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LOCAL legislators in Massachusetts are sponsoring new legislation to aid families with adopted children.

The bill will insert language into the state's General Law that will allow mental health professionals to attain, after intensive special training earning continuing education credits, certification as "adoption specialists".

Designed to help families easily locate appropriate and effective professionals, one sponsor says, "It is important that we have the right services available to the child and these families to handle this transition and... more