Why is it other states CPS report's on horrible situation's such as this, yet New Hampshire hushes everything up and the caseworker's do absolutely nothing when foster stranger's in NH starve the kids or abuse them?
My two grandchildren were placed in a foster home in February of 2006 and removed due to my grandson's new found violent behavior and put on psyche med's by Nashua DCYF in September 2006 and sent to an orphanage.In eight month's time, both children had lost three clothes sizes, in which DCYF did absolutely NOTHING. My four year old granddaughter was severely underweight when placed in the orphanage, which was reported by the staff. Just think, if my grandson didn't try to hang himself and he didn't start behaving violently, they may both be dead of starvation by now if they hadn't been moved.
I just don't understand how NH DCYF has kept under the radar all these year's. If anybody think's that NH DCYF is any better than the rest of the Nation, you're sadly mistaken.For some odd reason the media won't get involved with situation's involving NH DCYF. Are they being paid off as well as the rest of the player's in the illegal kidnapping of NH's children? Are there any REAL Reporter's out there that care about the children and families being abused by NH DCYF? I can remember when I first started my research of NH DCYF. NH wasn't even included on most of the web-sites. They are now and they will be for as long as it takes for someone to hold them accountable for their deceitful practices and illegal kidnapping of NH's unabused, non-neglected children. I hope they like being on the receiving end for a change.
Foster children who were starved file $32 million suit against Oregon
Published: Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 9:02 PM Updated: Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 9:53 PM
Aimee Green, The Oregonian
Joel Davis/The Oregonian
Jordan Knapp, now 10, is pictured (right) at age 7, admiring a new doll, a gift from Molly McGraw, 9 (left).
Attorneys for an 8-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl who were nearly starved to death by their Clackamas County foster parents in 2004 have filed suit against the state child-welfare agency for nearly $32 million.
The lawsuits -- filed Friday and Monday -- offer excruciating, never-before-public details into the lives of the little girl then known as Jordan Knapp and her younger brother, who have since been adopted. Five years ago this week, the Sandy-area girl was flown by Life Flight helicopter to OHSU Hospital with a broken skull. She was 5 years old and weighed 28 pounds, a weight so low it isn't listed on growth charts for children of that age.
Her condition in the crowded double-wide trailer she shared with her brother, six other children and their foster parents, Thelma and William Beaver, stirred an uproar across the state with demands for reform of the foster care system.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/attorneys_for_abused_foster_ch.html
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Team effort key in child-abuse prosecution system
September 2, 2010
Team effort key in child-abuse prosecution system
By Karen Middleton
karen@athensnews-courier.com
— An African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child,” but it takes a multidisciplinary team of law enforcement and social agencies to treat childhood victims of sex abuse and to prosecute pedophiles.
The National Child Advocacy Center and its regional offices, such as the one in Athens, were set up to streamline a system that can sometimes subject a young sex-abuse victim to as many as 15 separate interviews.
Read the entire article at:http://enewscourier.com/local/x752936598/Team-effort-key-in-child-abuse-prosecution-system
Team effort key in child-abuse prosecution system
By Karen Middleton
karen@athensnews-courier.com
— An African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child,” but it takes a multidisciplinary team of law enforcement and social agencies to treat childhood victims of sex abuse and to prosecute pedophiles.
The National Child Advocacy Center and its regional offices, such as the one in Athens, were set up to streamline a system that can sometimes subject a young sex-abuse victim to as many as 15 separate interviews.
Read the entire article at:http://enewscourier.com/local/x752936598/Team-effort-key-in-child-abuse-prosecution-system
Drug Laws Violated for Foster Kids : Deeper Concerns
Drug Laws Violated for Foster Kids : Deeper Concerns
Free Articles on Freedom Plaza: Drugs
by Kieron McFadden
In the wake of a little boy's suicide and the admission by child welfare chiefs that they violated a 2005 law aimed at protecting kids from psychiatric-drug use, some Florida lawmakers suggest the death may be a symptom of deeper problems.
The 2005 law came about when Florida lawmakers became concerned that kids in foster care were being needlessly medicated to control "difficult" behavior.
On April 27, Sen. Ronda Storms, who chairs the Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee, wrote to DCF Secretary George Sheldon, ''This case raises serious concerns which demand attention and answers,'' Among the questions, she asked was, ``To what degree, if any, has the [department] ignored or circumvented . . . the 2005 law which curbed the use of psychotropic drugs in the treatment of our children in department care?''
A former lawmaker who authored the 2005 legislation, Walter G. ''Skip'' Campbell, who also chaired the children's committee, accused the DCF of ''cooking the numbers'' so as to make it look as if had curbed the use of mental health drugs to "manage" the behavior of unruly children.
In a report last September to the Florida Senate, the DCF claimed that less than 7percent (2,307!) foster kids were on such drugs. It also claimed that in almost all cases the agency had "received proper consent". But that report was based on figures from the DCF's internal database (known as the Florida Safe Families Network, or FSFN) long acknowledged by administrators to be unreliable.
In a memo as long ago as September 2006, the DCF's then-director of family safety, Patricia Badland, said DCF's computer system recorded that only 4 percent of children in the state's care were being given psychotropic drugs -- while a separate system kept by Medicaid said nearly 12 percent - three times as many - of foster children were on psychotropic medications.
''This discrepancy would . . . indicate there is under-reporting of children being prescribed psychotherapeutic medications,'' Badland wrote. "It is critical that the . . . database be accurate and up-to-date to assure that we are able to monitor all children taking these medications.''
Eight months later, DCF did report to the Senate that 11.3 percent of children in its care from September through November 2006 had been prescribed mind-altering drugs.
Concerns over the drugging of children were raised as long ago as 2001, when The Miami Herald reported that child welfare administrators were relying on powerful mind-altering drugs to manage the behavior of unruly foster kids, and that those children sometimes suffered dangerous side-effects. Advocates accused the department of using such drugs as ''chemical restraints'' and this concern eventually led to the 2005 law.
Dr. Ewald Horwath, interim chairman of the University of Miami Medical School's psychiatry and behavioral sciences department, said, ''What use can one have for an anti-psychotic drug, other than a psychiatric one?''
He also said, ''It seems to me you would want parental consent before prescribing. You would want someone exercising judgment in place of the child, who cannot make decisions on whether benefits outweigh risks.''
It appears that in Florida children were illegally denied that basic right.
http://freedom-plaza-humor.blogspot.com/2010/09/drug-laws-violated-for-foster-kids.html
Free Articles on Freedom Plaza: Drugs
by Kieron McFadden
In the wake of a little boy's suicide and the admission by child welfare chiefs that they violated a 2005 law aimed at protecting kids from psychiatric-drug use, some Florida lawmakers suggest the death may be a symptom of deeper problems.
The 2005 law came about when Florida lawmakers became concerned that kids in foster care were being needlessly medicated to control "difficult" behavior.
On April 27, Sen. Ronda Storms, who chairs the Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee, wrote to DCF Secretary George Sheldon, ''This case raises serious concerns which demand attention and answers,'' Among the questions, she asked was, ``To what degree, if any, has the [department] ignored or circumvented . . . the 2005 law which curbed the use of psychotropic drugs in the treatment of our children in department care?''
A former lawmaker who authored the 2005 legislation, Walter G. ''Skip'' Campbell, who also chaired the children's committee, accused the DCF of ''cooking the numbers'' so as to make it look as if had curbed the use of mental health drugs to "manage" the behavior of unruly children.
In a report last September to the Florida Senate, the DCF claimed that less than 7percent (2,307!) foster kids were on such drugs. It also claimed that in almost all cases the agency had "received proper consent". But that report was based on figures from the DCF's internal database (known as the Florida Safe Families Network, or FSFN) long acknowledged by administrators to be unreliable.
In a memo as long ago as September 2006, the DCF's then-director of family safety, Patricia Badland, said DCF's computer system recorded that only 4 percent of children in the state's care were being given psychotropic drugs -- while a separate system kept by Medicaid said nearly 12 percent - three times as many - of foster children were on psychotropic medications.
''This discrepancy would . . . indicate there is under-reporting of children being prescribed psychotherapeutic medications,'' Badland wrote. "It is critical that the . . . database be accurate and up-to-date to assure that we are able to monitor all children taking these medications.''
Eight months later, DCF did report to the Senate that 11.3 percent of children in its care from September through November 2006 had been prescribed mind-altering drugs.
Concerns over the drugging of children were raised as long ago as 2001, when The Miami Herald reported that child welfare administrators were relying on powerful mind-altering drugs to manage the behavior of unruly foster kids, and that those children sometimes suffered dangerous side-effects. Advocates accused the department of using such drugs as ''chemical restraints'' and this concern eventually led to the 2005 law.
Dr. Ewald Horwath, interim chairman of the University of Miami Medical School's psychiatry and behavioral sciences department, said, ''What use can one have for an anti-psychotic drug, other than a psychiatric one?''
He also said, ''It seems to me you would want parental consent before prescribing. You would want someone exercising judgment in place of the child, who cannot make decisions on whether benefits outweigh risks.''
It appears that in Florida children were illegally denied that basic right.
http://freedom-plaza-humor.blogspot.com/2010/09/drug-laws-violated-for-foster-kids.html
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
New data: Many fewer US kids in foster care
New data: Many fewer US kids in foster care
August 31, 2010|By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
2010-08-31 12:49:00 PDT New York, NY 10001, United States — (08-31) 12:49 PDT New York (AP) --
The number of U.S. children in foster care has dropped 8 percent in just one year, and more than 20 percent in the past decade, according to new federal figures underscoring the impact of widespread reforms.
The drop, hailed by child-welfare advocates, is due largely to a shift in the policies and practices of state and county child welfare agencies. Many have been shortening stays in foster care, speeding up adoptions and expanding preventive support for troubled families so more children avoid being removed from their homes in the first place.
The new figures, released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, show there were 423,773 children in foster care as of Sept. 30. That's down from 460,416 a year earlier and from more than 540,000 a decade ago.
California had the biggest one-year drop — from 67,703 to 60,198. Just eight years ago, the state had more than 90,000 children in foster care.
Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania are among other major states that have lowered their numbers sharply over the decade.
Of the 423,773 kids in foster care on Sept. 30, 53 percent were boys. Twenty percent were Hispanic, 30 percent black and 40 percent white; 114,556 of them were available for adoption
Read the entire article at:http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-08-31/news/23983591_1_national-foster-care-coalition-care-numbers-richard-wexler
August 31, 2010|By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
2010-08-31 12:49:00 PDT New York, NY 10001, United States — (08-31) 12:49 PDT New York (AP) --
The number of U.S. children in foster care has dropped 8 percent in just one year, and more than 20 percent in the past decade, according to new federal figures underscoring the impact of widespread reforms.
The drop, hailed by child-welfare advocates, is due largely to a shift in the policies and practices of state and county child welfare agencies. Many have been shortening stays in foster care, speeding up adoptions and expanding preventive support for troubled families so more children avoid being removed from their homes in the first place.
The new figures, released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, show there were 423,773 children in foster care as of Sept. 30. That's down from 460,416 a year earlier and from more than 540,000 a decade ago.
California had the biggest one-year drop — from 67,703 to 60,198. Just eight years ago, the state had more than 90,000 children in foster care.
Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania are among other major states that have lowered their numbers sharply over the decade.
Of the 423,773 kids in foster care on Sept. 30, 53 percent were boys. Twenty percent were Hispanic, 30 percent black and 40 percent white; 114,556 of them were available for adoption
Read the entire article at:http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-08-31/news/23983591_1_national-foster-care-coalition-care-numbers-richard-wexler
'I was stolen from my mother': How Winona was handed over for a forced adoption
'I was stolen from my mother': How Winona was handed over for a forced adoption
Stolen by Social Services nine years earlier, Winona finds her mother and brother on Facebook.
For years Winona and her sister believed their mother was a horrible person who didn't love them.
Thank's to Facebook, they're now back together.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1308117/I-stolen-mother-How-Winona-handed-forced-adoption.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz0yKlH5Wfc
Stolen by Social Services nine years earlier, Winona finds her mother and brother on Facebook.
For years Winona and her sister believed their mother was a horrible person who didn't love them.
Thank's to Facebook, they're now back together.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1308117/I-stolen-mother-How-Winona-handed-forced-adoption.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz0yKlH5Wfc
Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young
Child's Journey Shows Dangers of Antipsychotic Drugs
New York Times
In addition, foster care children seem to be medicated more often
Chris Bickford for The New York Times
By DUFF WILSON
Published: September 1, 2010
OPELOUSAS, La. — At 18 months, Kyle Warren started taking a daily antipsychotic drug on the orders of a pediatrician trying to quell the boy’s severe temper tantrums.
Thus began a troubled toddler’s journey from one doctor to another, from one diagnosis to another, involving even more drugs.
Check out this story at:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/business/02kids.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
New York Times
In addition, foster care children seem to be medicated more often
Chris Bickford for The New York Times
By DUFF WILSON
Published: September 1, 2010
OPELOUSAS, La. — At 18 months, Kyle Warren started taking a daily antipsychotic drug on the orders of a pediatrician trying to quell the boy’s severe temper tantrums.
Thus began a troubled toddler’s journey from one doctor to another, from one diagnosis to another, involving even more drugs.
Check out this story at:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/business/02kids.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Probable cause hearing adjourned for Joy Heaven, foster care mom accused of killing child
Probable cause hearing adjourned for Joy Heaven, foster care mom accused of killing child
Published: Wednesday, September 01, 2010, 12:52 PM
Barton Deiters | The Grand Rapids Press
Joy Heaven
Today's probable cause hearing for Joy Heaven, a foster mother accused of inflicting fatal brain injuries to a foster child, was adjourned so Judge Stephen Servaas could hear a police-taped interview with the suspect.
The brief testimony today reflected what had been in previous reports.
On July 15, Joy Heaven sought treatment for Emily Meno, who was comatose. She told medical personnel that Emily, 5, seemed to suffer an epileptic seizure.
But when the girl died at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, an autopsy showed a brain injury.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/09/probable_cause_hearing_adjourn.html
Published: Wednesday, September 01, 2010, 12:52 PM
Barton Deiters | The Grand Rapids Press
Joy Heaven
Today's probable cause hearing for Joy Heaven, a foster mother accused of inflicting fatal brain injuries to a foster child, was adjourned so Judge Stephen Servaas could hear a police-taped interview with the suspect.
The brief testimony today reflected what had been in previous reports.
On July 15, Joy Heaven sought treatment for Emily Meno, who was comatose. She told medical personnel that Emily, 5, seemed to suffer an epileptic seizure.
But when the girl died at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, an autopsy showed a brain injury.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/09/probable_cause_hearing_adjourn.html
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