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
Child Welfare League of America: Advocacy
Child Welfare League of America: Advocacy
CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010
S. 3817
Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act December 10. CAPTA was first passed in 1974 and was last reauthorized for five years under the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003. In late September 2010, Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Michael Enzi (R-WY), and Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the reauthorizing legislation (S. 3817).
In addition to CAPTA, this reauthorization bill encompasses the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 (Adoption Opportunities), and the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988.
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: CAPTA is the only federal legislation exclusively targeting prevention, assessment, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. It is also the only federal legislation providing for universal primary prevention of child abuse and neglect capacity building. See an in-depth summary of changes to CAPTA below.
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act: FVPSA is the only dedicated federal funding resource for emergency shelter, direct services, and assistance for victims of domestic violence and their dependent children, including the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The legislation includes three formula grants, one competitive grant, and small discretionary grant.
This reauthorization bill makes dating violence victims eligible for services, addresses systems collaboration by coordinating reporting data, includes resource centers focused on expanding access for underserved populations, creates a program for children exposed to domestic violence, makes improvements to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and strengthens confidentiality provisions.
Adoption Opportunities - A discretionary competitive grant program funding projects that eliminate barriers to adoption and promote permanent families through adoption for appropriate children. The legislation includes a national adoption information exchange system, adoption family recruitment, post-permanency services for adopted children with special needs, and other programs supporting child placement in kinship care, pre-adoptive, and adoptive homes. The reauthorization strengthens focus on minority and older children adoptions by reserving 30-50 percent of funding on key areas, including post-adoption support and recruitment efforts for older children, minority children and children with special needs.
Abandoned Infants Assistance Act - This act funds prevention and assistance programs that target infants abandoned in hospitals and churches and infants born with drug dependencies or HIV. It also includes preservation and foster family training for families of this population. The reauthorization bill strictly reauthorized this act.
CAPTA
Summary of New Provisions
The reauthorization bill targets improved child protection services systems, improved training programs for mandatory reporters and child workers, and enhanced service collaboration and interagency communication across systems. It does so by addressing the following topics in pertinent sections of the legislation:
Differential Response
Differential response allows greater flexibility in investigations and better emphasis on prevention, by offering more than one method of response to reports of abuse and neglect. This approach recognizes the variation in the nature of reports and the value of responding differently.
The bill adds differential response as an eligible use of state grants and requires states to identify "as applicable" policies and procedures around its use. The bill also requires HHS to disseminate information on differential response best practices. Furthermore, differential response is added as an eligible topic of research and personnel training under the discretionary grants.
Domestic Violence
CAPTA's findings are amended by recognizing the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic violence. The bill then adds services for children exposed to domestic violence as an eligible expenditure under the state grants and requires states "where appropriate" to show procedures in place to address the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic violence. The bill also requires HHS to disseminate information on effective programs and best practices that address this co-occurrence and ameliorate its negative effects. Discretionary grant programs providing research, training, and technical assistance are each amended to include domestic violence as an eligible target. Finally, services and treatment to children and their non-abusing caregiver are added to eligible CBCAP services.
Substance Abuse
Here again, CAPTA's findings are amended by recognizing the relationship between child maltreatment and substance abuse. Furthermore, the collaboration between substance abuse treatment services and maltreatment prevention services is promoted by including substance abuse as an eligible topic under the research, technical assistance, and program innovation discretionary grants.
Tribes
For the first time, tribes are recognized in CAPTA by including tribal representatives on the advisory board and, in that forum, treating tribes as states. Tribes are also eligible for discretionary grants, but not the basic state grants.
CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010
S. 3817
Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act December 10. CAPTA was first passed in 1974 and was last reauthorized for five years under the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003. In late September 2010, Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Michael Enzi (R-WY), and Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the reauthorizing legislation (S. 3817).
In addition to CAPTA, this reauthorization bill encompasses the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 (Adoption Opportunities), and the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988.
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: CAPTA is the only federal legislation exclusively targeting prevention, assessment, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. It is also the only federal legislation providing for universal primary prevention of child abuse and neglect capacity building. See an in-depth summary of changes to CAPTA below.
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act: FVPSA is the only dedicated federal funding resource for emergency shelter, direct services, and assistance for victims of domestic violence and their dependent children, including the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The legislation includes three formula grants, one competitive grant, and small discretionary grant.
This reauthorization bill makes dating violence victims eligible for services, addresses systems collaboration by coordinating reporting data, includes resource centers focused on expanding access for underserved populations, creates a program for children exposed to domestic violence, makes improvements to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and strengthens confidentiality provisions.
Adoption Opportunities - A discretionary competitive grant program funding projects that eliminate barriers to adoption and promote permanent families through adoption for appropriate children. The legislation includes a national adoption information exchange system, adoption family recruitment, post-permanency services for adopted children with special needs, and other programs supporting child placement in kinship care, pre-adoptive, and adoptive homes. The reauthorization strengthens focus on minority and older children adoptions by reserving 30-50 percent of funding on key areas, including post-adoption support and recruitment efforts for older children, minority children and children with special needs.
Abandoned Infants Assistance Act - This act funds prevention and assistance programs that target infants abandoned in hospitals and churches and infants born with drug dependencies or HIV. It also includes preservation and foster family training for families of this population. The reauthorization bill strictly reauthorized this act.
CAPTA
Summary of New Provisions
The reauthorization bill targets improved child protection services systems, improved training programs for mandatory reporters and child workers, and enhanced service collaboration and interagency communication across systems. It does so by addressing the following topics in pertinent sections of the legislation:
Differential Response
Differential response allows greater flexibility in investigations and better emphasis on prevention, by offering more than one method of response to reports of abuse and neglect. This approach recognizes the variation in the nature of reports and the value of responding differently.
The bill adds differential response as an eligible use of state grants and requires states to identify "as applicable" policies and procedures around its use. The bill also requires HHS to disseminate information on differential response best practices. Furthermore, differential response is added as an eligible topic of research and personnel training under the discretionary grants.
Domestic Violence
CAPTA's findings are amended by recognizing the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic violence. The bill then adds services for children exposed to domestic violence as an eligible expenditure under the state grants and requires states "where appropriate" to show procedures in place to address the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic violence. The bill also requires HHS to disseminate information on effective programs and best practices that address this co-occurrence and ameliorate its negative effects. Discretionary grant programs providing research, training, and technical assistance are each amended to include domestic violence as an eligible target. Finally, services and treatment to children and their non-abusing caregiver are added to eligible CBCAP services.
Substance Abuse
Here again, CAPTA's findings are amended by recognizing the relationship between child maltreatment and substance abuse. Furthermore, the collaboration between substance abuse treatment services and maltreatment prevention services is promoted by including substance abuse as an eligible topic under the research, technical assistance, and program innovation discretionary grants.
Tribes
For the first time, tribes are recognized in CAPTA by including tribal representatives on the advisory board and, in that forum, treating tribes as states. Tribes are also eligible for discretionary grants, but not the basic state grants.
The Color of My Brain
The Color of My Brain
In southern America during the 1950s if they didn't like who you were or how
you lived, they came out in the night with sheets over their heads and simply
burned your house down so that you lose everything and must start over and
over again in trying to live your life. Today - they rake you over via an enduring
silent war in the form of legal abuse that drains you financially, ruins your career,
crafts you into a mentally ill person when you are not, then exploits emergency
procedures and archaic laws that prove nothing and drive you into stress in
every area of you life. All this in a twisted race to the courthouse or an unlawful
bending of the judge's ear. Quite frankly, I'd rather have my house burned down
so at least there is quite obvious and visible evidence of the wrong doing that
is plain for everyone to see and hard to look the other way on. As I sit in grief
among the rubble, trying to mourn all the loss, yet preserve my dignity, it is the
sense of liberty that gives rise to the adaptive power of anger and injustice. yes?
I know these are strong statements. However, I was told that 8 out of 10 cases
in the family court are run this way on strategic purpose: to economically drain
the disadvantaged person, any weakness found is to be exploited - and with no regard
for the children or their attachments to parties, peg someone as mentally ill or contrive
a crime or a contempt to get it to stick and so "win". Thus, one can rule the day in
their day in court. Well, and so it was in the 1950s there were separate lunch
counters and the "colored" folk had to sit at the back of the bus. Just because
that was how things were being run - on purpose - did not make it right. Nor
did it fail to ring a loud bell of civil fairness that imposed an equally loud trumpet
call for change within the hearts of those who would live free, and equally.
Just because there are some colorful people like me in family court that others
don't understand or even just don't like, or simply want to criminalize because
of mind you - not the color of my skin - rather, just the color of my brain -does
not make it right to ostracize us and burn our house down. Someone must put
a stop to it. There must be the power of one person, maybe someone like me,
who shall refuse to sit at the back of the bus of family court. So be it. So be me.
I am an injured person. I am not a stupid person. I understand dignity, civility,
respect and integrity. And there is no lack of courage in me. Do you see?
~ Patrice V. Livingston
August 2010
“Z” Dragon
“ART FROM A CHILD’S HEART”
original artwork by:
Jaxine LIvingston Wolfe
(c) 2009
In southern America during the 1950s if they didn't like who you were or how
you lived, they came out in the night with sheets over their heads and simply
burned your house down so that you lose everything and must start over and
over again in trying to live your life. Today - they rake you over via an enduring
silent war in the form of legal abuse that drains you financially, ruins your career,
crafts you into a mentally ill person when you are not, then exploits emergency
procedures and archaic laws that prove nothing and drive you into stress in
every area of you life. All this in a twisted race to the courthouse or an unlawful
bending of the judge's ear. Quite frankly, I'd rather have my house burned down
so at least there is quite obvious and visible evidence of the wrong doing that
is plain for everyone to see and hard to look the other way on. As I sit in grief
among the rubble, trying to mourn all the loss, yet preserve my dignity, it is the
sense of liberty that gives rise to the adaptive power of anger and injustice. yes?
I know these are strong statements. However, I was told that 8 out of 10 cases
in the family court are run this way on strategic purpose: to economically drain
the disadvantaged person, any weakness found is to be exploited - and with no regard
for the children or their attachments to parties, peg someone as mentally ill or contrive
a crime or a contempt to get it to stick and so "win". Thus, one can rule the day in
their day in court. Well, and so it was in the 1950s there were separate lunch
counters and the "colored" folk had to sit at the back of the bus. Just because
that was how things were being run - on purpose - did not make it right. Nor
did it fail to ring a loud bell of civil fairness that imposed an equally loud trumpet
call for change within the hearts of those who would live free, and equally.
Just because there are some colorful people like me in family court that others
don't understand or even just don't like, or simply want to criminalize because
of mind you - not the color of my skin - rather, just the color of my brain -does
not make it right to ostracize us and burn our house down. Someone must put
a stop to it. There must be the power of one person, maybe someone like me,
who shall refuse to sit at the back of the bus of family court. So be it. So be me.
I am an injured person. I am not a stupid person. I understand dignity, civility,
respect and integrity. And there is no lack of courage in me. Do you see?
~ Patrice V. Livingston
August 2010
“Z” Dragon
“ART FROM A CHILD’S HEART”
original artwork by:
Jaxine LIvingston Wolfe
(c) 2009
Advocates: Foster Kids Over-Medicated
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.
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.
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.”
.
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!
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