Ms. Deborah A. Merrifield

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  Published on: 2/6/2009    Last Visited: 2/6/2009  

  Deborah Merrifield, head of the Joan A. Male Family Support Center, has had to cut staff.

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  Published on: 1/10/2009    Last Visited: 5/15/2009  

  And after digging through the numbers herself, Deborah Merrifield, the Executive Director of the Joan A. Male Family Support Center, is feeling the pain.
  
  "We could lose up to $1.1 million out of our relatively small $3 million budget, so that's a 35-percent cut," said Deborah Merrifield.

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  And after digging through the numbers herself, Deborah Merrifield, the Executive Director of the Joan A. Male Family Support Center, is feeling the pain.
  
  “We could lose up to $1.1 million out of our relatively small $3 million budget, so that’s a 35-percent cut,†said Deborah Merrifield.

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  www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/538980.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/3/2009    Last Visited: 1/3/2009  

  Nine other social worker postions are at risk, according to Deborah A. Merrifield, the center's executive director.
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  "It's very critical," Merrifield said.

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  Published on: 6/24/2008    Last Visited: 7/2/2008  

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  April 12, 2002 Buffalo News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/12/2002    Last Visited: 5/25/2006  

  "If our clients don't succeed, we don't," Commissioner Deborah Merrifield of the Erie County Social Services Department told 45 people attending a forum on welfare reform Thursday evening on the Erie Community College City Campus.
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  In Erie County, Merrifield said, the number of families receiving such aid has dropped 45 percent, from 18,697 in December 1996 to 8,528 now.
  
  "But how many of them are working at a living wage?"
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  "Welfare reform has made a huge dent in the system," Merrifield acknowledged, "especially with its five-year limit to benefits and the national push to reduce welfare rolls.

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  Buffalo News - Advocate's dedication helps meet... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/1/2003    Last Visited: 12/2/2003  

  "It started as a small demonstration project about two years ago," explained Deborah A. Merrifield, commissioner of social services."It's been so successful."
  
  So successful, in fact, that its budget was doubled this fall to $400,000.
  
  In-home respite care is available for foster families facing a crisis situation with their foster child - such as a behavioral or medical problem - or other family members.Or for those simply needing a break.
  
  "We are trying very hard not to move children, because moving them is very traumatic," Merrifield said."We really call it our "whatever it takes' service."
  
  The program is a result of a collaboration with Erie County that Male said has flourished under Merrifield and her predecessor, Karen J. Schimke.
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  Merrifield says: "There's no question, with Joan Male's leadership of this agency, (they) probably are our most responsive preventive service agency.
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  Merrifield said: "She's . . . a tremendous role model for giving."

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  Buffalo News - Assessing the infant 'safe haven' law - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/12/2004    Last Visited: 1/12/2004  

  Erie County Social Services Commissioner Deborah Merrifield said the county does not track the abandoned babies unless they end up in foster care.
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  That means a woman who abandons a baby under the law could end up getting a phone call from county officials, if they are able to learn her identity, said Merrifield, the social services commissioner.
  
  The county would be obligated to bring an action against the mother, she said.
  
  "If we can find her, yes, we are duty-bound to bring a Family Court action against her," said Merrifield.

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  Buffalo News - At 500 pounds, dad may lose foster sons - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/25/2001    Last Visited: 8/26/2001  

  Deborah Merrifield , commissioner of social services , told The News late Friday that her office will review Jones' case personally.
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  We will be looking very closely at the doctor's findings to see what's going on there , said Merrifield.
  
  Merrifield said it would take a very strong reason to break up a successful foster home , and she said Jones' willingness to seek treatment for his weight problem could be a mark in his favor.
  
  When a foster family has stepped up to the plate and provided love and a home for six years , we should take a long pause before we break that bond , she said.The children deserve for us to take a second look..
  
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  Merrifield , the social services commissioner , said Jones' Medicaid might extend to cover one of the more drastic forms of treatment for obesity.It would be something worth looking into , she said.
  
  Medicaid tends to have pretty open-ended care , so something should be available to him , she said.

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  Buffalo News - City opposes closing of local office of... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/19/2002    Last Visited: 11/19/2002  

  The matter arose at Monday night's Lackawanna City Council meeting, and city officials said they met with Deborah Merrifield, commissioner of social services, and were told the decision has been made in order to centralize services.

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