child and family services

Child and Family Services in New Bedford have a new headquarters building in the North End.  Agency officials and City leaders cut the ribbon Friday at a new headquarters building at 30-57 Acushnet Avenue .  The building formerly housed a supermarket and billards parlor...

A 12-year-old New Bedford girl took her own life last week, one of at least three reported child suicides in the City over the past several years. Tom Butero, Site Director of the New Bedford Child and Family Services office says the rise in child suicide rates is something of a nationwide trend...