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| Child Protection Agency in grave financial trouble
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:20:20 -0500, wexwimpy
wrote: Child Protection Agency in grave financial trouble Pinellas Park It is the agency that is supposed to protect children in Pinellas and Pasco Counties, but Family Continuity can't pay the bills and is being forced to cut positions. The agency is part of the Governor's Community Based Child Protection system which takes over much of the work that was done by the Florida Department of Children and Families, DCF. Family Continuity has had problems for several years. In December its director, Jeff Richard was pushed out, Wednesday the second in command resigned and the situation is of such concern that the parent company of Family Continuity has hired a for profit company to run the agency. When the for profit agency looked at the books it decided there had to be major restructuring. Jim Mills, the executive director of the Pinellas Juvenile Welfare board says he is concerned about a child protection agency being run by a for profit company. Mills says he is also concerned that Family Continuity will not be able to meet its budget and stay in business. The Juvenile Welfare Board acts as an over sight agency and as a children advocate. The numbers concerning restructuring are confusing, because Family Continuity and the Department of Children and Families seem to be working with a different set of numbers. Family Continuity says it wanted to have 228 caseworkers for the 41-hundred kids under its supervision, but the state says it only approved 180 positions. Under the reorganization, Family continuity will have only 165 caseworkers. Currently there are 33 positions that are unfilled which will not be replaced and there are 29 people in training to be caseworkers, they will not be hired. Caseworkers say they are stressed and worried about what will happen to their agency and more importantly what will happen to the children. http://www.wtsp.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=6908 To all the people who told me about how great Family Continuity was ansd to give them time you need to read the above. Defend your civil liberties! Get information at http://www.aclu.org, become a member at http://www.aclu.org/join and get active at http://www.aclu.org/action. Gosh, Wexie, don't you know it's not about the money.....that CPS all over the country is overfunded through the kidnapping of children and that the problems are actually because evil forced of darkness have taken over, while we were not looking, all CPS agencies in the country. Seriously, even that bastion of liberalism National Public Radio admitted this morning on a report concerning NJ's horror of a CPS, that MONEY is the problem. They are underfunded and have been for a considerable time. Can't train. Can't actually do the services mandated. But of course they WILL do them even if the yahoos that can't do it themselves are allowed to bust a few knees at CPS. That's all it takes, just some costly lawsuits. That'll get the lazy good for nothing over paid underworked workers movin' Right? Well, at least you, unPlant like, manage to post some of the truth. The public is igorant of the scope of child abuse in this country. Social scientists that specialize know perfectly well about this pendulum pattern, of somnambulance about the problem until it explodes, then funding comes up, then child abuse goes down. We just went through a cycle. Abuse HAD been going down. I hate to think of what the next couple of years reports on abuse stats are going to look like. And how many little children are going to pay for this political nonsense. Not a one you goobers manage to come up with an alternative other than to lie about the numbers and extent of the damage to children. No one comes up with a funding method other than "make them eat cake." The only thing I've heard is "set a fixed amount and make them stay within it while delivering serves to an unknown number of families an children...in other words, guess and let the public set the amount before the fact." Yeah, like that'll work. I have a plan, wexie. Create a body of oversight and governance of parents...parents that DO know how to parent, and let them run it. Wanna know what would happen? A whole lot of the whiners would be spending a whole lot of time in jail. And the funding would probably quadruple every year for a decade or two, until the problem was solved. Kane |
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| Child Protection Agency in grave financial trouble
Create a body of oversight and governance
of parents...parents that DO know how to parent, To WHOSE standards? Would that include people like the strident former caseworker who duct taped Logan marr to a High Chair? (Pontificated about never needing spanking!) (How do you like the alternative she used?) WHO would choose this board of parents? I've seen how Iowa DHS made such choices. As for the "profit motive" our governor outright stated that the reason he hired Kevin W. Concannon was his ability to bring in the FEDERAL DOLLARS. Concannon was previously the Maine DHS director for years and while Logan Marr was removed for dubious reasons and killed by a former caseworker who used her influence to become a foster, specifically hoping to keep Logan Marr forever. She was a model non-spanker and a model Foster. So smug in the Foster classes that other Fosters rolled their eyes at her ""expertise"" and the instructor sucked up to her because of her prior job as a caseworker. She'd have been a perfect candidate to sit on a CPS agency appointed parents board. |
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| Child Protection Agency in grave financial trouble
"Greg Hanson" wrote in message om... Create a body of oversight and governance of parents...parents that DO know how to parent, To WHOSE standards? Would that include people like the strident former caseworker who duct taped Logan marr to a High Chair? (Pontificated about never needing spanking!) (How do you like the alternative she used?) WHO would choose this board of parents? I've seen how Iowa DHS made such choices. As for the "profit motive" our governor outright stated that the reason he hired Kevin W. Concannon was his ability to bring in the FEDERAL DOLLARS. Concannon was previously the Maine DHS director for years and while Logan Marr was removed for dubious reasons and killed by a former caseworker who used her influence to become a foster, specifically hoping to keep Logan Marr forever. She was a model non-spanker and a model Foster. So smug in the Foster classes that other Fosters rolled their eyes at her ""expertise"" and the instructor sucked up to her because of her prior job as a caseworker. She'd have been a perfect candidate to sit on a CPS agency appointed parents board. Yep.. you got is right... bobb |
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| Child Protection Agency in grave financial trouble
The public is igorant of the scope of child abuse in this country.
Social scientists that specialize know What drunken Dads screaming at kids and backhanding em? We just went through a cycle. Abuse HAD been going down. I hate to think of what the next couple of years reports on abuse stats are going to look like. Economics. NO JOBS. Create a body of oversight and governance of parents...parents that DO know how to parent, and let them run it. Wanna know what would happen? Great. Let's oversee every parent in America. Do you own stock in CCC? |
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| Child Protection Agency in grave financial trouble
"bobb" wrote in message ...
"Greg Hanson" wrote in message om... Create a body of oversight and governance of parents...parents that DO know how to parent, To WHOSE standards? Would that include people like the strident former caseworker who duct taped Logan marr to a High Chair? (Pontificated about never needing spanking!) (How do you like the alternative she used?) WHO would choose this board of parents? I've seen how Iowa DHS made such choices. As for the "profit motive" our governor outright stated that the reason he hired Kevin W. Concannon was his ability to bring in the FEDERAL DOLLARS. Concannon was previously the Maine DHS director for years and while Logan Marr was removed for dubious reasons and killed by a former caseworker who used her influence to become a foster, specifically hoping to keep Logan Marr forever. She was a model non-spanker and a model Foster. So smug in the Foster classes that other Fosters rolled their eyes at her ""expertise"" and the instructor sucked up to her because of her prior job as a caseworker. She'd have been a perfect candidate to sit on a CPS agency appointed parents board. Yep.. you got is right... "Yaaaauuuuup! hyuk hyuk hyuk, yah gots that'en right, Homer" bobb Brilliant vomititus cleaning. You feelin' full yet? Kane |
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| Child Protection Agency in grave financial trouble
The public is igorant of the scope of child abuse in this country.
Social scientists that specialize know How to get paid. What drunken Dads screaming at kids and backhanding em? We just went through a cycle. Abuse HAD been going down. I hate to think of what the next couple of years reports on abuse stats are going to look like. Economics. NO JOBS. Isn't an economic downturn well known to cause increases in child abuse, domestic abuse, even street crime? Create a body of oversight and governance of parents...parents that DO know how to parent, and let them run it. Wanna know what would happen? Great. Let's oversee every parent in America. Do you own stock in CCC? Breed creative independent thinking through socialism eh? Is the despiriting and decline of our civilization the goal? Second guessing people to death is bad. |
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