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Toughen public scrutiny of private foster care

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion..._DCF_0727.html

Palm Beach Post Editorial

Friday, July 27, 2007

With a $3 million deficit, more children in shelters and repeated
violations of state requirements, the private agency in charge of foster
care in Palm Beach County has become the latest example of the state's
failed privatization venture.

During the past three years, private foster care has not worked in the
districts covering Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, Lake, Citrus, Marion and
surrounding counties. Several agencies, including Palm Beach County's
Child and Family Connections, remain under "corrective action plans." If
the Legislature insists on keeping foster care private, the Legislature
should stop rewarding private agencies for removing children from homes
even though the state's goal is to reunite families.

in Palm Beach County, 2,000 children are relying on new leaders to turn
around Child and Family Connections. Alan Abramowitz, the state
Department of Children and Families' acting administrator in the county,
says the transformation in Volusia and Flagler counties proves that
turnaround is possible. In late 2004, DCF threatened to take over in
those counties after investigation records were falsified, children
languished in foster care and kids in dangerous homes weren't being visited.

The recent resignation of Child and Family Connections CEO John
McCarthy, effective in September, gives the agency's board a chance to
hire a leader more concerned with the needs of foster children, not
agencies providing services. The deficit Mr. McCarthy allowed to grow
from $50,000 in September to about $3 million also should wake up the
board, which has neither reviewed contracts nor scrutinized the budget.
A DCF report showed that the agency only this spring began tracking how
day-to-day expenses compared with its budget.

Yet board Chairman Howard Olshansky said last week: "I don't think the
board's going to look at every expenditure going to providers. That's
micromanaging, and that's the responsibility of the staff." No wonder
the state had to spend $1.7 million to bail out the agency. Nor did DCF
pay attention. This month, the fifth administrator for the county in
five years resigned. Said Mr. Abramowitz, "We should have been on this
sooner." Today, DCF will discuss with the board how to improve the agency.

Child and Family Connections has increased adoptions. But on eight "best
practice measures," the agency ties with two others for 15th out of 22
statewide. Attempting to defend his poor record on the number of
children in out-of-home care for more than 12 months (nearly
50''percent), Mr. McCarthy pointed out that the state average is about
the same. "That doesn't make it good," Mr. McCarthy said, "but it does
make it equal." Actually, it makes it average - the unacceptable result
of the state "outsourcing" its responsibility for abused, neglected and
abandoned children.





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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