I am currently continuing to write on the improper collusion of the court-reform/ Safe Kids groups who will NOT speak about these matters, with those who originally colluded to set them up, and to set up a variety of professions, for their private benefit and careers (although of course we are to believe this is for the public good) in and around the same courts.  See 6/29/2014 post referring to this one also.  There is valuable information (although in the form of multiple charts of different formats) about some of the key players in the family court system, which as we should know by now, is being promoted and restructured in large part through the vehicle of nonprofit trade associations functioning as systems-change, and PR (propaganda) vehicles, which “AFCC” is.  I think VERY few people have taken a close look, systematically, at how the larger and often the many smaller sets of nonprofits formed around key trade terms put forth by the larger (AFCC, NACC, etc.) groups function, I mean FISCALLY.

I have done this, and come to understand the “collegial” habit of  certain professionals (whether academics or in the courts) setting up not just one — but multiple — foundations or nonprofits with similar name, and moving the money around i.e., reducing or evading accountability as nonprofits are required to produce for the public and the states they’re incorporated in, not to mention the IRS.  ONLY by looking these details up can you see the pattern and start to comprehend the process, practices, and I’m going to add, purposes.  It’s hard to argue psychological issues with a PhD or Psy.D. professional convinced they have the expertise (and you don’t).  But anyone can look up and look at corporate filings, tax returns, and start putting this OBJECTIVE data (obtained from supposedly neutral, i.e., government, databases:  Secretary of State and Charitable Registries, plus some IRS or agency grants data.  Those are not “psychological” or subjective sources which can be dismissed so easily as “that’s just in your head,” or “You just said that to get control of the children.”

Exhortation (or if you will, “Rant”) added Aug. 2014 (slight update Dec. 2015):

I’m plenty aware of trauma.  I’m aware of safety issues.  I am a survivor of violence (all kinds), and am living every day with awareness of the things my children, families, and friends were put through without due process or even (our case) legitimate causes of action.  I’m also aware that others in similar situation, sometimes VERY similar, ended up, in my own community and others, as roadkill, and around the same times.

HOWEVER, EVEN SO, when it comes to the above processes in the family, divorce, custody, domestic violence, and yes, child support, arenas — I recommend a complete conversation change.  For years, I’ve been recommending to people and groups who claim they want to clean up the courts, protect children, and fix broken things, “pay better attention to the money trail.” (I’m not the first to tell several of the same groups the same thing…).  

It didn’t take long to recognize most such people and groups have no interest in paying better attention to the money trail, at least acquiring a few basic skills…or encouraging target clientele (distressed parents and aged-out distressed children) to, which made me consider, what might be the other, i.e., the real, agenda, if  “the money trail” is truly so UNimportant to protecting women and children?  

I continued recommending  to affected parents, and to the public (through posting, and commenting, and in private communications),  “look at the books — follow the money — public grants/contracts; private nonprofits run by family court professionals (including lawyers, custody evaluators, mediators, parent coordinators, administrative heads of county or state family court services, not to mention judges) etc.

On this blog I have put up simple and straightforward tools to follow at least START following it, while using them myself, and through practice, curiosity, and diligence, developing better understanding of the involved “power-brokers” influencing the courts.

This requires starting to understand it.  The problem I encounter the most:  People won’t even start!  It’s apparently more fun to follow the crowd, and blog the drama, the trauma, and the destruction.  But without learning even the basics of how custody decisions fit into the larger court-connected corporations context, this IMPORTANT information and “Family Court 101 basics” never makes it into most of the voluminous social media propaganda about the problems!

I have engaged in LOOKING AT COURT-CONNECTED CORPORATIONS AND PROGRAMS for at least 5 years now, personally, on the blog, and networked. It is NOT “rocket science”!!  It might be a little scary (how deep, wide and old the problems are does show up), but once you start,and develop the habit of paying attention,  it’s not even intellectually challenging.  [[2015 comment – it is definitely intellectually fascinating, and leads to deeper understanding of the country we live in.  But, those habits, with practice, are not too hard for the average, semi-literate person who is able to engage in some conceptual thinking based on what they read — not just the rhetoric echoing through the conscience from PR, media, or keeping to a small, select, circle of associations who talk the same “group” language]]. 

Just get to the basic identifying information on any group, and from there, get a grasp on who’s funding it, and on other practices, such as compliant or noncompliant with required annual filings, tax returns, etc.  GET MORE TYPES OF BASIC (foundational) INFO on the GROUPS AND PEOPLE INVOLVED!  Get the structure of the group.

• ***Look Up a Nonprofit (Impromptu How-To // Checkpoints) ~ With Too Many Illustrations

There’s also a chart on this page of what elements to look up for any particular group.  FIRST, get its identity, locate in PLACE (in the US, a corporation can have offices in many, or even ALL states, but only ONE state can be its “domestic” registration at a time.  Find that and find date or incorporation, and more.  Get a location, get an age, and get some objective information that may or  may not show on a website or in the PR:

• ***BASIC SORT & SELECT INFO you May Not Get Elsewhere (2013 post)!!NAMES: “Center, Council, Judicial, Legislative, Institute…” But WHO they are, and how legit, is in the LABEL  [hover cursor for description of post]

There are of course other sources of funding:  For example, governments dedicate sometimes filing fees, special accounts, towards specific purposes.  It can be looked up, often, on the state comptroller’s page.  Find some of the funds, the list of funds, that are being set up to finance domestic violence, marriage promotion, family reunification, compromise of child support arrears, etc., in your state.  Research the basic organizations known about in your state, and the landscape will look quite different!  And of course, include the ones you’ve been hanging out with, regardless of which state they proceed in.  If these groups are mirroring the fiscal (i.e., setting up multiple small or empty corporations — or simply never bothering to file for incorporation) practices of groups they seek to reform, how is that reform going to happen, then?

I know just how resistant people are to acknowledging that their “friendly” groups have engaged in similar practices to the alleged “Bad guys.”  And I also know who (specific groups) has been deliberately dumbing down, derailing and simply ignoring this data, and failing to encourage followers to even THINK about it by failing to mention it.  Meanwhile group leadership systematically uses vague, and inaccurate words to describe major concepts, when an accurate term might lead to further investigation by followers.  This practice of dumbing-down-the-dialogue is insulting.  It comes from an intent to dominate that dialogue, and publish, conference, and be recognized as subject matter experts IN that dialogue.  I find it arrogant, and essentially dishonest.  It discourages open conversations on basic issues affecting the entire country.

This practice delays others getting vital information before it’s too late in their own custody cases, laying down a trail of destruction (custody disasters), which is then used to both intimidate and solicit more followers from ongoing generations of families figuring out too late, what “family court” means for them.

The information has been there all along.  It is up to people who are tired of participation in censored dialogues to figure out how to have different ones on their own.  I handled this a few years ago by dissociation.  I dissociated from the “BMCC” crowd, which also cut across mutually supportive friendships.  However, sticking around for more crazymaking was not an alternative. My decision to dissociate from these conversations freed up time and energies, and resulted in what you can see on this blog; an increased understanding and awareness of system operations, and a more legitimate foundation for activism.  I also learned that even strangers  not even involved in the courts CAN comprehend, when shown, what a tax return of a major grants-getting reform group has to tell them.  I show the numbers on the tax return, sources of income, and what causes the organization is promoting. If they get major grants, and I can show it, I show that.
[end, Aug. 2014 “Intro Exhortation;”]

•  ALIAS “PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CONFLICT”
• Unbelievably sloppy handwritten 2006 return!
• Vivian Roseby, Janet Johnston & Peter Schaefer (Treasurer) on board ( 1 hr/week)
• Ann B. Graves signed (11/15/06 for 2005 return) as “Treasurer” though is not listed with officers.
• “Individual counseling and group counseling for children in high risk or violent situations, training prof. & the public in high risk conflict”

Deborah “Resinkoff” (it should be ResNIkoff) has published alongside Wallerstein; both seem to prefer the anecdotal presentation:  This dates to 1997, and was found under “The International Journal of Psychoanalysis”

http://www.p-e-p.org/ = “Psychoanalytical Electronic Publishing.”

Wallerstein, J., Resnikoff, D. (1997). Parental Divorce And Developmental Progression: An… Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 78:135-154.

Parental Divorce And Developmental Progression: An Inquiry Into Their Relationship

Judith Wallerstein and Deborah Resnikoff

The authors argue that the patterning of conscious and unconscious needs, wishes, and expectations that parents and children bring to each other is often profoundly altered under the impact of divorce and the parents’ subsequent adult relationships.These changes, which are inherent in the divorce experience, have the power to modify significantly or derail the young child‘s developmental course. Clinical observations from an ongoing longitudinal research project show striking changes in the child‘s image of his parents, as portrayed here in the vivid play and fantasy of a psychologically sturdy child, concurrent with psychological changes in both parents and in their parenting.** A follow-up, twelve years later, is reported. The authors suggest that the stable parenting of this child‘s first three years represented an internalised template of good relationships, which enabled him, despite the father‘s subsequent abandonment, the mother‘s grave acting out and the stepfather’s rejection, to turn away from his disappointment in his parents, to wrest what was available from school, friends and others, and to propel himself forward at each point to the next developmental stage, moving increasingly away from his family towards independence and competence. The consistency of the child‘s inner life and integrity is contrasted with the depression of his parents and the instability of their parenting.

[This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.]

[My Dec. 2015 commentary] The authors apparently have a label for almost every involved party except (themselves,) the courts, the financial stability or instability involved (also affected by the courts:  Child support, spousal, support, etc.) and no mention is made in the abstract whether or any violent or abusive behavior was — or was not — at play in the relationships.  The first three years of the child’s life (and “parenting / good relationships” during those years) are given credit for enabling this (male) child to separate from all the bad people — mother, father, stepfather — and do the right thing, engage with non-family, non-parents instead.  The passage, from my perspective, knowing what parents are going through these days — including threats of abduction / kidnapping (or that actual event), being forced to co-parent with violent partners with or without criminal history, supervised visitation and forced reunifications, sometimes overnight radical disruption of the child/parent relationship without foundation by the courts themselves (or the other parent) — is dripping with condescension and the psychological filter as applied by those comfortable with it, to concrete, real-life situations.   “The consistency of the child’s inner life” — which the writers, presumably, know about..over (apparently) periodic, longitudinal, interviews or questionnaires over the 12-year span.

~ ~ ~ P-EP (where this was published)– is a nonprofit, interesting indicator of how they psychoanalytic professions maintain themselves.  Interesting founder of this one, too:

Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Inc., or PEP, is a Not-for-Profit 501C-3 public charity registered in the State of Delaware. PEP’s mission is to further psychoanalytic scholarship, research and outreach through the promotion of its literature.

[DISCUSSION of this nonprofit as typical of the ongoing, relentless propagation of psychoanalysis (roughly translated as “Freud, although Freud’s life spanned the 19th-20th centuries, he died in 1939, and we’re now into the 21st..)  IMPORTANT, and CURRENT, ENOUGH TO BE REMOVED TO SEPARATE POST.  And that organization is registered in Delaware, but located in California (per its IRS returns) with no indication on those returns of its legal domicile — and no presence as a charity OR business entity — that I can see — in California.]

Well maybe, but more to the point, is it, meaning, ….

incorporated and filing its taxes, and if a nonprofit, its 990s..?

Here’s a typical (?) example from Orange County, California called “Families in Transition” that may help explain why so many counselors (Psy.D.’s, LMFT’s) are so interested in this phrase:

Families in Transition

Jorge F. Galindo, MFT
Amy Stark, Ph.D.
Miriam galindo, Psy. D.
(714) 547-1456

Our Goal:

Helping the Legal Profession With Psychological Solutions

Reunification Groups

Phase One: Psychoeducational Group for both parents

• Time: 4 Weeks
• Cost: $250
• Registration Fee: $60
• By stipulation or court order

Phase Two: Individualized reunification services

• Cost: Hourly rate
• By stipulation or court order

Phase Three: Anger management group 

Families in Transition Group

Jorge Galindo, MFT

Jorge Galindo is a certified psychoanalyst and licensed psychotherapist who specialized in individual, family, and adolescent psychology. He has extensive experience with court-referred cases involving child-custody. He is a Reserve Deputy Sheriff for Orange County.

Amy Stark, Ph.D.

Dr. Amy Stark is a licensed psychologist who specializes in child custody and 730 evaluations. She has extensive experience in the area of child abuse treatment. She has worked as a child specialist for over 30 years. She is on the Orange County Superior Court panel of approved evaluators.

Miriam Galindo, Psy. D.

Dr. Galindo is a licensed psychologist, licensed social worker, and registered child play therapist. She is on the Orange County Superior Court list of approved evaluators. She has worked wtih at-risk children and families for the past 21 years.

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Ever heard of “Judith Wallerstein” and “The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce”?  or, if you follow family court stuff, you may have heard of her influential “Center for the Family in Transition” in Northern California.  Along with Joan Berlin Kelly and several others, this is a fairly influential names in the development (a.k.a. expansion) of the family court system.

Wallerstein on Divorce

IDEAS – By ELISABETH BUMILLER, December 16, 2000, New York Times

. . . For 20 years, Ms. Wallerstein, now 78, has been the grandmother of an evolving view that divorce is more harmful to children than anyone thought. Divorce may liberate parents, she says, but it traps their sons and daughters for years: “It’s a river they’ve got to cross that other kids don’t have. And they’ve got to find how they do it. They’re going to ford that river, or build a bridge over it, or learn to swim… or drown.”

The “For 20 years” may very possibly refer to when “The Center for Families in Transition” was incorporated in California — i.e., 1980.  

David Blankenhorn, a supporter of Ms. Wallerstein and the president of the Institute for American Values, a New York organization that researches family issues, argues that the debate may have something to do with people who use different methods of research: quantitative in the case of Mr. Cherlin, and qualitative in the case of Ms. Wallerstein. “You’re talking about two different disciplines,” said Mr. Blankenhorn, who favors what he calls the reform of no- fault divorce and supports the strict covenant marriage laws enacted in Arizona and Louisiana.

If you read my blog, you should know quite a bit about Mr. Blankenhorn, the “IAV” and the National Fatherhood Initiative, etc.    That is kind of his “thang.” . . . . For example meeting with high-level officials at public expense in order to strategize how to get rid of no-fault divorce, thereby rescuing all the children (as in Kansas not too long ago; a recent post has the link, pale-blue background, in a three-point explanation of “TANF”)

Mr. Cherlin, a sociologist, has studied the records of thousands of children, while Ms. Wallerstein, a psychologist, has intensively interviewed a much smaller group. (She says she has also interviewed thousands of others at her Center for the Family in Transition in Corte Madera, Calif., whose stories are not included in her book.)

Which is the topic of this post. I found them without an identifying DUNS# getting a $90,000 HHS grant — see below — but their tax returns (assuming the same organization) show no income over $25K, plus this one in particular.

“She wasn’t looking for symptom lists, she was actually talking to people about their lives,” Mr. Blankenhorn said. “It sounds like a simple little thing, but on the other hand, at the dawn of the divorce revolution, Judy Wallerstein alone said: `I’m going to talk to the children. I’m going to watch them grow up.’ ”

Ms. Wallerstein readily says that her interest in the study of children and loss comes from her own family history. Her father, a director of Jewish community centers, died of Hodgkin’s disease in New York City when she was 8, in an era when death was rarely discussed with children. “I knew he was sick, but I didn’t know he was very sick,” Ms. Wallerstein said. Her mother, who had emigrated as a child from Russia, never told her that her father was in the hospital. Since he traveled a great deal, Ms. Wallerstein said, she wasn’t curious about his absence. His death came as a shock. As was also the custom for children, she did not go to the funeral.

Well, today, I had an Unexpected Legacy of Curiosity about TAGGS, and found out some interesting information on who is sponsoring some of the publications from this famous center — again, because I look at tax returns (where available) and corporate records. 

This month and last Ms. Wallerstein engaged in a particularly bitter exchange in the pages of The Nation with the columnist Katha Pollitt, who called her work “pseudoscience,” criticized her for using composite characters (she does) and pointed out that “every five years her warnings about the dire effects of divorce on children make the headlines, the covers and the talk shows.”

That has clearly been the case this season, with little let-up in sight. Ms. Wallerstein’s new book, “The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-Year Landmark Study,” written with Julia Lewis and Sandra Blakeslee, a regular contributor to The New York Times, has landed her on Oprah (twice), on the cover of Time and on radio call-in shows across America. The bad news about divorce is big news, especially when delivered by someone as savvy and quotable as Ms. Wallerstein.

Ms. Wallerstein’s central thesis, drawn from 93 of an original 131 children she has interviewed over the last quarter-century in Marin County, California

I finally decided to just print an alpha list of the TAGGS.hhs.gov coming to my state — all years, all recipients, and scan for how many had no DUNS#, had thirteen different spellings of the grantee name (i.e., the name search field being unusable for pulling up such grants), or otherwise caught my beady little eye.  Of course “The Center for the Family in Transition” having no DUNS# — and I knew the significance of this one — immediately did so.   Who in the Family Law Field (other than those who are following certain professionals who believe “PAS” descended on the brains of family law judges without any intermediary organization, such as AFCC) does not know some of these names?

• Judith Wallerstein
• Janet R. Johnston
• etc.

Wallerstein & Kelly just about helped set up the field, at least in (and from) California.  So here we are:

You see that BLANK square right before the $$ amount?  It’s supposed to have a DUNS# in it; many TAGGS grants don’t, but they should — everyone dealing with the federal government (by grant or contract) is supposed to have such.  MOREOVER — that’s not the real name of the company, if I can keep this straight. (where I put the “@@@”)

ANOTHER TAGGS ENTRY WITHOUT A DUNS# — AND A CASE HISTORY….

1995 — three small (well, increasingly larger) grants in one quarter, year, 1995, on guess what topic?

Suite 100 here is part of the  “GGRC.org” (Golden Gate Regional Center for Families with Disability)

**2017Dec25 update (I was condensing Sticky Post lead-in sections on the blog); DUNS were apparently blank here.  It was tricky when post was written to condense sometimes very wide TAGGS search results (reports with many columns as you see) on to the blog format.  It apears that some column definitions for some line items are missing, which would’ve produced that blank “DUNS#” column, and that the “Summary of Award” column with the $$ moved into their place (collapsed horizontally). 

What concerns me more is that clicking on this older, 1995 link, does lead to TAGGS, and to this organization — but now shows as “blank,” meaning older data from TAGGS has been either moved, or REmoved. In the interim (between when this was put into a post and now, and probably after at least late 2013) the entire user interface with TAGGS.HHS.Gov was restructured, making it simultaneously both more flexible (columns can be sorted, for example) and INflexible (some sort options have been removed, as has the ability under “Advanced” search to view more than 25 rows (award actions) per page — not a big deal with small organizations, but a very big deal on larger organizations or wider searches, such as by grant type.  //LGH 12/25/2017

(The entire amount was $90K.  Searchable at the same site — click any link in the table above).

Look at this particular series of grants, with this one being the only “Other Social Services Organization” (although it’s a nonprofit, plain and simple) involved.  Most do NOT have DUNS#, and the principal investigators’ degrees are put in there, I guess to make it better, or because for the first three years of TAGGS, no data entry clerk figured out that a title is not a last name?

(This is a search for similarly-numbered HHS Grants.  The “Center’s” was

So I just searched “MCJ060”  (the above grant# minus a few digits), and of course selecting certain columns.  This is an “Advanced” search at TAGGS.hhs.gov…

So, who is Judith A. Solomon, Ph.D.? —> A Clinical Psychologist, what else?

Two Cribs: Bad for Baby? from “Psychology Today”

Kids love musical chairs, but musical beds? Not so much, according to a study on infants of separated parents.

Babies who live with one of their parents and spend nights with the other have difficulty establishing secure parental attachments, says Carol George, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., and Judith Solomon, Ph.D., of the Early Childhood Mental Health Program in Richmond, Calif.

Someone figured out long ago it was OK to perform experiments involving children’s emotions and psyches (and their parents) for great academic purposes…and career-builders.  Notice, both were PhDs.   During this update I looked up Dr. George.  She’s on Sabbatical from Mills:  (“http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/psyc/george/george.php“)

Once a psychologist, always a psychologist?  Probably not — but look at the degree progression, starting with a BA in Psychology from USC in 1974 (note:  all part of the State of California’s higher-education system, and as such, actually part of government itself).

Education

• PhD, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1984
• MA, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley,1979
• BA, Psychology, University of Southern California, 1974

I found a C.V. (showing full name, Caroline C. Yez George, Ph.D.)  Unbelievable.  Anyhow, while this was going on (click to see), I was — within literally about four blocks only — in the 1990s, and as a mother of young children, experiencing domestic violence (assault AND battery) over many years; basically the marriage was a survival-mode situation. Well, to each their own…. No help from this quarter at those times.   From one section of the CV (showing “Wallerstein” notice the years and the associations involved, the contexts — Indianapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris-France, …)

• Solomon, J., George, C., & Wallerstein, J. (1995, March).The development of attachment in
• separated and divorced families. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for
• Research in Child Development. Indianapolis, IN. Solomon, J., & George, C. (1994, August). Disorganization of maternal caregiving strategies: An
• attachment approach to role reversal. Paper presented at the meeting for the American Psychological Association. Los Angeles, CA.
• Solomon, J., Wallerstein, J., & George, C. (1994, July). Infant-parent relationships in separated and divorced families: A first report. Paper presented at the 13th International Congress International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions. San Francisco, CA.
• Solomon, J., & George, C. (1994, June). Role reversal and the disorganized attachment system. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Infant Studies. Paris, France.
• Young, G.H., George, C. and Tori, C.D., (1994, March). Patterns of attachment in spouse abusing men. Paper presented at the meeting of the California Psychological Association. San Francisco, CA.

George and Solomon observed 145 babies who were separated from and reunited with their parents in a lab setting. The babies were 12 to 18 months old at the outset.

Two-thirds of the babies who lived with one of their separated parents and visited the other on an overnight basis had disorganized attachments with both parents. They could not cope with separations and reunions with parents and did not trust parents as a resource to handle stress, researchers found. Babies who lived with married parents or who had daytime visits with one separated parent did not show this behavior.

. . . Parents should start overnights on a trial basis and adjust the
length and frequency based on how well the baby is coping. Warning signs
that an overnight situation is not working out include tantrums or
problems sleeping.

If parents are having difficulty co-parenting, George suggests
consulting a developmental psychologist to advocate on the baby’s behalf,
or waiting until the baby is older to introduce overnight visiting
schedules.

Apparently even in 2003, some authors didn’t realize how little choice divorcing or separated parents with any court-involvement (often follows child support involvement, or domestic violence filing for protection involvement) may actually have as to whether infants are given overnights with the formerly non-caretaking parent, i.e., typically fathers…

(on reviewing this post in 2015, I have no idea where Hovell, Ph.D., came in.. as a TAGGS principal investigator on a related? grant — see large chart above.)

Hovell, Ph.D.

Melbourne Frank Hovell Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences Professor Phone: (858) 505-4772 Office: 9245 Sky Park Court, suite 230 San Diego, CA 92123 Office Hours:   By Appointment Email: mhovell@projects.sdsu.edu

Education: M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of California-Berkeley (1981) Ph.D., Human Development/Child Psychology, University of Kansas (1976) M.A., Behavior Analysis Experimental Psychology, W. Michigan University (1973) B.A., General Psychology, San Francisco State University (1972) Professional Memberships/Affiliations: APHA, SBM SRNT NIH study section; UCSD Cancer Center; Joint Ph.D. Programs Scholarly Areas: I focus on studies of the etiology of health-related behavior following the Behavioral Ecological Model. This includes studies of classic risk practices, such as diet and physicial activity, as well as studies of clinicans’ service delivery. It also addresses means by which the influence of and change in culture can be achieved to establish healthy practices in whole populations. Biography: Dr. Hovell holds a PhD in Child Psychology and Human Development with specialization in adolescent development from the University of Kansas and a postdoctoral MPH in Social Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Hovell is the former and founding Head of the Division of Health Promotion.

The other PhD — Jeanne Tschann, is in Psychiatry (UC Santa Cruz) and I note has published alongside Janet Johnston et. al in American Orthopsychiatry on parental conflict etc. (as far back as 1989):

ONGOING POSTDIVORCE CONFLICT: Effects on Children of Joint Custody and Frequent Access

1. Janet R. Johnston Ph.D.^*,
2. Marsha Kline Ph.D,
3. Jeanne M. Tschann Ph.D.

Article first published online: 24 MAR 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1989.tb02748.x

1989 American Orthopsychiatric Association

I believe Dr. Marsha Kline later married “Pruett” and now they are a fatherhood promotional dyad on the East Coast… at “marshapruett.com”   {{and is also “AFCC”  — see listing of past board members on the website}}

Hello. These web pages provide information about the consulting and professional mental health services Dr. Marsha Kline Pruett offers as a licensed clinical psychologist. Trained in child and adult psychotherapy, couples and family counseling, mediation, collaborative divorce, and models of consultation for schools and organizations, most of Dr. Pruett’s current work pertains to parental separation and divorce, child adjustment, and father involvement.

Dr. Pruett offers speaking engagements for professional and lay audiences on various topics related to child and family development, often based on data from her award-winning family law research.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Download

Dr. Kline Pruett works with

• Individuals, Couples and Families Involved in Custody and Family Law Disputes
  
• Attorneys, Judges, Policymakers, and Researchers

i.e., she’s an AFCC cult member if not actually enrolled in the organization….  

1. Marsha Kline Pruett – Smith College: School for Social Work www.smith.edu/ssw/faculty_pruett.php

   Marsha Pruettjoined the Smith faculty from the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Her interests focus on family relationships and …

2. Dr Marsha Kline Pruett – Supporting Father Involvement
   http://www.supportingfatherinvolvement.org/mpruett.html

   Dr Marsha Kline PruettThe Maconda Brown O’Connor Chair in Research at the Smith School of Social Work. She has a Master’s degree in education from the …

Those who know the name Janet R. Johnston (well-known AFCC person, Lundy Bancroft has taken her on for minimizing evidence domestic violence and child abuse, I think she has been AFCC Board).  See why one does street address searches?

This Springer Publications PDF has an intro paragraph with its lead author, Janet Johnston described as spending “three decades” at the center below.  Please review and see her collaboration with Roseby & Kathryn Kuehnle (of Florida) specializing in sexual abuse “allegations” of children // traumatized children.  The word “high-conflict” (code for “AFCC” for the uninformed) is used 27 times; “allegations” 4.   “A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH TO HELPING CHILDREN OF CONFLICTED AND VIOLENT DIVORCE.” 2nd ed., 2009.   It deals with alienation, abduction and of course sexual abuse ALLEGATIONS.   

No DUNS?  — I  clicked on the Grantee — as “this phrase is associated with AFCC terminology, i.e. “Families in Transition.”). A corporation search (California) for this name exactly brought up the 1980 group, currently at 700 E Street #201, San Rafael, CA (Marin County) registered agent Cheryl Vander Waal:

This Judith Wallerstein Center address is not at 700E Street #3201 San Rafael, and I don’t see any evidence that it ever was.  This is Cheryl Vander Waal’s office, still:

I have long been involved with children of divorce, co-parenting and blended family issues. I have taught in the courts and at the college level re: these concerns. I also work with children in military families overseas where central concerns are frequent separations, loss, grief and the many transitions, which the military culture engenders.

In addition, I have worked with more serious emotional difficulties such as bi-polar illness and ongoing depression. Currently I serve as the vice-president on the Board of Directors of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition. I have previously served as President of the Board and the Executive Director of the same.

Fees from $70-$130/hour.

More from LinkedIn shows that basically, we have Ms. Vander Waal as a LCSW and associated with this one outfit (that, again, has no income worth reporting to the IRS basically as a nonprofit) — for 40 years  — I should be so lucky with a single degree!  I think people in this field tend to be herd animals (i.e., they like it and stick around a LONG time.  Well why not? Pay’s probably OK great social status, access to kids, and you get to publish — because AFCC will often put up your stuff, it it generally follows the party line…. ( Above this she also works or has worked with military families)

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cheryl-vander-waal/12/531/32b

Despite its influence, according to the Office of Attorney General, state of California, Apparently this Center that she’s  VP of the Board, previously President, and Executive Director, is a non-filing nonprofit whose income is consistently under $6,000/year and which has never? filed a 990 tax return (with any contents, that is).     

5725 PARADISE DR BLDG B #300

CORTE MADERA, CA 94925

It exists as a Charity in California, “Current”:

Though WHY, I have a question — no IRS 990s are submitted!   – at all!

Because this particular group is so central to family law, I’m submitting the entire field of information under the STATE Charitable organization registry.  We can see, its assets are not sizeable — but its influence (or, its founder’s influence) IS — because of the field of operation (i.e., the courts!). . . .

EIN# 942650693:

OK, there’s no filings since 2009; and although it hasn’t filed in over three years, there’s no letter on file from the OAG asking, why not….  And it’s still marked “Current.”  Amazing…

It’s listed as “Business or Professional Group” and “not required to file 990” because income is under $25,000. Watchdog.net (when you search and EIN# this sometimes comes up) — It says the ruling as a (nonprofit) as JUNE 12, 1996.  And yet, it (or the previously named — as above — corporation, which doesn’t show as registered in CA that I can see) received $90K of governmental grants in 1995 — the year before it was a nonprofit.  Address is a PO Box in Corte Madera.  Look yourself…

NCCSDATAWEB — shows (The Judith Wallerstein Center) was again, a nonprofit as of 1996, and its “NTEE” (field) is “Behavioral Science.”

NTEE:

V23 – Behavioral Science

(990sForm NameFiscal YearForm 9902005DownloadForm 9902004DownloadForm 9902003Download

These almost completely blank forms are signed by “Ann B. Graves” of Tiburon and show different $$ than above — no officers, program service accomplishments, or basically anything show up on those few returns above.  Currently, the RRFs shown above (and the Articles of Incorporation) are also blank forms, from what I can access just now.  So they have assets, almost no income, and but Wallerstein and friends are marketing books throughout the country as a result of their influence on the courts.  GO FIGURE!

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volume 65, Issue 1, pages 48–59, January 1995 (but not put on-line til 2010….)

CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS WITH LATENCY-AGE CHILDREN OF HIGH CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE

1. Vivienne Roseby Ph.D.^†,*, 
2. Janet R. Johnston Ph.D.^†

Article first published online: 24 MAR 2010

DOI: 10.1037/h0079585

1995 American Orthopsychiatric Association

Author Information

1. ^†Authors are at the Center for the Family in Transition, Corte Madera, Calif.

^*Center for the Family in Transition, 5725 Paradise Drive, Bldg. B, #300, Corte Madera, CA 94925

Other “finds” from a street address search, including a 1992-1993 FATHER’S CUSTODY CASE BIBILIOGRAPHY featuring (at top left) AFCC (Madison, WI), This group (California) and Family Service America (Milwaukee, WI) on top of a whole string of men’s rights’ groups from IL, MN, WDC, New York and (an 800#) and at the bottom, a Stepfamilies association.  This one has to be seen to be believed, after which I ask, why did HHS give a non-DUNS# grant to this outfit?

Here’s a 1994 article by Donna Coker on “Domestic Violence and Move-Away issues” quoting the same group, and supportive of the woman’s need for safety:

15 Fam. Advoc. 69 (1992-1993) 
Father’s Custody Case Bibliography 

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The organization was originally incorporated at 634 [chk.#]  Beach Street, #334, San Francisco, CA by an Angie Runyon.  By 1982 they were informed that they were a regular public (not private) foundation, and the address change had happened.  I looked at the RRF tax returns stating a fair amount of assets (i figure, real estate) and ca. $4 to $5K income only — signed by “Elizabeth Amini” President every time.  No governmental support (per the RRF).

Corporation wiki shows me an Amini Foundation (about to look up) and Google makes me wish to know whether a “Fari Amini, M.D.” is related.

The Judith Wallerstein Center For The Family In Transition

Fari Amini, 73; Used Science To Study Love

>By WOLFGANG SAXON
Published: June 28, 2004

Fari Amini, a psychiatrist known for his work linking memory with bonds formed in childhood, died June 13 at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 73 and lived in nearby Ross.

The cause was a heart attack he had several days earlier, his family said.

Dr. Amini, a professor emeritus still affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, was a co-author of ”A General Theory of Love” (Random House, 2000), with two colleagues, Thomas Lewis and Richard Lannon. The book explained how lingering but forgotten impressions, like a smell or sound associated with a person or a positive experience, become embedded in the mind’s memory banks, where neurons constantly fire and forge connections.

Over time these links are reinforced through repeated exposure, leading to affectional bonds.

To continue work on these theories, Dr. Amini established the Amini Foundation for the Study of Affect.

Fariborz Amini was born in Iran and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1953. He received his M.D. at the University of California, San Francisco, and trained at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of Michigan and at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

FYI, End of Year 2015 Update:  What I was sensing a few years ago, expressed here, I have since continued to study (and write up, but not post, privately — I’m also working on better formatting for communications than the blog allows).  I took a quick look — then, on seeing some filing “anomalies” — a more detailed look at this San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, which with a related foundation, underwent a recent merger.  One organization pre-dated the other; the one that had been required to show its returns, wasn’t doing them timely.  Then, they merged, and the surviving organization wasn’t the larger one, but the “exempt” (from having to “show its stuff”) one.  In other words, some “where’s the money” was appropriate in that case.  In writing it up, I learned that the continued promotion of Freud accompanies some publishings in the 1990s (including in the NYT) based on descendants of some of his patients, whose lives he seriously messed with, int the hunt for continued donations and support to the developing field of psychoanalysis, which is to say “Freud” (pro or con).  Interested readers who get so far as this paragraph may submit a comment asking for links — I would like to post soon, but I take a radical position on this subject matter as it impacts the family courts, and it may not be copyedited as soon as I’d like.

He was appointed to the faculty of the institute in 1973 and served as its president in 1981. He was a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, for 37 years.

He would have absolutely known Robert Wallerstein, M.D. well, and as a result, also be aware of course of what Dr. / Mrs. Judith Wallerstein was involved in.  The SF Bay Area is a major metropolitan area — but its neither NY or Chicago.  Within certain fields, word gets around, not to mention, the journals, institutes, associations, and presentations connect professionals in this field of psychoanalysis.

Dr. Amini is survived by his wife of 32 years, Elizabeth Ann Cunningham Amini; six daughters, Dr. Kim S. Frederickson, Lisa R. Amini-Nicolopoulos, Dawn P. Shaw, Ariana S. Amini, Christina M. Amini and Elita F. Amini; a brother, Hossein, and a sister, Aghdas Davarkhan; and seven grandchildren.

That’s unusual — six daughters and no sons!….

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF THIS CENTER AND THE PEOPLE (AUTHORS) RELATED TO IT….  Dr. Fari Amini, possibly? ran into Janet R. Johnston at Michigan (although who knows) and after studying at its “Neuropsychiatric Institute” and the SF Psychoanalytic Institute was President of this Institute (presumably the SF one) since 1981.

I’m going to make a reasonable assumption he was not hurting financially and like many people of influence with a cause, connected with others of similar inclinations, and this “Judith Wallerstein Center” that never produced any significant revenue, apparently was a fine platform for the cause….  as helped by “The Amini Foundation,” among other places (not to mention conferences, speaker fees, who knows what else).

“CHILDREN OF DIVORCE WHO REJECT A PARENT AND REFUSE VISITATION: RECENT RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ALIENATED CHILD”

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*”the research in this paper {{by Janet R. Johnston}} was funded by the Amini Foundation for the Study of Affects.”
in Family Court Review; co. 2005 the American Bar Association

Within two sentences (like, the first two), there two footnotes (1) referencing Judith B. Wallerstein & Joan B. Kelly (fancy that!) and (2) herself, as edited by Charlene Depner (connected with California Judicial Council AOC/CFCC (and also an AFCC member)) (incidentally the same AOC now being disgraced and fighting with the judges over a vastly bloated bureaucracy and financial boondoggle, etc).

JANET R. JOHNSTON
Family Law Quarterly
Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter 2005), pp. 757-775
Published by: American Bar Association
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25758265

CALIFORNIA CHARITABLE REGISTRATION (top table: at time of post. Second table: 12/23/2015, now Delinquent)…

(Checked status on updating this post: Delinquent).

Nice photo, but for the general public — unlabeled.  Are those the Siegels?

What IS it with these people — they are making a living off the state of California courts, etc — and don’t feel a need to contribute their tax records for the public?

Failure to submit this report annually no later than four months and fifteen days after end of the organization’s accounting period may result in the loss of tax exemption and the assessment of a minimum tax of $800, plus interest, and/or fines or filing penalties as defined in Government Code section 12586.1. IRS extensions will be honored.

The 5-bedroom 6-bath (single family) home has property taxes of $13K, about 6,000sf (living space, that is) and is owned by the trust; beautiful property looks like; Rep. MARK LENO

Looking for a few nice 990s here, but it’s a “Private Non-Operating foundation”

EIN:	943354830
Name:	Amini Foundation for the Study of Affects — Google
Location:	PO Box 1680 Ross, CA 94957		Report Address Change
County:	Marin County
Ruling Date:	2001   (Approximate year when founded)
IRS Type:	501(c)(3) – Private foundation
Legal basis for public charity or private foundation status (FNDNCD):	04 – Private non-operating foundation
NTEE:	T21 – Corporate Foundations
Most recently completed fiscal year (TAXPER)	01/2009
Total Revenue	$49,538
Total Assets:	$946,456

Here are the 990s from NCCSDataweb…

Form NameFiscal YearForm 9902011Download Form 9902009Download Form 9902008Download Form 9902007Download Form 9902006Download Form 9902005Download Form 9902004Download Form 9902003Download Form 9902002Download