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More Ohio, Ah, ‘Evolving Situations,’ Like Capital University Law School’s NCALP, I mean FYouthLaw (to end Aug. 2022) with its Ohio IPV and The Wexner-Epstein (Yes, THAT Epstein) Connex. [Publ. May 29, 2022]
This post started as a foreword, took on a life of its own for something which was on my mind, I beg readers to consider deeply as significant in what direction domestic violence advocacy is going, who’s running, and whether or not we really should allow Commonwealth country practices to be brought in the back door as “best-practices” by known father-engagement domestic violence professionals.
This foreword become its own post now also has its own “foreword” as I though I should explain… and as I continue to look at the situation (seek entities which I didn’t find yet) while describing it..
There is a “minor detail” here called legislative differences among countries. Some find them an inconvenience; as a United States citizen, I happen to like the specific differences which lead towards MORE individual rights and liberties (for me to exercise responsibility) and LESS collectivism and simply delegating decision-making to appointed, not elected, authorities, and the financing of that delegated decision making to — in this example, it turns out — major corporate wealth in the hands of known sex-trafficker — running “Child” (or “Youth”) Advocacy centers.
As ever, I jam as many points of reference into a title as possible:
More Ohio, Ah, ‘Evolving Situations,’ Like Capital University Law School’s NCALP, I mean FYouthLaw (to end Aug. 2022) with its Ohio IPV Collaborative and Family Advocacy Clinic with Wexner-Epstein (Yes, THAT Epstein) Connections [Publ. May 29, 2022] (short-link ends “eBE” and is case-sensitive. About 8,600 words — a lot of this is quotes, and some of it (towards the bottom) tables of tax returns. …I am dropping some “bombshell” information and felt I’d better include plenty of evidence to go with...)
While completing this post as a foreword to another in about only two sittings, I began to notice similarities on the topics covered between:
<>how New York-born Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself as financial advisor to one of the wealthiest individuals in the country (Leslie H. Wexner of L Brands, Inc., Victoria’s Secret, and more), at both the investment company AND foundation / philanthropic levels, and
<>how Connecticut-based (at least as to LLC filing) David Mandel with the Safe & Together Institute Model training in not only Ohio, care of the “Ohio IPV Collaborative” and other United States, but also in Australia and the United Kingdom. At several points this may be a two-way street.
Neither could have been done without connections; but which ones, isn’t exactly obvious to me at first glance, at least for the second situation. I have wondered for the last few years, how such things could be. I do know that states copy each others’ programs., but couldn’t see what “hold” Mandel has, how he got his hands into so many countries’ operations, with less than a PhD degree. I think he played to known perceived needs in services, and mutual self-interests.
Again: compare:
One (Epstein) ingratiated himself with a billionaire (Wexner) and was shown to be a socio-path, expert liar, and con-man, who rapidly displaced others, including close friends and acquaintances who (if they are to be believed as interviewed now) repeatedly but to no avail warned the billionaire about the nature and character of his new close friend;
the other, inexplicably** somehow rapidly expanded influence in his favor (constantly referring to his work in other places) but instead of individual billionaires, targeted known sources of government funding at the state and (I’ll show it — “wait for it!”) county levels, which I presume are more than any single individual’s or family’s wealth, when taken together. Note: I’ve stopped short of calling the latter a sociopath or con man, but there are disturbing qualities in common on both “evolving situations,” including rapid expansion and seeking places of power from which to self-promote.
**(I was looking, but could not see, what might cause such wild, seemingly uncritical acceptance of a single man’s project),
Again:
One (Epstein) targeted a U.S. billionaire; the other, with involvement of billion-dollar tax exempt foundations such as Casey Family Programs (which was listed in the Ohio IPV (Intimate Partner Violence Collaborative) primary focus on child welfare, child abuse prevention and (for Casey Programs) “foster care”), has managed to access far more than just a single billionaire looking for a project and (it seems) a younger, flashier, more exciting adviser: instead, (Mandel and his program) have accessed entire parts of governments, plural, which governments have social and political debts to pay regarding problems surfacing in both the child welfare and domestic violence fields.
That is, there was a need to save face and polish their public image and respectability with the public.
Mandel’s programming offers this in such a way as to not fully alienate (and certainly not “out”) the extent of existing fathers’ rights apparatus, or how it all works together NOT to the benefit of unwary taxpayers and consumers. He’s taken networking and promoting friends, and friends of friends (within the domestic violence field, this is evident). What’s NOT to like about that, if you wish to maintain the image, but not the substance (i.e., not reveal the dual-purpose and conflicts-of-interest, gender-biased (because so unequal — and below, my links to a March 2017 post, do the drill-down on this even within the “DV” field) against adult women and mothers funding stream as we have, USA, in welfare-reform’s “Marriage/fatherhood, Family Values” programming. Since 1996…
The billionaire and his wife still seek to (and do) influence public policy regarding vulnerable children, and seek (see Foundation website) communities with international agenda; the other, I can’t say, but it does seem to be so continually self-referencing, I often wonder…
Within the last several days, I was a little shocked to see that the realms of operation (at Capital Law School in Columbus Ohio) actually overlapped. To understand more, finish this (and the related) post and read the extensive quotes, especially a June, 2021, article published by Vanity Fair...
The next sentences and paragraphs (illustrating) are in effect describing stations along a moving (and evolving) train. They’re going to be long. Try to keep up, however, I build repetition into most posts, and because, unlike others, I don’t constantly move my own posts around on the blog once they’re published, you can retrace any steps if it doesn’t make sense on the first reading — which it likely won’t. I’m summarizing what I already have visuals for in my mind, in recent memory because I just looked up many of these elements up. Others, I have previously understood (up to a point) but in this post am also reviewing..
Be patient please (including with yourself, not just me)… the subject matter deserves patience AND attention.
I realized, and so here, show below that Capital University Law School was running its (see title) NCALP become FYLaw (both were dbas of the law school) while the law school’s particular center was taking donations from a local coalition against Family (not “Domestic”) Violence founded in 1996** or 1998 (but at the very bottom of the post, I found without funding until 2004) run by Wexner family wealth (under the wife), which later merged into (also run by Wexner family wealth, with the wife as Chairman of the Board) a children’s hospital…
(**Hmm.. 1996, the year of welfare reform when TANF Block grants provided more flexible funding for states, and 1994 VAWA had also been passed — “how to combine both funding streams…”)
This “Coalition” (CCAFV.org) later (2011) merged into another (entity), thus completely losing any reference to domestic (or family) violence, and (so the PR goes) rebranded: TCFSH – The Center for Family Safety and Healing. (Reality: It had a dba, and retained that dba, before 2011)..
(Its latest annual report 2020 (strategy through 2025) says “TCFSH” (so stated) is a 501©3, shows types of programming run, and even a few pie charts as to revenues and expenses towards the end of the report. Again, that’s a FY2020 report, not 2021… The website shows no financials that I could see..
In these situations you will always find “partners of partners” and collaboratives with members (etc).
More images from the TCFSH Annual Report: Click either image to enlarge (“gallery” format).


Nice to see the piechart, but at the end of the day, it seems it’s filing a group return under its (huge) parent company (also nonprofit) anyway. I got an EIN# but not one tax return to go with it. Such “transparency” (or, is it salesmanship?). Even though parent company tax return (which I did find, but am not posting here) showed it being granted over $2M directly. That might be nice to see in something provided the IRS.. given its university ties within Franklin County, Ohio…
Here, “just for fun…” (i.e., curious..) I looked up just one TCFSH-identified “Collaborator” called “CHOICES” which (per its website) began as a shelter in 1977, got Title XX mental health funds from Franklin County (Ohio) in 1979, joined United Way of Franklin County in 1980, and (with no events listed between, however it’s seen now partnering with TCFSH) became a member of LSS (Lutheran Social Services) in only 2014.
“AFCC-aligned in the UK (and Australia)”: CAFCASS, Relate, Resolution First, (And in Australia: add AIFS & ANROWS) w/ help from The Nuffield Foundation Incubating a ‘Family Justice Observatory’ (With Easily Identifiable CAFCASS, AFCC and Fathers’ Rights Connections) through 2023 [Drafted Oct-Nov., 2021; Publ. May 12, 2022].
Before you read this post perhaps read the lead-in, at The Widening Credibility Gap between the Long-Term, Chronic Family-Court-Beleagured and the UNbeleagured FamilyCourtReform/ist + DV Advocacy Experts Reporting on (Us) [May 4, 2022] (short-link ends “-eus” which seems appropriate to the topic here). …. if I’ve published it by then. If not, read it soon after: these are a pair and (I hope) go public within one day of each other.
Post Title: “AFCC-aligned in the UK (and Australia)”: CAFCASS, Relate, Resolution First, (And in Australia: add AIFS & ANROWS) w/ help from The Nuffield Foundation Incubating a ‘Family Justice Observatory’ (With Easily Identifiable CAFCASS, AFCC and Fathers’ Rights Connections) through 2023 [Oct-Nov., 2021 draft].. (case-sensitive short-link ends “-dd3”).
Preview, “Where I Stand” and Disclaimer (not too long).
Don’t get too excited on “Disclaimer” — it only applies to inter-post copyediting to check points of reference — not fact-checking on the content itself.
On reviewing this post right before finally publishing it mid-May, 2022, I diverted its section on the coordinated use of mantras, but my related Widening Credibility Gap post may still refer to it. My staff of (so far) no one doesn’t edit for cross-coordination of internal references among related posts. The purpose is to publish enough information on every post to provoke some deeper thinking and to exhort (urge, beg, warn, plead with) people to be wary of passive consumption/absorption of the theories, presumptions, and pre-fabricated Family Court, Domestic Abuse/Violence/”Coercive Control” and Child Abuse “fixes” coordinated internationally and, as to state-jurisdiction matters within the USA, nationwide.
This “preview” section addresses that practice — the coordinated use of shared mantras to conform governments more and more with each other, despite different constitutions and the different values expressed in those constitutions over the decades or centuries. Below this preview, my post content (marked by another headline) documents what its title describes: some of how this is done, naming specific entities. So the preview does summarize the more detailed content below. That’s where more colorful images, links, uploaded media and quotes begin. Right here: this is my thinking and opinion.
Coordination of those mantras among at a minimum the organizations mentioned here is international, as citations among academics and advocates within governments, within university centers, and people running advocacy charities and/or the curricula and trainings those charities promote repeatedly show.
My next sentence has a long subject labeling the single word “preference.” It is still one subject with one verb “reveals” and just one direct object “agenda” which is also described as “much larger” than an alternate agenda obviously NOT preferred by certain people and their organizations speaking in internationally-coordinated mantras.
The preference of selling “mantras” delivered by experts over encouraging ALL of the public to acquire the needed skills and with those skills consistently exercise independent analysis based on independent observation reveals an agenda much larger than solving the named problems: including some of the original problem-solving courts. The more I read and learn, the more I must acknowledge that choices were made long ago to limit access to independent analysis to only certain classes, ALL of which relates to the nature of government and social control tactics employed by it. I have however been basically saying (and blogging) this now for over a decade.
Above, I mentioned the “Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.” Look through its website — or Cafcass — or similar ones –and notice how graphic, visually engaging and how full of blank white (or other background color) primary colors or very bright colors, their home pages and most of their content is, even the “annual reports” or strategy statements. Are we all now to be watching cartoons and thinking in such images? Are we to be treated like infants with short attention spans and who need pretty colors to stay on topics pre-chosen for us by overseers?
The question “internationally coordinated mantras” raises is: how much globalization is acceptable?
How much of the world should be setting national (or NGO member states’) government policy to match (for just one example) UN Sustainable Development Goals?
Why is “global” now glorified among advocates (including “#familyCourtReformists”) and a constant gesture, while the specific “domestic” (internal to this country) or “local” (meaning, in the USA, sometimes an entire very large state such as California, Texas, or (geographically) Alaska basic information never makes it significantly to the top publicity level, media messaging, or advocacy rhetoric?
I’m well aware of the United States’ shortcomings (it’s where I’ve lived), but I debate and reject the practice of integrating the values systems sold under specific symbolic and innately self-contradictory branding (mantras) of former empires and colonizers with monarchs, official, designated caste systems, and national religions — or the opposite, official state opposition to religion/atheism/socialism. Here’s how I feel about all of it:
I’m sick of what I call “FamilyCourtReformists” including but not limited to the United States Federal government-controlled (through strategic centralized public funds) but privately exercised within the states and regionally “DV Industry here:
I’m sick of their rhetoric, policies, self-descriptions, their withholding on almost EVERY website their own financials and typically even EIN#s, knowing well taxpayers fund them; their withholding on almost EVERY website, their documented collaboration (as if a GOOD thing) with known fathers-rights (more technically, when it’s phrased according to their funding sources, “fatherhood-promoting”) organizations and entities.
I’m sick of such people, talking of their various entities and too many non-entities, such as the National Family Violence Law Center (at George Washington University) or the “National Safe Parents Coalition” at (God knows where — “it” doesn’t specify: there’s a website, but no legal domicile mentioned) and others, such as and/or even at University of California, Irvine, an “EndFamilyViolence.UCI.edu” center: exploiting their residence or connections here at top U.S. universities) claiming concern for us (who have been battered and abused and somehow are still “alive and kicking” and to our children — especially any little (still minor) children, especially any — and mothers, I do apologize for using this term, but it applies — “dead kids” (murdered children) — to audiences elsewhere in the world, while we who have been sidelined, betrayed, and “thrown under the bus” (Family Law Courts and elsewhere) know quite well what they cover up and [probably for this reason: it interrupts the controlled scripts] have systematically excluded from the international dialogue.
Note: my calling out the above types does not in any way endorse or approve the substantial, similarly* organized but differently labeled, and also Welfare-Reform advantaged “marriage/fatherhood-promotion” crowd USA, and, likewise, with ONGOING centers at various universities (sometimes a program will migrate to another university with its founder), i.e., the “healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood” and (it accompanies and needs for full effectiveness in the family court systems) “access and visitation” grants stream from federal government targeting state operations to influence custody outcomes in favor of fathers and to discourage (sideline the cause of) full separation from abuse by mothers trying to do exactly that.
The first many years of my blog exposed this and talked about it (the “fathers’ rights” contingent, federally funded) “all the time.” I just feel that now it’s time to show how the “DV / Family Court Reform” groups have all along failed to acknowledge this even exists — that is, habitually lied to the public and to clients (women) who come to them for help — Nor, on public or the private tax-exempt advocacy corporations websites, has anyone, really, been taught to explore audited financial statements of governments (for better understanding) or of private entities required to produce them, or for that matter, generally, even IRS tax returns where such are required.
I know — I don’t even speculate, it’s not speculation any more — that, taken as a whole, this represents something far larger and more significant than either of the causes (fathers’ rights promotion, protection of women and children) spoken of.
I may not be significantly heard but out of conscience, concern, and (I say), love for the truth, and uprightness, justice — and hatred of the opposite so built into policymaking — I have spoken. As long as this blog is active (and, with whatever I can preserve of it should it become inactive) my words are witness to what I said when. Look back in a few years and see whether I was right or wrong… but I still say, better to think about these issues now and IF I’m right (as I said in blog posts ca. March 2014, “WHAT IF I’M RIGHT HERE?”), a different response is in order to what we are being coached and encouraged to agree to by chief advocates pro/con any cause — and especially on ones involving life and death matters and (for the extremely high marketing value on claiming this concern) the safety and welfare of children.
I say this for next generations of women and mothers and their children, and fathers — the decent ones, not the over-entitled ones: “QUIT being played one against another!!” Where apparent conflicts of fact and basic truth lie, there is a why. Dig deep enough to see the lowest common denominator. If you haven’t even dug for a few financials to rule out greed (i.e. accounting anomalies or dark areas facilitating or criminal-levels of fraud, theft, embezzlement, etc.) as a possible cause (since when was “the love of money” NOT the root of all evil — or even a primary cause among many…) you haven’t scratched the surface.
At what point…after how many years, or indicators they matter… does “I haven’t dug for a few financials” become “I won’t…don’t care to…don’t think it’s relevant… if it’s so important, why aren’t the experts aren’t doing this, or or more of my friends?” For some, this is a matter of using the mirror into one’s own reasoning and life choices.//LGH (Let’s Get Honest) May 12, 2022.
So, You Want Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But No Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Publ. May 27, 2022].
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This is an opportunistic post. I exploited the opportunity to leverage another’s single, recent Tweet to make a few points and share some relevant information others that Tweet withheld. “You” in post title references who sent that quoted (and embed, with my responses) below.
I’ll repeat the title link and surrounding text below the “Foreword” added later:
Yeah, I talk Ohio HB 508, Ohio DVN (and with it, Ohio IPV Collaborative), OhioJudges.org (a bit),** JD Supra, LLC (in California) just because, UNLIKE NFVLCgwu, it published a few articles by Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP, KJK.com (an Ohio law firm with offices in Cleveland and in the state capital, Columbus) and because one of its just three family lawyers (with the most recent J.D. and Bar passage) actually did post a link to HB508 and even, briefly, explained a few things about it.
(**whatever I had to say about OhioJudges.org is on Twitter; I didn’t get to it this time around, and I do not have the full overview yet. IT was referenced in the Tweet I’m responding to, and would be good to develop an awareness of, especially if you live in Ohio (and I imagine other states have their versions, too).
It wasn’t too surprising that the Family Law part of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP had several references to High-Conflict and Parental Alienation. At least, on JD Supra®, the article published by one of the Family Law team provided the courtesy of a link to the bill from a government website (continued below Post, and related post titles)..
Post Title: “So, You Want Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But No Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Publ. May 27, 2022].” (short-link ends: -ez3) . . . .
Off-ramped “Foreword” — I had a LOT more to say, but moved it over to a related or “twin” post. About to publish both of them the same day, or at most one day apart. This one first…The other one delivers a bit of a bombshell, but at least helped answer some long-standing concerns I had about the situation in Columbus…
More Ohio, Ah, ‘Evolving Situations,’ Like Capital University Law School’s NCALP, I mean FYouthLaw (to end Aug. 2022) with its Ohio IPV Collaborative and Family Advocacy Clinic with Wexner-Epstein (Yes, THAT Epstein) Connections [Publ. May 28, 2022] (case-sensitive short-link ends “-eBE”)
The KJK.com article #1 of just 2 on JD Supra® platform:
JDSupra.com “Branding – Visibility – Intelligence – Guidance” ” Leverage Your Thought Leadership”
JD Supra, LLC Content Marketing (but began with focus on helping law practices develop their bran ds) is interesting and you probably should take notice, on its own. Just two co-founders… Aviva Cuyler (name found on BizFileOnline.SOS.ca.gov, i.e., the LLC-lookup) and Adrian Lurssen (LinkedIn) (The “u” in Lurssen should have an umlaut). JD Supra, LLC is impressive, though several delinquencies noted at the secretary of state. I won’t deal with those here. Aviva Cuyler’s school of law was in Connecticut, she passed the California Bar, but has since (about 2015/ this LLC only formed about 2007) become inactive (through non-payment of fees), most likely because with this business model, she doesn’t need to practice law!
(For a sample, search @JDSupra on Twitter and see just how many types of accounts / newsletters, reports, etc. are shown!)
Also in the collective “Oppose Ohio HB 508” mix I found getting some local Ohio media mentions, and in four comments submitted on the text of the bill itself) a unique, i.e., easily searchable surname “Nancy Fingerhood“[<~Facebook], a self-identified “NSPC” member and Tina Swithin One Mom’s Battle group member (Nov. 26, 2021, in “The Vindicator,” and Guest Opinion, April 15, 2022, in Cleveland.com). Fingerhood’s name surfaced while I was searching for the bill and “shared custody.” She seems associated, so far, with New Jersey, Colorado, possibly California, or at least with OMB in California, and now Ohio… I added to this already full topics list only because NFVLCgwu (whose Tweet I’m responding to) collaborates with, publishes supportive comments from NSPC (National Safe Parents Coalition) member (Ms. Swithin) and was even featured on a paid-for press release.
In other words, an NSPC/”OMB” connection in this context is relevant; see my posts February – April, 2022. otherwise I wouldn’t bother mentioning a single, though vocal, individual. To find them, either just search “FamilyCourtMatters.org NSPC” (Google, or whichever search engine you use) to browse those post titles, or, I’ll make it simple — because my April 4, 2022, post lists the others and includes a captioned images from its PR-Web announcement. Someone associated with non-entity “NSPC” sponsored the announcement, NFVLCgwu seconded it (see nearby image). Click on link to access the other post titles & links, in this color background. If you want to. One of those posts details the name-changing/shape-shifting California LLC and nonprofit (as though one container was emptied and the contents placed into another), as well as its profiting alongside and copying the business model of AFCC individuals using the term “High-Conflict” (Bill Eddy and others)… And charging Moms to sit through training, building that network, etc.
I also provide below an informal, by-recall, bulleted list of relevant OHIO factors I previously posted or at least noticed on this particular state. Among those, the fatherhood grants (not always under the expected CFDA program numbers, that is, federal grants program labeling, far exceeds those allocated to domestic violence program numbers. (CFDA.gov wording has changed, but the program numbers, I believe, are retained. “Category of Federal Domestic (meaning, USA, vs. international) Assistance), and large amounts were going to a single Ohio university.
Because the May 18 tweet tagged (and a later one, quoted) the Ohio DVN, I brought up the Ohio IPV Collaborative at Capital University Law School (a private university in the state capital, with an “ECLA” seminary on campus, ‘Trinity Lutheran.”). Ohio DVN is listed as a member of that “collaborative.” (ECLA: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, organized in 1988, more progressive than some other varieties, three (churches) merged to form this one; some others, probably, split off in response over (the usual volatile issues).. Its HQ is in Chicago).
The Ohio IPV Collaborative automatically raises the issue of public/private partnership with (as to both public and private entities) known father-focused groups, parts of the state government, and and almost slavish, obsequious, “star-struck” commitment to sponsor David Mandel’s “Safe & Together Institute” model, state-wide trainings, etc. I will link to some previous posts (on Ohio IPV, some of this), but may have more to say here — ALL of this plays into the proposed legislation, and should (naturally) have been mentioned (years ago) by those so vocal to oppose it, whether or not such opposition is appropriate. (From what I can tell, it probably is — but that’s not my point here..).
RE: NFVLCgwu
Remember, as pertains to domestic violence, abuse of former or current (female) partners and subsequent murder of their (or her) biological children in the context of “family courts” — as described on its website, “NFVLCgwu doesn’t even mention or say “family courts,” let alone “domestic violence,” but only “family violence.”
While we may like to assume there is a feminist drive and concern, this certainly isn’t embedded into the center’s purpose, as it was (at least in business entity name) with predecessor “Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (“DVLEAP“) under the same director, Joan Meier. Its website, so far, hasn’t posted a public copy of any tax return beyond 2019 (Fiscal Year Ending Dec: EIN# is 201076297.
DVLEAP Tax Returns show how NOT grass-roots it is, and how accurate in its financial filings: Here’s itsForm 990 FY2018from Candid.org: 3 employees, about $500K (½ million only) gross receipts, and its main activity — ALMOST self-supporting, not quite (per page 2 of return) is “DC LEAP,” i.e., such advocacy only in the DC metropolitan area. Its description of activities “nationwide” per the IRS instructions should be (but isn’t) broken down by expense and program type and, anyhow, is minimal. Two employees are Joan Meier (not paid much, as this is in addition to, presumably, her salary from George Washington Law School), and LeAnn DeReus. As I noticed with the public copy FY2019, there are internal discrepancies (in numbers) regarding Schedule G Fund-raising expenses which is the supporting detail for Summary, which just don’t reconcile (although not in exactly the same manner). $21,000 is claimed for “professional fund-raising fees” and the place where the individual or company which got this should be named, reads, “see Part IV Statement 1” — which is missing. It also claims $89K fund-raising “expenses” which isn’t born out on Schedule G, either. Oh well…
Despite so little to track, for a return due the prior April, it only filed by mid-November), does so almost invisibly at the very bottom of its website (in gray on black fine print), and the link to its “Annual financial audits” (which isn’t even the proper term: either produce Annual Reports, or Audited Financial Statements — or both…) is circular and leads back to the 990s. So, those audited financial statements since 2004 (or, the most recent) aren’t even available (at least through direct links) on-line, a situation it seems few people called them out on, as it was so years ago also. It’s probably time for an updated (quick) review of both the website and what (little) information, though still important to understand, of this nonprofit.
DVLEAP being also a member of the District of Columbia “Coalition Against Domestic Violence” (DCCADV.org) must “toe the line” of the federally-funded coalition, which in each state (or D.C.) also controls (basically) its members — and that standard we’ve already noticed incorporates tolerance and encouragement/welcoming of partnerships (informal or consulting or otherwise) with fatherhood-friendly, father-engagement professionals, across the board.
In this post I also raise surrounding points, and mention organizations and non-entities at law schools that continue to surface in my blog, regarding this strange state of Ohio. When you do this kind of writing for a dozen years or so, specific states have their unique characteristics, or catch my attention because of (usually) specific types of, well, corruption or centralization outrages. Ohio just keeps coming up…
I footnoted another blog post where Ohio domestic violence (or fatherhood-promotion) organizations or other features play a key role. I know there were several.
Another one, drawing down Federal SAMHSA funds, was so complicated, I felt I should issue a disclaimer “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” in its title, or close to its long, convoluted title… (AFCC member/s-involved… the field was parenting education)…I see it was posted Christmas Day: Dec. 25, 2018. In my personal life narrative, I’d relocated from California, and was in a good, safe place (and lease!) at the time. FYI, in general, I just don’t do holidays — any of them — any more.
This post “So, YouWant Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But You’ve Not Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Draft May 24, 2022].” (short-link ends: -ez3) also tests my research to production speed, sort of a personal challenge. These can backfire, but rarely without educating myself alongside sharing what I find. Without that side benefit, I might have quit years ago..
This is the May 18, 2022, Tweet:
(This and the next few quotes are in text format: further below I provide as “Embedded Tweet.” I can only embed my own Tweets, but as they’re replies, they’ll connect to the others).
“OhioDVN” I already knew, so I looked first (as I recall) at “OhioJudges.org”; learned a lot there, and said I said the next day, May 19, first:
Then (a “Quote re-Tweet,” i.e., replying via RT):
So you can see that basically, this post springs from two urges: (1) my desire to share links and look-up of the Bill in question and some (not-that-) peripheral** discoveries to add to other awareness of who and what is “Ohio” and is going on in Ohio in this context because it’s timely, interesting, and relevant, and (2) my irritation at how the individuals associated with the NFVLCgwu (non-entity), boasting and publicizing consistently their resources (Endowed Chair for Director at GWU Law School) and any media or academic citations as showing their importance to the field emphasize joining and following but neglect basic, common-courtesy links and points of reference to what, at any point in time, they are actually talking about.
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May 27, 2022 at 12:28 pm
Posted in 1996 TANF PRWORA (cat. added 11/2011)
Tagged with "father-engagement" systemwide: a good idea?, "What's with the State of Ohio?" commentary, #NFVLCgwu, @LetUsGetHonest (Twitter content), Abigail Wexner, ANROWS, ANROWS sponsoring David Mandel programming, Australian Family and Federal Circuit Court Merger, Capital University Columbus Ohio, David G. Mandel MA, David Mandel of Non-Violence Alliance re "Safe and Together" model (older cite from VAWnet) -- see Ohio IPV Collaborative post update, DVLEAP.org is Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project EIN#201076297 (2004), Exploiting State Gov't Connex to run International DV Programming, Fatherhood.Ohio.gov, http://Wexnerfoundation.org/, Jeffrey Epstein, Leslie H. Wexner (L Brands | Victoria's Secret)+ Jeffrey Epstein + Capital Law School (Columbus Ohio) Centers, Lists of Statewide Coalitions Against DV (who posts 'em?) NNEDV.org NCADV.org, NCALP, NSPC - NationalSafeParents.org (new Feb. 2022), OHIO, Ohio Children's Trust Fund (OCTF) & logo, Ohio DVN, Ohio Fatherhood Commission and Regions, Ohio HB 508 (2022) IS it about Shared Parenting Presumption?, Ohio IPV Collaborative, OhioChildLaw.org, Opposing Ohio HB 508, Public/Private Partnerships (as the Food Chain), Should the US forfeit its form of government for Best-Practices elsewhere?, What is "ECLA"?