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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:

Ohio House Bill 508: A Potentially Monumental Shift In Ohio Child Custody Law – Part 1: The Current Law by Janet Stewart Scalley.  (shown on JD Supra). Here’s “Part 2“

Neither part is dated, both are short. (Both contain a link to HB 508, at: https://legiscan.com/OH/bill/HB508/2021.)

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.

NSPC — ‘Coalition’ Meaning What? Rebranding the Same Themes with, Generally, the Same Entities … … ? [Begun Feb. 6, 2022, Publ. April 4]. (case-sensitive short-link ends “-dxg”).

PRWeb.com Fri April 1, 2022 Promo by NSPC for NSPC and NFVLC re getting STATES to pass VAWA ALL 50 States to pass Kayden’s Law). NFVLC Quote (right sidebar press release) ref. Danielle Pollack.

. . . .Why I use “NSPC” but those behind it, don’t.

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…This post focuses on NSPC, but as both websites and their related social media accounts (of these, I only use Twitter) continue promoting what each individually and each other, and others who share their perspectives and paradigms, have been accomplishing, I now understand that the NSPC (website and campaign) was intended from the start to be the more temporary  and to help promote NFVLC. The NFVLC needed the passage of “Kayden’s Law – VAWA” for its director’s credibility, a victory to point to, on agenda of further nationalizing, first, United States’ family courts and eventually, the world’s

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 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.

Support the National Family Violence Law Center  (url: law.GWU.edu/..(etc.)

Your support will help ensure that the National Family Violence Law Center advances the critical work being done at GW to improve the nation’s response to family violence. Grants and individual donations are tax-deductible, made through the university, and assigned to the center’s budget.

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.

Assembling the Pieces: [1] AFCC Conference Diamond (top) Sponsor “Avirat” (2001 MN, later in UK, product “OurFamilyWizard(™)”) found promoting [2] “Family Works, Inc.” (last found registered in Oregon, running “ParentingWisely(™)”) which probably profits ℅ royalties from [3]“Center For Divorce Education, Inc.” (Ohio Legal Domiciled Nonprofit at the same Ashland, Oregon, address, under same CEO, running “Children In Between(™) “) which takes (for Out-of-State + Spanish-Speaking Parents) Court-Ordered Parent Education Business from [4] Cuyahoga County, Ohio’s Domestic Relations Court’s “Special Circumstances, Rule 34” (1994ff). (Short-link ends “-9lB” and the middle character is a small “L” not the number “1”) This link and full title will be posted again further below. Post as published is just under 12,000 words.

(How do you think I keep my own posts straight after nine years and almost 800 of them — by total recall and three-word reminders or by placing as many clues in the title as possible to the contents resulting in outrageously long, but memorable [to me!] titles?)

Don’t shoot the messenger.  I didn’t make this mess, I’m just translating some of it.

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:

Today on Ohio Public Radio

@nfvlcgwu Policy Manager is interviewed by @annfisherwosu

about risks to children in 50/50 child custody laws like that currently proposed in OH. Over 90 organizations oppose HB508 inc @OhioDVN @OhioJudges

FULL SEGMENT https://news.wosu.org/show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2022-05-18/shared-parenting-legislation…… @WOSU

(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:

[Me,] Replying to

@nfvlcgwu

@annfisherwosu

and 3 others

So, I was reading about http://OhioJudges.org & found the part of their biennial report relating to Family Law, learned that membership =/= public office but it seems no IRSForms990 are required, that it began mid-1900s & much more.

Then (a “Quote re-Tweet,” i.e., replying via RT):

If this is a public interest tweet, 1)where is a link to the bill proposed?; 2) who really knows #OhioDVN? (Srchable on my blog, its FY2020 return:https://tinyurl.com/OhioDVN-341622848-2020-FYESep…) dn even distribute its $4M+ govt grants to state DV orgs) read!); and 3) OH judges not quite org or govt.. etc.

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.  

“Vote NO on HB 508” by NFVLCgwu Tweet May 18, 2022, (Note: website OhioDVN, no direct link to that image provided). For my post “-ez3” in Draft 5/24/22.

In other words, the “hype” is getting to me, as well as the consistent resorting to persuasion and publicity (messaging) more than proof, no matter how often the word “empirical” is used as if it was proof. It’s not argument, it’s not reason, it’s simply an adjective to compliment reports and studies, i.e. research.

**I think the peripheral (see “periphery“) information is not so far from the center of the topic here. It may seem unrelated, but it provides provides symptoms of the socioeconomic petri dish in which such policies (a) are promoted and (b) draw such negative attention from certain groups, as #NFVLCgwu (<~for Twitter use) is quick to point out (see nearby image, listing which organizations oppose that Bill.

• To supply background information needlessly withheld by FamilyCourtReformist self-proclaimed leadership from a law school center in a single tweet — close in time to when I learned it myself.
• To illustrate the withholding process of basic content in action (again).
• To demonstrate how I do speed-drill-downs when this occurs, and I don’t already know that info.
• To show what things I pay attention to in the process (context always provides more depth in any drilldown) for general comprehension
• Perhaps to add  (summarize or link to previously posted) known elements of the State of Ohio as it differs from other states in the USA. “off the top of my head” these come to mind, the first two, most prominently.
  • State Corporate registration is NOT required annually, but it seems, only every five years!  In this — although I haven’t surveyed all — I think only its neighbor, Pennsylvania, is LESS restrictive on business filings, at one every ten years.

That situation alone would seem to encourage and attract corruption, i.e. companies which file, let their status slip, and continue doing business, or in the reverse order.  Add to this (look at a map of the USA), between Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey:

(New Jersey’s corporate filing database is notoriously opaque — little information available public access for free means little public oversight from commoners (not that, as a whole, I think we’re collectively even really trying to keep pack: we seem to have mentally out-sourced that to investigative reporters and journalists, and major media.  … NOT a wise idea (who owns those?).. New Jersey (see “James Brook Dill”) previously was ahead of Delaware for corruption and obstruction to transparency in this regard. Professional corporate registration companies helped by speed-registering in many jurisdictions, overcome and make less apparent any monopolies or “cartel” situations.  The timing of the origins of those companies dates to federal interest in anti-trust acts; these situations are part of the corporate response to bypassing anti-trust legislation.

We still live with the consequences today.  But think about it:  New Jersey is home to major pharmaceutical companies (and telecommunications, such as Verizon), while Delaware, we automatically think (besides, “current U.S. President”) DuPont, right? Corporate privacy protection….

• (continued: Things about OHIO as a state which come to mind, based on my prior writing):
  • Like several other states, but not every single state, Ohio has (for about two decades now: it’s hardly a secret), an Executive-Branch-based statewide “Fatherhood Commission,” predictably, under its “DJFS” (Department of Job and Family Services). This Commission has regionalized its fatherhood practices.
  • Like some, but not all, other states, Ohio ALSO has an Governor’s Office of Faith-based and Community Services (or similar title), also since (about) the turn of this century, and it’s already been challenged on mis-appropriation of its grants, and grants-steering. I blogged this.
  • As to its DV networks, unlike most other states, it has two #1984FVPSA-funded statewide coalitions against domestic violence; I’ll link to when I looked them up and blogged this some years ago. The one cited in this tweet, unusually, isn’t passing on its grants to the various shelters, but expends most of its money somewhere between salaries and “other expenses” (Technical Assistance and Training, Public Awareness, my friends, right?)
  • Despite its small size, Ohio has many counties.  For reasons I just cannot fathom, but I did see and thus posted this (several years ago) a very strange set-up for Child Abuse Prevention training by just a few individuals in Ohio was adopted statewide for the much larger (but similar number of counties) California.  Search “CalSWEC” on this blog.

• The tweet mentions “Ohio DVN” (Domestic Violence Network) which is a specific 501©3.
• True to style, it doesn’t mention how DVN-Ohio works.  For example, Ohio IPV Collaborative:

I’ve blogged it before: I found where: At this link, Dec. 2017, short-link ends “-8a8.” For a lead-in, see “Footnote” at Bottom. Its title references Dog- and Cock-Fighting, and rigged battles (example was for prisoners, but I compared it to the family courts.

The Dog- and Cock-Fighting / Rigged Battles post also shows Ohio Fatherhood Commission maps and how the state was regionalized for such outreach.  Within that post, which has plenty of images and explanations, perhaps it’s also a good review of the SSA policy USA and impact on domestic violence issues, I referenced my March 6, 2017 post, talking more about the funding, it’s called:

(March 6, 2017 FamilyCourtMatters.org post:) Understand Statewide “CADV” Funding(CFDAs 93591, 93592, 93671, and 93136 grants to Statewide Orgs) But Also Check Out “Family and Community Violence Prevention”(93910) in all its Male/Minority-focused Wealth — Over $99M to One Recipient under ONE Principal Investigator, Spanning 10 years — and Glory  This post reviews them, and who’s been getting them.

Both are well worth reading; the topics they cover continue to come up, but they are a long study.

That’s a six-image** gallery based on a search (of my media library) with the words NCALP (National Center on Adoption Law and Policy).  As I recall (dimly), I was following some of the reported money and found some (by recall the amount was about $240,000) status “not found,” but don’t quote me on it.  The drill-down was five year ago…  There are also some pdfs I might also upload, but probably won’t this time.

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And you can see how a website has changed over time.  In 2017:

There are other posts I’ve written featuring this state, or programs, entities within it, but that’s all I’m looking up (gratis!) for now.

Ohio also had a multi-party “Ohio IPV Collaborative” with especial fondness for David Mandel’s (whose home turf is Connecticut, not Ohio) “Safe and Together Institute” with Capital University involvement.  I blogged this and did some drill-downs a while back.  Here’s what it looks like now, still at website OhioChildLaw.org called https://ohiochildlaw.org/ohio-intimate-partner-violence-collaborative/.

With an “About Us” link listing its Partners” in fine print.  According to that list, it’s apparently now its own partner, not that a “Collaborative” is an “it.”  For now, I’ll footnote “OHIO IPV, revisited, but we should understand that Mr. Mandel’s LLC is “all over” certain domestic violence advocacy (coalition) organizations, while also having drawn down fatherhood grants at (at least in Connecticut) at the state level, while the state also gets them from the federal government.  To illustrate briefly here Ohio IPV Collaborative seems to have started in 2010 (it seems I picked up on it as early as 2012, not too bad considering where it was hid…)

The Collaborative was established in 2010 with the goal of reducing trauma to children experiencing violence in their homes and preventing avoidable entry of children into foster care by forging community partnerships to develop a collaborative and holistic response to intimate partner violence, especially within the context of a differential response child protection practice approach.

Under the oversight of the Supreme Court of Ohio Subcommittee on Responding to Child Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency and Differential Response leadership at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and with project management from the Family and Youth Law Center (FYLaw), the Collaborative enlisted David Mandel & Associates (now the Safe & Together Institute) in 2010 to train four demonstration sites on its Safe and Together™ model, a strengths-based, child-centered, and behaviorally focused approach to intimate partner violence.

Based on positive feedback from the demonstration counties’ community partners and children service agencies, the Collaborative partners committed to a statewide expansion plan for county training utilizing Ohio-based trainers certified by the Safe & Together Institute (S&TI) for Safe and Together™ model training.

More details (lots more!) and images will be on my next post (done now, schedule to post tomorrow) at: 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 that’s not the main part of the title) (short-link ends “-eBE”). here’s a three-image gallery.  The center image shows where the Collaborative is within the Law School.. it’s about to undergo some re-branding (again), it seems:

You can see from the wording, that the focus here is on the child welfare sector of government although it uses terms borrowed from the (Stop) Violence Against Women Act and Domestic Violence field.  Just tweaked, … “children experiencing violence in their homes.“

This should by now inform us of major involvement of marriage/fatherhood funding (Title IV-A) not to mention foster care (Title IV-E) is involved federally and from some of the larger tax-exempt foundations in the country, specifically progressive-focused ones. Here’s the current (just viewed this week) list of “Ohio IPV Collaborative members.”  (Years ago, only their logos were shown at the university-based website (Formerly FYLaw as it says above, but then that website had a name-change). At that time, I used the logos to look them up and do a drill-down (identify) each.

That website checked today (Late May, 2022): I added some comments in parentheses.

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Partners

• Casey Family Programs (Two-billion-dollar private foundation based in Seattle)
• Children’s Trust Fund (a “quasi-public agency” with an Ohio gov’t web address, size not shown.. In fact, see ‘ODJFS’ below: it seems to be an Office under ODJFS, or collecting donations through that office, i.e., government itself soliciting donations)
• David Mandel & Associates and the Safe and Together Model  (a private LLC in Connecticut, where Safe and Together Institute is its “dba.” Because of it being a private LLC, size is unknown, except, I guess, to the IRS).
• Family & Youth Law Center (FYLaw) (a dba of Capital University, or its Law School, which I’ve proved before, formerly NCALP)..
• HealthPath Foundation of Ohio (HPFO) (private tax-exempt entity, “intermediary.” For how big, go look it up!)
• Ohio Department of Job & Family Services (ODJFS) — (part of the government entity called “The State of Ohio.”)
• Ohio Domestic Violence Network (ODVN) (a SMALL compared to anything else on this list, statewide coalition; 501©3 ; I’ve linked to its FY2020 tax return, which has some odd characteristics, like not bothering to fill out the IRS form correctly or even (Part VIIB contractor) even fully.)
• Supreme Court of Ohio  (see “Ohio ODJFS description).
• The Ohio Intimate Partner Violence Collaborative (this is not an “it” — and it certainly doesn’t belong on a list of Partners of the Ohio IPV Collaborative, unless I’m a real partner with my mirror… and both are equally real…)

(My additions marked in different color, obviously).

I guess they had a minimum number of bullets to provide, when the website lists “Ohio IPV Collaborative” as its own partner, and the former name of its website “Family & Youth Law Center” as another one, alongside the giants Casey Family Programs (<=-= its tax return ℅ Candid; EIN# is 9107938810), over $2.0 billion assets (as of FY2019), it’s a study in itself, both size, and what it’s doing (including being a direct foster care service provider, while working nationally to change child welfare systems (its main investment, based on size invested) while paying its officer, and highest-paid employees astoundingly high fees..  It’s NOT primarily a grantmaker, although it does distribute grants…). I have studied before and am resisting the temptation to show it, again..

The Children’s Trust Fund, a HealthPathFoundation (I looked it up then, am not going to again, now…), a significant part of state government under the Executive Branch (i.e., Ohio DJFS — which runs its fatherhood commission website also), the TINY (financially) SOLE DV organization among the above, and the Supreme Court of Ohio.

(The Health Path Foundation of Ohio was involved in the Greater Cincinnati Foundation).

“Children’s Trust Fund” on the list above is mis-labeled.  It’s Ohio’s Children’s Trust Fund (a *.gov) website, and labeled  (in tiny font on its logo, top left) Ohio Chapter of “Prevent Child Abuse America.”  This page (“funding sources) says its public funding comes from document fees but it also seeks private donations from businesses, foundations and volunteers.  What it doesn’t say is where these receipts are recorded, or tracked.  Is this public, or is it private?  Hard to tell, despite the website ending in *.gov…  How big is it?  Also hard to tell. It provides start-up funds for CACs in Ohio. These Children’s Trust Funds, too, are organized as networked nonprofits, often nationally.

The Offce of Families and Children (under Ohio’s Dept of Job and Family Services) shares a PO Box with “Ohio Children’s Trust Fund” (POB 183204)

In trying to find where grants TO the OCTF.Ohio.gov actually go, I clicked on “Donate” and got a P.O. Box number, then searched that PO box and address — which lead to “OCFS” (Office of Child and Family Services) under the ODJFS — so why are both the ODJFS and (in effect, though called “Children’s Trust Fund” and fronting for “Prevent Child Abuse America” programming) a subsidiary part of the ODJFS?  Look Here: PO Box 183204, Columbus, Ohio 43218-3204 (nearby image).

In fact, I’ll provide both images to show the identical PO Box, while the “Trust Fund” version continues to use the word “we, us” (etc.) without revealing, it’s actually referring to a part of government already funded..  The ODJFS (it would be getting Social Security Act funding from the federal government to administer such programs, at a minimum.

A certain PO Box (POB 183204) in Columbus Ohio is the Ohio Children’s Trust fund, or taking mailed-in checks for it….

It seems the word “children” can be used as a basic basket to accommodate ALMOST any kind of public funding…

ALSO, when the main focus of the Ohio IPV Collaborative (in its own words, which I just quoted above) is running David Mandel & Associates, LLC program(s), how could that LLC be a “Partner”?

Besides which, a program isn’t a Partner, and “Safe and Together” besides being a program, is (I’ve checked several times over the years), “Safe and Together Institute” is a dba (a fictitious business name, or “trade name”) of Mandel’s LLC in Connecticut.

Besides which this Collaborative isn’t an entity or an “it” and can’t have partners, or members, or do anything. It’s a convenient essentially meaningless label; a name assigned to a website at a university with links, some of which are “its” and some which aren’t. It’s advertising.

While Capital Law School (Law.Capital.edu) is in the state capital, it is a private, not a public university:

Capital University is a private four-year undergraduate institution and graduate school located in the Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood of Bexley.

It took me another post (see bottom of this one — coming up in one day) to read that Bexley is an upscale neighborhood.  See here, or even better, the description from the Bexley Village itself:  “First-ring suburb of Columbus,” population about 14,000… home to Capital University…

The Village of Bexley was incorporated in 1908 when the neighborhoods of Bullit Park to the north and Pleasant Ridge to the south combined. Bullit Park had formed in the late 1800’s as a neighborhood occupied by wealthy Columbus residents who constructed country homes and urban estates east of Alum Creek along Broad Street. Pleasant Ridge was a Lutheran community rooted in the academic environment of Capital University, which located in the neighborhood in 1876. After reaching a population of 5,000 in the late 1920’s, Bexley became a city in 1932. Today, Bexley has a population of over 14,000 residents, with over 4,000 households in the City. It is geographically compact, located within a 2.5 square mile footprint bounded by Alum Creek to the west, Gould Road to the east, Delmar Drive to the north, and Livingston Avenue to the south.

A first-ring suburb of Columbus, Bexley is known for its historic and close-knit neighborhoods, its highly ranked public school system, its classic and walkable Main Street environment, the prestigious private schools located within its borders, and its status as the home of Capital University.

[K-12 private schools list one for girls and one for boys both seem Christian although the boys’ school mentions it (i.e., preparing for “Christian manhood…”); Private Higher Education list both Trinity Lutheran Seminary and Capital University as two different schools, but the seminary is AT the University]

I was surprised to see under its “giving” that there’s a Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital (part of a Giving Option).  The law school says its personality is experience-focused (see I tweeted a few images on this recently, meaning, the (next to) last week of May, 2022).  

[Returning to a theme closer to the top of this post.. now near its bottom, just winding up here…]

On May 19, I responded to a May 18, 2022 Tweet by @NFVLCgwu showing its position on an Ohio Bill about to drastically revise the concept behind Shared Custody, HB 508. Tweet is embedded lower down on this post.

As my reply points out, a link to the bill with the cover Tweet is a common (public-interest) courtesy.

Sure, also tell who’s opposed (OhioDVN, others) and upload a nearly hour-long Youtube featuring some of the George Washington University Law School center’s speakers getting more media mentions and attention, but with such key understanding of the impact of Ohio’s HB 508, surely someone involved knew where to find it, and referenced which parts of it (I found a 216-page text, with line-numbers in the thousands, and many sections which did NOT relate to “Shared Custody” (at all)..

Viewing it again (during a “moving break”) I decided to challenge myself by timing how long it’d take to find out (and post) the basics NFVLCgwu hadn’t bothered to, and show others what was missed. I knew this would mean a Tweet referencing to a quick post I’d need to write; but mostly I was challenging (timing how long it took me to discover the basics the NFVLC law center couldn’t be bothered to summarize (in a tweet or two), or anywhere else, and link to.

As happens, I found it quickly on a media platform posted by an Ohio law firm. The media platform was a California LLC started in 2007 by a lawyer (law school, Connecticut) and writer. Of course I looked at both.  I also looked at the law firm which DID at a minimum link to HB 208, in a “Series” (two short articles called a “series”) written by one of their only three counsel in Family Law practice.

Lastly, I read as far as I could into the bill, took a few hand notes which other sections of the Ohio Revised Code it referenced (which may parallel situations in other states), and despite being in “household move-mode” attempted to get at least a speed-read overview, and share as much of it as possible, without jeopardizing my own moving deadlines (pro-rata rent involved at this point…)

Failure to post a link to a Bill is simply disrespectful.

IF we’re to be on common page and not “induced” through peer pressure (i.e., “the good guys” oppose so it must be bad) which way to believe — and if in Ohio, contact our legislators to vote — where’s the subject matter you’re referencing, for any neutral reading BEFORE hearing the arguments …. buried somewhere within a nearly hour-long interview, maybe if we’re lucky with some graphics including a link or two?

That’s wasting others’ time — and that’s the disrespect. Here’s my May 19 reply (embedded Tweet); with luck, this is my May 24, follow-up. It may have few graphics (uploading has more time than I do this week) but at least has some of the links.

If this is a public interest tweet, 1) where is a link to the bill proposed? 2) who really knows #OhioDVN? (Srch able on my blog, it’s FY2020 return: https://tinyurl.com/OhioDVN-341622848-2020-FYESep…^^) dn even distribute its $4M+ govt grants to state DV orgs) read!) 3) OH judges not quite org or govt.. etc https://t.co/YuJHv6YPGr

— SheLooksItUp: AbsolutelyUncommonAnalysis DV FamCts (@LetUsGetHonest) May 19, 2022

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THIS FOOTNOTE quotes a post which, if read, leads to (my) prior drill-down on the participants in Ohio IPV Collaborative. Don’t let the title mis-lead you; it poses a rhetorical question based on a recent news article at the time… Use the scroll bar… (This is an informative post!):

Miscellaneous quote:

NANCY FINGERHOOD re: HB508 (and, as “NSPC” “One Mom’s Battle/Tina Swithin) member:

HB 508 wrongly seeks to make shared parenting Ohio’s default option for kids: Nancy Fingerhood

Updated: Apr. 15, 2022, 2:50 p.m in Cleveland.com 

“Canfield [Ohio] Declares Nov. Family Court Awareness Month”  in “The Vindicator”

CANFIELD — Mayor Richard Duffett presented to Canfield resident Nancy Fingerhood a special proclamation declaring November as Family Court Awareness Month.

Fingerhood is a member of the group One Mom’s Battle. She maintains there is “a nationwide crisis in our family court system.”

But a Mahoning County court official says a system is in place here to ensure every child involved with the courts receives permanency in a safe, stable and loving home.

The One Mom’s Battle awareness campaign was started by Tina Swithin from San Luis Obispo, Calif., after her own problems with the family court system. Fingerhood said she, too, went through litigation in Colorado with her child’s father, and volunteered with a group there.

“We helped get legislation in Colorado to mandate domestic violence, child sexual abuse and child-abuse training for custody evaluators into law this year,” she said.

Fingerhood now lives in Canfield and continues as a member of One Mom’s Battle. “Our goal is to seek legislation to put the safety of the child first,” Fingerhood said.

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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)

I have a twin post, which I’ll either post now (two in one day) or schedule for tomorrow, which at this point, isn’t even 24 hours away…  At that time, see:

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”)

(Previous and Next posts are also always displayed below current ones, on this WordPress theme). It even generates its idea of “related” posts.  Note:  Some of the tags I wrote here, apply to the other, as I wrote first, then tagged, then split the post…