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A hard look at the inside the Department of Children, Youth and Families?



 
 
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The chance for a hard look at the inside

01:00 AM EDT on Friday, July 27, 2007

http://www.projo.com/news/bobkerr/ke...7.3149719.html

The opening round of hearings into the Department of Children, Youth and
Families was pretty dull considering the dramatic and disturbing charges
of child abuse and neglect contained in a lawsuit brought against the
department by child advocate Jametta O. Alston.

A big part of the reason for the low-watt opener at the State House on
Wednesday was Alston’s decision not to attend because she considered an
appearance a possible conflict of interest due to the lawsuit.

But an even bigger part of the reason was the absence of public
testimony. Sen. Rhoda Perry, chairwoman of the Committee on Health and
Human Services, said there would be public testimony at future hearings,
but the first people to be heard from were DCYF Director Patricia
Martinez and Jane Hayward, director of Health and Human Services. There
was a lot of talk about numbers — the number of caseworkers, the number
of foster parents, the length of time needed to make badly needed
changes. ….

There were people in the audience ready to testify. They didn’t learn
there would be no public testimony until they got to the State House. So
they sat and listened and held on to their collected evidence of abuses
and missed opportunities and a system overwhelmed by the number of kids
in need and in trouble in Rhode Island.

The future hearings promise to offer the first real public look into
some very disturbing stories about children caught up in the strange and
unpredictable territory between the DCYF and Rhode Island Family Court.
The hearings might actually force things into the open that have long
been under wraps. We can only hope that the hearings are allowed to go
where people’s hard memories take them.

Nick Rossi is considering packing his bags and heading east to testify.
He is a student at Brigham Young University in Utah. But a few years ago
he was living in one of the harshest, cruelest excuses for public
childcare ever conceived.

Looking back on it, it is difficult to image how anyone could have
allowed night to night placement of kids to be put into practice, let
alone continued for far too long.

The moving of kids from place to place, day after day, was a dark and
self-defeating practice that took huge chunks of childhood away from
those caught in the shuffle. I have talked to people besides Rossi who
endured it, and they marvel at their own ability to still function.

And Rossi thinks it should be part of the record.

“It kept me from going to school, making friends, having any feeling of
permanence,” he said.

He remembers being put in a van with other kids, driven to one of
several possible overnight facilities and told “here’s a couch, here’s a
bed.” The next day would be a repeat, beginning with uncertainty and
ending with it.

Sometimes, there were fights and threats in those temporary places and
it would be impossible to even think about sleeping.

There was the occasional group home or foster home, but never the
feeling of settling in anywhere.

Rossi has done well. He has learned to be a player. He is in college.
When he heard about Alston’s lawsuit, he wondered about what it could
mean for kids already damaged.

“They can’t go back and give you a better childhood,” he said.

But they can, perhaps, look at all the mistakes and missed warning signs
and flaws in a very flawed system and save other kids from the same kind
of long lasting damage.





CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA
WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....

CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.

every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf

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 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING HUNDREDS 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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