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CPS: Children placed in offices: caseworkers are not adequately trainedto care for them.
CPS: Children placed in offices due to lack of available beds
6/26/2007 6:02 PM By: Amy Hadley http://www.news8austin.com/content/y...sp?ArID=186960 Kids spending the night in conference rooms -- that's been a solution Child Protective Services has used to house foster children it is unable to place. Air mattresses, pillows and blankets are tucked away in cabinets and closets, ready to turn rooms at CPS office buildings into makeshift bedrooms. Since January, foster children have been sleeping at CPS offices as a short-term solution to finding foster placements. And the numbers have been on the rise every month, from 32 in January to 160 in May. The total since January is 479. This problem is a symptom of a shift of CPS resources to child abuse investigations, at the expense of finding placements for foster children. "The system as it exists now is maxed," Patrick Crimmins, with CPS, said. Crimmins said the problem is tri-fold. First, there are 40 percent more children in foster care this year than last, but only 26 percent more foster homes and facilities. "The number of kids in foster care is increasing faster than the number of placements we have for them. So it's a supply and demand problem," he said. Crimmins also said some providers are refusing to take certain children. He said the ones housed at CPS offices are those who are harder to place. "Mental illness, some of them are violent, they can be aggressive. Some of them are runaways. So these are very, very difficult children to place," he said. And the third problem, he said, is there are facilities that don't meet CPS's minimum standards, so those are not an option. Texas CPS will have to find real places to sleep for all the children in foster care after July 1. Regardless of the reasons, the 10 Travis County civil district judges signed an order last Thursday saying children cannot be housed in state offices. The exception is in emergencies. "It appears to me, this is a lack of planning," 126th District Judge Darlene Byrne said. "I know it's not easy. So is it lazy? I wouldn't say it's lazy. It certainly isn't creative. It is not finding the appropriate long-term solution for the issue before us." As of July 1, CPS cannot house Travis County children in offices. "I can't help but believe there is someone in the system who is really good at math, really good at budgets, and can draft really good contracts and figure out how to develop a long term plan to adequately provide housing for our kids," Byrne said. "We do need more facilities. We need more residential treatment facilities and we need more emergency shelters," Crimmins said. "Every single day there's kind of an emergency meeting that's held here in Austin to go over each one of the cases of the children who've been in the offices the night before. And we discuss what we can do to get this child out of an office and into a regular placement." Caseworkers are paid overtime to stay overnight with the children, two for every child. Judges say given the types of children having to stay in offices, caseworkers are not adequately trained to care for them. "The children they provide a safe home for are sometimes children that have lived through some of our worst nightmares and these children do need a lot of special care and support," Byrne said. CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 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 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. 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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CPS: Children placed in offices: caseworkers are not adequately trained to care for them.
Kane wrote
..."I'll be happy to take some of that overflow and help out, like the responsible citizen I am, and I'm volunteering Greg Hansen of Iowa as my backup too. We are good citizens, we are."... Isn't that right, fx? They removed 40% more kids this year than last year. If they would stop nit-picking to remove kids they would have a surplus of fosters and lose massive amounts of funding. |
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CPS: Children placed in offices: caseworkers are not adequately trained to care for them.
On Jun 27, 12:28 pm, Greegor wrote:
Kane wrote ..."I'll be happy to take some of that overflow and help out, like the responsible citizen I am, and I'm volunteering Greg Hansen of Iowa as my backup too. We are good citizens, we are."... Isn't that right, fx? They removed 40% more kids this year than last year. If they would stop nit-picking to remove kids they would have a surplus of fosters and lose massive amounts of funding. Not so in your case though greg the showerer, we all know what you were doing to Lisa's baby girl. Tic toc greg Firemonkey |
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CPS: Children placed in offices: caseworkers are not adequately trained to care for them.
Kane wrote
Most of those kids were likely on the STATE's dime, not the Feds. What is the exception for them? |
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