CPS takes children from KIN to *stranger foster care.*

Ask Lavoone if her foster placment HAD FAMILY?

Well, now the ACLU is becoming involved, especially in Texas, Austin and San
Antonio area.

Subject: KIN denied placement of family by CPS, DSHS, DSS, etc.
From: (Fern5827)
Date: 3/24/2004 9:23 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

FWD message:

NEWS RELEASE:

Laura Porras, author of "Alias, the Rose" is currently writing a new novel on
the struggles of the families in Washington State to gain custody of their
related foster children placed in State care and often adopted out to
non-related foster parents, the families believe for the huge Federal bonuses
awarded the State. There is no monetary benefit for the State in Kinship Care.

What began with one relative placing a single classified ad seeking other
relatives being denied custody has become a Nation wide campaign for reform.
The classified ads are now being funded by the Foundation for Children's Rights
and will be paid for to any relative wanting to place an ad but finding the
cost prohibitive. This is for any person in any State in the nation. The
initial response from Michigan after placing a single ad was "We're Mach5 with
our hair on fire!"...the ads are a huge success in locating others within a
department and these contacts group together to compare notes.

They are finding "Patterns of obstruction", falsified documents presented to
the Judges hearing the child placement cases, denial of family contact with the
children and other malfeasance within DCFS.

The relatives have carpooled at 3 o'clock in the morning from Richland to
Olympia to testify before Congress, and as a result the case files are now
being opened and reviewed. The classified ad format and an aggressive campaign
to hold DCFS accountable is now being copied Nation wide, and reform will be
lobbied this year, simultaneously as a Nation.

The book is about the valiant efforts of middle aged relatives fighting
relentlessly to bring their relatives out of foster care and back to the
biological homes, and how reform has begun in Washington State and the Nation
as a result.

Please contact Laura Porras for more information, and please report this to the
State of Washington as it is being watched Nation wide in hopes that the
Department of Children and Family Services (CPS) will no longer have unchecked
power and immunity, and will be brought into accountability in the placement of
children taken into State care.

I placed that ad 3 months ago in the TriCity Herald.

The Author of the upcoming book "Washington Warriors"

Laura M. Porras
Alias "The Rose"


www.publishedauthors.net/lauramporras
www.authorsden.com/lauramporras
http://www.publishamerica.com/shoppi...=1-4137-0598-7


Thank you for considering this story,

Suzy Nickel
Director
American Family Rights Association (AFRA)
Washington State


And to think, folks, that it STARTED ON THIS NEWSGROUP.

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SINGLE DADS, DIVORCE, INTACT FAMILIES, TANF, CHILD WELFARE, CHILD MALTREATMENT