Let's Get Honest! Absolutely Uncommon Analysis of Family & Conciliation Courts' Operations, Practices, & History

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Moms New to #FamilyCourtReformists’ Lobby (Safe Child, Safe Parent, Broken Family Courts, Flawed Practices — and Please Welcome Our Nice, Empathetic, DV-Expert Men) Should Consider Their Script Carefully. [Mar. 19, 2022]. (case-sensitive short-link ends “-dQh”)

This post moves about half previous post, @LetUsGetHonest Pinned Tweet (thread) with IRS Form 990 explanation and more, Moved Here [Mar. 7, 2022]. (short-link ends “-dNX”), over here.  It brings in the exhortations and develops that theme more than passing references there could.

With this re-distribution I hope readers will better understand the urgency behind my exhortation here and be more inclined to finish reading my March 7 post and be reminded about <>finding entity financials, the basic parts of an IRS Form 990 and <>the benefits of refusing to allow websites arranged to distract readers from identifying the entities and finding those financials to succeed in that distraction.

My other purpose in the prior post was to liberate the top of my Twitter account without losing that basic, summary information.

NOTICING: Individually, once a person starts noticing the frequency of such situations (websites) and the level of spin and sales on so many websites it will be that person’s new day for evaluating both existing government and “reform-government” advocacy networks. The evidence has been around — just not presented and tied in clearly to those websites and the public-relations messaging.

We fail to acknowledge HOW MUCH of public policy has been advertising.  For this in many ways we have to thank (?) Freud. (And Freud’s nephew, of course…).

YES THERE IS A SCRIPT: There is a script, there is a stage, and there are curtains.  Valuable information “behind the curtains” is not all off-limits to the public, not all inaccessible. It may not be in the same theater even, but it does exist.  All that is necessary (first steps, in my opinion) is to stop being in “audience-only” mode, waiting to be entertained, moved, experience the emotions that theater exists to provoke, and start understanding that other participants in a production exist.  And that analogy also applies to selling government policies and legislative reform.

The difference is, you can opt out of attending most theatre, or social media channels that don’t appeal or entertain — but you can NOT opt out of existing in the same place as governments — domestic, international, or (USA) State & local… We are on the same planet.  We are mostly NOT food- clothing- transportation- and shelter- self-sufficient, off-grid and fully independent in developed countries whose taxes are taken to run ever more forms of social engineering projects upon us at our own expense, lest we organize better and become more:  food, clothing, transportation and shelter-self-sufficient.

…or did you really thing “ending welfare as we once knew it” in 1996 was about more individual self-sufficiency than shifting federal resources into private hands for the “Federal Designer-Family” routine and some very cruel ways of population control?

So why not take a closer look, then talk it up?

PARTS (SECTIONS) OF THIS POST:

An extended insert on the historic background of “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy” came up when I found the ABA Commission on Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence bailing on providing active links for mis-led “Survivor/Victims” who might be expecting some direct help, or referrals to where to find some, by omitting active links from its list — while, elsewhere on the site directing its readers (mostly lawyer members, presumably) to a website (blatantly) promoting StrengthAtHome.org (trainings and certifications for handling PTSD, especially but not only for Military and Veterans, and as a way to reduce (their) “Intimate Partner Violence”), run by a (career psychologist) Casey (Tyler) Taft.

The fine print on what StrengthAtHome and Dr. Taft have been doing shows it, besides running a standard “train, certify, distribute” business model typical of psychologists, a particular brand of “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy” developed by (“go figure”) not himself, but a woman, Dr. Patricia Resick. (For both Taft and Resick, “Dr.”means a doctorate (Ph.D.) in psychology, not medicine).

All this is relevant when so much public resources are dedicated to running these programs, and the career curves of people (such as Taft) backed by federal (and some private) grants. For example: regarding Resick:

Dr Resick’s research has been continuously funded for 40 years. She has published over 300 articles and chapters and ten books on PTSD.

“About Dr. Casey Taft,” from StrengthAtHome (which I reached via the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence):

Casey Tyler Taft, Ph.D. (2001), StrengthAtHome.org (IPV/DV Prevention and Treatment, esp. for the military and vets) for March, 2022 post).

Casey T. Taft, Ph.D., is a staff psychologist at the National Center for PTSD in the VA Boston Healthcare System, and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Taft has served as Principal Investigator on funded grants focusing on understanding and preventing partner violence through the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Defense,* the Blue Shield Foundation of California, the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation.** He was the primary developer of the Strength at Home programs to prevent IPV, with current grants to implement the program within civilian, military, and Veteran settings.

Prior to this, he was coordinator of an abuser intervention program in an inner city civilian setting.

Dr. Taft is on the Editorial Boards of five journals and has published over 100 peer-reviewed academic articles.

* Using acronyms for parts of the U.S. federal government cited just there:  NIMH, DVA, CDC and DOD.  ** Three foundations are mentioned; of the two ones regarding Health” (Blue Shield of California — yet his work is in Boston) at least one I know is huge.  The Bob Woodruff Foundation I  see is focused on serving the military (but haven’t looked its financials up yet).

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, its website shows, is also huge and only formed in 2018:

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the United States and the largest foundation focused exclusively on New York State.

The Foundation originated from the 2018 sale of Fidelis Care, a nonprofit health insurer, inspired by the bishops of the Catholic diocese to increase healthcare access for New York’s poor. …Amid rising costs complicating the delivery of care, the Board decided to sell Fidelis to a better capitalized and technologically advanced private insurer.

The transaction, which was approved by New York State regulators in 2018 following rigorous governmental review and extensive public input, resulted in the creation of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, a new charitable foundation organized under the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.

Inaugural grants round

The Foundation’s inaugural round of grants at year-end 2019 delivered $150 million to more than 500 nonprofit organizations, programs, and initiatives serving low-income and underserved populations across New York. This included $57 million toward general services for low-income individuals and families; $18 million toward programming, nursing, and caregiving services for older adults; $18 million toward housing and services for persons with special needs; $10 million toward initiatives for immigrants and refugees; $3 million toward support services for veterans; and so much more.

Beyond the three private nonprofits, the various federal grants supporting StrengthAtHome programming, there’s also the grants supporting just this one young man’s (judging by the photo and his c.v.) career before he developed a program to be public/private funded and intended, actually, for all populations while initially focused on the military and vets: Click for Dr. Taft’s curriculum vitae (note — in document, not pdf format, may affect line breaks)..

He’s 1994, 1997, 2001 degrees (straight through:  psychology (SUNY-Albany, New York), clinical psychology M.A. (U-Maryland, Baltimore County), doctorate in clinical psychology (Baltimore), by 2002 involved in the VA Healthcare, and hasn’t veered course since. Some of his post-graduate grants have been huge, and he seems to be still a young man (see nearby photo, and judging by his college degree dates)