REMINDER!!!!
Today, October 5th, 2010 4-6 PM
Listening Session at the Nashua Boy's and Girl's on Grande Ave. in Nashua
All Families screwed over by Nashua DCYF and surrounding area.
The NH Children and Family Law Committee want input from the public, as to how efficiently DCYF uses it's funding in regard's to children and families.
Now is your time to speak up. Families need to relate how inefficiently this funding is being used and how government mandates are not being followed.
Please attend this session.Our voices MUST be heard!!!
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
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children – Andrew
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children – Andrew I took my video camera to a Foster Care Alumni meeting and asked seven foster kids to tell me about there experiences in Child Protective Services while wards of the state. One thing they all had in common was massive over drugging with psychiatric drugs. Child placement agencies, foster parents, RTCs (Residential Treatment Centers) and Therapeutic Foster Homes get paid a certain amount of money each day for taking care of a foster child. The amount of money they get paid depends on a level of care system. The more difficult the child or the more problems that child has, the more money you get. A child at the basic level of care is worth about 17 dollars a day where as a child in the highest level of care could be worth as much as a 1000 dollars a day. This puts the incentive on diagnosing children with behavior problems to justify raising their level of care. A child on psychiatric drugs is worth more than a child without problems. It is not uncommon for a foster child to be placed on many different psychotropic drugs at the same time. Some investigations have found children on as many as 13 mind altering drugs prescribed by a psychiatrists at one time. These drugs include all categories of psychiatric drugs; antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiety medications, anticonvulsants medications, etc. The SSRI drugs are commons such as Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, etc. Also a number of these children described taking …
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Aisha
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children – Aisha I took my video camera to a Foster Care Alumni meeting and asked seven foster kids to tell me about there experiences in Child Protective Services while wards of the state. One thing they all had in common was massive over drugging with psychiatric drugs. Child placement agencies, foster parents, RTCs (Residential Treatment Centers) and Therapeutic Foster Homes get paid a certain amount of money each day for taking care of a foster child. The amount of money they get paid depends on a level of care system. The more difficult the child or the more problems that child has, the more money you get. A child at the basic level of care is worth about 17 dollars a day where as a child in the highest level of care could be worth as much as a 1000 dollars a day. This puts the incentive on diagnosing children with behavior problems to justify raising their level of care. A child on psychiatric drugs is worth more than a child without problems. It is not uncommon for a foster child to be placed on many different psychotropic drugs at the same time. Some investigations have found children on as many as 13 mind altering drugs prescribed by a psychiatrists at one time. These drugs include all categories of psychiatric drugs; antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiety medications, anticonvulsants medications, etc. The SSRI drugs are commons such as Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, etc. Also a number of these children described taking …
http://methadoneclinicfinder.com/methadone-treatment/psychiatry-drugs-foster-care-children-andrew/
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children – Andrew I took my video camera to a Foster Care Alumni meeting and asked seven foster kids to tell me about there experiences in Child Protective Services while wards of the state. One thing they all had in common was massive over drugging with psychiatric drugs. Child placement agencies, foster parents, RTCs (Residential Treatment Centers) and Therapeutic Foster Homes get paid a certain amount of money each day for taking care of a foster child. The amount of money they get paid depends on a level of care system. The more difficult the child or the more problems that child has, the more money you get. A child at the basic level of care is worth about 17 dollars a day where as a child in the highest level of care could be worth as much as a 1000 dollars a day. This puts the incentive on diagnosing children with behavior problems to justify raising their level of care. A child on psychiatric drugs is worth more than a child without problems. It is not uncommon for a foster child to be placed on many different psychotropic drugs at the same time. Some investigations have found children on as many as 13 mind altering drugs prescribed by a psychiatrists at one time. These drugs include all categories of psychiatric drugs; antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiety medications, anticonvulsants medications, etc. The SSRI drugs are commons such as Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, etc. Also a number of these children described taking …
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Aisha
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children – Aisha I took my video camera to a Foster Care Alumni meeting and asked seven foster kids to tell me about there experiences in Child Protective Services while wards of the state. One thing they all had in common was massive over drugging with psychiatric drugs. Child placement agencies, foster parents, RTCs (Residential Treatment Centers) and Therapeutic Foster Homes get paid a certain amount of money each day for taking care of a foster child. The amount of money they get paid depends on a level of care system. The more difficult the child or the more problems that child has, the more money you get. A child at the basic level of care is worth about 17 dollars a day where as a child in the highest level of care could be worth as much as a 1000 dollars a day. This puts the incentive on diagnosing children with behavior problems to justify raising their level of care. A child on psychiatric drugs is worth more than a child without problems. It is not uncommon for a foster child to be placed on many different psychotropic drugs at the same time. Some investigations have found children on as many as 13 mind altering drugs prescribed by a psychiatrists at one time. These drugs include all categories of psychiatric drugs; antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiety medications, anticonvulsants medications, etc. The SSRI drugs are commons such as Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, etc. Also a number of these children described taking …
http://methadoneclinicfinder.com/methadone-treatment/psychiatry-drugs-foster-care-children-andrew/
Help families instead of tearing them apart
Help families instead of tearing them apart
Oct 3, 2010
Written by
Cheryl Hall-Russell
Families are the cornerstone of our society. Educating them and providing supportive services are the key to reducing the number of children who enter the foster care or juvenile justice system.
An article about Department of Child Services removal of Hoosier children from homes stated that in 2009 only five states removed more children than Indiana ("Number of kids taken by DCS up again," Sept. 27). It also indicated a higher rate of removal per 1,000 children than in all surrounding states. While foster care and emergency removal are valid in certain cases such as sexual or physical abuse, prevention is fiscally and emotionally less costly. Often the removal process can be circumvented with early intervention.
In tough economic times, families are particularly vulnerable. Family dynamics are affected as relationships are strained over jobs and budgets.
For example, as families become overwhelmed with parenting and keeping house, their homes and children can begin to reflect an unkempt look that may not reflect true neglect. Removing a child from a messy home is traumatic and can be unnecessary. Teaching family members skills to keep their house clean, allocating chores, setting up a schedule and rewarding children for participating can build families instead of tearing them apart. Loving families want to stay together and maintain healthy lifestyles if given the opportunity.
Instead of supporting preventive approaches, legislators easily divert attention and funds to services that appear focused on fixing a problem that has received media attention. Reacting to a tragedy certainly has higher media impact than training a room full of parents about child development or how to handle preschool defiance. Continuing to throw money after situations, however, simply does not make sense.
Instead of a reactive approach, let's try proactive and allocate money toward some sustainable initiatives such as:
Counseling services for children and families starting to fracture.
Parenting classes.
Training for teen parents.
Independent-living skills training for youth leaving the system so they don't repeat the pattern.
In an article on DelinquencyPrevention. org, author Dr. Neil C. Headman says, "To this day, many programs continue to emphasize services to individual youth who have demonstrated delinquent or pre-delinquent behaviors, without giving sufficient focus to family, neighborhood, and community factors that facilitate or support negative youth behavior."
The Office of Justice Programs has allocated $60 million in discretionary awards to leading national organizations to strengthen, expand and implement youth mentoring activities and youth development programming throughout the nation, according to its website, www.ojjdp.gov. Another $37 million in grants will be directed to local mentoring organizations in fiscal year 2010.
The Indiana system appears designed with a punitive approach: punishment for families who don't have the skills needed to understand their children's development and how to deal with day-to-day issues; and punishment for youth who go against society because they didn't learn what they needed at home to make good decisions.
If we instead channel funding to organizations that support education, referral, training, counseling and support services, maybe fewer Hoosier children will be removed from their homes over the next few years.
Support prevention by funding organizations like Indiana Youth Services Association (www.indysb.org), which focus on the root cause. If legislators take a step back and understand the value of prevention, money can be diverted to these efforts and minimize the damage to families and children from a long-term perspective in the state of Indiana. Statistics are not as alarming where programs for prevention are intact. Let's increase the existing support network.
Maybe we won't have to read about so many tragic stories. Let's create a non-story.
Hall-Russell is CEO of the Indiana Youth Services Association in Indianapolis.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20101003/OPINION01/10030328/Help-families-instead-of-tearing-them-apart
Oct 3, 2010
Written by
Cheryl Hall-Russell
Families are the cornerstone of our society. Educating them and providing supportive services are the key to reducing the number of children who enter the foster care or juvenile justice system.
An article about Department of Child Services removal of Hoosier children from homes stated that in 2009 only five states removed more children than Indiana ("Number of kids taken by DCS up again," Sept. 27). It also indicated a higher rate of removal per 1,000 children than in all surrounding states. While foster care and emergency removal are valid in certain cases such as sexual or physical abuse, prevention is fiscally and emotionally less costly. Often the removal process can be circumvented with early intervention.
In tough economic times, families are particularly vulnerable. Family dynamics are affected as relationships are strained over jobs and budgets.
For example, as families become overwhelmed with parenting and keeping house, their homes and children can begin to reflect an unkempt look that may not reflect true neglect. Removing a child from a messy home is traumatic and can be unnecessary. Teaching family members skills to keep their house clean, allocating chores, setting up a schedule and rewarding children for participating can build families instead of tearing them apart. Loving families want to stay together and maintain healthy lifestyles if given the opportunity.
Instead of supporting preventive approaches, legislators easily divert attention and funds to services that appear focused on fixing a problem that has received media attention. Reacting to a tragedy certainly has higher media impact than training a room full of parents about child development or how to handle preschool defiance. Continuing to throw money after situations, however, simply does not make sense.
Instead of a reactive approach, let's try proactive and allocate money toward some sustainable initiatives such as:
Counseling services for children and families starting to fracture.
Parenting classes.
Training for teen parents.
Independent-living skills training for youth leaving the system so they don't repeat the pattern.
In an article on DelinquencyPrevention. org, author Dr. Neil C. Headman says, "To this day, many programs continue to emphasize services to individual youth who have demonstrated delinquent or pre-delinquent behaviors, without giving sufficient focus to family, neighborhood, and community factors that facilitate or support negative youth behavior."
The Office of Justice Programs has allocated $60 million in discretionary awards to leading national organizations to strengthen, expand and implement youth mentoring activities and youth development programming throughout the nation, according to its website, www.ojjdp.gov. Another $37 million in grants will be directed to local mentoring organizations in fiscal year 2010.
The Indiana system appears designed with a punitive approach: punishment for families who don't have the skills needed to understand their children's development and how to deal with day-to-day issues; and punishment for youth who go against society because they didn't learn what they needed at home to make good decisions.
If we instead channel funding to organizations that support education, referral, training, counseling and support services, maybe fewer Hoosier children will be removed from their homes over the next few years.
Support prevention by funding organizations like Indiana Youth Services Association (www.indysb.org), which focus on the root cause. If legislators take a step back and understand the value of prevention, money can be diverted to these efforts and minimize the damage to families and children from a long-term perspective in the state of Indiana. Statistics are not as alarming where programs for prevention are intact. Let's increase the existing support network.
Maybe we won't have to read about so many tragic stories. Let's create a non-story.
Hall-Russell is CEO of the Indiana Youth Services Association in Indianapolis.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20101003/OPINION01/10030328/Help-families-instead-of-tearing-them-apart
Today is the Five Year Anniversary of the Illegal Kidnapping of My Granddaughter Isabella Knightly by Nashua, NH DCYF
The last picture received by Isabella's REAL Mother by her Case Wrecker in 2007
Isabella and Mommy-October 2005
Today is the five year anniversary of the Illegal kidnapping of my granddaughter Isabella Knightly by Nashua, NH DCYF.
She was stolen on October 3rd, 2005 after a false report was made against her mother, by a social worker who work's with DCYF at their cohort hospital in Nashua, NH.
The social worker was coerced and lied to by a Nashua drug Counselor. A Counselor who is supposed to be helping people, not lying about them in order to help herself. I pray other people see her for what she really is before they have to live through the nightmare my family has been put through for the last five year's. She keeps nothing confidential about anyone falsify's report's.She perjures herself in court. She help's no-one. Only herself. She's known as Nashua's "Crooked Counselor". Stay clear of her. She work's with the hospital and DCYF in order to steal undamaged newborn's. I wonder how much of a cut she's making off each stolen child.
So this is another year without Isabella. Another year fighting for her return. Another year of fighting the corruption within Nashua DCYF and the NH judicial system. Hopefully one day soon the federal government will investigate and stop the i funding of the illegally stolen children by DCYF due to falsified paperwork where services are NEVER given to families before a child is removed and relative placement in Nashua is NOT an option!
We love you Isabella and alway's will and I will NOT give up fighting for your return. You belong with your family, NOT stranger's! Some day you will learn the truth!
Governor signs Strickland's bill to revise adoption law
Governor signs Strickland's bill to revise adoption law
Ventura County California
The Governor has signed the Strickland's Bill, which has led to a change in Adoption Law in Ca. On Wednesday, Bill AB 973 was signed into Law.
This Law allow's a parent the right to choose a pre-arranged adoption plan, where the child is released from the hospital to the pre-adoptive parent's, even if the baby and mother test positive for drug's.
Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, R-Moorpark was responsible for recommending this change in the Law
Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/sep/30/governor-signs-stricklands-bill-to-revise-law/#ixzz11J6CLF6f
- vcstar.com
Ventura County California
The Governor has signed the Strickland's Bill, which has led to a change in Adoption Law in Ca. On Wednesday, Bill AB 973 was signed into Law.
This Law allow's a parent the right to choose a pre-arranged adoption plan, where the child is released from the hospital to the pre-adoptive parent's, even if the baby and mother test positive for drug's.
Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, R-Moorpark was responsible for recommending this change in the Law
Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/sep/30/governor-signs-stricklands-bill-to-revise-law/#ixzz11J6CLF6f
- vcstar.com
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Hot topic: psychiatry experts grapple with whether to classify parental alienation as disorder
Hot topic: psychiatry experts grapple with whether to classify parental alienation as disorder
By: DAVID CRARY
Associated Press
10/02/10 12:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK — The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's relationship with one estranged parent can be poisoned by the other.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nation/hot-topic-psychiatry-experts-grapple-with-whether-to-classify-parental-alienation-as-disorder-104192788.html#ixzz11En2M73X
By: DAVID CRARY
Associated Press
10/02/10 12:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK — The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's relationship with one estranged parent can be poisoned by the other.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nation/hot-topic-psychiatry-experts-grapple-with-whether-to-classify-parental-alienation-as-disorder-104192788.html#ixzz11En2M73X
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