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Why Supervised Visitation (per se) Sucks. Federal Millions, that is (DOJ Grant 2004-WX-AT-K046) [Publ. June 6, 2013, Format Adjusted May 31, 2021]. (short-link ends “-1Ln.” Post published June 6, 2013, about 8,300 wds)

[[This post is temporarily, “sticky” as this field — Supervised Visitation — is a BFD]].  DOJ Grant 2004-WX-AT-K046: (and a few others).

There are people who make a living in evaluating federally-funded grants programs, such as Safe Exchange and Supervised Visitation.

I have made a survey of the field. A quick check of one of the major international nonprofit associations of providers, Supervised Visitation Network, Inc.. Based on my sampling, plus field experiences, and supported by two DOJ/OIG audits of a certain grant promoting supervised visitation to both providers (regarding the fathers) and to Mothers, to indoctrinate them into accepting the situation, I have come to the essential evaluation (which no DOJ grant was used in producing):

Supervised Visitation, per se, Sucks

My Field Exhibits includes two DOJ audits of Grant 2004-WX-AT-K046 (and related), and how grantees responded to being caught defrauding customers, i.e., US taxpayers: They regrouped and did it again elsewhere.

You can sometimes spot these on the fly: Looks like another one:

Legal Resource Center for Violence Against Women (“LRCVAW” here, also that’s its url):

Working with Attorneys . .To provide Justice and Safety . . . for Domestic Violence Survivors . . in Interstate Custody Cases. “This project was supported by grant number 2004-WT-AX-K079 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, United States Department of Justice. Points of view expressed in this document are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Office on Violence Against Women, United States Department of Justice..

This is another T&TA site: sign up for trainings (aka webinars) and “resources” include the list of State Coalitions, some ABA commissions, and one of the groups I’m profiling below which got nailed for mis-use of federal grants (the same kind!) by the US DOJ/OIG, which is to say, the auditor’s office. LRCVAW apparently incorporated in Maryland on 6/27/2003,** changed the address once, and says it is a nonprofit. (I just looked grantee up under USASpending.gov and found a grant helping supervised visitation centers with interstate custody cases. Over $2 million in grants so far. 6 awards;, not bad for a small organization.

(**Broken link (search again @ (look up “Maryland Business Entities Search”) but the LRCVAW.org link above still active and still not posting its EIN# or any financials. Or see http://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/ to search by name for  EIN# //LGH 31May2021).

USDOJ Audit Reports are grouped into “By Component” and “External.” Notice the the OVW is “External” See next link to view the OVW audits, of which I randomly (really! in general, I was interested in Pennsylvania’s DV groups) chose to audit a certain one, and found material for this post….

Page “3” footnote of this one, referencing $4 million (4 Technical Assistance Grantss) to PCAR fround $336K of questionable costs.

The other (April 2010) audit was not to PCAR, but to the nonprofit NDAA, covering $16 million (16 grants) of which $4million of questionable costs came up. Some of these questionable costs covered the grant mentioned in this title, to “APRI” (American Prosecutors Research Institute), which I happen to know some battered women love to quote as it talks about PAS. However, they don’t look at the financial angle enough to understand they just quoted an organization engaged in questionable financial practices!). That Grant 30-10-0001 is linked to & mentioned again below.

My evaluation approach differs radically from approaches by, say, Dr. Daniel G. Saunders, Professor of Social Work a UMichigan, that Barry Goldstein keeps quoting and holding out as “new light” on how to protect children. While he and his colleagues publish – and do not perish– about these matters, we mothers (and fathers) (and taxpayers) ARE perishing surrounding the topic. I think I might blog that separately, but just FYI, he is on the same TYPE of grants streams as these other technical training and service providers.

You wouldn’t believe how networked these groups are! Take a look, it’s evident.

The thing is, most of us do NOT take a look, and go unconsciously about our business without considering the money forked over for redistribution as actually ours: once it’s out of sight, out of mind. This gets, in the long run, to be like any other project left ignored for years — it tends to expand in scope and trouble to clean up or clear out!

Some projects involve an excess of inanimate objects (like junk in a garage, leaves on a lawn, dishes in a sink, or dust in the house, for a few examples). However this project involves millions (actually, over time, billions) of dollars and live human beings receiving paychecks, sometimes pensions, filing tax returns.   In short, it is a process in which filing for corporation creates a status that attracts grants, which then go do SOMETHING, allegedly some function.  Even when that “social service” or “justice” function isn’t actually formed done,* the money still keeps pouring out until something is done about it — and streams, rivers of water is a good analogy (in many respects) for the flow of funding.

(* 2021 copyedit for clarity, at least as I think I meant 8 years ago…//LGH)

FYI (just in case you think this is a “disgruntled parent” speaking: No,…), we (my ex-batterer/stalker/deadbeat Dad etc. ex-husband and I) were on the bottom of the two-tier custody track. Had anyone offered me supervised visitation (I even at one point asked), I’d have taken the bait. Contact with my daughters was eliminated ON an “unsupervised visitation” exchange. Like most Moms, at the time I had no clue that federal funds for access visitation to improve [sic] noncustodial outcomes* existed.

But because the courts didn’t label us as a wealthy couple [no real estate involved], we entirely missed the referral to supervised visitation for his battering and stalking or my “alienation” (which wasn’t occurring: all visitations ordered, while they lived with me, were made available. When he got custody, that standard was eliminated immediately, overnight, and never raised its ‘ugly’ head again.

To get to this point of total eradication of the sense of “court order” meaning anything at all, we were sent repeatedly (periodically) through through the revolving door of “wham, bam, thank you ma’am” mandatory mediation, in California. We even “mediated” a felony crime called child-stealing. Mandatory Mediation is indeed Miraculous (California Courts Review, Spring 2006: See p. 16, written by a Judge**) — I see it can even undo restraining orders and undermine criminal law. No wonder the therapeutic jurisprudence community loves it! The DV industry gets its DOJ grants, and the family law professionals get their HHS access/visitation grants, and the kids get a lifetime of wondering which end is up, minus a lot of child support, and stable households.

[**with dual NCJFCJ-AFCC membership.  LGH comment 2021, although I probably knew it in 2013 also].

However, readers should know this is from observation, not personal experience with having been subject to supervised visitation in my own custody case. In our case, they simply switched the kids overnight, end of story (or at least of mother/daughter contact, basically, til they aged out), no factual or legal basis ever given, though I definitely formally requested it of the court.

No, I am against this field: because it sucks as a practice; because the trainers are known to be associated with AFCC, and in conflicts-of-interest positions administering their own grants that help fund it; and because, like AFCC itself, the nonprofits associated have to skip state when caught unincorporated, which they simply do … Perhaps this is why conferences of a Florida-domicile nonprofit have to be held in Ontario, Canada?

“Supervised Visitation” cannot be justified logically, financially, or in any common-sense theater, which is I guess why it has to be promoted under public health & welfare and written up by social service and domestic violence career professionals.

For this policy of Supervised Visitation (for Batterers) to have passed, some people cut a deal with other people, and in the middle between allowing victims of battering and domestic violence (or child abuse) to actually be free from their abusers — and stay that way through physical separation — they determined that supervised visitation (industry) was a nice compromise, and what a wonderful new field where FR can conference with anti-DV feminists and get more grants.

In reality, it’s been a nightmare of racketeering elements, and a way to slap the honest parents upside the face, and terrorize the kids in supervised visitation “psychoeducational” sessions conditioning the next generation that when gender is compared to character, gender matters more. It doesn’t seem to matter how many are caught in coruption as providers; the policy of ordering parents into this, continues unabated.

Why We MUST MONITOR nonprofits formed to receive Federal Grants

Until they get the message that they will be monitored at will, unpredictably, BY THE PUBLIC.
Either that, or demand a cessation of grants until it can be assured they will be appropriately used. Particularly in this field of technical assistance and training, and particularly nonprofits whose membership are already public employees…

This write up of what I discovered revisiting the Supervised Visitation Network (and discovering THIS shape-shifting, state-hopping nonprofit was about to have a conference in Ontario, and hadn’t stayed incorporated in Tennessee before jumping to Florida….. And had a Supervised Visitation trainer Shelly LaBotte (California Judicial Council AOC and Access/Visitation Programs grants administrator. (Not to mention, Daniel Levy, and others who run supervised visitation exchanges under titles like “Family Resource Centers.”

These organizations are using the World Wide Web to fake being legitimate corporations while sucking up DOJ grants. When caught, they aren’t repentant, but instead, simply engage in some dodgy behavior to disband, and reformulate elsewhere under a different name.

I think it’s kind of fun (??) watching them scurry for cover, do it again somewhere else, and this type of scouting should be promoted among the general populace, particularly anyone on welfare, supervised vistiation, with a child support order, who has been a victim of domestic violence, and/or who pays taxes.

After all, where did the United States Department of Justice get those millions to redistribute to nonprofits that are going to launder, or lose, or overbill, or mishandle public funds?

Slish, slosh, slush…

The narrative form remains, but I have got to remind us of the general principles:

Government is being privatized. Conceive of the flow of funds: They are harvested from individuals through a variety of taxes and sales and service fees (if you file with the court, if you buy a drivers’ license, marriage license, etc.). Income taxes for many years have been creating an investment platform used worldwide, public pension funds also (CALPERS, the largest, was formed initially in 1931). Allegedly this is, “the better to serve you with, my dears…” … No longer credible; it’s the better to control us with….

However, most people are conditioned (I have been) and continue to pay in, leaving billions of excess (while we are clobbered in the news about the fiscal cliffs and how much each citizen owes), attracting immoral crooks (and zealous crusaders who apparently believe the country should be restructured to accommodate their worldview, i.e., according to “national models” of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (fill in the blank, it almost doesn’t matter).

Then the level of profit from these billions is actually at the Technical Assistance and Training level, not the actual “service provider” level. The concept of “providing service” has been rewritten to mean, “puts up resource centers, websites, trainings, runs conferences, publishes something” (and so forth). Real estate is also bought, which is a depreciation expense for a nonprofit. It is also leased. It’s just a BUSINESS!!!

Key Vocabulary (often ignored) is CORPORATIONS, CONFERENCES, CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS, AND FEDERAL FUNDS (DOJ & HHS BOTH)…

In this one, I discussed (as I recall), including some of the membership and in which states…

• Supervised Visitation Network (EIN# 521831498)
• Fernando Mederos, Ed.D. who is into Fatherhood and Batterers’ Intervention Programs, and also presented at a SVN network conference (where I got the name).. Notice description; he’s MA Social Services, but all over the map (=FL;) (Children’s Justice Conference, Shine the Light on the Children (2009 Washington State, NW, see Presented C10; notice top presentation is about mothers that abuse)when it comes to presenting, and sitting on influential advisory boards, such as the AHA QIC-NRF (American Humane Association Quality Improvement Center National Responsible Fatherhood, I guess). Along with, say, Annie E. Casey Foundation rep (of course), a Judge from Arizona, Michael Hayes (fatherhood rep from Texas OAG), Susan Dreyfuss (from Washington State, head of HHS, I have blogged, formerly Wisconsin), et al.
  He is on board of Michigan-based BISCMI (scroll down for bio blurb) and apparently has done this first as a BIP consultant in Mass. (1997ff) and since 2006 as actual civil servant?)
• National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), whose $16 million OJP grants got audited. EIN# 366144357; it exists off grants; 99 (on IRS returns) Canal Street #510, Alexandria, VA)
• 2013 NDAA Board of Directors. Please note every one of them apparaently is a civil servant. This is then a National Association of DISTRICT attorneys, which tends to mean, by the county, who as such are already on the public payroll, but collaborated to then also form a nonprofit for their interests. This shows slightly different (33 not 99) street address.
• American Prosecutors Research Institute (EIN 52-1295359?), shared street address with NDAA, and apparently published a journal “The Voice” (that’s Vol.1#1), but alas shapeshifted to “Aequitas,”… under …. Two different 2005 tax returns showing; here’s one. Lookup shows it inc. (Virginia) 1982, merged 10/2006..
• Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (cooperating to help the shapeshift) (EIN#23-2067636, more below..
• Family Violence Prevention Fund (helped put out a pdf re: fathers & Supervised visitation utilizing said grant) (links below)
• MINCAVA (posted pdf re: mothers & supervised visitation utilizing said grant)
• an Idaho Group against DV (ditto) (links below)
• Yet another attorneys’ association (formed afterwards) which partnered with the DC-based (at least per their website) “Aequitas” (The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys)

Aequitas (per its own website):

AEquitas receives funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). It is a partnership between OVW, the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR), and the Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP).*** In the spirit of promoting a coordinated response to violence against women, AEquitas collaborates with national, state, and local advocates and agencies to encourage a victim-centered response to these cases while giving prosecutors the tools they need to succeed in court. AEquitas also partners with forensic healthcare professionals, law enforcement, the judiciary, and other organizations representing allied professionals to ensure the proper collection and preservation of evidence, effective use of expert witnesses, and to improve results in the criminal justice system in order to more effectively prosecute offenders.

That’s cute because BWJP (also on the OVW grants stream) is a project of another group, and has worked with AFCC previously; they are a regular presenter on AFCC conferences (See “Loretta Frederick”). They do this T&TA stuff, which must be VERY profitable… However, for funding purpose, it means the grants are harder to track — this is a project, not a separate nonprofit. Turns out it’s a major “program expense” of the Minnesota Program Develompent, Inc., which is a major HHS grantee.. and gets “positive press” (references) from various HHS/ACF site for its efforts, and keeping mum about the family court franchise factor. HERE and it’s a “Special Resource Center” under “family and youth services.” Meanwhile, BWJP is a Program Expense of the MPDI (EIN#411382134, listed as providing T&TA to Federal Grantees…Concurrently, the federal government is pouring millions into MPDI itself, which I have blogged or, to be honest, you could just look up: http://taggs.hhs.gov or http://usaspending.gov, or look on their tax returns, or a DOJ grant search!

OK, from the top again:

Aequitas is a partnership with PCAR (above), a nonprofit, and BWJP, a project of another nonprofit.

Aequitas (DC address) IS a project of a nonprofit (PCAR) (Pennsylvania) + BWJP (I forget), itself project of a nonprofit (MPDI, Minnesota) but is now partnering with APA (I think it’s a VA nonprofit association of attorneys?) to do more technical assistance and training.

Aequitas USED to be Virginia’s APRI, which had an EIN#, and sold publications, but was itself a project (or is it “affiliate”) of a much older, and longer-standing National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), which is itself a federally funded project offering Technical Assistance and Training. Its board are public employee civil servant s(obviously, district attorneys). These grantees run up costs well into the millions, and need to be audited by other public servants employed under the Executive Branch of the US Government called the “DOJ.”

I looked up the PCAR on “usaspending.gov” Prime awards — grants only.

In 35 actions (not including contracts), they have $26 million of federal funding (per this database anyhow), and you can see the “K024” award to Aequitas right in there. Despite the negative audit, they are still showing $3.7 million for one year, and $2.4 for the previous, through next September 2013. It reads in this database as “YEARTAAXK0##,” i.e., “2009TAAXK024,” in this case. At the bottom of some publications it would probably read 2009-?? (Wx or similar)-AT-K0##. I DNK for sure.

PCAR has an identifying DUNS# (Recipient DUNS Number 929907426). Turns out (I just searched TAGGS) that of the $26 million grants (only) over $16 million was via HHS for the National Resource Center Against Sexual Violence (i.e., NRCSV). I just looked at these – and discovered one entry for $799,567, put in twice, on the same day. Interesting. (recommend advanced search, selected fields, by Fiscal Year. I’m not pasting it here. Always include name of Principal Investigator, generally speaking).

Think about it…. Where does the money originate, most of it? From the immense funding source called the United States Government. Where does the US Government get its money from? Over the years, and each year?? It is most definitely operating at a profit…. (see link at bottom of this post, p. 159).

The DOJ/OIG/Audit reports sites.

• 2012 and 2012 DOJ/OIG/Audit numbers are below.
• Some of their tax returns, etc.

Also see Marv Bryer link (Exposing and Prosecuting Judicial Corruption) reminding us that the money is made UP FRONT, IN ADVANCE in the trainings. Based on his and related research, it’s my personal opinion that this type of initial slush fund provided the startup money for the original Conference of Conciliation Courts.

The audits do not appear to have real teeth — they don’t intimidate the grants-squandering individuals, who arrogantly simply disband and re-incorporate somewhere else.

Also it appears that “cooperative” agreements are easier to hide or double-bill on. I wish to remind us that the DOJ/OIG sector are also public employees, hence

the public is funding government,

which gives this money away to nonprofits which waste it

Funding government auditors who sometimes catch and report on this, which someone diligent and understanding that what matters most on a gov’t website is usually not the BIG FONT STUFF ON THE TITLE but the fine print stuff on the very bottom of the pages. Those are the details to notice. Also, when reading any audit or report, the footnotes (and/or authors, and/or bibliography) really do matter. They are clues..

Right away, we are in the financial category:  Bribe, Slush Fund, Bank account, overcoming judicial immunity.

He got (from the bank — not through FOIA, which can be forestalled more easily) ~under common law ~ the records of all Donations from the County Bar — to the Superior Court.   The County Bar was an Association — and I have another post (in draft) about Bar Associations, because the topic is so vital.

Judges have immunity for what they do on the bench — but Bar Associations do not.  If there is a conspiracy between bench and bar…He is not talking “they just don’t understand” (custody matter) — but words relating to the handling of money:  fraud, grand larceny, racketeering; in other words, taking money for funds that don’t exist.

What’s WITH this “Supervised Visitation” Racket!?!

Is it to help children, abused or not, their mothers, or their fathers?  Who foots the bill? Who’s made a profession out of the industry?  Whose idea was it?

The systems change artists (there are many) know how to set up systems, and publicize their priorities as in the public interest, when quite often, they simply are not.  For example — when it comes to (for example), “Supervised Visitation” — who has that benefitted?  The children?  The violent or allegedly violent parent?  or the Supervised Visitation providers, collectively?  (again, click on my “Let’s Get Honest” gravatar).

Let’s play Nonprofit Look-up on the “Supervised Visitation Network” (SVN):

Regional Training in Denver this June, only $250 ($200 for members, $100 for Colorado Chapter Members).  After training, attendees will have:

Each training will begin with a brief introduction and overview of the Supervised Visitation Network and the The SVN Standards, The Code of Ethics, SVN Training Requirements,conflict of interest, and confidentiality.   And will be followed by sessions based on the SVN Training Manual:

All Participants will receive modules from the the SVN Training Manual and a CD with copies of the PowerPoint presentations. Attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance and completed participation will meet approximately 16 hours of training requirements as outlined in the SVN Standards.

All attendees receive full copy of SVN Training Manual ($89 value)
[[Or, to order “a la carte” see here]]:

Beautiful multi-color registration packet -for a different Annual (not “Regional”) conference taking place in CANADA — has checkmarks for “Are you an  OVW Grantee” and “Do you receive Access and Visitation funds?” (an aspect of 1996 welfare reform available as federal grants to the states administered by the HHS, $10m a year to start with).

Repeat until you go into a trance:  “This is not a Ponzi Scheme.” then keep reading.

Yep.  Be assured this isn’t a “Supervised Visitation Over the World” outreach network, and this map of how to reach the world with the good news of SVN (and its trainings) doesn’t exist.  There are not four “domemstic” regions and one international.  This is really just about, as the upcoming Toronto conference says:

“Helping Families, Engaging Communities, Enriching All”

in a

Connecting the Dots

conference, run by a FLORIDA (formerly TENNESSEE, formerly ???) nonprofit (EIN#521831498), to be attended by government agencies (want to bet some from the US?), but held in Ontario, Canada.

Sure it’s not about globalizing a field of practice paid for by taxpayers and to be perpetrated, at-large, upon themselves. [Comment added to clarify where I was being sarcastic, during 2021 re-formatting.//LGH May 31, 2021]

Entrance Fees [membership] to this “enriching all” SVN nonprofit show as $125/individual $175/agency — which means, most likely, a loose term for a nonprofit previously formed anywhere (in the world, but particularly USA or Canada) to avail itself of the created profession of court-ordered services for which public grants exist.

A quick look at the SVN as a Nonprofit: (Shelly LaBotte, David Levy of CRC, Joseph Nullett)

(This next, fairly long section is background-color light-blue [with an sizeable inset box on a Connecticut Supervised Visitation case/white-tan backgrounds] if you want to skip past it.  I wanted that case to be put right next to the conference claims about how this is helping (enriching) families by producing penniless parents, and helping families by switching custody of little boys to men who rape them (Family Preservation???), which in other circumstances and cultures might be recognized outright for what it is — torture of dissident population, (dissenting with harm to their kids) and basic hostage-taking.  But of course, that would never happen in America..

It’s extremely effective, except — I hope — if enough people realize, some have overplayed their collective hand at the game.

What most people just don’t seem to get (yet) is that BOTH “fatherhood” and “domestic violence” (or “Family Violence”) prevention are indeed industries; and they do similar things:  Run conferences, train providers, order more services (supervised visitation, batterers intervention, family reunification camps, parent education classes, education of KIDS undergoing divorce — the opportunities are absolutely infinite once this gets in motion).   This can be seen simply by looking.

In order to better collaborate with EACH OTHER, the Supervised Visitation Industry would ensure a constant stream of traumatized children (and their parents) to be needing mental health remediation (because of that abuse, ongoing exposure to the perpetrator, and/or fiscal devastation of one or both parents).  All of these (a factor Byer’s not brought up here, but it exists) are often networked with social services in theirs tate, or federally.  For example, one of the SVN conferences I looked up is working with Massachusetts DCSS on “Nurturing Fathers” programs.

This practice automatically incentivizes psychologists and psychiatrists to get involved in handling the trauma aspect.  While it’s claimed they are “TREATING” the family holistically — the fact is, this very habit is TRAUMATIZING the whole family, generally speaking one partner of which doesn’t seem to mind, as there has been abuse involved to start with, sometimes  more than one generation of it.  There are aspects of this (very troubling ones) which, in my opinion, relate to the same mentality as those who devised, and ran the concentration camps.  Exploit them while analyzing them — and this is for the greater good of the entire country, somehow.  (If I accidentally referred to Hitler, or the Bush dynasty in America, please for give the “Freudian slip.”)

Hence, the “fix the courts” psychology-based groups (which are many, and show up as “advocates” to women and children post-abuse, or during their family court proceedings) — are NOT going to coach ANYONE to step back, say, WAIT a MINUTE!!!” — and look at the billings.  Look at the contracts with the courts.  Look at the nonprofits.  No — they want to raise consciousness and train the judges TOO — like every one else appears to be.

In my opinion, there is no excuse for these dozens (if not hundreds) of multi-state, interdisciplinary, coalition-style networking groups (which, when you get right down to it have perhaps at maximum, FIVE good ideas and a few common patriarchs or matriarchs (gurus, that is) revered above all reason, and the peasants at the “receiving-services” end should shut up and be thankful someone else is even talking about them in a conference.

Fatherhood and Supervised Visitation + VAW =

Grants, Grants, and more Grants.

EXAMPLE: Grant 2004-WT-AX-K046.

DOJ Audited in 2010 and in 2012.  The 2012 audit in particular is interesting and references HOW the nonprofit confronted in 2010 shapeshifted, state-hopped, re-named, and continued to misappropriate the same grant!!!   The moral of the story is about federal grants to nonprofits fascinating with technical assistance and training (i.e., as opposed to actual direct help to victims, either financial or legal).

On-line Publications, Coaching Fathers IN Supervised Visitation and Mothers ABOUT Supervised Visitation (at public expense) results in a scathing 2010 audit of the handling of a particular DOJ/OVW grant: 2004-WT-AX-K046

I linked to just one workshop presenter? from the SVN conference representing “fatherhood” industry (Fernando Mederos).  He is also acknowledged in this 2008 56-page Guide to Grantees (of Supervised Visitation / Safe Havens).  The nonprofit publishing this guide is a MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR one in San Francisco.  It was written by “Juan Carlos Arean with contributions by Fernando Mederos.”

The 56-page-guide itself was the product of a grant from the DOJ:   Grant 2004-WT-AX-KO46, and is called “Working with Fathers In Supervised Visitation.”  Unbelievably a search on the exact same grant number came up with a 17-page guide in coaching MOTHERS with CHILDREN how to submit to the Supervised Visitation regime (MINCAVA).  (Grant acknowledgement is at bottom of page 2 of Supervised Visitation:  Information for Mothers Who Have Experienced Abuse by the Family Violence Prevention Fund.

Googling this grant number JUST one more time (often, three’s a winner), I found an unbelievably (scathing) DOJ/OIG AUDIT report dated 2010 on four grants totalling $16 million to the NDAA (National District Attorneys Association) under various categories — including two under the OVW (Office of Violence Against Women).

This is really not too hard reading; clear print, charts, and words fail me to summarize how many INappropriate things were found on this particular grant, not to mention it and three others were suddenly subject to a “computer crash” of the general (electronic) ledger resulting in lost data.  It was also nailed for under-reporting around $328K of grant expenses on its FSR (Financial Status Reports), for 98 (count ’em, 98) Unapproved expenditures, unsupported salaries, employees approving their own timesheets, Unallowable salaries, you name it.   Really — please — just read it.  These are PUBLIC funds.

Moving on….I found the “Supervised Visitation: Mothers” guide posted at a group fron Idaho, motto “Engaging Voices, Creating Change”

and whose “modest” organizational identity and “Statement of Beliefs” purposes include:

Our work is to build the capacity of programs, organizations, and systems through learning communities to provide safe, compassionate, traumainformed, inclusive and accessible services to adolescents and adults and their children exposed to violence and to increase offender accountability.

What We Believe

Inclusive and Diverse All forms of oppression – including but not limited to patriarchy, sexism, racism, ableism, classism, ageism, adultism, heterosexism, and religions oppression – create a culture which enables violence to occur. We value inclusiveness and diversity and believe that the voices and experiences of all human beings are vital in preventing violence.

I think they meant “religious” oppression.  However, I have to go with the Bible’s FAQs on the source of “evil.”

“The love of money is the root of all evil.”

or, quoting the earlier portion of “The Book” “Thou shalt not covet.” (#10 of the 10 Commandments).

So, I decided to take a look:

…The “Idaho Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence” (EIN# 82-0410899) did even better than the Supervised Visitation Network — it quintupled ((from $50K to $250K)) its Assets (not revenue, but what was left over after all is said and done, each year) in not ten — but only SIX years, per “990finder.”

Being curious, I thought I’d see how they did it (like we don’t have a clue already….)  That link is to the 2008 tax return.  THIS group doesn’t even screw around with producing any “Program Service Revenue” — or membership fees.  They simply go for the “contributions and grants” (almost $2million) and then spend it, for the public benefit called “Educate the Public About Domestic Violence.”

The Formula:  $1.9million income – [$0.6 million Salaries + $1.32million “Other Expenses”) =  $36K IN THE HOLE (I could have fed, educated, housed, transported, and clothed my kids, even in a high-rent area (which I’m thinking Boise probably isn’t?) more than adequately on what they LOST. So who would keep contributing to an organization that squanders money like that (you have to read the return to believe it…)?

Well, from HHS, so far:  Look it up!
Recipient Name City State ZIP Code County DUNS Number Sum of Awards
ID COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE  BOISE ID  83712  ADA  129850590  $ 5,112,148.

One of the directors (on a tax return I looked at) was “Kelly Miller-Pluckebaum” receiving a nice legal advisor salary of $104K.

Apparently she has a son? or relative “Hunter Pluckebaum” who as a teen went to Washington, and “Kelly Miller” wrote an article thanking Obama for signing the VAWA again (Don’t quote me on that one, search yourself).  Elsewhere she was signing (among a cast of thousands) a Change.org petition sponsored by the Democratic National Campaign ?? saying “STOP THE GOP WAR ON WOMEN!” with several thousand signatures (there’s no search function, so I didn’t scroll through to find this woman’s).

I find that odd, because the HHS-funded organization above is CLEARLY associated with a Family Justice Center (see below), which alliance is known to be (at least by people who do some of their homework) sponsored by the very GOP former President George Bush in the “family justice initiative” founded first in San Diego by the very republican City Attorney, Casey Gwinn.  I guess it’s OK to play both sides of the fence when it comes to accepting and collaborating with GOP-initiated public funds to save the world from the GOP, and programs with an utterly clear faith-based component while educating the public about stopping violence by stopping “religions oppression.”

There are other anti-violence nonprofits in Idaho (including one identified as one of its partners, i.e., a “Family Justice Center” in Nampa, ID (EIN# 264423289).

Remind me to look up more DOJ audits of grants to national nonprofits composed of public servants, like that 94-page one above, of $16 million of awards to the National District Attorneys Association:  (BOARD)

(I just scanned the JUSTICE.gov/OIG grants under “OVW” (office of Violence Against Women) (the link is in VERY, very tiny fine print at the VERY VERY bottom right of the Department of Justice’s Website.  It belongs closer to the top!    I decided to look at an audit of PCAR (Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape) and found a 2012 audit which referred to the 2010 audit above.  It turns out the the group AEQUITAS (see p. 2) was formerly American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI) funded under NDAA — however APRI officials decided to reform under a former NDAA partner, “PCAR” and start up Aequitas.  Specific reference to the exact same grant was made.  They were caught in the act of having been caught previously (in scamming the public), and simply jumped fiscal agents (I guess) from NDAA to PCAR — and started up again, under a new name.  Here’s the Audit.

Sample DOJ/OVW recipient behavior:  From APRI under NDAA, it becomes PCAR (cooperative with NDAA) and Aequitas.  Aequitas then seeks another cooperative arrangement with a 2009-formed organization, APA (Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, see below).  WHAT ABOUT THE PUBLIC’s wish to know where its money is being sent, in a clear fashion?

These groups are heavily into technical assistance and training also:  AEQUITAS web page doesn’t have a “donate” tab — because it’s a project of PCAR (Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape) — see very bottom of their web page for “Aequitas” link.

They are based in Washington, D.C (see bottom of page). while being a project of “PCAR.”  They also take money from Battered Women’s Justice Project. (see “Staff/Rhonda J. Martinson, etc.).   Aequitas now sports a page showing they are doing a cooperative arrangement with a Virginia nonprofit, “Association of Prosecuting Attorneys” EIN# 263117485, which was only formed in 2009.  Interesting timing — as that 2010 audit was finding mis-handling of funds from that grant by APRI.

Technical Assistance/Prosecution Assistance

NDAA serves as a nationwide, interdisciplinary resource center for research, training, and prosecution (or technical) assistance. NDAA’s core competencies include knowledge building, training and technical assistance. NDAA responds to hundreds of requests for technical assistance each month via telephone, mail, e-mail, fax, and the Web site. How can we help you?

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(COMMITTEES):
NDAA has committees with the following titles and responsibilities: Audit, Crime Control, Ethics and Services, Finance, Juvenile Justice and Family Law, Legislation, Membership, Metropolitan Prosecutors, National, Nominating, Science and Technology Committee, Media and Communications, Corrections and Reentry, and Victims. NDAA is located in Alexandria, Virginia.

(POINT:  Public funds are distributed to this nationwide nonprofit, various grants.  The DOJ audited the grants and found a lot of trouble in 2010.  A Tax return for 2010 shows what they are doing.

So:  The Federal Government has the Funds.  (See “CAFRs/income tax, investment on returns, eminent domain, etc.).  The DOJ/OVW (formerly headed up by a family court judge, Susan B. Carbon, courtesy Pres. Obama, in 2009) administers millions of $ of federal grants — and the grantees are sometimes PUBLIC officials’ NONPROFIT associations.  Those nonprofits, obviously (if legitimate) have budgets — income, expenses, revenue, depreciation.  Often they have employees, and conference, etc. expenses; including travel, hotel, publications (which they then sell) and help influence policy to create professions.  The public funds this unknowingly, more than half the time, and the DOJ/OIG — when it gets around to sample audits — doesn’t appear to have teeth, although no doubt all employees and materials for the audits are also public expenses.

Apparently no one gives a crap about the taxpayer in all of this.  That’s what we give for giving the US Government too much money, too much privacy (freedom of operation), too much of “the benefit of the doubt” when anything in the public’s welfare is on the agenda —  and not enough FOIA requests or, as it was noted back in 1997 — Common Law Discovery involving bank accounts, bar associations, and superior courts.

Just an Idea:

Here’s how we could stop, or at least reduce! domestic violence, including homicides, and child abuse, including molestation, and AVOID inducing life-long trauma and related disabilities (physical and psychological), especially against women and boys and girls, at least when it’s already come from men who can’t be trusted without supervised visitation to see their own children. And that is:  Separation.  There’s a standard.  If someone cannot meet the standard of “don’t assault”  or “don’t molest”– then they don’t visit. I believe men and women are fast learners when they choose to.

Here’s how — instead — the public employees (including esteemed judges, psychologist and attorneys; esteemed by each other at least…) and those on the federal grants faucet chose instead to “stop” it:
~Collaborate (alternate word:  “conspired”) to form hybrid centralized courts where the language of “right and wrong” is altered to the language of collectivism:   the “family.”
~Create specialized “problem-solving” practices, courts, procedures,
~and finally laws mandating the same —  to handle “domestic violence (which is a misdemeanor or felony under civil or penal codes)
~to persuade EVERYONE involved it’s not dangerous, it’s just a dispute, and anyone who disagrees will be diagnosed with a “conflict” disorder (or PAS), forced into therapy, and made a public example of.  Said dissidents will be marginalized and deprived of basic human rights.  The public will be made co-conspirators by funding it, and incited to get angry at the marginalized and dissidents for becoming a burden to society.

Just another idea, mine:

Another way to have fewer pissed-off fathers around [possibly reducing the violence]] is quit stealing their dollars to start with! by shutting down any, and all, money-laundering and otherwise financial fraud — in the public sector, specifically the JUDICIAL sector.   This would also definitely slow down epidemic of burgeoning mental health industry, which profits from more and more social trauma and turmoil.

I am referring part to the larger truth that the collective governments have, not on their budgets, but under their control, enough wealth to spin off profits enough to provide ALL social services (including possibly even the ones we don’t need, although why not ditch those?) without taxing anyone (speaking of income tax) again.  This is the law of positive ROI.  See Walter Burien et al. (cafr1.com).  Et al. means, we are gradually catching on to the scam.

One reason I added the Supervised Visitation (section) above is that in the Exposing and Prosecuting Judicial Corruption article (= a sticky post) — one of the topics is ***payment for the trainings to become such a provider *** (actually I see it’s re: CLE seminars — but elsewhere on this same topic, Bryer did note the trainings. I’ll find & link to it, of you can search “Judges Slush Fund, Insight Magazine” and probably find it.

Again…check it out ….

Exposing and Prosecuting Judicial Corruption Through Common Law Discovery

I also recently learned that this “Antishyster” guy has a good summary of “The Nature of Money” on addressing the issue of CAFRs and quoting Burien. This 2009 publication of some 2002? stuff is presented in easy to read chapters, and I look forward to printing it out and particularly reviewing pp. 159ff on the CAFRs. It looks like a good basic overview. I have no idea who “Adam Adask” is, whose name is on it.