is beneficial to the grandparents and other relatives…………..$50,000”