Or from those who do not think the entire problems of the world actually fit into human neuroscience-based motivational paradigm, nor should they be crammed into that paradigm just because the giant contractor called the USA prioritizes that research.  Are you NUTS???  We’d better stay on top of what THAT’s all about (what’s the endgame…..).

There has to be a truth meter, and there has to be a balancing of this power.  And I’ll tell you what — it’s real hard to negotiate with someone who’s in control of the media, the money, to an extent the courts, and has their collective expert mouths open 24/7 (through the internet, conferencing, etc.).

In truth, this gets down to basically an economic model — and that is the best way to understand it.  Cut the crap — show me the funding, and I’ll tell you what the group’s about, truthfully… and how those who are constantly teaching and programming do not, by and large, walk in the same shoes (or paths) as their clients or the people on the radar to be socially changed… Actually, as most groups don’t talk about their tax returns, it’s up to use to talk about them.  UNBELIEVABLE what you can learn by reading these (assuming they exist…).

But if these weren’t the latest experts (God’s gift to humanity)– then they wouldn’t be “change agents” in the true meaning of the word, would they?  Because to force change implies to use of collective (networked) force and driving public opinion towards a certain solution to a certain problem, as framed by (the change agent).  

Unfortunately, they are copying each other’s models, and starting to clatter and clang to the same general beat.  those who don’t, don’t get grants next year.  Besides, what’s the point of access to all that wealth, if not becoming a change agent?

But what about the human spirit?

And what about meeting and talking with others with the intent to actually hear from and listen to them — and not an ulterior motive of behavior modification.

I hear people’s stories EVERY day (by virtue of being accessible) and many are hair-raising and involve an interaction with the court system, abuse by other family members…

Wikipedia illustration of “Vortex”

“Vortex created by the passage of an aircraft wing, revealed by colored smoke”

The Miami Child Well-Being Court Model Concept,** though, has GEARS…  doesn’t sound or look as exciting — it has three interlocking labeled gears and is designed to be replicable.  (Link is from LAW.Harvard.EDU, CAP (Child Advocacy Programs) but apparently this model is spreading rapidly)

(Just dropping the reference; it’ll get posted eventually….)

Link Updates — that’s now a generic link to Harvard’s CAP news.  However, here’s a 2015 link to what it appears this post was referencing, with the gears:  http://cap.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/22_miami-child-well-being-court-model.pdf

That is a 3-pager link explaining the model.  Notice the participants in fine print at bottom of first page (I just transcribed, as it’s impossible to copy from website, or website as pdf, or to upload the same pdf, it seems to a blog for public discussion of the trademarked plan to alter the focus and form (nationally) of public institutions….

“The MCWBC Training & Evaluation Team is led by Judge Cindy Lederman, Miami-Dade Juvenile Court (11th Judicial Circuit, FL) and Dr. Lynne Ktaz, University of Miamia Linda Ray Intervention Center, in collaboration with researchers at RTI International, Dr. Jenifer Goldman Fraser and Dr. Cecilia Casanueva.  This effort is currently being funded by a generous grant from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control (No. R18 CE001714).  The model began as an innovative collaboration between the judiciary and infant mental health, led by Judge Lederman in partnership with trauma expert, Dr. Joy Osofsky, of the Lousiana State University Health Sciences Center, and Dr. (Lynette) Katz.”  [quote added to post 12/2015]

I took some time (just now — on this major holiday weekend) to look at the participants here, in some detail.  Interesting affiliations and in what fields the various “Drs.” above, all women as it turns out, actually hold doctorates. (Hint:  Apparently none are M.D.s)…  This is becoming a separate post — it ties into major, systemic changes to the courts already set in place, and how they are occurring. As far as representative government f the people by the people, with citizenship being tied in the USA to specific states and people being subject primarily to laws (and taxation) in those states, this process is NOT good news.

This model was developed — excuse me — “evolved”  and by 2013 was trademarked.  See (later than this post — added during an update) http://www.floridaschildrenfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/MiamiChildHandbook.pdf  I’m saving this to Media — click for image. Apparently, despite the public funds (federal grants, juvenile court) — we’re not supposed to as general public, actually discuss the material on a public blog — see encryption of the text to prevent quotation under Fair Copyright Law):

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Interesting way of “publicizing” what public funds are being used for.

So, here’s more finds from from my last dive into the world of nonprofits, their trademarks, their friends, and their Cooperative Grants with HHS/ACF.   

Plus some contextual translation help.  For one, if it says “Child Protection” and certain groups are involved (particularly any HHS funding) we should understand that this translates policy-wise into “fatherhood promotion.”

All you Good Dads, don’t get angry, first of all that doesn’t mean actually promoting “fatherhood,” in the best sense, but promoting that certain people divert certain moneys to certain populations (including inmates) who should be taking certain program material and classes, in exchange for various collective benefits.)

However, whoever you are (including embittered Dads and their new partners, or buddies), I can prove this.

And no amount of Anecdotal evidence  — Arguing about your ex, your buddy’s ex, or commiserating with your new woman’s complaints about that bitch, the mother of your children, and how that bitch woman is causing her new (and your new) relationship all kinds of grief — is going to make this grants and programs evidence go anywhere.   And we’re talking, millions of dollars taken from the public at large, and distributed to help certain of your brothers (not you, obviously), including some in prison, take fathering classes.  None of this is readily apparent unless one identifies, then to an extent follows, the funders & talkers.

Swirling Circles of Influence take Money,which tends to Swirl Around the World’s Largest Contractor… the U.S.A. as allocated from Washington, D.C., often through HHS, or as it may be through the DOJ/OJJDP as we have seen recently.

(This post comes from searching for information on those Circles and Councils classes, see last few posts).

ANOTHER PRESENTATION, ANOTHER FOUNDATION, ANOTHER SERIES OF NONPROFITS…

Anyhow — I’ve never heard of the “Devereux Foundation” (below), where I dove in, as they were helping sponsor another two-day facilitator training (being promoters of their own two-day facilitator training from elsewhere).  But these aren’t exactly new waters, and it’s fairly clear which way the currents are flowing.

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

The Boys Council in Tampa Florida shows several nonprofits are involved in sponsoring it, if you read carefully, and a focus on “Youth-Serving Organizations.” I counted three (so far, and likely a fourth) nonprofit group involved in this, pulled up a few tax returns on one of them, looked around some.  How many do you see?  Who are these groups, really, what do they do?

Tampa Training Teaches Adults How to

Facilitate Cutting-­Edge Support

Groups for Boys & Young Men

Program Finding Show Increases in Boys’ and Yong Men’s School Engagement

The Council for Boys and Young Men, an acclaimed program that promotes healthy male adolescent development, is now registering participants for its two-­day Facilitator Training. Co-­hosted by Devereux Kids and OPBI, Inc., the training is being held May 24th & 25th, from 8am to 4:30pm at the University Area Community Development Corporation, 14013 North 22nd Street, Tampa, FL 33613.

Attendees will learn how to implement the Council model, a new program gaining interest with youth-serving organizations across the country.  The Council promotes boys’ and young men’s safe, strong and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years.  Academic credit and continuing education hours are available to most service providers.

Registrations can be made online at BoysCouncil.com or by calling (707) 794-9477.

The Council for Boys and Young Men is the male adjunct to the widely-acclaimed Girls Circle program founded by Giovanna Taormina and Beth Hossfeld, MFT, in California.  A structured group program for boys 9-18, (etc….)

About the Organization: 

The Council for Boys and Young Men is a division of The Girls Circle Association (GCA).  Created by Beth Hossfeld and Giovanna Taormina, the Council’s sister program – the research based Girls Circle model – is rated a “Promising Approach” by the Federal Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). In 2006, Hossfeld and Taormina teamed up with Matt Bowers to develop The Council model based on masculinity research and evidenced-based principles. For more information, visit BoysCouncil.com or GirlsCircle.com.

About Devereux Kids

Devereux Kids is a primary prevention and diversion program of the Devereux Foundation in Florida. They were established in 1999 to involve parents and community residents in training, relationship building and skill development to increase the safety and well being of children, youth and families at the neighborhood level.Their mission is to engage community residents, strengthen families and protect children.

www.devereuxkids.org

About OPBI, Inc.

OPBI is a Tampa Bay non-profit organization that has been around since 2002. At the Ophelia Project and Boys Initiative of Tampa Bay, they are committed to creating a best practices model for communities who want to be on the forefront of meeting the specific needs of girls and boys, in an integrated and innovative fashion.They believe in positive and successful youth development.

http://www.opbi.org

GUESS WHAT DEVEREUX KIDS (is in the business of) and who’s behind it?  Does this business model sound familiar yet? (the logo belowis also a link; click on the yellow):

**Quickest way to cut through the crap on what such and such IS will, generally speaking (after verifying who’s owns the Trademark at USPTO.gov , and other things such as when they got it and what “G&S” (Goods and Services) are involved) is see if you can find out who’s funding it.  

EVERY FUNDER needs a market niche — somewhere to sell their goods.  So who’s being sold what in this mix? And what other products does the same source sell — in this case, AHA?)

But no matter how you look at it, it will involve someone selling “behavioral-change” modules, i.e., classes, trainings, information and resource centers.  It’s  not necessary to actually show behavioral change — just to get through the classes.  And when it comes to Dads, Dad’s aren’t signing up for them that easily; they have to be recruited, and get incentives (rewards) for participation – like reduced child support, etc.

I have news for us – so, Devereux Kids is promoting a trademarked training of the American Humane Association, who also works in tandem with HHS (and has been for a long while) to promote fatherhood activities also. Here’s when the trademark was registered (1997, i.e., same year the Adoption & Safe Families Act was made, also the year after welfare reform), in addition to (co-hostd with OPBI, Inc., same idea) who probably have their own training and why not bring in another “social entrepreneur” which has OJJDP backing, the The Boys and Young Men’s Council(r)? Birds of a feather…. Here’s the search results from USPTO — the Front Porch Project has been around over a decade…

Typed Drawing

Word Mark FRONT PORCH PROJECT

Goods and Services IC 036. US 100 101 102. G & S: charitable fund raising. FIRST USE: 19950700. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19950700

IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: association services, namely, promoting public awareness of child abuse through education and dissemination of information, and providing assistance and guidance to the public in identifying and preventing the causes of child abuse and neglect. FIRST USE: 19950700. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19950700

Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 75340785
Filing Date August 14, 1997
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition July 14, 1998
Registration Number 2193643
Registration Date October 6, 1998
Owner (REGISTRANT) American Humane Association, The CORPORATION D.C. 63 Inverness Drive East Englewood COLORADO 80112
Attorney of Record DARREN HANDLER
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE “PROJECT” APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20080716.
Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20080716
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

The subtitle of the AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION is “THE Nation’s voice for the protection of children & animals”

However, if you go just a few clicks away — and under the same banner — you’ll see they are entirely in favor of silencing adult women’s voices (this includes mothers) when it comes to a firm assertion that to protect a child means to insert a father, particularly if father is absent.  As some fathers are inserting things where they don’t belong, and some mothers object to this — it’s simply wrong that any nonprofit this large continue to take million-dollar-initiatives to divert welfare money into fatherhood training programs to get them back in.

A closer look at AHA grants received from HHS over the years shows that they started with “Child Protection” but morphed over the years, plus some…

Meanwhile, there are then the other organizations aimed at youth & girls (OneCircle, Ophelia, and knockoffs, or these being knockoffs of other similar programs…).

If you read the description carefully — you see that AHA is screening and selecting leadership, setting up a distribution network through — for Pennsylvania at least Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance.  After all, it’s an AHA project (AHA has however received a good deal of $$ from HHS over the years) so they deserve to screen who’s going to distribute it, like any good wholesaler would:

Working with the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance, selected communities across the state will begin implementing the Front Porch Project®, American Humane Association’s research-supported, community-based initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Over four days in April and May, American Humane Association will train professionals and other community members selected by Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance on how to locally deliver the Front Porch Project’s community training. 

Notice how they are going to do this.  WHO, for example, is the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance?

The American Humane Association (originally related to treatment of pets more?) Is intimately connected with the Fatherhood Initiative and has membership on one of its boards whose philosophy is to get nonresident fathers more involved in order to protect against child abuse:

On the same website (AHA) click on over to “for Professionals” . . . . “Programs” … “Children” and here’s the list, see url?   http://www.americanhumane.org/children/programs/**

**(before then, AHA has also its own ideas about how to handle domestic violence, which can include battering and can become lethal.  Better to keep the family intact than to save the victims….) Differential Response Webinar Series A Family Intact: An Alternative Response to Domestic Violence April 21, 2011 Noon – 1:30 p.m. PDT; 1 – 2:30 p.m. MDT; 2 – 3:30 p.m. CDT; 3 – 4:30 p.m. EDT

Isn’t this child beautiful?  You betcha.  But we need to look at the programs.  There are almost no programs that aren’t going to have pictures of cute kids attached.  But how cute is what they are promoting?

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JUST SOME AHA FYI — they’re off the deep end (probably be cause that’s where the money is, or who knows why?) favoring fathers,…

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   PROTECTING CHILDREN – American Humane Association

   www.americanhumane.org/assets/pdfs/children/fatherhood/pc262.pdfFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View Previously, she worked at American. Humane Association and served as interim director of the Quality. Improvement Center on Non-ResidentFathers and the …

Which QIC-NRF (and AHA connection) I found out when I was following up (another) Youth/Justice reform group from Washington, and part of its leadership, Susan Dreyfuss (then head of Washington State’s $20billion DSHS budget; having come from Wisconsin (head of the first DCFS or such) and with strong connections to the behavioral health industry (what an eyeopener) . .  Combined with a local judge (Bobbe Bridge) and and a few foundations (like, the MacArthur Foundation and its Models for Change), it was  a powerful nonprofit.

This is from the AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION (Colorado)

HOW THIS TIES BACK TO THE HHS GRANTS SYSTEM? (search recipient name, then click to find out which grants):

Showing: 1 – 2 of 2 Recipients

(please DO scan (and I’m wondering why there are two listings with two DUNS# which only vary by ONE digit — and it just so happens tha tthe ONE digit DUNS# is exclusively for this QIC-NIF project above — $4,924,808 in THREE years!

All of these were a single grant to AHA; #90CO1025, ACF/CB (Children’s Bureau) and from the DUNS# top row above.  They all had one Principal Investigator (SONIA C. VELAZQUEZ), and are categorized under CFDA 93652, “Adoption Opportunities.”

As SO OFTEN happens when I compare what HHS says they got on a certain grant (and the TAGGS input comes fromHHS) with what USASPENDING.gov says they got on the same grant (and USASPENDING.gov input comes from the agencies also) — USASPENDING.gov is often short — by like a year or more’s worth of data, sometimes HALF.  In this case,  — I just proved it by searching on the same, strangely similar but uniquely NOT identical DUNS# above — that where TAGGS.hhs.gov says, they distributed $4,924,808 — somehow USASPENDING.GOV (which info usually goes back to the year 2000, while TAGGS to about 1995), says the same grant series was only $1,999.  Obviously (at a glance) they have nothing recorded but years 2009 and 2010 in the latter source here: (there’s also a disclaimer showing again that this database is as of 9/18/2012 and provided by the agencies, no liability as to D&B number usage:

“All prime awardee data as reported by agencies. The assistance prime awardee data includes agency submissions as of 09/18/2012 and the contracts prime awardee data includes procurement data downloaded from FPDS as of 09/18/2012. . . .. For more information about the data, data sources, and data timeliness, please see Learn.  The quality procurement data is maintained by the federal agencies by annual verification and validation of their data in FPDS {{{I don’t know what that is}}. For more information on how the quality is maintained and what the government is doing in ensuring the quality please see (PDF).

DUNS as above shows only two transactions:

Transaction # 1
Federal Award ID: 90CO1025 (Grant) 

Transaction # 2
Federal Award ID: 90CO1025 (Grant) 

~ ~ I’m just a layperson (a very inquisitive one), however I then tried with the alternate DUNS# (absent the “4”) and Grants only — and found the missing grants from the other years.   So how did that happen, then?

Transaction # 5
Federal Award ID: 90CO1025 (Grant) 

Transaction # 6
Federal Award ID: 90CO1025 (Grant) 

Transaction # 8
Federal Award ID: 90CO1025: 1 (Grant) 

$2,250,000

$1,999,999

=4,249,999  per USASPENDING.gov. (4 transactions, right?) (see chart above). (I’m looking at partial screen and having to scroll here, but one could look at it and see that $4,249,999 =/= $4,924,808 — and that HHS is saying $1 million X 4 (counting $999,999 as one of those) and $250K — and looks like the $ 674,899 (first showing in the grant) at USAspending.gov isn’t showing up.

Whoever it’s “cooperative” with maybe got credit for that amount.  Or maybe someone who wasn’t supposed to get something — how would I, Jane Public, know?   Given the bookkeeping correction (see TAGGS chart, above) on 08/28/2012 of ($90.00) — I make that “only” a $674,809 differential, in other words, enough to buy two homes outright, or make or support how many families for how long?   How much error is acceptable — and who do we think might be checking quality on this — the HHS/OIG (I’ll simplify matters there – -they’re not keeping up.  But if they did, they don’t have enforcement teeth).

ALSO, to establish that the Program Source code 1512  is a PSSF (Promoting Safe and Stable Families) code.

I find that interesting, because (read on) one of the subgrantee recipients — who is working with this AHA project is called Center on Fathering and admits that they are targeting incarcerated Dads.  For the shorthand, the program helps promote adoption opportunities to jailbirds, fathers who commit DV, which is what we have been discovering and saying right along anyhow over some years.

I did a google search on the grant# and found out that HHS actually sent someone to visit a subgrantee:

Children’s Bureau Grantee News

Site Visit: Nonresident Fathers in the El Paso, CO, Child Welfare System

The National Quality Improvement Center for Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System (QIC-NRF) awarded subgrants in 2008 to projects in four States for fatherhood classes for nonresident fathers whose children have been removed from their homes. One of the four subgrants was awarded to the Center on Fathering (COF) of the El Paso County, CO, Department of Human Services (DHS) to locate and recruit nonresident fathers of children in the child welfare system to participate in fatherhood classes. The goal is to increase fathers’ involvement with their children and the child welfare system.

The fatherhood classes meet for 20 weeks and use a curriculum developed by the QIC-NRF to support nonresident fathers in engaging their children. The curriculum covers topics such as navigating the child welfare system, supporting their children, and workforce issues. Between September 2008 and September 2010, 23 fathers participated in these classes.

COF also has developed a training for caseworkers about how to engage fathers. The training, which was conducted at five State academies throughout Colorado, included practical advice on topics such as bringing fathers back into the family dynamic, closing the revolving door on cases, and how father-child visits may be different—and should be evaluated differently—from mother-child visits.

The following are examples of successful strategies used by the project to recruit, engage, and work with the fathers:  Fathers interviewed during the site visit expressed how much the project has helped them with their children. The project helped them gain a better understanding of the child welfare and court systems and provided helpful information about child development and communication.

Similar (or, the same) report shows that this particular project from El Paso County, Colorado, coincides with key players in this entire field, Center for Policy Research (Jessica Pearson, one of its founders) and Policy Studies Inc. (they often do reports together and at least used to have staff in common; i.e., CPR is the nonprofit PSI is a for-profit) and what I have confirmed on this blog, ONE of the many earlier incorporations of the association basically constructing and running the family court system (and I do mean that!)AFCC — also has an early incorporation version with Dr. Pearson on it.

So,

http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/site_visit/conrf.pdf

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The National Quality Improvement Center for Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System (QIC NRF) awarded one of its four subgrants to the Center on Fathering (COF) (http://dhs.elpasoco.com/Pages/COF.aspx) to conduct a project in El Paso County, which is the second most populous county in Colorado and includes the city of Colorado Springs. El Paso County has the State’s highest concentration of children ages 0 to 5 and has a 73 percent divorce rate.

This model for this project, like that of the other three subgrants, consists of locating and recruiting nonresident fathers to participate in 20 weekly fatherhood classes designed to strengthen the fathers’ engagement with their children who are involved with the child welfare system. Per QIC NRF requirements, the initial contact for the fathers must be a male.

COF {{Center on Fathering}} is part of the El Paso County Department of Human Services (DHS) and is tasked with implementing responsible fatherhood activities. Other COF programs include InsideOut Dads for incarcerated fathers, Nurturing Fathers for fathers with current or past domestic violence issues, and Fathers as Providers for fathers needing employment assistance. Other project partners include the Center for Policy Research (www.centerforpolicyresearch.org), which is the evaluator, and Policy Studies Inc. (PSI). PSI (https://www.policy-studies.com) provides a staff person who serves as a class facilitator and father coach. PSI also is the child support enforcement contractor in El Paso County. ***

{{And I suppose that’s not a conflict of interest??}}

(Note: The term “father” in this report will be used interchangeably with “nonresident father” unless otherwise clarified.)

IF ANYONE STILL HAS DOUBTS WHETHER OR NOT THE CHILD SUPPORT (OCSE) SYSTEM IS IN GENERAL (WHILE IT CAN HARM AND INCARCERATE FATHERS ALSO — AND MOTHERS) BEEN RETOOLED — OR WAS ORIGINALLY SET UP — AS A FATHERHOOD PROMOTER, THIS “CENTER ON FATHERING” IN EL PASO COUNTY SHOULD GIVE US A CLUE:

http://dhs.elpasoco.com/Pages/COF.aspx  (NOTE — it sounds “govt” because of “DHS” but it ends in *.com which tells what business someone is in….  sales….

…AS I KEEP SAYING, EVERYONE IS TRAINING SOMEONE. JUST SO WE KNOW WHAT TAX DOLLARS (SO TO SPEAK) ARE BEING USED FOR — BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION ON BEHALF OF MARKETING…

HOPEFULLY SOMEONE CAUGHT THE LAMENT ABOUT THE UNDERSERVED FATHERS — THOSE WHO ARE IN JAIL FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND (DIDN’T SAY AND/OR) ARE INCARCERATED.

Please note date of formation (1995, the year after the national fatherhood initiative was formed, and one year before welfare reform (1996).    Colorado is a key state (esp. Denver area) in some of these movements.

(State of Colorado Corp. Search) Found 1 matching record(s).Viewing page 1 of 1.

#	ID Number	Document Number	Name	Event	Status	Form	Formation Date
1	19951027102	19951027102	CENTER ON FATHERING – ROYAL BLUE BACKGROUND WITH WHITELETTERING	Register a Trademark	Effective	TM/L0042	03/03/1995

This is a trademark of the El Paso County Human Services Department, and has been renewed in 2005. Mr. Sanders shows up alongside the usual (players — none representing mothers, or women, or domestic violence advocates, hardly unusual) and here’s his bio.  They are giving each other “Excellence in Practice (EIP) Awards, which were a self-(flattering) set of awards begun ca. 2008: “Sponsored by the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Child Welfare, the Office of the State Court Administrator and the Office of the Child’s Representative”

OK– what’s wrong with this overall picture.  The Center on Fathering is outreach to noncustodial fathers, particularly two “grossly underserved” categories of fathers, jailbait and those who commit domestic violence (obviously against their partners, which is part of the definition of “domestic.”).

On the same site they are advertising foster children up for adoption!

In looking up that task force (statement April 5, 1996) I am remembering this governor.  You got to watch those task forces; and governors that appoint them and invite “national experts” to justify what they’ve decided to do well in advance of the task force, anyhow! This is why “We, the People” need to obtain as much “mouth” and “clout” as our inspired State Governors, who aren’t listening very well.  JUST FOR THE RECORD, the town of “Castle Rock” (as in Castle Rock v. Gonzales) is in Colorado, also…

Background:

The Governor convened a statewide Summit on Responsible Fatherhood as he kicked off the work of a state level Task Force which was created to help him address the problem of father absence. The Summit included almost 500 child and family advocates and other concerned citizens, members of the Governor’s newly appointed task force and national experts, James Levine, Wade Horn, Kirk Harris and Kent Amos. The summit was followed by six months of intense work by the Governor’s Task Force to begin to identify causes and possible solutions around the problem of father absence.

The Task Force met with many different people from around the state, took steps to raise public awareness about the problem of father absence and produced a report, a blue print for a state agenda and recommendations for immediate action.

Findings  (Blah, blah, blah — the usual boilerplate) and at teh bottom, guess who?

Resource Centers

Annie E. Casey Foundation
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

(From the UPS family wealth who grew up without a father because he died.  Therefore every one else needs a father, too….).  (Annie E. Casey foundation is very wealthy, and I’ve looked at some of their investments too)

1.  Colorado Governor Invites Chicago ‘Legal Eagle’ To Lecture at …
2. http://www.thefreelibrary.com › Business › PR Newswire › October 29, 1998

   Oct 29, 1998 – At Governor Romer’s Summit on Fatherhood, Mr. Leving will analyze the problem of father absence and outline legal solutions that will help … (JEFFREY LEVING whose firm is co-sponsor of the very, (very very) large HHS-grants-taking Fathers  and Families Coalition of America (Not to be confused with Glen Sacks’ group)

3.  When in doubt about anything important in life, ask ANNIE E CASEY FOUNDATION.

AMERICAN HUMANE ORGANIZATION uncritically dedicates a page to this Center, mentioning Mr. Sanders:

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I need (and plan) to further investigate this too-influential “AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION.”  It shows a Colorado address, but the registration I’m looking at shows Washington, D.C. (originally 1942), and it seems its influence is out of proportion with its assets. !!!!!

Organization Details
EIN:	840432950
Name:	American Humane Association — Google
Location:	1400 16th St NW Ste 360 Washington, DC 20036
County:	District of Columbia
Website:	www.americanhumane.org
Ruling Date:	1942   (Approximate year when founded)
IRS Type:	501(c)(3) – Public charity: Religious, educational, charitable, scientific, and literary organizations…
Legal basis for public charity or private foundation status (FNDNCD):	15 – Organization with a substantial portion of support from a governmental unit or the general public
NTEE:	D20 – Animal Protection & Welfare
Most recently completed fiscal year (TAXPER)	06/2011
Total Revenue	$13,261,444
Total Assets:	$12,688,479
Organization Mission Statement and Purpose
The American Humane Association is the only national organization dedicated to protecting both children and animals from abuse and neglect. founded in 1877, American Humane provides national leadership in developing policies, legislation, curricula and training programs- and providing direct services- to fulfill its mission. following is a summary

The Feb. 2011 PRWire says they have dedicated a new HQ  in Washington.  Good for them.  I think they need to be reminded that there’s a significant difference between CHILDREN and ANIMALS, despite their penchant for training the world how to handle both.  The chief difference with animals is that’s it’s acceptable in this culture to break up animal families, but the legal process is to be involved in breaking up human families. Moreover, if a male animal sired offspring, and then was a danger to the same offspring, no zookeeper or other should have trouble taking protective measures, rather than send that male animal through “stag classes” or “bull classes” or “rooster classes” or (go through the species, get my point?) to become more like a female animal.  Moreover, in the animal kingdom, some females are notably fierce when protecting their young — but this type of protection is unacceptable in human families. . . ..

I think anyone at this point who’s unwilling to realize that the whole production is more about the money (and ppower that goes with it) than what it’s allegedly about is part of the problem.

Anyhow, here’s that announcements, below which I have a few more complaints before calling this a day!

American Humane Association Dedicates New National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — American Humane Association, the nation’s voice for the protection of children and animals, will dedicate its new national headquarters offices, located in the Resources & Conservation Center, Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17. Attendees will include Pippa Black, star of NBC’s comedy series “Outsourced”; Tinsley Mortimer, socialite and handbag designer; and Ashley Rhodes-Courter, author of a New York Times best-selling memoir about her life in the foster care system

Since 1877, American Humane Association has been at the forefront of virtually every major policy movement, legislative effort and shift in cultural attitudes aimed at improving the lives of children and abolishing cruelty to animals,” said Robin R. Ganzert, Ph.D., American Humane Association president and CEO. “So it is fitting that we build a more prominent presence here in our nation’s capital to speak for the voiceless in our society — from our most vulnerable children to animals of every kind — as we strengthen the inextricable link between people, animals and the world we share.”

“We appreciate the tremendous support we’ve received from our constituents, partners and community in welcoming us to our new offices,” Ganzert said. “As we gather for this occasion, we celebrate American values of compassion, caring and hope, while we also reaffirm our commitment to making a difference for the vulnerable and the voiceless by changing attitudes, shaping policy and improving lives.”

American Humane Association’s new national headquarters offices are located at 1400 16th Street NW, Suite 360, Washington, DC 20036. The organization also has program offices in Denver, and its “No Animals Were Harmed”® Film & Television Unit is based in Los Angeles

(BACK IN COLORADO AGAIN, CENTER ON FATHERING):

Naturally, this relates to BLOCK GRANTS TO TANF — and here it’s mentioned (along with four other fatherhood programs and I notice also “WAIT Training” (Abstinence Education) which is another very funky abstinence-focused healthy/marriage grantee of long-standing in the area:

“Colorado Works TANF Funded Projects Resource Book“

(= a Colorado.gov/TANF Resource Book (pdf/directory-style; search for “Sanders”))

As with many programs in the state, Colorado Works provides a great deal of local flexibility for counties to makes decisions, implement programs and provide services to meet the needs of the community. Annually, we allocate the vast majority of Colorado’s federal TANF block grant to counties statewide. I am proud and impressed by the quality of the assistance and programs each county in the state provides to serve the unique needs of its residents.

In addition to the county block grants, the legislature has appropriated TANF funds for innovative and statewide programs serving low-income families through the Statewide Strategic Use Fund and special appropriations for housing and employment services through our sister state agencies.

There is NOT ONE noun or pronoun referring to females (not “women” and not “mothers”) in the table of contents here (provided).  This is typical of the field.  There are Fathers, and then there are female-headed-household, or single-parent-households (when what’s meant is single-mother).

Perhaps this “omission” even in the table of contents of a listing of services provided through TANF to an entire STATE may have something to do with the need for Girls’ Circle Associations or their self-images?  Everything gives off something — and this gives off, half the human race doesn’t even get a verbal reference!

This shouldn’t be surprising as welfare reform was aimed at single mothers as a social scourge anyhow, whether it was presented in a patronizing, or in a critical and irritated tone (I’m talking, in the Congressional Record, not just the rhetoric….):

Use that “Alt-F” or “search” function while in the document — I often spot-check documents.  Again, here’s the link:“Colorado Works TANF Funded Projects Resource Book”  Why should we be getting language results like this?

In a 33 page glossy, fine-print pdf representing TANF resources!

THREE of these ONLY FOUR times is for a Women’s Resource Center which specifically details how it runs fatherhood programs (and says nothing at all about women in the paragraph!):

(Southwest Colorado) 679 E. 2nd Avenue, Unit 6 Durango, CO 8130 Eve Presler, 970.247.1242

The Advocacy for La Plata, Women’s Resource Center fatherhood program takes fathers of at-risk families through the Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum and works with them to achieve a sense of stability – financially and emotionally. The program also holds Responsible Fatherhood classes at the Southern Ute Detention Center, which houses men from various U.S. tribes.

Enough is enough — Write your legislator (get info together for your area) and Congressman, Representative and ask for a veto of future marriage/fatherhood funding.  First of all, where IS it?  Second of all, it’s paid for by all, but is misapplied — for social science theories about poverty and child abuse, which generally ends up profiting the people running the programs, for another, no one should have to recruit participants that hard (bribes?  Seriously).  For another, it shifts the balance of power away from the facts of the case and towards “out-come based” judicial proceedings. . . . . .  And as I pointed out, for another, on any given day, up to $670K can go missing, or money goes to corporations that themselves go missing — so what was the purpose of the financing?

(HHS GRANTEE, UNRELATED).