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Greegor! -- Want some candy?
Children's Rights: http://www.childrensrights.org
Read the Children's Research Center report: http://www.childrensrights.org/pdfs/...R%202.5.08.pdf Read review by Children's right expert: http://www.childrensrights.org/pdfs/...08%20FINAL.pdf An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" Child Protective Services Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of CPS. every parent should read the free handbook from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS Perpetrators of Maltreatment Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13 Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12 Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST Currently Child Protective Services violates more Constitutionally guaranteed liberties & Civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central intelligence agency wiretaping programs… THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6 This is Child Protection? By Gregory A. Hession, J.D. http://www.jbs.org/node/4632 Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer." http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families By Nev Moore Massachusetts News http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca 30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children. 27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated 33% were receiving public assistance 37% had not finished high school 2% receive a college degree 50% were unemployed Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems, including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment than the general population. *Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support 80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system. The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991 Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing. This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in the first place. Front-page story in USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close The full study is available here. http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than walking wreckage... CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS.... CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON... BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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Greegor! -- Want some candy?
I got distracted!
Children's Rights: http://www.childrensrights.org http://www.childrensrights.org/site/...e=Goad_release Michigan Child Welfare System Directly Responsible for Abuse, Neglect, and Death of Foster Children, Says New Expert Report in Reform Lawsuit Failures throughout Department of Human Services' management and investigations of abuse allegations make department "no safer" in many cases than children's abusive homes DETROIT, MI Likening the management of Michigan's Department of Human Services to "blindfolded school bus drivers," unable to see and respond to impending dangers to the children in its custody, a scathing new report by an expert in Children's Rights' child welfare reform lawsuit against the state of Michigan lays the blame for several children's deaths squarely at the agency's feet. The report, issued by an independent consultant with more than 30 years of experience working in child protective services, examines the cases of five children who died in DHS custody--some from extreme physical abuse--and provides a long and detailed list of failures throughout the department's management and investigations of alleged abuse and neglect in DHS foster care placements that, it says, render DHS incapable of protecting the children in its care. Today's report corroborates the findings of another released last week that examined DHS's management in close detail (characterizing its practices as a "formula for disaster") as well as findings from a review of 460 individual cases of children in DHS custody--and concludes that DHS has knowingly used misleading calculations to obscure the rate at which children in its custody suffer maltreatment. According to both last week's case review and today's report, Michigan's rate of maltreatment in foster care is two and a half times the standard deemed acceptable by the federal government. "While the Michigan Department of Human Services has tried to distance itself from the disastrous results of its dangerous practices, children have been dying in its custody and on its watch," said Sara Bartosz, senior staff attorney for Children's Rights. "Today's report reveals the stories behind the statistics, and illustrates in no uncertain terms what is at stake if DHS does not commit to real reform immediately." The children whose cases are highlighted in today's report include: Elizabeth, whose family became known to DHS after she suffered a brutal physical attack in her home when she was just 14 days old, leaving her with a fractured skull, three fractured ribs, and a fractured clavicle. Elizabeth was made a ward of DHS but was returned to her home, leaving a child placing agency contracted by DHS in charge of monitoring her. This agency failed to forward two reports to DHS with additional evidence of Elizabeth's abuse--including severe burns and two black eyes--until after Elizabeth was found beaten to death in her home. Heather, a 15-year-old girl whose serious psychiatric problems went untreated by DHS while she was placed in a filthy, chaotic home with an aunt and uncle unlicensed to provide foster care, where a total of 17 people crowded into a three-bedroom house with only one bathroom. Heather eventually ran away to South Carolina, was abandoned there by DHS, and hanged herself. Brandon, a seven-week-old boy who was placed in an overcrowded DHS foster home with five other children--three of whom had serious behavioral and mental health problems--and died of apparent suffocation when his foster mother left him unattended. Isaac, murdered at the age of two in a foster home that had been the subject of nine Child Protective Services (CPS) complaints before his placement there. Less than two months after arriving in the home, Isaac was found beaten to death, covered in burns and bruises and having suffered multiple bone fractures. "An overloaded and apparently incompetent caseworker placed Isaac in dangerous foster homes, failed to visit him regularly, and overlooked evidence of Isaac's maltreatment," says the report. "DHS's actions and inactions, and those of its contractor, caused Isaac's death." James, who died of blunt-force trauma to the head in a DHS foster home just a few months shy of his fourth birthday. Despite the medical examiner's finding that James's death was a homicide, DHS's vague definition of the term "abuse" enabled the agency to conclude in its own investigation that there was not a preponderance of evidence that James had been abused. The report cites widespread systemic problems throughout DHS that it says created the conditions that contributed to these children's deaths --and place the 19,000 children currently in DHS custody in similarly grave danger. According to the report: The structure of DHS is diffuse and inefficient. The department is responsible for a very broad range of services--including Michigan's welfare, disability assistance, Medicaid, juvenile justice, and child support programs, among many others--but lacks a division devoted specifically to child welfare. Components of the child welfare system are scattered throughout the department, diluting accountability and impeding the communication of critical information. DHS management is structured, says the report, "as if to minimize expert focus on child welfare and to all but preclude the effective protection of its foster children." DHS managers lack the education and experience necessary to run a child welfare system. National standards for good practice call for directors of child welfare agencies to hold graduate degrees in human services and demonstrate competence in the delivery of child welfare services. Relevant advanced degrees are the exception among top DHS staff, and few have any child welfare experience at all. DHS fails to adequately investigate allegations of abuse and neglect in foster care placements. The department's investigations are unstructured, superficial, and rarely gather sufficient information to determine accurately whether maltreatment has occurred. Furthermore, says the report, DHS investigators "often make determinations that are not consistent with the facts." DHS has no quality assurance program and is unable to produce reliable data about its practices and outcomes. The statistical information necessary to guide the operation of the agency at every level--and to identify systemic problems--either does not exist or cannot be trusted. When disturbing data does surface, little is done about it. And the agency calculates some statistics--including its rate of maltreatment in foster care--in a misleading manner that hides the danger to which it subjects the children in its custody. The report further notes that DHS's shortage of caseworkers would be enough by itself to preclude the agency from adequately protecting the children in its care--and echoes concerns raised by last week's case review that the agency places children in unlicensed foster homes with relatives as a means of maintaining a "second class" of placements that receive neither appropriate safety and criminal background checks nor adequate financial support. "Combining the disturbing deficiencies in MDHS's performance in the five cases reviewed with the many serious shortcomings found in the agency's structure, regulation, practices, overall management, and-- especially--staff resources, it is clear that children are far too likely to be no safer in foster care than they were with their abusive and neglectful parents," the report concludes. Today's report will be offered as evidence in the federal class action known as Dwayne B. v. Granholm, brought against Michigan by the national child welfare watchdog group Children's Rights, the international law firm McDermott Will & Emery, and local counsel Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton. The lawsuit charges the state with violating the constitutional rights of the approximately 19,000 children in its custody by failing to protect their safety and well- being and find them permanent homes. # # # Children's Rights is a national watchdog organization advocating on behalf of abused and neglected children in the United States. Since 1995, Children's Rights has used legal action and policy initiatives to drive lasting reform in child protection, foster care, and adoption. McDermott Will & Emery is an international law firm numbering more than 1,100 lawyers in offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Düsseldorf, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, New York, Orange County, Rome, San Diego, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. Extending its reach to Asia, McDermott has a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai. A major part of McDermott's pro bono program is its "Kids First Project." Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton is a law firm based in Birmingham, Michigan, specializing in all aspects of employment and labor law. It has been designated in Chambers USA's Client Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers as the top employment and labor law firm in Michigan. Read the Children's Research Center report: http://www.childrensrights.org/pdfs/...R%202.5.08.pdf Read review by Children's right expert: http://www.childrensrights.org/pdfs/...08%20FINAL.pdf |
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