After posting this article on my blog in September 2011: NH DHHS Receives Federal Approval for Plan Aimed at Improving Child Protection , I was sent this letter and thought it deserved it's own posting.
NH DHHS has only been noncompliant (AKA: NOT FOLLOWING THEIR OWN SERVICE PLAN!) for approximately 20 years*, so why shouldn't they receive federal approval? .....Maybe when the year 2021 comes around, when NH DHHS has their 30 year noncompliance anniversary party, perhaps then NH DHHS will receive even more federal approvals? Makes you wonder what the NH DHHS 50th noncompliance anniversary celebration will look like (I'm sure it will be an even bigger celebration than the "celebrate May is National foster care month" yearly theme party, with more statewide recognitions, more dinners, more trips to Storyland, more ice cream, more fireworks.) Yup, their half a century of noncompliance anniversary will certainly be a huge affair!
*See Eric L vs Bird: FILE NO., COURT, AND DATE FILED 91-376 (D.N.H., Aug. 28, 1991)
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CITATIONS 1993 WL 764420 (D.N.H. Dec. 16, 1993); 848 F. Supp. 303 (D.N.H. 1994); 2003 D.N.H. 162 (D.N.H. 2003)
"The state has not complied with its five year old settlement agreement in the Eric L. case. That case alleged that the state's treatment of abused and neglected children violated federal law." This includes "failure to investigate properly abuse/neglect reports; provide services to keep families together; provide safe and stable placements for children who could not live at home; and provide proper care, services, and stable, appropriate placements to children with disabilities."---From Chatworthy
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