Advocates: Foster Kids Over-Medicated
ATLANTA —
Half of Georgia’s teenagers in foster care are taking one psychotropic drug. And one in three are on anti-psychotic medication. That’s according to data the state collected in 2009. (photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Advocates for children say Georgia’s foster kids are over-medicated. A bill that’s already been filed would establish oversight on how much the children are prescribed.
Half of Georgia’s teenagers in foster care are taking one psychotropic drug like anti-depressants. And one in three are on anti-psychotic medication. That’s according to data the state collected in 2009 says Melissa Carter with the Barton Child Law and Policy Center at Emory University.
"Children in custody because of behavior management issues are really over-prescribed a lot of medication . So it costs the state a lot of money in Medicaid billings,"says Carter, "and of course it’s not the right quality of care for the children who are in state custody."
Carter says new legislation would provide independent oversight of the process, establish guidelines for the use of the drugs, and change how treatment is signed off on. One change would be to give case managers access to a psychiatrist before they approve treatment.
She says other states who have reformed their process have seen tens of millions of dollars in savings to the Medicaid program.
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
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Thanks to my readers – regarding last night’s BS « I Was A Foster Kid
Thanks to my readers – regarding last night’s BS « I Was A Foster Kid
Thanks to my readers – regarding last night’s BS
December 29, 2010
i came to the library this morning and was surprised to see several posts by a Tara Little. they were hurtful and filled with anger and hate towards me. they insulted me and my blog. ironically this Tara did not even read alot of my blog and made several accusations about me and the foster care system.
i want to thank my readers who logged on last night, for your responses in support of my blog and especially the FOSTER KIDS that responded.
i deleted Tara Little’s comments (and her other alias), because i did not want them on my blog.
Now, i may be stupid and i may have a learning disability, but guess what….
over a year of blogging has taught me some stuff about computers…Tara…
….you know, when you leave a comment on a blog, it also leaves an IP Address
which is like a fingerprint.
and shit, did you know that you can look up those IP addresses to see where they come from….
….so fucking cool. LOL
.
that behavior was not very nice…. from a so-called foster parent — Jxxx er, i mean Tara….
hope the weather is nice in Missouri. …. and yes, those fingerprints give exact cities/towns/etc.
don’t you think 2 sets of attacks on my blog in less than a week from you is enough? find something better to do with your time, and leave my blog alone.
.
and if you are truly a foster parent…you proved my point……… not all of them are “good.”
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your comments hurt me at first, but the truth is, my story is real. and if you had read any of my blog, you would see throughout is spread advice to foster parents and messages and suggestions for reform. and yes, alot of my pain and frustration trying to figure out life…
i never had the foster parents you wrote about. i grew up in a state with a notoriously bad foster care system. but i am not alone. there are thousands of foster kids like me…look at the statistics. they do not lie. i also suffered severe abuse. my biofather beat the crap out of me, raped me for years, and then stabbed me….and went to prison. the story made the news and i could give you his name and he is a registered offender for life and on life-time parole. put foster care and severe abuse in childhood together and what you get is what i write about.
foster care is so variable, the children in care are so variable, experiences are so variable.
to insult me and my life story is an attempt to hide the truth. so go away.
the point of this blog is to open people’s eyes up to the failing of the foster care system, to make suggestions for reform and changes, to help people involved in the system learn from “a child’s point of view,” and to let me write about my life and feelings. if you don’t like it, don’t read it. find another blog to bother.
.
.
Anyway, readers i am off to cool down, see Dr. Val and maybe i will return to the library to write later.
peace.
Thanks to my readers – regarding last night’s BS
December 29, 2010
i came to the library this morning and was surprised to see several posts by a Tara Little. they were hurtful and filled with anger and hate towards me. they insulted me and my blog. ironically this Tara did not even read alot of my blog and made several accusations about me and the foster care system.
i want to thank my readers who logged on last night, for your responses in support of my blog and especially the FOSTER KIDS that responded.
i deleted Tara Little’s comments (and her other alias), because i did not want them on my blog.
Now, i may be stupid and i may have a learning disability, but guess what….
over a year of blogging has taught me some stuff about computers…Tara…
….you know, when you leave a comment on a blog, it also leaves an IP Address
which is like a fingerprint.
and shit, did you know that you can look up those IP addresses to see where they come from….
….so fucking cool. LOL
.
that behavior was not very nice…. from a so-called foster parent — Jxxx er, i mean Tara….
hope the weather is nice in Missouri. …. and yes, those fingerprints give exact cities/towns/etc.
don’t you think 2 sets of attacks on my blog in less than a week from you is enough? find something better to do with your time, and leave my blog alone.
.
and if you are truly a foster parent…you proved my point……… not all of them are “good.”
.
your comments hurt me at first, but the truth is, my story is real. and if you had read any of my blog, you would see throughout is spread advice to foster parents and messages and suggestions for reform. and yes, alot of my pain and frustration trying to figure out life…
i never had the foster parents you wrote about. i grew up in a state with a notoriously bad foster care system. but i am not alone. there are thousands of foster kids like me…look at the statistics. they do not lie. i also suffered severe abuse. my biofather beat the crap out of me, raped me for years, and then stabbed me….and went to prison. the story made the news and i could give you his name and he is a registered offender for life and on life-time parole. put foster care and severe abuse in childhood together and what you get is what i write about.
foster care is so variable, the children in care are so variable, experiences are so variable.
to insult me and my life story is an attempt to hide the truth. so go away.
the point of this blog is to open people’s eyes up to the failing of the foster care system, to make suggestions for reform and changes, to help people involved in the system learn from “a child’s point of view,” and to let me write about my life and feelings. if you don’t like it, don’t read it. find another blog to bother.
.
.
Anyway, readers i am off to cool down, see Dr. Val and maybe i will return to the library to write later.
peace.
Edited Message to Nashua, NH DCYF Supervisor Tracey Gubbins
To the one and only Tracey Gubbins who thinks she runs the Nashua office. After going through more of my daughter's paperwork, which was never included in the file sent by her caseworker, I found some very interesting paper's, signed by you.
The case plan for December 7,2005 states my daughter "Will participate in a medical detoxification program", for methadone detox, "Immediately".
My question is: How could she participate in a medical detox program when there was no such program in the state of NH? A program that was cut from the budget by your Boss, former DHHS Commissioner John Stephen? Don't tell me you NEVER got the memo? Did you lead her caseworker, Kris Geno (now owner of RTT Associates in Manchester)to believe there was such a program in NH, or was she in on the fraud also? I'm sure she got the memo also, as well as all your baby stealer's did. You even led Judge Tenney to believe there was a medical detox program in NH. Therefore he court-ordered my daughter into a medical detox program December 7,2005 at the Dispositional Hearing. I'm sure he would love to hear how you pulled the wool over his eyes and got your caseworker to lie in court, or was he in on the deception also?
Something else I found, which I and many other's were witness to:Case Plan for March 29,2006, again signed off by you;On February 23,2006 the division received a call from Odyssey House, where you decided to send my daughter and her baby because you don't won't young mother's getting help from their parent's. They advised my daughter had to be off the methadone by March 8,2006 and brought to Odyssey. Also stated, the division immediately contacted my daughter and advised her that she needed to contact her physician to make arrangements for medical detox. This never happened and there is NO paperwork in her file confirming it. Her caseworker told her she was trying to find her medical detox, as she was the one who guaranteed she would get her into medical detox when it came time to get into Odyssey House. That was back in December of 2005 when my daughter wanted to start detoxing on her own, but was forbidden to do so by her caseworker, stating it would be too dangerous. If Kris Geno had really been trying to find her medical detox, wouldn't have all the call's she supposedly made on by daughter's behalf, been in the phone log's in her file? There wasn't even one. I called everywhere in the state myself, only to be told ALL medical detox had been cut from the budget.
So now she's given thirteen days to detox on her own, which is now even more dangerous due to her diagnosis of Sheehan Syndrome, after her pituitary gland hemorrage during the birth of her stolen daughter. Thirteen day's, even after Kris Geno's call log show's she spoke to Joanne Ukraine from Odyssey House, who told her it takes at least six month's to detox anyone off methadone. If you were any kind of a human being, who was REALLY working toward reunification, you would have allowed her to go to Massachusetts for medical detox, but that was totally out of the question even though I had already set everything up. And why would you let her go to Mass.? It would mean she and her daughter would be back together and you would lose your sacred incentive money. So you screwed her over some more. By this time we shouldn't have been surprised. So did you put your caseworker up to this one also?
The date for Odyssey was changed to March 30,2006 as my daughter couldn't detox that quickly. It would have killed her, but isn't that what you were hoping for? Get her out of the way and adopt out her newborn? You and the rest of the baby stealer's in the state must have thought that would be the end of it. Did you really think I would stop this fight? Has anyone else ever stood up to your deceitful practices in the stealing of their children or grandchildren?
You sent your Kris Geno into court and had her lie to Judge Leary. She told him my daughter was not showing up for drug tests, her doses weren't going down and the methadone levels weren't going down. Her visits had even been canceled with her daughter throughout the month of March because she was still on Methadone, legally. If she wasn't going for drug test's, how did the Kris know the doses and levels weren't going down? Why didn't Judge Leary ask that question? I'm sure he'd love to know how you pulled the wool over his eyes also. That is unless he was also in on the illegal kidnapping. Is he even aware that your DCYF psychic Lawyer Kate McClure committed perjury in order to place by granddaughter in foster care instead of with her family? I'm sure he is aware seeing how my daughter and myself have been denied the recording from that hearing in court, for the last five year's. The court is helping Kate McClure hide her dirty little secret. But YOU are the one who put her up to it. She work's for YOU and the state!
If my daughter's files had been given to her sooner, we would have known much earlier how she was being screwed over again. I have in my possession all drug test's from the month of March 2006 that show the levels and methadone doses were going down. I also have the caseworker's call logs, which show the Kris was calling the Methadone clinic every day checking on her doses. March 29,2006, before the court hearing she went for her last dose of 5 mg. Because of Kris's lie, which I'm sure you put her up to, my daughter was not allowed to go to Odyssey House.
Are you also the one that told Kris to give the court a fictitious mans name as my granddaughters father? You must be aware that she was illegally adopted. Are you also the one who told Kris to tell my daughter not to tell anyone that her daughter is half Dominican? Is that because white children are worth more to you? Then you deny me a foster care license because I fight for my families rights and won't lie for you. I would die for my family. They mean more to me than life itself. Something none of you at DCYF know anything about. All you care about is money, NOT family!
So I hope you like my letter. I'm sure everyone else will and I will be forwarding it everywhere. My daughter and my family have now lost five year's of our lives which we could have been spending with our precious granddaughter, thank's to you and your deceitful practices and the corruption within the Nashua office. Because of your lies, my grandson tried to hang himself and is now on psychiatric medication for violent behavior. We practically raised him, but we weren't allowed to raise him because of your lies in the home study. A home study that was NEVER completed that took ten month's , instead of the norm of six month's. An incomplete home study that you signed, after one of your worker's admitted you were the one that screwed us over, which I already knew.
You need to go and the Nashua office needs to be shut down. I heard the Nashua office has more complaints filed against them than any other office in the state. Could the reason be because of you? Because you think you run the office, not the person who is really supposed to be in charge, Geraldo Pilarski? The head of the Nashua office who told me DCYF would NOT make the same mistake twice, after the illegal kidnapping of my granddaughter, after I gave him all my proof of deception. But it did happen again, even though he know's how crooked you are. I thought he wasn't going to watch your back? And you've sold off my drugged up grandson also, after we were told he would be with us. My grandson, whose father's right's were NEVER terminated. This seem's to be the norm in Nashua. Terminate the wrong man's right's so you don't have to spend your bonus money looking for the REAL father. You wouldn't have had to look far. You had all his information. You even had his address and phone number, but you chose someone twenty year's younger with the same name!
My fight will go on for as long as it takes to get my grandchildren back. You can blame yourself for the fight I am giving this state. My grandchildren are worth more than any amount of money. Unlike you I DO look out for the best interests of my children and grandchildren. They are worth more to me than all your incentive money!
The case plan for December 7,2005 states my daughter "Will participate in a medical detoxification program", for methadone detox, "Immediately".
My question is: How could she participate in a medical detox program when there was no such program in the state of NH? A program that was cut from the budget by your Boss, former DHHS Commissioner John Stephen? Don't tell me you NEVER got the memo? Did you lead her caseworker, Kris Geno (now owner of RTT Associates in Manchester)to believe there was such a program in NH, or was she in on the fraud also? I'm sure she got the memo also, as well as all your baby stealer's did. You even led Judge Tenney to believe there was a medical detox program in NH. Therefore he court-ordered my daughter into a medical detox program December 7,2005 at the Dispositional Hearing. I'm sure he would love to hear how you pulled the wool over his eyes and got your caseworker to lie in court, or was he in on the deception also?
Something else I found, which I and many other's were witness to:Case Plan for March 29,2006, again signed off by you;On February 23,2006 the division received a call from Odyssey House, where you decided to send my daughter and her baby because you don't won't young mother's getting help from their parent's. They advised my daughter had to be off the methadone by March 8,2006 and brought to Odyssey. Also stated, the division immediately contacted my daughter and advised her that she needed to contact her physician to make arrangements for medical detox. This never happened and there is NO paperwork in her file confirming it. Her caseworker told her she was trying to find her medical detox, as she was the one who guaranteed she would get her into medical detox when it came time to get into Odyssey House. That was back in December of 2005 when my daughter wanted to start detoxing on her own, but was forbidden to do so by her caseworker, stating it would be too dangerous. If Kris Geno had really been trying to find her medical detox, wouldn't have all the call's she supposedly made on by daughter's behalf, been in the phone log's in her file? There wasn't even one. I called everywhere in the state myself, only to be told ALL medical detox had been cut from the budget.
So now she's given thirteen days to detox on her own, which is now even more dangerous due to her diagnosis of Sheehan Syndrome, after her pituitary gland hemorrage during the birth of her stolen daughter. Thirteen day's, even after Kris Geno's call log show's she spoke to Joanne Ukraine from Odyssey House, who told her it takes at least six month's to detox anyone off methadone. If you were any kind of a human being, who was REALLY working toward reunification, you would have allowed her to go to Massachusetts for medical detox, but that was totally out of the question even though I had already set everything up. And why would you let her go to Mass.? It would mean she and her daughter would be back together and you would lose your sacred incentive money. So you screwed her over some more. By this time we shouldn't have been surprised. So did you put your caseworker up to this one also?
The date for Odyssey was changed to March 30,2006 as my daughter couldn't detox that quickly. It would have killed her, but isn't that what you were hoping for? Get her out of the way and adopt out her newborn? You and the rest of the baby stealer's in the state must have thought that would be the end of it. Did you really think I would stop this fight? Has anyone else ever stood up to your deceitful practices in the stealing of their children or grandchildren?
You sent your Kris Geno into court and had her lie to Judge Leary. She told him my daughter was not showing up for drug tests, her doses weren't going down and the methadone levels weren't going down. Her visits had even been canceled with her daughter throughout the month of March because she was still on Methadone, legally. If she wasn't going for drug test's, how did the Kris know the doses and levels weren't going down? Why didn't Judge Leary ask that question? I'm sure he'd love to know how you pulled the wool over his eyes also. That is unless he was also in on the illegal kidnapping. Is he even aware that your DCYF psychic Lawyer Kate McClure committed perjury in order to place by granddaughter in foster care instead of with her family? I'm sure he is aware seeing how my daughter and myself have been denied the recording from that hearing in court, for the last five year's. The court is helping Kate McClure hide her dirty little secret. But YOU are the one who put her up to it. She work's for YOU and the state!
If my daughter's files had been given to her sooner, we would have known much earlier how she was being screwed over again. I have in my possession all drug test's from the month of March 2006 that show the levels and methadone doses were going down. I also have the caseworker's call logs, which show the Kris was calling the Methadone clinic every day checking on her doses. March 29,2006, before the court hearing she went for her last dose of 5 mg. Because of Kris's lie, which I'm sure you put her up to, my daughter was not allowed to go to Odyssey House.
Are you also the one that told Kris to give the court a fictitious mans name as my granddaughters father? You must be aware that she was illegally adopted. Are you also the one who told Kris to tell my daughter not to tell anyone that her daughter is half Dominican? Is that because white children are worth more to you? Then you deny me a foster care license because I fight for my families rights and won't lie for you. I would die for my family. They mean more to me than life itself. Something none of you at DCYF know anything about. All you care about is money, NOT family!
So I hope you like my letter. I'm sure everyone else will and I will be forwarding it everywhere. My daughter and my family have now lost five year's of our lives which we could have been spending with our precious granddaughter, thank's to you and your deceitful practices and the corruption within the Nashua office. Because of your lies, my grandson tried to hang himself and is now on psychiatric medication for violent behavior. We practically raised him, but we weren't allowed to raise him because of your lies in the home study. A home study that was NEVER completed that took ten month's , instead of the norm of six month's. An incomplete home study that you signed, after one of your worker's admitted you were the one that screwed us over, which I already knew.
You need to go and the Nashua office needs to be shut down. I heard the Nashua office has more complaints filed against them than any other office in the state. Could the reason be because of you? Because you think you run the office, not the person who is really supposed to be in charge, Geraldo Pilarski? The head of the Nashua office who told me DCYF would NOT make the same mistake twice, after the illegal kidnapping of my granddaughter, after I gave him all my proof of deception. But it did happen again, even though he know's how crooked you are. I thought he wasn't going to watch your back? And you've sold off my drugged up grandson also, after we were told he would be with us. My grandson, whose father's right's were NEVER terminated. This seem's to be the norm in Nashua. Terminate the wrong man's right's so you don't have to spend your bonus money looking for the REAL father. You wouldn't have had to look far. You had all his information. You even had his address and phone number, but you chose someone twenty year's younger with the same name!
My fight will go on for as long as it takes to get my grandchildren back. You can blame yourself for the fight I am giving this state. My grandchildren are worth more than any amount of money. Unlike you I DO look out for the best interests of my children and grandchildren. They are worth more to me than all your incentive money!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Youth Today-States Starting to Move on Federal Guardianship, Foster Care-to-21 Programs
Of course New Hampshire hasn't submitted a plan, because they don't believe in Guardianship by family member's or anyone else. Their too greedy. All they want is incentive money for their illegal adoption's.
Youth Today: "More than a year after passage of a law intended to give more support to youths aging out of foster care, the federal government is now pushing states to participate in two programs that promote guardianship placements and extension of foster care until age 21.
The two programs were included in the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, which was signed into law in October of 2009 and allows for two new uses of federal IV-E funds, a large federal entitlement that matches state expenditures for child welfare services. One allows states to use federal IV-E funds to help pay for a guardianship assistance program (GAP); the other enables states to use IV-E money on young adults up to the age of 21"
Youth Today: "More than a year after passage of a law intended to give more support to youths aging out of foster care, the federal government is now pushing states to participate in two programs that promote guardianship placements and extension of foster care until age 21.
The two programs were included in the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, which was signed into law in October of 2009 and allows for two new uses of federal IV-E funds, a large federal entitlement that matches state expenditures for child welfare services. One allows states to use federal IV-E funds to help pay for a guardianship assistance program (GAP); the other enables states to use IV-E money on young adults up to the age of 21"
If the foster care system was a teacher, what would it TEACH long-term foster kids? « I Was A Foster Kid
If the foster care system was a teacher, what would it TEACH long-term foster kids? « I Was A Foster Kid
1. Younger is better, whiter is better, and lets put those with special needs in “specialized care.”
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2. You will most likely stay at least 2 years…so don’t think you are going HOME any time soon.
3. You are not important and your feelings do not matter.
We move you “just because.”
We don’t answer your phone calls; and never check voice mail.
We don’t check in on you like we are supposed to; because we are too busy.
We split up bio-siblings.
When we move you, instead of talking about your feelings, we take you to McDonalds or Dairy Queen so that you can eat your pain away; afterall, food is a great comforter.
We move your “stuff” in trash bags and boxes; afterall you are no better than that…right?
Lies are part of life. We lie because we dont know the answer. We lie because we dont want to give you the answer. We lie because well, you dont deserve the truth…you are a kid.
We talk about you in court and in the sessions before court like you are NOT there.
We ask your opinion and it goes in one ear and out the other…because we already made the decision.
.
4. The longer you stick around, the more you are unwanted, unwelcome, and unworthy.
.
.
5. You are not worthy of or deserving of good health care, good dental care, or a good education.
If no providers are available that take Medicaid, oh well…
We move you around schools without any thought regarding the disruption in your education. We don’t care if you learn, really….we just have to find a placement.
Crap, where are your school records? Hold on. We will get them.. it should only take a month for you to be able to register in your new school. Really, does it matter? — you are so far behind anyway!
It doesn’t matter if you were doing well with THAT therapist … we just have to find a placement.
Dentist? what is that?
You can’t see? Squint harder…
.
.
6. Once TPR happens, you are NOBODY’S CHILD.
There is a small shot in hell you will become “somebody’s child” if you are older than 5 years old; no-one wants older kids.
You have NO parents — you have the state.
If your parents are available, we will allow you one last goodbye visit. Anyone see how fucked up this is?
If your parents are not available, all the better. Prison great! Abandonment great! Your parents are lost and who cares about one last visit.
We won’t try to keep any photos or mementos for you when you get older. We dont have the time to try and help explain your life.
Placements get harder to find, so we just give you to anyone…anyone…yup, anyone! (until they get caught)
.
7. As you age and get more scared and more sad….. you get more hated and more feared. Teens, oh god! What do we do with them?… Since no one wants them, throw them into group homes; let them learn to survive since they will be out on the streets shortly anyway.
.
8. If you are not a foster care “success” through reunification or adoption, we don’t care about the failures.
We kick you out with nothing; many without a highschool degree.
We do not have enough ILPs.
We force you to go to another agency to help or save you – like Covenant House or shelters.
Once you are out and on the streets — we don’t “see you,” even when you knock on our door for help.
You aren’t really OUR problem.
We wont give you your foster care records. Some are confidential under social service laws, some are lost, some it takes years of red tape, some require legal battles…. ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS OF MY LIFE…….shouldn’t they be mine?
.
.
9. … after all it is YOUR fault for never getting a family — you should have been better behaved, less problematic, cuter, displayed less acting-out … you see no-body really wants you and you blew it.
Great lessons to be taught… eh?
1. Younger is better, whiter is better, and lets put those with special needs in “specialized care.”
.
2. You will most likely stay at least 2 years…so don’t think you are going HOME any time soon.
3. You are not important and your feelings do not matter.
We move you “just because.”
We don’t answer your phone calls; and never check voice mail.
We don’t check in on you like we are supposed to; because we are too busy.
We split up bio-siblings.
When we move you, instead of talking about your feelings, we take you to McDonalds or Dairy Queen so that you can eat your pain away; afterall, food is a great comforter.
We move your “stuff” in trash bags and boxes; afterall you are no better than that…right?
Lies are part of life. We lie because we dont know the answer. We lie because we dont want to give you the answer. We lie because well, you dont deserve the truth…you are a kid.
We talk about you in court and in the sessions before court like you are NOT there.
We ask your opinion and it goes in one ear and out the other…because we already made the decision.
.
4. The longer you stick around, the more you are unwanted, unwelcome, and unworthy.
.
.
5. You are not worthy of or deserving of good health care, good dental care, or a good education.
If no providers are available that take Medicaid, oh well…
We move you around schools without any thought regarding the disruption in your education. We don’t care if you learn, really….we just have to find a placement.
Crap, where are your school records? Hold on. We will get them.. it should only take a month for you to be able to register in your new school. Really, does it matter? — you are so far behind anyway!
It doesn’t matter if you were doing well with THAT therapist … we just have to find a placement.
Dentist? what is that?
You can’t see? Squint harder…
.
.
6. Once TPR happens, you are NOBODY’S CHILD.
There is a small shot in hell you will become “somebody’s child” if you are older than 5 years old; no-one wants older kids.
You have NO parents — you have the state.
If your parents are available, we will allow you one last goodbye visit. Anyone see how fucked up this is?
If your parents are not available, all the better. Prison great! Abandonment great! Your parents are lost and who cares about one last visit.
We won’t try to keep any photos or mementos for you when you get older. We dont have the time to try and help explain your life.
Placements get harder to find, so we just give you to anyone…anyone…yup, anyone! (until they get caught)
.
7. As you age and get more scared and more sad….. you get more hated and more feared. Teens, oh god! What do we do with them?… Since no one wants them, throw them into group homes; let them learn to survive since they will be out on the streets shortly anyway.
.
8. If you are not a foster care “success” through reunification or adoption, we don’t care about the failures.
We kick you out with nothing; many without a highschool degree.
We do not have enough ILPs.
We force you to go to another agency to help or save you – like Covenant House or shelters.
Once you are out and on the streets — we don’t “see you,” even when you knock on our door for help.
You aren’t really OUR problem.
We wont give you your foster care records. Some are confidential under social service laws, some are lost, some it takes years of red tape, some require legal battles…. ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS OF MY LIFE…….shouldn’t they be mine?
.
.
9. … after all it is YOUR fault for never getting a family — you should have been better behaved, less problematic, cuter, displayed less acting-out … you see no-body really wants you and you blew it.
Great lessons to be taught… eh?
CPS worker arrested for child porn, social services commish arrested for dwi - Albany CPS and Family Court | Examiner.com
CPS worker arrested for child porn, social services commish arrested for dwi - Albany CPS and Family Court | Examiner.com
The Observer Dispatch out of Utica, New York recently reported the arrest of a Child Protective Services investigator, who was also a cop for twenty years, for allegedly possessing child porn.
Says the OD, "An Oneida County employee responsible for investigating child abuse cases appeared in federal court Tuesday on felony child pornography charges.
Stanley Dorozynski, a Child Protective Services case worker who is also a former Utica police officer, is charged with receiving and possessing child pornography, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Syracuse."
Meanwhile several newspapers in the Montgomery County area reported yesterday and the day before the arrest of Montgomery County Social Services Commissioner, William M. Cranker, for dwi. According to one report, Cranker had a blood alcohol content of .0.18. As Social Services Commissioner, Cranker oversees Child Protective Services, Child Preventive Services and Adult Protective Services.
Commentary on Cranker's arrest can be found here.
The Observer Dispatch out of Utica, New York recently reported the arrest of a Child Protective Services investigator, who was also a cop for twenty years, for allegedly possessing child porn.
Says the OD, "An Oneida County employee responsible for investigating child abuse cases appeared in federal court Tuesday on felony child pornography charges.
Stanley Dorozynski, a Child Protective Services case worker who is also a former Utica police officer, is charged with receiving and possessing child pornography, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Syracuse."
Meanwhile several newspapers in the Montgomery County area reported yesterday and the day before the arrest of Montgomery County Social Services Commissioner, William M. Cranker, for dwi. According to one report, Cranker had a blood alcohol content of .0.18. As Social Services Commissioner, Cranker oversees Child Protective Services, Child Preventive Services and Adult Protective Services.
Commentary on Cranker's arrest can be found here.
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