Sen. Ed Durr introduced a resolution that would designate Aug. 27 of each year as Billy Cray Day, honoring an affable young man with developmental disabilities who died in his group home bedroom in 2017.
A proposal to provide for video cameras in common areas of group homes serving adults, as well as bedrooms of those requesting them, has stalled in Trenton.
March 4, 2021
50 for 50: Founders Circle Award Winners Susy Cheston, Martha Cray, Jill Dailey Smith, and Linda Vander Weele
By Opportunity International
On Saturday, February 20, 2021, we presented the first of a series of 50th anniversary awards. The first Founders Circle Awards went to a group of Opportunity International pioneers who helped us innovate our strategies and programs to better serve clients. These awards celebrate the earliest days of initiatives that have come to define Opportunity s work and we are so excited to go back and remember how these programs began.
In the early 1990s, a group of Opportunity International donors in the United States wanted to build a system that would allow Opportunity to lend to those who needed resources most, including women all around the world.
State May Require Cameras In Group Homes
by Susan K. Livio, NJ.com/TNS | December 15, 2020
EDISON, N.J. William Cray was found dead on the floor of his bedroom closet in a group home in Somers Point three years ago.
His mother said she’ll never know what happened to her son, a 33-year-old man with developmental disabilities. The autopsy said he died of natural causes. The operators of the state-licensed group home, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, didn’t say much, although she had been at odds with them in recent months over Billy’s unexplained bruises and other injuries.
Her disabled son died alone in a group home closet. Now N.J. may require group homes to install cameras. nj.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nj.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.