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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Please Spread Far and Wide
Stop Family Court Abuse
(Legalizes the Destruction of the Black & Latino Family)
Stop Family Court Attack on Black and Latino Families. ACS Steals Black and Latino Children & Family Court Judges Rubber Stamp ACS Crimes
Monday August 25, 2008 at 12 PM
Outside Queens Family Court, Jamaica Avenue
151-20 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432 (Train E to last Stop in Queens or F train to Parsons Blvd)
Echoes of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the abusive systematic attack on Black & Latino families at the hands of government reverberate in the halls of the NYC Family Court. Family Court has time and again, patronized the snatching of Black & Latino children from stable intact families on flimsy pretexts
Family Court is an Institutionalized System of Injustice Set in Place to Give an Aura of Legality to the White Collard Racketeering Criminal Enterprise of Family Destruction and Child Slave Trade. There is no Jury or Due Process in Family Court. Parents only win 2 cases out of a 1,000 in a 1028 Hearing
Organized by the December 12 Movement: 718-398-1766
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Alto al Abuso de la Corte de Familia
(Legaliza la Destrucción de la Familia Negra y Latina)
Paren el Ataque de la Corte de Familia contra las Familias Negras y Latinas. Protesta Contra los Abusos de la Corte de Familia. ACS se Roba a los Niños Negros y Latinos y los Jueces de la Corte de Familia automáticamente Apoyan los Crímenes de ACS
Lunes, Agosto 25, 2008 a las 12 PM
Fuera de la Corte de Familia de Queens. Avenida Jamaica
151-20 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432 (Tren E hasta la ultima parada o tren F hasta Parsons Blvd)
Ecos del trafico de esclavos trasatlántico y el sistemático ataque abusivo a la familia Negra y Latina a manos del gobierno resuena en los pasillos de la Corte de Familia en NYC. La Corte de Familia, una y otra vez ha apoyado el Secuestro de niños Negros y Latinos de familias estables, bajo pretextos ridículos
La Corte de Familia es un Sistema Institucionalizado de Injusticia, montado con el propósito de darle un aura de Legalidad a esa Empresa Criminal de Destrucción de la Familia y Tráfico de Niños Esclavos. No existe Jurado o Proceso Legal en la Corte de Familia. Los Padres solo ganan 2 casos de cada mil en una Audiencia 1028
Organizado por el Movimiento Diciembre 12: 718-398-1766
(Para orientación en Español llame a Padres en Acción al 347-624-4830)
http://www.padresen accion.net, rolando@padresenacc ion.net
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Stop Family Court Abuse
(Legalizes the Destruction of the Black & Latino Family)
Stop Family Court Attack on Black and Latino Families. ACS Steals Black and Latino Children & Family Court Judges Rubber Stamp ACS Crimes
Monday August 25, 2008 at 12 PM
Outside Queens Family Court, Jamaica Avenue
151-20 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432 (Train E to last Stop in Queens or F train to Parsons Blvd)
Echoes of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the abusive systematic attack on Black & Latino families at the hands of government reverberate in the halls of the NYC Family Court. Family Court has time and again, patronized the snatching of Black & Latino children from stable intact families on flimsy pretexts
Family Court is an Institutionalized System of Injustice Set in Place to Give an Aura of Legality to the White Collard Racketeering Criminal Enterprise of Family Destruction and Child Slave Trade. There is no Jury or Due Process in Family Court. Parents only win 2 cases out of a 1,000 in a 1028 Hearing
Organized by the December 12 Movement: 718-398-1766
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Alto al Abuso de la Corte de Familia
(Legaliza la Destrucción de la Familia Negra y Latina)
Paren el Ataque de la Corte de Familia contra las Familias Negras y Latinas. Protesta Contra los Abusos de la Corte de Familia. ACS se Roba a los Niños Negros y Latinos y los Jueces de la Corte de Familia automáticamente Apoyan los Crímenes de ACS
Lunes, Agosto 25, 2008 a las 12 PM
Fuera de la Corte de Familia de Queens. Avenida Jamaica
151-20 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432 (Tren E hasta la ultima parada o tren F hasta Parsons Blvd)
Ecos del trafico de esclavos trasatlántico y el sistemático ataque abusivo a la familia Negra y Latina a manos del gobierno resuena en los pasillos de la Corte de Familia en NYC. La Corte de Familia, una y otra vez ha apoyado el Secuestro de niños Negros y Latinos de familias estables, bajo pretextos ridículos
La Corte de Familia es un Sistema Institucionalizado de Injusticia, montado con el propósito de darle un aura de Legalidad a esa Empresa Criminal de Destrucción de la Familia y Tráfico de Niños Esclavos. No existe Jurado o Proceso Legal en la Corte de Familia. Los Padres solo ganan 2 casos de cada mil en una Audiencia 1028
Organizado por el Movimiento Diciembre 12: 718-398-1766
(Para orientación en Español llame a Padres en Acción al 347-624-4830)
http://www.padresen accion.net, rolando@padresenacc ion.net
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Friday, August 01, 2008
An AmNews reader writes:
Critics respond to ACS
In answer to your July 3, 2008 article ACS responds to critics, Part 1, here is Critics respond to ACS:
I am sure Sharman Stein from ACS is a fine person doing her public relations job and being paid to defend ACS, but let’s look at the facts. She begins by comparing ACS reasons to police reasons to intervene. I want to point out that in the same way as there is police brutality, there is ACS brutality and ACS brutality is much much worse.
She calls the kidnapping of Black and Latino children “removals”, I call them more accurately kidnappings. She can be safe that ACS would never “remove” a child from her: she does not qualify.
She says that “we take steps to help a parent fix the problem”. Ask parents and they will tell you that this is not accurate, but rather a Public Relations spin or a cruel joke. After the tragic death of Nizxmary Brown the “removals” almost doubled. How can ACS explain that all of a sudden parents started abusing their children at a double rate? Or it was rather that ACS had gone into protective mode by protecting themselves rather than the children.
The fact of ripping children from the people they love and trust the most, is such a perverse act that leave them psychologically scarred for life. No wonder that 75% of them end in the prison system. Most of the rest as homeless or mentally ill. The State Legislature uses the number of children in foster care as the best predictor to build more beds for the ever growing prison system. I suggest that if ACS were sincere they should read the study The Pernicious Effect of Emergency Removals at http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/Advocacy/Pernicious_Effect.htm
ACS is the enforcement arm of the Child Slave Trade. They feed the profit-driven foster care industry that preys on those who oppose the least resistance: People of color who are not rich. I suggest ACS read the report Children as Chattel at http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/CHILDREN_AS_CHATTEL.htm
You mention the Guinea Pig Kids being used at the Incarnation Children’s Center in Washington Heights. That is just the tip of the iceberg. What happened there, would not had been possible without the climate of abuse and impunity in which ACS operates. If what they did with those innocent children had been done to animals, the ASPCA would had close down the place and had everyone arrested, but since the children where mostly Black and Latino, they are expendable.
ACS happens to be the biggest child abuser in NYC. For any child they may help, they destroy 1,000. Either moron’s logic or clever evil social engineering.
The scam counts with the unconditional support of the family court judges who are appointed by the Mayor and who work for him (as the ACS Commissioner does) and who rubber stamp anything that ACS does and wants. There is no Jury Trial or Due Process in Family Court and a generous estimate is that parents win about 2 cases out of every 1,000 in a 1028 Hearing in Family Court.
ACS is not getting better but rather worse. The only thing they are getting better is the public relations strategies. For further information on how this cruel scam has been set up, see our presentation on the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Industry at the First US Social Forum at http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/Events/USSF1.html
Ms. Stein claims that “we do a lot to support teens who are aging out, like helping them to go to community college.” Of course, after having damaged the mind of that child, they want to show off by sending him/her to college. If they really cared about children, they should leave them with their natural protectors and in those few cases where there are problems, should help those families with voluntary services. ACS and all those who make a living from this scam want to defy the laws of nature and on top of that the laws of economics. Who is going to believe that oxymoron? They are really preparing teenagers not to college but to the prison system.
Sincerely
Rolando Bini - Executive Director
Parents in Action
For Leadership and Human Rights
http://www.parentsinaction.net
347-624-4830
Critics respond to ACS
In answer to your July 3, 2008 article ACS responds to critics, Part 1, here is Critics respond to ACS:
I am sure Sharman Stein from ACS is a fine person doing her public relations job and being paid to defend ACS, but let’s look at the facts. She begins by comparing ACS reasons to police reasons to intervene. I want to point out that in the same way as there is police brutality, there is ACS brutality and ACS brutality is much much worse.
She calls the kidnapping of Black and Latino children “removals”, I call them more accurately kidnappings. She can be safe that ACS would never “remove” a child from her: she does not qualify.
She says that “we take steps to help a parent fix the problem”. Ask parents and they will tell you that this is not accurate, but rather a Public Relations spin or a cruel joke. After the tragic death of Nizxmary Brown the “removals” almost doubled. How can ACS explain that all of a sudden parents started abusing their children at a double rate? Or it was rather that ACS had gone into protective mode by protecting themselves rather than the children.
The fact of ripping children from the people they love and trust the most, is such a perverse act that leave them psychologically scarred for life. No wonder that 75% of them end in the prison system. Most of the rest as homeless or mentally ill. The State Legislature uses the number of children in foster care as the best predictor to build more beds for the ever growing prison system. I suggest that if ACS were sincere they should read the study The Pernicious Effect of Emergency Removals at http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/Advocacy/Pernicious_Effect.htm
ACS is the enforcement arm of the Child Slave Trade. They feed the profit-driven foster care industry that preys on those who oppose the least resistance: People of color who are not rich. I suggest ACS read the report Children as Chattel at http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/CHILDREN_AS_CHATTEL.htm
You mention the Guinea Pig Kids being used at the Incarnation Children’s Center in Washington Heights. That is just the tip of the iceberg. What happened there, would not had been possible without the climate of abuse and impunity in which ACS operates. If what they did with those innocent children had been done to animals, the ASPCA would had close down the place and had everyone arrested, but since the children where mostly Black and Latino, they are expendable.
ACS happens to be the biggest child abuser in NYC. For any child they may help, they destroy 1,000. Either moron’s logic or clever evil social engineering.
The scam counts with the unconditional support of the family court judges who are appointed by the Mayor and who work for him (as the ACS Commissioner does) and who rubber stamp anything that ACS does and wants. There is no Jury Trial or Due Process in Family Court and a generous estimate is that parents win about 2 cases out of every 1,000 in a 1028 Hearing in Family Court.
ACS is not getting better but rather worse. The only thing they are getting better is the public relations strategies. For further information on how this cruel scam has been set up, see our presentation on the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Industry at the First US Social Forum at http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/Events/USSF1.html
Ms. Stein claims that “we do a lot to support teens who are aging out, like helping them to go to community college.” Of course, after having damaged the mind of that child, they want to show off by sending him/her to college. If they really cared about children, they should leave them with their natural protectors and in those few cases where there are problems, should help those families with voluntary services. ACS and all those who make a living from this scam want to defy the laws of nature and on top of that the laws of economics. Who is going to believe that oxymoron? They are really preparing teenagers not to college but to the prison system.
Sincerely
Rolando Bini - Executive Director
Parents in Action
For Leadership and Human Rights
http://www.parentsinaction.net
347-624-4830
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Administration For Children's Services Money Scandal
Well Well Well. ACS honchos have been inventing adopted kids and cashing checks for them. Wow. And it's been going on for years. And this is probably the tip of the iceberg.
An atmosphere that says: "We're ACS, we can do what we want" has finally come back to bite the mayor on the part of his rump where he can feel, that is in the realm of money. Not that he wants to blame the guy who came to ACS as a watchdog for this slipshod and primitive accounting system, oh no, not the commissioner's fault.
Though I thought I could be "different" and "honest" and do things both legally and sensibly they were not having it. I started a blog that exposes much of how their "child protective" division operates.
They've been working at "reforming" this mess for more than thirteen years and what do we have? A commissioner named John Mattingly (not Don Mattingly) who was once actually a "watchdog" now with his head in a ridiculous place where he cannot see the theft all around him, kids dying while in the governments "care" and a mayor who defends the falling cranes, the dead kids, the fifty shot cops.
An atmosphere that says: "We're ACS, we can do what we want" has finally come back to bite the mayor on the part of his rump where he can feel, that is in the realm of money. Not that he wants to blame the guy who came to ACS as a watchdog for this slipshod and primitive accounting system, oh no, not the commissioner's fault.
Though I thought I could be "different" and "honest" and do things both legally and sensibly they were not having it. I started a blog that exposes much of how their "child protective" division operates.
They've been working at "reforming" this mess for more than thirteen years and what do we have? A commissioner named John Mattingly (not Don Mattingly) who was once actually a "watchdog" now with his head in a ridiculous place where he cannot see the theft all around him, kids dying while in the governments "care" and a mayor who defends the falling cranes, the dead kids, the fifty shot cops.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Mayor Bloomberg Is A Kneejerk Apologist. And Another Child Is Dead.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/05/21/2008-05-21_dont_blame_acs_this_time_mayor.html
Here we go again. A foster child is dead and Mayor Bloomberg jumps to defend ACS, investigation and facts be damned, just as he has knee jerked to defend the real estate developers whose cranes and scaffolds have been collapsing all over Manhattan.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/06/10/2008-06-10_kyle_was_happy_in_new_home__acs.html
Ah yes, the geniuses at ACS found three year old Kyle Smith to be one happy little kid just before his guardians murdered him. His grandmother's complaints were written off as motivated by a custody battle. No kidding. The boy's grandmother wanted to care for the kid, and not allow people whose own kids were taken away from them permanently to abuse him. In the idiot world of ACS this becomes an ulterior motive, and that trumps any facts. Besides, with this ulterior motive one can close a case and that's what ACS does, close cases the easy way, or the overtime way, as CPS and supervisor's priorities dictate. The guardian's own kids had been taken from her by Texas CPS authorities and the Family Court and ACS knew about this.
I'm a former CPS worker and I've come to the conclusion that this system is so decrepit and useless that it must be ended. As I've said before, if there is knowledge of a crime against a child (or anyone else) the police should investigate the matter and arrest wrongdoers. If a child then has no one to care for him the child should be given over to a relative, family friend or godparent. Only if there is no such person (and Kyle had a grandmother and a father) a very much smaller temporary foster care system would be needed. ACS must be taken off of investigations of crime, they are proven incompetents time after time after time. In Kyle's case he had a biological father. Why was he not considered? Might he have needed some help finding housing? Kyle's mother is said to be a drug addict. If drug addicts were allowed to get prescriptions for their drugs and function within the law there would be a whole lot fewer dead children and destroyed families.
Are You Desperate Enough To Be A Child Protective Specialist?
If you ride the subway in New York you may have seen the ads, and they're online too. New York City's Administration For Children's Services is once again on the lookout for cannon fodder, frontline troops in their war against parental rights and authority, the poor and "minority" communities.
If you are considering becoming a Child Protective Specialist why not first ask people in the community if they respect ACS, if they respect the people who work for ACS and if they believe that ACS serves the interests of New York City's children? Don't ask on East End Avenue or West End Avenue, because ACS just about never impinges on the well to do. Ask people who are shopping on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, or Fordham Road in The Bronx, or living in the housing projects which are the last refuges of the poor in Manhattan.
Google "John Mattingly is not Don Mattingly".
Read the Essence Magazine article on ACS and what it did to helpess children .
Read about their lawlessness. Ask your City Council representative what happened to the investigation of this scandal. Ask yourself if you want to be associated with the organization that snatched hundreds of kids, ran experiments on them and cannot even give a credible number of how many kids they did this to.
Ask school teachers and guidance counselors if they respect ACS. Ask Emergency Room staff if they respect ACS. Ask people who work at ACs and are feverishly sending out resumes. Ask John Mattingly why ACS cannot retain its frontline staff.
If you are thinking about working at ACS, especially about becoming a "Child Protective Specialist" you should ask questions, and think again.
PS- I'll bet that in two years more than half of the staff they used for their commercials will be gone.
If you are considering becoming a Child Protective Specialist why not first ask people in the community if they respect ACS, if they respect the people who work for ACS and if they believe that ACS serves the interests of New York City's children? Don't ask on East End Avenue or West End Avenue, because ACS just about never impinges on the well to do. Ask people who are shopping on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, or Fordham Road in The Bronx, or living in the housing projects which are the last refuges of the poor in Manhattan.
Google "John Mattingly is not Don Mattingly".
Read the Essence Magazine article on ACS and what it did to helpess children .
Read about their lawlessness. Ask your City Council representative what happened to the investigation of this scandal. Ask yourself if you want to be associated with the organization that snatched hundreds of kids, ran experiments on them and cannot even give a credible number of how many kids they did this to.
Ask school teachers and guidance counselors if they respect ACS. Ask Emergency Room staff if they respect ACS. Ask people who work at ACs and are feverishly sending out resumes. Ask John Mattingly why ACS cannot retain its frontline staff.
If you are thinking about working at ACS, especially about becoming a "Child Protective Specialist" you should ask questions, and think again.
PS- I'll bet that in two years more than half of the staff they used for their commercials will be gone.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Plans to shut this blog down over time
A web log I have worked on for years called "Fat Old Jewish Guy Who Lives In the Projects" (that's who I am) has some duplicate articles that are on his site also. I am going to merge these blogs over time. If you like this blog you will like the other one also.
Friday, April 11, 2008
My apologies to all
I have not posted in quite a while and I have not been involved in the newsgroup ACS Must Be Stopped either. For one thing, as I have written about, my wife and children have been threatened by ACs staff in the form of an anonymous letter that included mis spelling of a name that is identical to a mis spelling in ACS records and a visit by NYPD claiming that the children were "missing", a visit no doubt generated by a phone call from ACS staff to 911. My family has in the past undergone an ACS investigation that was very stressful and included a court case that tried to compel, in a court, one of the children to have an unneccesary medical operation. People who have lived that expect anything at all from ACS and I cannot argue that they are wrong. I have held back in participating in the newsgroup I initiated and will continue to be absent for some time to come.
I hope the newsgroup continues on and organizes effective actions to curb and eliminate ACS.
I hope the newsgroup continues on and organizes effective actions to curb and eliminate ACS.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
A chat with a know it all real estate investor who pulls rules out of (wherever)
I maintain a blog called "CPM Ramon Vargas is Not an Idiot" for fun and I know it is read by and bothers certain unscrupulous staffers at my alma mater, Emergency Children's Services. In it I compare whores and Child Protective Services staff as members of society, (whores come out on top in that match up) and to keep people like Ramon Vargas, for whom the office is more like a happy hunting ground anyway, amused, I have some semi nude posters on that site. An ex CPS worker named Matt who blogs and is now an investment banker dropped by and left me two comments and a dare that I post on one of them. Being this is a day off from work for me I took a few minutes to reply to Matt and to hopefully make a point or two about Child Protective Services and how it functions in New York as an enemy of the poor.
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Matt is an ex ACS worker who takes exception to me and to what I did and did not do in the child fatality case that helped precipitate the showdown I had with Adegbola, Vargas and the idiocracy of Administration for Children's Services. Here is his link.
http://skiingthevoid.wordpress.com/
Matt makes up rules as he goes along and despises the poor who were his "clients."
Here is one Matt exchange
"Putting Your Personal Life Onto the Sidewalk, For The Daily News To See...."
Matt said...
I am surprised you lasted as long as you did there. I made it through only a few months, and I have to agree that ACS was far more problematic to deal with than any of my clients. I was lucky to have awesome supervision, but it wasn't for me and I went quickly back to the private sector. The problems there are quite serious and far-reaching, bad casework is only a small part of it. There are some great people, but there are not enough of them. In the interest of equal time, I found it a waste of my life to deal with the stupid problems of uneducated people who made the very poor choice to reproduce without having the mental or financial means to support that bad decision. Clients: Please stop doing drugs. Please stop beating your wife and children. Please go back to school and finish your education. School & Work is whats going on, there is no option 3. Also, this site would be a little more credible without the odd mixture of soft-porn and pseudospirituality.
January 28, 2008 6:39 PM
Eugene Weixel said...
Matt, the soft porn is a stab at irony and perhaps it doesn't work.
As for what you call pseudo spirituality I do believe there is a God of justice and mercy and I do believe there is right and wrong. Most ACS staff would profess a belief in and a fear of God. I try to address them on this level.
As for your attitude toward the poor and their right to reproduce I'm totally against it. I oppose all anti human ideologies such as Malthusianism which is old time nazism. There are not "too many people" on earth, there are too many two legged pigs.
February 6, 2008 12:48 PM
Here is the second exchange with Matt:
"Jean-Philippe, Joycelyn (ACS),- Can't read for comprenesion too well. (Revised June 1, 2007)" Matt said...
Anytime there is a child fatality, it is of the utmost necessity that the home still be assessed immediately and thoroughly for the presence and/or safety of any remaining children. Every square inch thoroughly examined. Any failure to act on the part of ACS/ECS in this instance could've resulted in additional child injury and/or fatality, regardless of police involvement and what the ORT said. The police do police work, not Child Protective work. You don't know anything for sure about the presence or condition of any other children in the home until you go in and verify. I would think that is obvious. You are VERY lucky you didn't wind up on the front page of the Post on this one.
January 28, 2008 7:01 PM
Eugene Weixel said...
Matt said:
"Anytime there is a child fatality, it is of the utmost necessity that the home still be assessed immediately and thoroughly for the presence and/or safety of any remaining children. Every square inch thoroughly examined"
Where did you get this "regulation"? Did you pull it out of your ass?
Matt you are wrong. Do you really think that if a child in Soho or Tribeca or Central Park West or President Street dies ACS comes barging into the home without a warrant at two in the morning after the detectives have already torn the place apart??
Read what I wrote, this time for comprehension. We went to the home even though there was no legitimate CPS report. The state 800 operator in the case spiced up the report the second time around, but I was alreaduy enroute to the apartment. The father denied us entry. He asked us to come back at a reasonable hour. He refused to allow us to awaken and terrorize his neighbors who had helped him at that unGodly hour. He refused to allow us to terrorize his surviving child.
Matt you might have barged in without a warrant and possibly would have gotten away with it too.
Interestingly Hani Malek, the Supe I who accompanied me on the case was soon promoted once I submitted my resignation from ACS. Adegbola and the crew who rang everyone's doorbell in that Harlem apartment building of course had no consequences for their lawless acts. People like them are lucky that the poor tend to be overwhelmed with surviving because that allows impunity. I do believe that there is justice somewhere. God hates ugly.
I intend to post on this and also on what you represented as a CPS worker.
February 6, 2008 1:08 PM
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Well then just what does Matt represent as a CPS worker? He represents a mode of thought that justifies the State interfering in the raising of poor and minority children from a point of view that these children should never have been born to begin with. He justifies terrorizing poor and minority parents and government lawlessness. He represents state undermining of parental authority. He represents the government imposition of a certain religious point of view- that the Bible was wrong in its advice for parents : Proverbs 13:24 “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” While I personally do not agree with this Bible passage, it is in the bible, millions of people believe it is correct, millions have been raised this way and have gone on to be productive human beings and the government has no right to impose it's viewpoint, or mine, or Matt's on parents in their homes. In fact I'd like to ask Matt if he would do a survey among his fellow real estate investors: Find out how many of them received physical discipline from their parents. Then find out if any former foster children are among them. I'll go it even further than that: Find out how many had parents who had drug or alcohol problems, and in whose homes the father hit the mother. I think he'll find many, many, many who were physically disciplined and who also had troubled homes, but damned few if any real estate investors who survived New York City's foster care system.
Just as he cannot understand how I lasted ten and a half years in Child Protective Services I don't understand why he wanted to leave it. Oh, money.
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Matt is an ex ACS worker who takes exception to me and to what I did and did not do in the child fatality case that helped precipitate the showdown I had with Adegbola, Vargas and the idiocracy of Administration for Children's Services. Here is his link.
http://skiingthevoid.wordpress.com/
Matt makes up rules as he goes along and despises the poor who were his "clients."
Here is one Matt exchange
"Putting Your Personal Life Onto the Sidewalk, For The Daily News To See...."
Matt said...
I am surprised you lasted as long as you did there. I made it through only a few months, and I have to agree that ACS was far more problematic to deal with than any of my clients. I was lucky to have awesome supervision, but it wasn't for me and I went quickly back to the private sector. The problems there are quite serious and far-reaching, bad casework is only a small part of it. There are some great people, but there are not enough of them. In the interest of equal time, I found it a waste of my life to deal with the stupid problems of uneducated people who made the very poor choice to reproduce without having the mental or financial means to support that bad decision. Clients: Please stop doing drugs. Please stop beating your wife and children. Please go back to school and finish your education. School & Work is whats going on, there is no option 3. Also, this site would be a little more credible without the odd mixture of soft-porn and pseudospirituality.
January 28, 2008 6:39 PM
Eugene Weixel said...
Matt, the soft porn is a stab at irony and perhaps it doesn't work.
As for what you call pseudo spirituality I do believe there is a God of justice and mercy and I do believe there is right and wrong. Most ACS staff would profess a belief in and a fear of God. I try to address them on this level.
As for your attitude toward the poor and their right to reproduce I'm totally against it. I oppose all anti human ideologies such as Malthusianism which is old time nazism. There are not "too many people" on earth, there are too many two legged pigs.
February 6, 2008 12:48 PM
Here is the second exchange with Matt:
"Jean-Philippe, Joycelyn (ACS),- Can't read for comprenesion too well. (Revised June 1, 2007)" Matt said...
Anytime there is a child fatality, it is of the utmost necessity that the home still be assessed immediately and thoroughly for the presence and/or safety of any remaining children. Every square inch thoroughly examined. Any failure to act on the part of ACS/ECS in this instance could've resulted in additional child injury and/or fatality, regardless of police involvement and what the ORT said. The police do police work, not Child Protective work. You don't know anything for sure about the presence or condition of any other children in the home until you go in and verify. I would think that is obvious. You are VERY lucky you didn't wind up on the front page of the Post on this one.
January 28, 2008 7:01 PM
Eugene Weixel said...
Matt said:
"Anytime there is a child fatality, it is of the utmost necessity that the home still be assessed immediately and thoroughly for the presence and/or safety of any remaining children. Every square inch thoroughly examined"
Where did you get this "regulation"? Did you pull it out of your ass?
Matt you are wrong. Do you really think that if a child in Soho or Tribeca or Central Park West or President Street dies ACS comes barging into the home without a warrant at two in the morning after the detectives have already torn the place apart??
Read what I wrote, this time for comprehension. We went to the home even though there was no legitimate CPS report. The state 800 operator in the case spiced up the report the second time around, but I was alreaduy enroute to the apartment. The father denied us entry. He asked us to come back at a reasonable hour. He refused to allow us to awaken and terrorize his neighbors who had helped him at that unGodly hour. He refused to allow us to terrorize his surviving child.
Matt you might have barged in without a warrant and possibly would have gotten away with it too.
Interestingly Hani Malek, the Supe I who accompanied me on the case was soon promoted once I submitted my resignation from ACS. Adegbola and the crew who rang everyone's doorbell in that Harlem apartment building of course had no consequences for their lawless acts. People like them are lucky that the poor tend to be overwhelmed with surviving because that allows impunity. I do believe that there is justice somewhere. God hates ugly.
I intend to post on this and also on what you represented as a CPS worker.
February 6, 2008 1:08 PM
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Well then just what does Matt represent as a CPS worker? He represents a mode of thought that justifies the State interfering in the raising of poor and minority children from a point of view that these children should never have been born to begin with. He justifies terrorizing poor and minority parents and government lawlessness. He represents state undermining of parental authority. He represents the government imposition of a certain religious point of view- that the Bible was wrong in its advice for parents : Proverbs 13:24 “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” While I personally do not agree with this Bible passage, it is in the bible, millions of people believe it is correct, millions have been raised this way and have gone on to be productive human beings and the government has no right to impose it's viewpoint, or mine, or Matt's on parents in their homes. In fact I'd like to ask Matt if he would do a survey among his fellow real estate investors: Find out how many of them received physical discipline from their parents. Then find out if any former foster children are among them. I'll go it even further than that: Find out how many had parents who had drug or alcohol problems, and in whose homes the father hit the mother. I think he'll find many, many, many who were physically disciplined and who also had troubled homes, but damned few if any real estate investors who survived New York City's foster care system.
Just as he cannot understand how I lasted ten and a half years in Child Protective Services I don't understand why he wanted to leave it. Oh, money.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
John Mattingly is a lame ass liar.
JOHN MATTINGLY COULD DROP THE CHARGES AT ANY TIME. HIS "SYMPATHY" AND HIS BUCK PASSING ARE DISGUSTING. NO WONDER ACS UNDERLINGS ARE LIARS. LOOK AT THEIR BOSS.
Mother makes desperate plea to child welfare agency for return of daughter
BY JESS WISLOSKI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, December 6th 2007, 4:00 AM
The mother of a 6-year-old girl in city custody on allegations that her parents are mentally ill Wednesday made an emotional plea directly to the head of the city child welfare agency.
More than three months after Amber James was taken from her South Ozone Park home, her frustrated mom confronted city Administration for Children's Services Commissioner John Mattingly at a public conference on the agency's ongoing reforms.
"ACS has kidnapped my daughter wrongfully!" Vanessa James, 41, said at the gathering at the New School in Manhattan.
A pediatrician reported Vanessa James to authorities over concerns that she may suffer from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare disease where a parent believes the child is sick - or makes them sick - to get attention.
Vanessa James and her husband, Marvin James, 48, have been to numerous court hearings since Amber was placed into the foster care system on Aug. 23. But they have not been charged with any crime, and neither has been found to be mentally ill.
"They found us innocent," Vanessa James said to Mattingly during the question-and-answer portion of the panel discussion.
"My daughter's being held prisoner," the desperate mother said. "What do we do now?"
After she made charges that her daughter has been abused while in foster care, Vanessa James was interrupted by the panel's moderator, who asked Mattingly to respond.
"I can feel the hurt in your voice," Mattingly said. "I know about this situation. I know it's in court and hearings have been held and will be held. ... It is up to the court to make the future decisions."
Amber's case has become a public tug-of-war between her parents and the ACS since the Daily News first reported the family's plight in September.
Ironically, yesterday's forum was largely devoted to announcing an ACS pilot program to increase family services and reduce foster-care placements.
After Vanessa James' plea, several welfare workers attending the forum referred to Amber's case as an example of the ongoing problems at ACS.
"Children are being abused" in foster care, said Sharonne Salaam of People United for Children, an advocacy group. Yet ACS has failed to crack down on foster care abuse, she charged.
Susan Loeb, of Voices of Women, said the ACS hotline is often abused.
"Malicious reports are an epidemic in many communities," Loeb said. "Anyone with an ax to grind can call, without any real consequences."
jwisloski@nydailynews.com
Mother makes desperate plea to child welfare agency for return of daughter
BY JESS WISLOSKI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, December 6th 2007, 4:00 AM
The mother of a 6-year-old girl in city custody on allegations that her parents are mentally ill Wednesday made an emotional plea directly to the head of the city child welfare agency.
More than three months after Amber James was taken from her South Ozone Park home, her frustrated mom confronted city Administration for Children's Services Commissioner John Mattingly at a public conference on the agency's ongoing reforms.
"ACS has kidnapped my daughter wrongfully!" Vanessa James, 41, said at the gathering at the New School in Manhattan.
A pediatrician reported Vanessa James to authorities over concerns that she may suffer from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare disease where a parent believes the child is sick - or makes them sick - to get attention.
Vanessa James and her husband, Marvin James, 48, have been to numerous court hearings since Amber was placed into the foster care system on Aug. 23. But they have not been charged with any crime, and neither has been found to be mentally ill.
"They found us innocent," Vanessa James said to Mattingly during the question-and-answer portion of the panel discussion.
"My daughter's being held prisoner," the desperate mother said. "What do we do now?"
After she made charges that her daughter has been abused while in foster care, Vanessa James was interrupted by the panel's moderator, who asked Mattingly to respond.
"I can feel the hurt in your voice," Mattingly said. "I know about this situation. I know it's in court and hearings have been held and will be held. ... It is up to the court to make the future decisions."
Amber's case has become a public tug-of-war between her parents and the ACS since the Daily News first reported the family's plight in September.
Ironically, yesterday's forum was largely devoted to announcing an ACS pilot program to increase family services and reduce foster-care placements.
After Vanessa James' plea, several welfare workers attending the forum referred to Amber's case as an example of the ongoing problems at ACS.
"Children are being abused" in foster care, said Sharonne Salaam of People United for Children, an advocacy group. Yet ACS has failed to crack down on foster care abuse, she charged.
Susan Loeb, of Voices of Women, said the ACS hotline is often abused.
"Malicious reports are an epidemic in many communities," Loeb said. "Anyone with an ax to grind can call, without any real consequences."
jwisloski@nydailynews.com
Friday, December 14, 2007
Amber James and Administration for Children's Services
This Tuesday Amber James' parents, having been accused by the incompetent Administration for Children's Services of taking too good care of the six year old have to come again to the kangaroo court in the Queens County Family Court building, part one, second floor.
Amber, who was "too well taken care of" is a prisoner of war held by Mayor Bloomberg's and Governor Spitzer's idiot social worker flunky "PhD" John Mattingly. I intend to write here as to why "social work" is not a legitimate profession in New York City in the near future.
Not long ago the New York Times published an item reporting that the population of black people in New York City is shrinking at a rate of three percent a year. Among the many reasons this is happening is Administration for Children's Services. Black people bring their children to emergency rooms at great risk of having ACS unleashed onto their lives, which can lead to disaster as exemplified by the suffering of Amber James, a little girl who has been sexually molested, beaten, denied food, abandoned in a mental ward waiting room at midnight, told her mother is dead, treated by docrtors without her parents consent or knowledge, all under Mattingly's watch. Black parents speak up to school officials, who are failing in their mission, at the same horrible risk.
Black parents and indeed all parents have seen their authority over their chiildren destroyed. Children are encouraged in schools to report their parents who attempt to maintain discipline. Rumors of "freedom" in the group homes lure children to turn on their parents. Parents who use physical discipline, as do 95 percent of parents on this earth risk not only having theiir children taken into the dysfunctional abusive foster care system, they risk being put into handcuffs and taken away in front of their children and neighbors. There is a totalitarian campaign to encourage spying and reporting to the government of people who are trying to take care of theiir children in a world gone mad. Well to do white people can hardly imagine the situation that prevails in the public schools, the municipal hospitals, social service offices.
We've got to stand with Amber James and her family.
Amber, who was "too well taken care of" is a prisoner of war held by Mayor Bloomberg's and Governor Spitzer's idiot social worker flunky "PhD" John Mattingly. I intend to write here as to why "social work" is not a legitimate profession in New York City in the near future.
Not long ago the New York Times published an item reporting that the population of black people in New York City is shrinking at a rate of three percent a year. Among the many reasons this is happening is Administration for Children's Services. Black people bring their children to emergency rooms at great risk of having ACS unleashed onto their lives, which can lead to disaster as exemplified by the suffering of Amber James, a little girl who has been sexually molested, beaten, denied food, abandoned in a mental ward waiting room at midnight, told her mother is dead, treated by docrtors without her parents consent or knowledge, all under Mattingly's watch. Black parents speak up to school officials, who are failing in their mission, at the same horrible risk.
Black parents and indeed all parents have seen their authority over their chiildren destroyed. Children are encouraged in schools to report their parents who attempt to maintain discipline. Rumors of "freedom" in the group homes lure children to turn on their parents. Parents who use physical discipline, as do 95 percent of parents on this earth risk not only having theiir children taken into the dysfunctional abusive foster care system, they risk being put into handcuffs and taken away in front of their children and neighbors. There is a totalitarian campaign to encourage spying and reporting to the government of people who are trying to take care of theiir children in a world gone mad. Well to do white people can hardly imagine the situation that prevails in the public schools, the municipal hospitals, social service offices.
We've got to stand with Amber James and her family.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
The Battle To Free Amber James
You only need to do a google search of six year old Amber's name to understand that we need to fight hard and free her. On December 18 ACSMustbestopped is urging you to go to the Queens County Family Courthouse at nine AM to support Amber and her courageous parents. We will be on the second floor, part one.
Details on the family court location are found on this website and ACSMustbestopped.com.
On Christmas Eve ACS Must Be StoppeD AND AMBER'S FAMILY invite you to share Christmas eve with MAYOOR BLOOMBERG, AT HIS MANSION AT 15 EAST 79TH STREET. MEET AT CENTRAL PARK FIFTH AVENUE AND 79TH STREET AND MARCH AS CLOSE TO THE MAYOR'S HOUSE AS THE COPS WILL ALLOW.
Details on the family court location are found on this website and ACSMustbestopped.com.
On Christmas Eve ACS Must Be StoppeD AND AMBER'S FAMILY invite you to share Christmas eve with MAYOOR BLOOMBERG, AT HIS MANSION AT 15 EAST 79TH STREET. MEET AT CENTRAL PARK FIFTH AVENUE AND 79TH STREET AND MARCH AS CLOSE TO THE MAYOR'S HOUSE AS THE COPS WILL ALLOW.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
This is not Geraldine Fowler, of the Queens office of Administration for Children's Services
Bulletin dated 11/23/07
There is erroneous information here that must be corrected. Geralsine Fowler did not abandon Amber at the Kings County Psychiatic Hospital waiting room. She is the worker whose efforts did get A,er put into foster care and abusd, but the credit fo abandoning the child at the gates of mayhem goes to Adrian Prichette of St. Vincent foster care agency.
ACS in its typical outlaw mode has not complied with the order of the Family Court to place Amber in a kinship home by Thanksgiving.
Amber James, a child who was never abused until she had to meet up with ACS and monster Geraldine.
Do you work for Administration for Children's Services? You need to google your name sometimes.
There is erroneous information here that must be corrected. Geralsine Fowler did not abandon Amber at the Kings County Psychiatic Hospital waiting room. She is the worker whose efforts did get A,er put into foster care and abusd, but the credit fo abandoning the child at the gates of mayhem goes to Adrian Prichette of St. Vincent foster care agency.
ACS in its typical outlaw mode has not complied with the order of the Family Court to place Amber in a kinship home by Thanksgiving.
Amber James, a child who was never abused until she had to meet up with ACS and monster Geraldine.
This is not Geraldine Fowler, the ACS child protective specialist from Queens who of course is not the one who set up six year old Amber James to be kidnapped, sexually molested, beaten, deprived of food and told her mother was dead under the loving care of John Mattingly. It is not the same Geraldine Fowler who abandoned the six year old in a mental ward waiting room at midnight because "I had to go home."
No this is not Geraldine. Geraldine does not seem to like water that much.
No this is not Geraldine. Geraldine does not seem to like water that much.
Do you work for Administration for Children's Services? You need to google your name sometimes.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Amber James Must Be Freed Update
I just got off the telephone with Vanessa James. She said that she and Marvin saw Amber for the first time in weeks today. Amber had been rushed to the hospital, having stopped breathing. The doctors would not explain just what had happened to Amber but she was returned to her foster home today. Amber has been sexually molested, beaten, deprived of food, abandoned in a mental ward waiting room at midnight by her "Child Protective Specialist" Geraldine Fowler of the Queens Administration for Children's Services. They say not to judge a book by its cover but in Geraldine Fowler's case what you see is what you get. (Ugly outside as inside).
The case went well as far as testimony is concerned and it looked like the Law Guardian, the one who is almost always supporting the babysnatchers in court, might be moving away from the government position towards actually trying to help her client who is the little girl AmberJames. Tomorrow there will be another hearing at Queens Family Court part one at eleven in the morning. If anyone can go, please do so.
The case went well as far as testimony is concerned and it looked like the Law Guardian, the one who is almost always supporting the babysnatchers in court, might be moving away from the government position towards actually trying to help her client who is the little girl AmberJames. Tomorrow there will be another hearing at Queens Family Court part one at eleven in the morning. If anyone can go, please do so.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Talk About Failure
I am not about "reforming" child protective services, I am about doing away with it, first of all here in New York City. A man whose last name is similar to mine and who might even be related to me named Richard Wexler heads up this "reform" group but he puts out some very sharp criticisms of foster care. The Annie Casey group of non profit "Child Welfare Expert" organizations is interesting to ACS victims because it is so closely connected with ACS. William Bell lost a bunch of money and got eased over to a Casey office way out in Seattle, about as far away from New York as one could go...
ex Commissioner William Belland the bunchofmillion$ paperwork messup.
John Mattingly stepped in for ACS as a monitor appointed in the Marisol case. He was a Casey honcho but got rewarded- he's now the bumbling commissioner of ACS.
Zeinab Chahine, always the deputy the assistant the not quite commissioner at ACS, royal screwup of child protective services finally after years of disaster gets eased out to you guessed it, an Annie Casey operation.
NATIONAL COALITION FOR
CHILD PROTECTION REFORM
53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202) / Alexandria, Virginia, 22314
Phone and Fax: (703) 212-2006 / e-mail: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/acsmustbestopped/post?postID=LibYyjqQAk8PtwBpQcZCydc6IVoJJnM_mdUDMUV7CcXziUkOXBEKTZ6dJoNxHmaQc3CbNT2_ / http://www.nccpr.org/
80 PERCENT FALURE:
A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study
By Richard Wexler, NCCPR Executive Director
Imagine for a moment that you went to a doctor and he told you the following:
· 80 percent of my patients don't get any better.
· A lot of the time, they get worse.
· One-third of the time, I commit malpractice.
But, the doctor continues, if you'll just pay me even more money than I already get and build me a fancy new hospital, I'm sure I can reduce my failure rate to only about 60 percent. Do we have a deal?
Odds are you'd look for another doctor.
But what if all the other doctors told you the same thing? And what if none of them let on that there were, in fact, better treatments with fewer side effects?
Odds are you'd be furious.
Now, consider a study released on April 7, 2005 by a large, Washington State-based foster-care provider, Casey Family Programs, and Harvard Medical School. The study used case records and interviews to assess the status of young adult "alumni" of foster care.
When compared to adults of the same age and ethnic background who did not endure foster care:
· Only 20 percent of the alumni could be said to be "doing well." Thus, foster care failed for 80 percent.
· They have double the rate of mental illness.
· Their rate of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was double the rate for Iraq War veterans.
· The former foster children were three times more likely to be living in poverty – and fifteen times less likely to have finished college.
· And nearly one-third of the alumni reported that they had been abused by a foster parent or another adult in a foster home.
The authors went on to design a complex mathematical formula to attempt to figure out how much they could improve these outcomes if every single problem besetting the foster care system were magically fixed. Their answer: 22.2 percent.
Even if one argues that foster care didn't cause all of these problems, clearly foster care didn't cure them. Yet the authors of the study recommend only more of the same: Pour even more money into foster care to "fix" it to the point that maybe the rotten outcomes could be reduced by 22.2 percent.
At a two-and-a-half-hour briefing for advocates, there was barely a word about keeping children out of foster care in the first place.
Why, then, do we continue to pour billions of dollars into a system which fails 80 percent of the time and actually abuses at least one-third of those forced into it?
We do it because, over 150 years, we've built up a huge, powerful network of foster-care "providers" – "a foster-care industrial complex" with an enormous vested interest in perpetuating the status quo. They feed us horror stories about foster children whose birth parents really were brutally abusive or hopelessly addicted. But such cases represent a tiny fraction of the foster-care population.
As is documented in NCCPR's Issue Papers, elsewhere on this site, far more common are cases in which a family's poverty is confused with child "neglect." Several studies have found, for example, that one-third of foster children could be back home right now if their parents simply had adequate housing. (See NCCPR Issue Paper 5.)
Other cases fall on a broad continuum between the extremes, the parents neither all victim nor all villain. What these cases have in common is the fact that the children would be far better off if states and localities used safe, proven alternatives to foster care – alternatives that don't come with an 80 percent failure rate, and a 33 percent risk of child abuse. (See Nine Ways to do Child Welfare Right).
Nearly as disturbing as the study's findings is how the study authors attempted to spin them.
The finding about the rate of abuse in foster care is not mentioned in the press release accompanying the study. It's not in the Executive Summary. It's not in any of the glossy material that accompanies the report. One must dig it out of the report itself, on page 30. (The full report is available here: http://www.casey.org/NR/rdonlyres/4E1E7C77-7624-4260-A253-892C5A6CB9E1/300/nw_alumni_study_full_apr2005.pdf)
During the entire briefing for advocates, I waited in vain for the study authors to even mention the issue of abuse in foster care. When I finally asked about it, at the very end of the briefing, one of the researchers tried to blame birth parents, speculating, without a shred of evidence, that maybe the foster children had been abused during visits.
But that is contradicted by the study itself, which states:
"One third (32.8%) of the sample, however, reported some form of maltreatment by a foster parent or other adult in the foster home during their foster care experience, as recorded in their case files" [emphasis added].
If anything, this underestimates the true rate of abuse, since a major problem in foster care is foster children abusing each other (see NCCPR Issue Paper 1) and those cases apparently were not counted in the study.
Of course, some will rush to conclude that because family foster care has failed so badly, we should go back to orphanages. There's just one problem with that. Over a century of research is nearly unanimous: The outcomes for children warehoused in orphanages are even worse. (See NCCPR Issue Paper 15.)
Though the authors try desperately to ignore the obvious, their study is one more indication that the only way to fix foster care is to have less of it. Until we realize that, foster care systems will continue to churn out walking wounded – four out of five times.
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ex Commissioner William Belland the bunchofmillion$ paperwork messup.
John Mattingly stepped in for ACS as a monitor appointed in the Marisol case. He was a Casey honcho but got rewarded- he's now the bumbling commissioner of ACS.
Zeinab Chahine, always the deputy the assistant the not quite commissioner at ACS, royal screwup of child protective services finally after years of disaster gets eased out to you guessed it, an Annie Casey operation.
NATIONAL COALITION FOR
CHILD PROTECTION REFORM
53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202) / Alexandria, Virginia, 22314
Phone and Fax: (703) 212-2006 / e-mail: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/acsmustbestopped/post?postID=LibYyjqQAk8PtwBpQcZCydc6IVoJJnM_mdUDMUV7CcXziUkOXBEKTZ6dJoNxHmaQc3CbNT2_ / http://www.nccpr.org/
80 PERCENT FALURE:
A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study
By Richard Wexler, NCCPR Executive Director
Imagine for a moment that you went to a doctor and he told you the following:
· 80 percent of my patients don't get any better.
· A lot of the time, they get worse.
· One-third of the time, I commit malpractice.
But, the doctor continues, if you'll just pay me even more money than I already get and build me a fancy new hospital, I'm sure I can reduce my failure rate to only about 60 percent. Do we have a deal?
Odds are you'd look for another doctor.
But what if all the other doctors told you the same thing? And what if none of them let on that there were, in fact, better treatments with fewer side effects?
Odds are you'd be furious.
Now, consider a study released on April 7, 2005 by a large, Washington State-based foster-care provider, Casey Family Programs, and Harvard Medical School. The study used case records and interviews to assess the status of young adult "alumni" of foster care.
When compared to adults of the same age and ethnic background who did not endure foster care:
· Only 20 percent of the alumni could be said to be "doing well." Thus, foster care failed for 80 percent.
· They have double the rate of mental illness.
· Their rate of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was double the rate for Iraq War veterans.
· The former foster children were three times more likely to be living in poverty – and fifteen times less likely to have finished college.
· And nearly one-third of the alumni reported that they had been abused by a foster parent or another adult in a foster home.
The authors went on to design a complex mathematical formula to attempt to figure out how much they could improve these outcomes if every single problem besetting the foster care system were magically fixed. Their answer: 22.2 percent.
Even if one argues that foster care didn't cause all of these problems, clearly foster care didn't cure them. Yet the authors of the study recommend only more of the same: Pour even more money into foster care to "fix" it to the point that maybe the rotten outcomes could be reduced by 22.2 percent.
At a two-and-a-half-hour briefing for advocates, there was barely a word about keeping children out of foster care in the first place.
Why, then, do we continue to pour billions of dollars into a system which fails 80 percent of the time and actually abuses at least one-third of those forced into it?
We do it because, over 150 years, we've built up a huge, powerful network of foster-care "providers" – "a foster-care industrial complex" with an enormous vested interest in perpetuating the status quo. They feed us horror stories about foster children whose birth parents really were brutally abusive or hopelessly addicted. But such cases represent a tiny fraction of the foster-care population.
As is documented in NCCPR's Issue Papers, elsewhere on this site, far more common are cases in which a family's poverty is confused with child "neglect." Several studies have found, for example, that one-third of foster children could be back home right now if their parents simply had adequate housing. (See NCCPR Issue Paper 5.)
Other cases fall on a broad continuum between the extremes, the parents neither all victim nor all villain. What these cases have in common is the fact that the children would be far better off if states and localities used safe, proven alternatives to foster care – alternatives that don't come with an 80 percent failure rate, and a 33 percent risk of child abuse. (See Nine Ways to do Child Welfare Right).
Nearly as disturbing as the study's findings is how the study authors attempted to spin them.
The finding about the rate of abuse in foster care is not mentioned in the press release accompanying the study. It's not in the Executive Summary. It's not in any of the glossy material that accompanies the report. One must dig it out of the report itself, on page 30. (The full report is available here: http://www.casey.org/NR/rdonlyres/4E1E7C77-7624-4260-A253-892C5A6CB9E1/300/nw_alumni_study_full_apr2005.pdf)
During the entire briefing for advocates, I waited in vain for the study authors to even mention the issue of abuse in foster care. When I finally asked about it, at the very end of the briefing, one of the researchers tried to blame birth parents, speculating, without a shred of evidence, that maybe the foster children had been abused during visits.
But that is contradicted by the study itself, which states:
"One third (32.8%) of the sample, however, reported some form of maltreatment by a foster parent or other adult in the foster home during their foster care experience, as recorded in their case files" [emphasis added].
If anything, this underestimates the true rate of abuse, since a major problem in foster care is foster children abusing each other (see NCCPR Issue Paper 1) and those cases apparently were not counted in the study.
Of course, some will rush to conclude that because family foster care has failed so badly, we should go back to orphanages. There's just one problem with that. Over a century of research is nearly unanimous: The outcomes for children warehoused in orphanages are even worse. (See NCCPR Issue Paper 15.)
Though the authors try desperately to ignore the obvious, their study is one more indication that the only way to fix foster care is to have less of it. Until we realize that, foster care systems will continue to churn out walking wounded – four out of five times.
###
Thursday, November 15, 2007
First Manhattan Family Court Action
Today a small but spirited and dedicated group of people from this newsgroup came to Manhattan Family Court and carrying signs that denounce Family Court and ACS handed out leaflets to people coming out of the Kangaroo Courthouse called New York Family Court and made contacts with several people.
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In addition last week a number of us along with others went to Queens Family Court to show support for the James family, a family that is under the most terrible attack from the Family Court System and ACS that one could possibly imagine.
We need to turn ourselves into a political, moral and spiritual snowball that is rolling down a mountainside headed straight at the CPS system and its New York headquarters at 150 William Street and these actions are a beginning.
My thanks go to those who showed up today in the rain, especially Louise and her husband (sorry that I forgot your name) who printed leaflets and made artistic and educational signs. Today would have been a zero without them.
In the next few days we will have our December target picked. To those who did not or could not make it today, please try to clear Saturday December 15 and or Monday December 17 on your schedules. We should have something planned for both days. There will be more details in the near future.
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In addition last week a number of us along with others went to Queens Family Court to show support for the James family, a family that is under the most terrible attack from the Family Court System and ACS that one could possibly imagine.
We need to turn ourselves into a political, moral and spiritual snowball that is rolling down a mountainside headed straight at the CPS system and its New York headquarters at 150 William Street and these actions are a beginning.
My thanks go to those who showed up today in the rain, especially Louise and her husband (sorry that I forgot your name) who printed leaflets and made artistic and educational signs. Today would have been a zero without them.
In the next few days we will have our December target picked. To those who did not or could not make it today, please try to clear Saturday December 15 and or Monday December 17 on your schedules. We should have something planned for both days. There will be more details in the near future.
Monday, November 12, 2007
ACS IS A RAT
WE ARE PLANNING SEVERAL PROTEST ACTIONS AGAINST THE KIDNAPPERS.- WE WILL BE AT MANHATAN FAMILY COURT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 12 NOON AND WE WILL HAVE REGULAR PROTESTS AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH THEREAFTER. IF YOU ARE FED UP WITH THE WAY ACS TRAMPLES HUMAN RIGHTS AND YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT JOIN OUR GROUP.JOIN ACS MUST BE STOPPED
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Saturday, November 03, 2007
ACS Must Be Stopped Will Be At Manhattan Family Court Thursday, November 15 at 12 Noon.
Building Directory
NEW YORK COUNTY
(Manhattan)
Supervising Judge
Hon. Susan K. Knipps
Clerk of Court
Evelyn Hasanoeddin
The New York County (Manhattan) Family Court is
located at 60 Lafayette Street,NY 10013; in lower Manhattan, between Franklin and Leonard Streets.
General Information (646) 386-5200
Fax (212) 748-5272
Email: manhattanfamilycourt@courts.state.ny.us
Public Transportation Directions
Take the No4 or 5 train to the Brooklyn Bridge Station; the C, N, R, 6 train to Canal Street; the 1 train to Franklin Street.
Take the 1, 6 or 15 bus line.
Accessible from the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg Bridges and from the FDR and West Side Hwys.
Parking
Lots and garages in the area, extremely limited street
New York City Administration For Children's Services Must Be Stopped.
We will be holding monthly demonstrations on or around the 15th of each month. Stay in contact with this website.
Q and A -- Are You An Extremist?
Regarding the website called "Child Protective Manager Ramon Vargas Is Not An Idiot"
Q- Aren't you just a disgruntled ex employee?
A- I worked for Administration for Children's Services for more than ten years, eight of those years as a child protective investigator in their Emergency Children's Services. Because my work was thorough and I was a dedicated employee I was among the minority granted a merit pay raise. I was a worker who could be called upon to go into the field in order to correct the blunders of others, and I did that several times.
I had myself convinced that I could do some good from "inside the system" and in a sense sometimes I did help individuals in my casework, more often though, the system was going to do what it does best- mess things up - with me or without me. The system is designed to do what it does.
I was assigned as a one worker "Instant Response Team" unit and worked as such for around two years, going to the most difficult cases, working along with detectives of the Special victims and Sex Abuse squads of the NYPD. Ultimately I decided that I should be in a "regular unit" and so I went to work under Mr. Adegbola. He is not a good supervisor, though he is a nice guy. I reached a point where I simply was not going to harm other people just because Adegbola couldn't understand what was going on in some cases. Also I was at loggerheads with Mr. Vargas especially after he idiotically ordered me to transport sex abuse and domestic violence victims in one case back to the man who had them terrorized from a shelter where I had brought them. I refused an offer to be put aside once again and be given autonomy in my work. I felt that I was not the problem, and I wasn't! ultimately the management had the Department of investigations take the hard drive from my workstation and lo and behold, they say they found unauthorized emails and Internet contacts. (As virtually the entire municipal workforce that has access to computers would have.) Out of disgust after ACS Commissioner John Mattingly (not to be confused with Don Mattingly who posted from a blog of mine some very damaging information about ACS) emailed me to my home and told me that he did not want me to take advantage of his "open door" policyI resigned and took my pension, since I had signed up for an early retirement package upon my entry into ACS. I left them on my 60th birthday and presently I am happily a yellow taxicab driver on the night shift in NYC (see my blog TAXI NIGHTS).
Q- It's very extreme of you Mr. Weixel to tell people not to call reports against parents to ACS, isn't it?
A- It isn't extreme at all. After all our city and nation survived for many years without anything that looked like Administration for Children's Services. The fact is the only thing ACS ultimately does to "protect" "maltreated" children is to destroy their families, traumatize them and prepare them for a life of institutionalization.
God Is Love. We need to love each other and take care of each other, and not turn to moronic government programs that are proven to to work. (For the record- fire departments work, they put out fires and save lives, homes and workplaces from destruction, public housing works, it provides decent housing to millions of people, food stamps work, they provide food to millions of people including rookie NYPD officers by the way.) - I'm talking about idiotic interventions into the lives of free and autonomous human beings, typified by what is called Child Welfare or Child Protective Services, and includes foster care and subzidized adoption.
ACS functions on a level of incompetency, disregard for human and civil rights and impunity that are hard to match. This blog focuses on one manager in their Emergency Children's Services department, but the truth is, he might not even be the worse that they have, he's just the worse that I had occasion to work with. Did you know that after the Nixzmary fiasco (read my blog ACS MUST BE STOPPED to be filled in about Nixzmary) they fired or demoted to civil service rank ten managers? (The managers at ACS are not civil service employees and they are not unionized. They have their jobs at the pleasure of Mayor Bloomberg.)
Now if these managers were worse than Vargas that would be something! It would be quite an indictment of the system in which they had become managers and functioned as managers to begin with. I suspect however that they were not particularly worse than Vargas, but that once word came down from John Mattingly that some managers needed to be purged they got rid of ten who aren't sociable, or are the wrong ethnicity, for their particular office, or who are too serious, or who authorized "too much overtime." Whether they were worse than Vargas or not it's a sign of just how terribly run the agency is. When you make a child maltreatment report you are handing a family over to these kinds of people. Can your conscience allow that?
Q- But what about the abused children. Child Abuse is real, Weixel.
A- Yes, it is real. It is found everywhere, isn't it, including and especially in foster homes and group homes. Most ACS cases are not "abuse" cases. Most ACS cases (the majority of which have no supporting evidence according to ACS) are called "maltreatment" cases. These can be matters of "dirty homes" or old fashioned discipline, the kind that has existed for thousands of years in Judeo/Christian/Islamic cultures and that I suspect a vast majority of readers of this blog themselves know of first hand. Personally I don't agree with "physical discipline" but I do not see a legitimate government function to be destroying families and locking up parents who believe in what the majority believes in.
Q- Did you say Locking up parents?
A- Yes, good parents, you bet I did. Non white inner city parents get locked up for hitting their children with belts, for the kinds of things that do not result in incarceration in New York City's predominantly white neighboring counties.
Q- But what about abuse cases? Real abuse.
A- First of all even these cases are often blown out of proportion and the majority of them are found to have no supporting evidence. I remember vividly a case of a girl who had definitely been violated according to an emergency room doctor. Police went into action and brought all her siblings into a hospital to be examined. The child was taken out of her home. The next day the hospital's child abuse expert ruled that there had been no abuse. This sort of thing happens, and happens often. But yes, there is abuse. When someone actually abuses another person that criminal should be prosecuted, no? If the criminal is removed from the home the children involved do not have to be removed.
Communities are important. A corrupt and idiotic government agency cannot replace a community. Frankly during a time when I was coming to realize that God is real I was moved to see a church pastor, and congregants come down to a police station house to volunteer themselves and their homes to keep some children out of the horrendous foster care system. It occurred to me that most if not all of the single mothers caught up in the system and their children being violated by The State, need to be in a church, a mosque or a synagogue or community organization (formal or informal) that can function this way. - In this case a police Sergeant decided (not me or my boss) that the child in question had to go to a juvenile detention facility "pending investigation" (imagine that in a country where we claim to uphold rule of law and presumption of innocence!) This child- a boy, a black child, was a barely articulate, most likely mentally delayed and not "tough" non "streetwise" and he was going to Spofford because a police sergeant wouldn't allow his community to handle or even participate in handling a family problem, which this case really was! In this case a retarded boy might have been molesting another child in his home. Instead of bringing help, the system brought charges that their poor overwhelmed overburdened guardian was negletcful! All the children were traumatized rather than helped. Congregants offered to take each child or any child into their homes and they were refused and rebuffed by the order of a police sergeant!
Don Mattingly Is Not John Mattingly
Click here to see how New York Yankee baseball great Don Mattingly made that clear.
I'd like to spend less time driving a taxi and more time fighting the evils that CPS inflicts in the name of protecting children. Help by buying posters from this site.
Q- Aren't you just a disgruntled ex employee?
A- I worked for Administration for Children's Services for more than ten years, eight of those years as a child protective investigator in their Emergency Children's Services. Because my work was thorough and I was a dedicated employee I was among the minority granted a merit pay raise. I was a worker who could be called upon to go into the field in order to correct the blunders of others, and I did that several times.
I had myself convinced that I could do some good from "inside the system" and in a sense sometimes I did help individuals in my casework, more often though, the system was going to do what it does best- mess things up - with me or without me. The system is designed to do what it does.
I was assigned as a one worker "Instant Response Team" unit and worked as such for around two years, going to the most difficult cases, working along with detectives of the Special victims and Sex Abuse squads of the NYPD. Ultimately I decided that I should be in a "regular unit" and so I went to work under Mr. Adegbola. He is not a good supervisor, though he is a nice guy. I reached a point where I simply was not going to harm other people just because Adegbola couldn't understand what was going on in some cases. Also I was at loggerheads with Mr. Vargas especially after he idiotically ordered me to transport sex abuse and domestic violence victims in one case back to the man who had them terrorized from a shelter where I had brought them. I refused an offer to be put aside once again and be given autonomy in my work. I felt that I was not the problem, and I wasn't! ultimately the management had the Department of investigations take the hard drive from my workstation and lo and behold, they say they found unauthorized emails and Internet contacts. (As virtually the entire municipal workforce that has access to computers would have.) Out of disgust after ACS Commissioner John Mattingly (not to be confused with Don Mattingly who posted from a blog of mine some very damaging information about ACS) emailed me to my home and told me that he did not want me to take advantage of his "open door" policyI resigned and took my pension, since I had signed up for an early retirement package upon my entry into ACS. I left them on my 60th birthday and presently I am happily a yellow taxicab driver on the night shift in NYC (see my blog TAXI NIGHTS).
Q- It's very extreme of you Mr. Weixel to tell people not to call reports against parents to ACS, isn't it?
A- It isn't extreme at all. After all our city and nation survived for many years without anything that looked like Administration for Children's Services. The fact is the only thing ACS ultimately does to "protect" "maltreated" children is to destroy their families, traumatize them and prepare them for a life of institutionalization.
God Is Love. We need to love each other and take care of each other, and not turn to moronic government programs that are proven to to work. (For the record- fire departments work, they put out fires and save lives, homes and workplaces from destruction, public housing works, it provides decent housing to millions of people, food stamps work, they provide food to millions of people including rookie NYPD officers by the way.) - I'm talking about idiotic interventions into the lives of free and autonomous human beings, typified by what is called Child Welfare or Child Protective Services, and includes foster care and subzidized adoption.
ACS functions on a level of incompetency, disregard for human and civil rights and impunity that are hard to match. This blog focuses on one manager in their Emergency Children's Services department, but the truth is, he might not even be the worse that they have, he's just the worse that I had occasion to work with. Did you know that after the Nixzmary fiasco (read my blog ACS MUST BE STOPPED to be filled in about Nixzmary) they fired or demoted to civil service rank ten managers? (The managers at ACS are not civil service employees and they are not unionized. They have their jobs at the pleasure of Mayor Bloomberg.)
Now if these managers were worse than Vargas that would be something! It would be quite an indictment of the system in which they had become managers and functioned as managers to begin with. I suspect however that they were not particularly worse than Vargas, but that once word came down from John Mattingly that some managers needed to be purged they got rid of ten who aren't sociable, or are the wrong ethnicity, for their particular office, or who are too serious, or who authorized "too much overtime." Whether they were worse than Vargas or not it's a sign of just how terribly run the agency is. When you make a child maltreatment report you are handing a family over to these kinds of people. Can your conscience allow that?
Q- But what about the abused children. Child Abuse is real, Weixel.
A- Yes, it is real. It is found everywhere, isn't it, including and especially in foster homes and group homes. Most ACS cases are not "abuse" cases. Most ACS cases (the majority of which have no supporting evidence according to ACS) are called "maltreatment" cases. These can be matters of "dirty homes" or old fashioned discipline, the kind that has existed for thousands of years in Judeo/Christian/Islamic cultures and that I suspect a vast majority of readers of this blog themselves know of first hand. Personally I don't agree with "physical discipline" but I do not see a legitimate government function to be destroying families and locking up parents who believe in what the majority believes in.
Q- Did you say Locking up parents?
A- Yes, good parents, you bet I did. Non white inner city parents get locked up for hitting their children with belts, for the kinds of things that do not result in incarceration in New York City's predominantly white neighboring counties.
Q- But what about abuse cases? Real abuse.
A- First of all even these cases are often blown out of proportion and the majority of them are found to have no supporting evidence. I remember vividly a case of a girl who had definitely been violated according to an emergency room doctor. Police went into action and brought all her siblings into a hospital to be examined. The child was taken out of her home. The next day the hospital's child abuse expert ruled that there had been no abuse. This sort of thing happens, and happens often. But yes, there is abuse. When someone actually abuses another person that criminal should be prosecuted, no? If the criminal is removed from the home the children involved do not have to be removed.
Communities are important. A corrupt and idiotic government agency cannot replace a community. Frankly during a time when I was coming to realize that God is real I was moved to see a church pastor, and congregants come down to a police station house to volunteer themselves and their homes to keep some children out of the horrendous foster care system. It occurred to me that most if not all of the single mothers caught up in the system and their children being violated by The State, need to be in a church, a mosque or a synagogue or community organization (formal or informal) that can function this way. - In this case a police Sergeant decided (not me or my boss) that the child in question had to go to a juvenile detention facility "pending investigation" (imagine that in a country where we claim to uphold rule of law and presumption of innocence!) This child- a boy, a black child, was a barely articulate, most likely mentally delayed and not "tough" non "streetwise" and he was going to Spofford because a police sergeant wouldn't allow his community to handle or even participate in handling a family problem, which this case really was! In this case a retarded boy might have been molesting another child in his home. Instead of bringing help, the system brought charges that their poor overwhelmed overburdened guardian was negletcful! All the children were traumatized rather than helped. Congregants offered to take each child or any child into their homes and they were refused and rebuffed by the order of a police sergeant!
Don Mattingly Is Not John Mattingly
Click here to see how New York Yankee baseball great Don Mattingly made that clear.
I'd like to spend less time driving a taxi and more time fighting the evils that CPS inflicts in the name of protecting children. Help by buying posters from this site.
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