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FUND-a-Mentals of Conciliation Court: Who Holds the Keys to the Vault / See the Matrix
Continued from “There is in the State Treasury a Family Law Trust Fund. (Cal. Family Conciliation Code Section 1852)
In a dutiful effort to shorten my posts, I split this one in half. Because, it’s time to review How Federal Law Grants matches previously-pushed-through Conciliation Law. Federal Money, County-State money (through fees) + Rights to Judge the Case (State Conciliation Codes enable by-county, in-the-opinion-of-the-presiding-judge set up of these specialized courts).
We have already established that “There is in the State Treasury a Family Law Trust Fund,” and that under Public Health and other “fees-for-service” (marriage certficates, dissolution certificates, etc.) certain of those fees get deposited into this fund. Brilliant advance planning to set this up.
As in California, I imagine this is true for most 50 states. I also now know where to look this specific fund in California (hence also in other states) up, and how much was in it for a specific year. The same source also details what types of funds (including plenty relating to the courts, and child support etc.) are held in bank accounts OUTSIDE the State Treasury.
But this post is about how CONCILIATION LAW was crafted to grab jurisdiction of cases to order the exact things which Access and Visitation Funding Federal Grants (under the Social Security Act, PRWORA) as of 1996 set in place funding for, and the exact situation that groups like the Children’s Rights Council, the (eventual) National Fatherhood Initiative, and others were already wanting — mandatory mediation, joint custody, order services — we’ll standardize and regulate the services, too…
“See the Matrix.”
Many distraught parents love to, with their leadership as they have been taught, complain (endlessly) about the family courts promoting “parental alienation” and recommend, hire some professionals to train the bad judges out of believing in parental alienation (Barry Goldstein, BMCC, The Leadership Council, CPPA, MOLC, and others).
Simultaneously, “to the contrary” are those who believe parental alienation is so bad it should be punished by completely removing the child/ren from the offending (alienating) parent. How that is not itself alienation beats me — but either way, I can prove (and have on this blog, will again on this post) that a primary organization pushing parental alienation theory through the courts is indeed AFCC (see the early newsletters in my Vital Links at bottom of page), and that this was planned as far back as the 1980s, if not further. In the next post, we can connect the dots easily through a federal site.
ALWAYS Note the Nonprofits!!
Remember: people belong to more than one nonprofit at a time. Using Nonprofits is a key technique.
When you have one nonprofit that contains people running courts (administrative), judges over the courts, including specialized conciliation courts, attorneys, and psychologists — and that one ALSO has nonprofits of judges, nonprofits of psychologists, and the all-pervasive nonprofits of attorneys (State, county, local bar associations), and even (see 1983/84 newsletters) a nonprofit called “The National Center for State Courts” which itself manages several subsidiary nonprofits — and NCSC became “Secretariat” (they decided to help support the systems and administration) of the AFCC — I think we have a rather powerful network of organizations, and we have a collaborative agenda. For the most part, John Q and Jane Doe are not in on the collaboration; they will be either subject to it, or funding it through income taxes, etc. and through filing for certificates of marriage, divorce, court fees etc.
Behind the nonprofits — and this needs to be stated LOUD and CLEAR, are The Rockefeller, the Carnegie, the Rhodes, or the Ford Foundation (although some of their personnel are funded by those, and other foundations) but they still should be scrutinized as they are getting laws passed that affect (hurt) all of us. In order of influence, the Foundations drive, the matrix of nonprofits enable (both need each other) and help muddy the picture for the public such that we think we still have moderately representative government, or the potential for it without confronting the private funding.
Why Can’t Some “See the Matrix”?
For one, it requires conceptual thinking, a REAL challenge when your kids are about to be stolen, or just have been (or molested, or are being), or your life is at risk. For another, certain groups of professionals whose kids and lives are NOT at risk, or at such great and immediate risk, and who are not at risk of being homeless from month to month if something goes south on a court case — make sure to self-censor key elements of the picture that might make US less dependent on THEM for insight, for finances, and for a voice (i.e., a press presence).
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Spelling It Out Again, Basic Players, Basic Blueprints [yawn…][well, we’d better not, actually…] (Publ. Oct. 28, 2012)
Spelling It Out Again, Basic Players, Basic Blueprints [yawn…][well, we’d better not, actually…]
MDRC (1974ff), TANF (1996ff), Gov Leavitt (1998ff), Gov Keating + Wade Horn (2000ff)
Heck, the US Government is investing internationally for sure, and I’ll bet that every single state’s public employee pension plan (CALPers, New York States’ Pension Plan, Pennsylvania’s — probably every single one – and you can find them on their CAFRs and look) — probably also is investing in multiple currencies and countries, playing one against the other, plus in various corporations.
But I believe there is likely to be a continental lockdown, which may explain perhaps why so many are in privatized lockUPs..
The number one feature I notice is treating the human population like a material resource, which (from that point of view) it is — if they are poor, because of prior policies set up (by the same crowd) — exploit it. If they are divorcing — exploit that, too.
Then sell it to them (because any good businessperson is adept at getting other to fund its startups, and of course many things are also tax write-offs) and have their income taxes pay for it, and the income taxes of the middle classes’s taxes who hasn’t caught onto this yet because they’re working 9 to 5, detoxing from work part of their time off, and stressing out about the future while at work, etc.
MAKE SURE the Middle Class believes that the real problems are the shiftless poor, the fertile female African Americans or anyone else with dark skin, or heck any color female skin, and things like DIVORCE. ANYTHING but the bottom-line reality….
Then go about to help the other side of the equation…. based on some profile.
Hopefully people who read the last few posts (sorry, I don’t have any gold stars or discount coupons for the effort!) will start to understand that something less than above-board (at some levels) and “in-your-face” (at other levels) is going on involving:
- Religious beliefs held in common by at least Mormons, Catholics & Evangelicals
- Certain of the 50 United States well-knowon for their Mormon, or Evangelical roots (Utah, Oklahoma, specifically)
- Certain individuals in responsible positions at the top-of-state level, whether Governor (Keating OK; Leavitt: Utah; and a family divorce lawyer also serving as a Utah State Rep and on its Judiciary Committee, proposing legislation and getting it passed…)
- Federal Grants to the States from HHS involving Welfare Funding.
- Family Lawyers and Related Industries — Seeing as to get legally divorced, one often utilizes a lawyer — or at a minimum, walks into some sort of family courts to get that divorce — there is also a marketing element in the marriage promotion business by family lawyers, which capitalizes on the HHS grants and their influence in the legislature to mandate or promote purchasing of services, seminars, books, and classes by the same.I have (now) a sky-blue-background “rant” (about three inches of vertical space? or so) at the top of “Christianity and Its Sects in the Statehouse” in which I completely derailed into a NHMRC (National Healthy Marriage Resource Center) website and gave a short, but detailed reference to what money is supporting that operation — and the products, services, and goods that the FOUNDATIONS supporting MDRC (look it up) in promoting and dissemination, essentially “fatherhood” promotion, even though HHS is already granting corporations quite a bit to set up shop in this field. MDRC was formed in 1974, I have posted on it, and a very old (why can’t such a wealthy firm update their own website with a better diagram for the public?) — pie chart, 2010, showing the main sources of its funding.
- Another way to call that what is is, would simply be AFCC, NACC, CRC, and friends.
The sky-blue rant at the top of my Oct. 21 post “Christianity and Its Sects” shows how a visit to a federally-funded site which spins off business to the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative PR Firm (Public Strategies Inc.) and friends — then links to a nice MDRC program evaluation, which spins off money to its subcontractors, and you can follow who is supporting this from the acknowledgement in the front of the report. Not to mention the number of the federal HHS contract used to do the study. In short, the people getting the most employment profit from this do NOT appear to be the poor, but those studying them.
I think I have more than demonstrated that the public access database TAGGS.hhs.gov isn’t going to help us study where the bulk of the HHS money is going in any efficient or meaningful way. I say that after three years of scrutiny, mostly showing screwups in the basic design, not just data entry and a whole lot of them seem like MORE than accidental.
I also find groups that don’t file taxes with their chief personnel (CEOs, who got over $100k salary from apparently the original HHS) then being further promoted to more responsibility — i.e., I”m talking about for example, Mrs. Charles Ballard, commonly known as Frances Ballard, sitting on the board of WIFI (Women in Fatherhood Inc.) AND being somehow involved in the administration of the “national responsible fatherhood clearinghouse” which it assures us, is funded by the US Government. So how can a person be an “Executive Director” of what looks like a government-supported website unless he or she is a government employee?
I haven’t figured that one out yet. Maybe you can: The first title given in her description is ED of the NRFC — which is a website! She is doing this while also on the board of WIFI — so on HER tax return (assuming there is one) where’s the income coming from and reported as? I also note that while wifi is not a D.C. organization, most likely the clearinghouse (being a website), IS:
Frances Ballard is the Executive Director for the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC). In her role she is responsible for the strategic direction and leadership for activities regarding the NRFC, including the coordination of the media campaign, clearinghouse and Web site, Training and Technical Assistance (T & TA) to responsible fatherhood demonstration sites, and building relationships and partnerships for NRFC
This site is, literally, steering and setting national federal policy. Was Ms. Ballard somehow elected as a public official, or was this website voted into existence and then privately contracted out to her? I notice that the WIFI link has a direct link at its bottom to “childtrends.org” which is an Annie E. Casey foundation “thang.” This is certainly ALL about the children, that’s why no one need to explain to the adults– their parents — where their inheritances (or household incomes) went, or is going in the future, except out the door and from there, who knows?
This website has a *.gov address.
So, what does it mean to have an “executive director” — is that person an employee or a contractor — it should be one or the other. To be an “Executive Director” of a *.gov site is a very interesting job title. Is that not an accurate job title?
[next section in different background color is a quote. Not sure why I didn’t use the “quote” function originally…//LGH comment added June 22, 2019 during post format quasi-cleanup]
Who are we?
The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse is an Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs/Federal grantees, states, and the public at-large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.
The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) is a resource of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) Office of Family Assistance (OFA).
The Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (CRA) re-authorized funding for the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC). The NRFC was initially funded through the Deficit Reduction Act (2005) for “the development, promotion, and distribution of a media campaign to encourage the appropriate involvement of parents in the life of any child and specifically the issue of responsible fatherhood, and the development of a national clearinghouse to assist States and communities in efforts to promote and support marriage and responsible fatherhood.”
Contact Us information:
Mailing address
National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse
307A Consaul Road
Albany, New York 12205
Federal Contact
Lisa Washington-Thomas
Branch Chief, TANF Technical Assistance
Office of Family Assistance
lwashington-thomas@acf.hhs.gov
(202) 401-5141
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Quips, Thinks and Links on the Most Essential Matters… (on a signature block)
Post published 8/2/2012, became “Sticky” 4/15/2016, slight revs to top part 12/15/2016
From this post:
There has to be a way to check facts and assemble a workable theory that doesn’t entail slavery for most and freedom for some. That alone is an ECONOMIC matter, a COMMERCE matter, and as such, has to be dealt with — what are these courts really for? We can say “kids for cash” and “stop child-trafficking” til we are blue in the face, but sooner or later such things as the murder/suicide of Georgia Senator Nancy Schaeffer and her husband — which was most likely NOT anything close to a murder/suicide — have to be dealt with
My Ideal signature block would show my Current Understanding as Quips with Links for “thinks.”
This is how it looked 4-5 years ago for use in a public forum:
- JURISDICTION sets RIGHTS.
- USConstitution Title28/IV sets Jurisdiction
- Citizenship in USA, Inc. = YOU became collateral for U$A Debt
In 2016/2017, I probably would change some links, but retain the basic concepts. (Will be repeated again, below.)
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America’s Unified Family Courts (UFCs)– forget! due process, this is about “Treating” the Whole Family
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation + ABA + HHS/DOJ (+Monsanto, CIGNA + Ford) = Unified Family Courts = Treat the Whole Family
This post is three of (my) comments from the “(Kids for Cash)” topic at Scranton Political Times… Those who teach about “abuse” should be teaching about this — because how these courts were set up DOES rather explain why they have spawned (comparison intentional), literally, protest movements across the country, from their horrid treatment of litigants, particularly ignoring facts, law, and due process in individual cases). They are horrible wastes of time and mind (a mind is a terrible thing to waste, is it not?) — and exist to dominate and intimidate, literally, the human spirit and eliminate the “unalienable rights” that SOME believe are innate (“unalienable”) to every man. . . . .And now that “every man” is to include more men – -and women . . . . those crying out for “Children’s Rights” don’t even endorse what’s right to start with — the REPUBLIC (representative government under rule of law) of the United States (plural) of America — not the Oligarchy, the Aristocracy, or the THEocracy of the USA!! — and turning the entire country, starting with children, adding youth, and expanding upwards into adults — into a treatable-at-will population — is hardly a Republic!
I was checking NAFCJ.net for a link to “the money trail” and happened across an unexplored link on there to grants by this Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help the ABA create Unified Courts. These grants spanned the period 1996-1999; my attention was hooked, and this is what developed:
It is worth processing if you are concerned about these topics. I believe we need to FULLY understand who’s running the Justice and Legal Systems of the country, particularly if we are in the situation of attempting to squeeze some water out of a stone in those halls. . . . . . .
I AM WRITING as a single woman who could never have anticipated, as a 20, 30, or 40 year old how dangerous this country has become for ethical, moral, working, and competent women who are also mothers, and value that role as they also value pulling their own weight. Such women are horrors to this system — as they don’t need treatment, nor do their kids — but after a few years in it, ALL will!
So this is, literally, HOW the ABA (incl. AFCC) and others USED the family law system to turn “divorce” into a disease and treat every one for it, as collateral in treating for substance abuse and of course mental health problems. That divorce is NOT a disease hardly matters in the face of such a policy backed by such power.
PART I (first comment on the topic from Scranton PT):
Since the idea sucks,
WHOSE IDEA WAS “UNIFIED FAMILY COURTS,”
ANYHOW, and WHY?
Hey, remember “unified family courts” and “drug courts” (I believe there have been some complaint about Lackawanna County’s right?) and so forth? – – – I just found an old article detailing how the ABA and specific funders were pushing “treating the whole family” and “changing the justice systems” to address substance abuse by youth. An unexplored link over at NAFCJ.net, and the timing of 1996 with welfare reform.
The goal, and the whole point, was to change the justice system — from the outside, not the inside. Foundations pushing a concept and working through the ABA & Judges, plus money didn’t hurt either. HHS/ACF happened to agree — so once that door was open (that it’s OK to revise the courts based on somebody in power’s got a bright idea) — it stayed open.
This is a link from the ROBERT WOOD FOUNDATION grants page. They also helped AFCC, I believe:
Liz Richards (NAFCJ.net) had linked to it long ago from:
which leads to:
Grants
$$$
How our money is misused to discriminate against women and children
http://www.statejustice.org/grantinfo/chifam.htm [broken link]
http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/029319s.htm [UFC link]
And here we can read:
Unified Family Courts: Treating the Whole Family, Not Just the Young Drug Offender
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is powerful one, focused exclusively on health fields (and the largest philanthropy with this focus; been doing this for 40 years; influences medical education field, etc.)and Unified Family Courts (for substance abuse treatment) were one of their projects
SUMMARY
From November 1996 through June 1999, the American Bar Association (ABA) developed six Unified Family Court (UFC) systems in three U.S. states and one territory and created a network of national groups to help educate the public about Unified Family Courts.
UFCs combine the functions of family and juvenile courts to provide a comprehensive approach to treating and educating young drug offenders and their families. This approach recognizes that substance abuse results from a combination of problems related to health, family structure, economics and community support. UFCs offer an effective alternative to a justice system that frequently treats substance abuse solely as a legal problem.
Key Results
- See Grant Detail & Contact Information Notice the Baltimore Connection (I have — it’s an AFCC stronghold) — this group helped Chester Harhut & Lackawanna County set up ITS “UFC”, remember?
- In Baltimore, Md., a pilot UFC was established in September 1998. The state legislature approved $1 million for the Baltimore pilot UFC project and $4 million to create Family Divisions in four other judicial districts. For each case, judges can order social services, including substance abuse and mental health counseling, and diversion programs. The Baltimore Family Court has also developed an assessment/evaluation procedure that the project director believes provides a replicable model for evaluation at other UFC sites.
I blogged this (with some sarcasm) in March 2012:
- Marylands Family Court Expansion, AFCC Model, takes Unifying Symbols to a New Level: Paper, Cotton, Leather, Fruit, Wood, Iron . . .”First of all, they are about as unbelievingly condescending and patronizing (move over, let us experts handle your family give us your kid, etc.) as it is possible for any human relationship to be, apart from some truly unhealthy (i.e., violent/abusive) ones. They deal in force, and subterfuge when it comes to proliferating the program, and like any good, truly disaster capitalism enterprise, they deal with distressed populations, exploit them, and call that service.” [My blog connects Barbara Babb of Baltimore to Lackawanna County pilot program in UFC]
After the Grant
The ABA continues to work with the six sites and has provided technical assistance to eight other states. It also is involved in a project funded by the Scripps-Howard Foundation to examine literacy as a way to address substance abuse in four family courts.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched a national program, called Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol & Crime®. It is building community solutions to substance abuse and delinquency by developing the systems infrastructure necessary to deliver comprehensive care within the juvenile justice system. See the program’s Web site for more information. . . .Funding
RWJF provided a $481,605 grant to the ABA for its work on UCF systems..(they mean “UFC — Unified Family Courts”)
In 1994, ABA adopted a resolution calling for the promotion and implementation of UFC systems to make the courts more responsive to family problems. {{??}} By 1996, six states had established versions of UFCs statewide, and four states had some UFCs operating on the county level.
[That, friends, is how the ABA operates…] [NOW for the FUNDING]:
Other Funding The ABA solicited and obtained additional project funding from the private sector and government, including:
- the US Department of Justice ($100,000),
- the ABA’s Standing Committee on Substance Abuse ($90,000),
- CIGNA Corporation ($30,000),**
- Monsanto ($10,000),** and
- Ford Motor Company ($5,000). [Ford is into most govermental things, and in the 1970s had helped from MDRC, which runs demonstration programs onw elfare and the courts, etc.]]
Those names should ring a few bells. Look at some of them!
* *”Grrreat” — Monsanto is “only” the food giant that’s trying to put non-GMO and organic farmers out of business and basically co-opt the US Food supply. (Ya gotta read this one) Monsanto, Wikipedia:
… multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world’s leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed in the Roundup brand, and in other brands. Monsanto is also the second largest producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed; it provides the technology in 49% of the genetically engineered seeds used in the US market.”. . .Monsanto’s development and marketing of genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone, as well as its aggressive litigation, political lobbying practices, seed commercialization practices and “strong-arming” of the seed industry[4…
In 2009 Monsanto came under scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department, which began investigating whether the company’s activities in the soybean markets were breaking anti-trust rules.[4][5]
What better corporation to contribute to an ANTI-Drug Abuse program which creates genetically modified seeds, bovine growth hormone, and strong arm tactics + lobbying to maintain it — and financial clout to help create an alternate justice system (treatment versus accountability….)!!
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear (Vanity Fair Article):
[Starting to sound like the Unified Family Court “treatment Gestapo police” now in place? Birds of a feather..]
With an agenda like this, it’s understandable why Monsanto may want a role in dismantling the US legal system! !!! (Other Monsanto Gov’t ties) http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
CIGNA’s quite a player also:
Gee, I “can’t imagine” why — right around the time of “block grants to the states” welfare reform — CIGNA, being a global “health service” company might want to help the ABA turn large parts of the US Justice system into a treatment-philosophy-based system, including treat the whole family for one member’s substance abuse!
So, here’s the ABA creating all these Unified Family Courts (hint: The ABA membership includes subset no doubt of AFCC membership, who also are into unified courts = more business for the mental health membership..)
“Other in-kind support was provided by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) of the federal Department of HHS, the Administrative Office of the Courts in Maryland (AOC), and ABA volunteers. “
In short — have to watch out for these outfits… (that’s the UBaltimore one — see blog post)
Here’s how the ABA overcame opposition to UFC in Washington DC:
In Washington, D.C., the ABA worked on a strategy to establish a UFC. Judicial opposition to family court reform, based chiefly on economic concerns, blocked significant progress toward the UFC model. The ABA met with the Chief Judge, the primary opponent, and worked with UFC proponents in the District. Family and Child Services, a branch of the District of Columbia’s Child Protection Agency, and an ad hoc group of representatives from the judicial leadership and social service providers, have assumed the lead in efforts to explore the feasibility of a UFC approach in the District.
Does this part of the ABA seem like it’s going to take “No thanks!” as an answer?
Publicizing by ABA:
The ABA developed a network of national organizations to support UFCs. The American Judges Association, the Conference of Chief Justices, the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, {{OBVIOUSLY this group would be in favor of UFC’s – gets its membership more customers!!}} the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, [NCJFCJ] and Join Together (a national organization created by RWJF that provides technical assistance and information** to communities on issues involving substance abuse and gun violence) distributed information and/or collaborated with the ABA on UFC programs
– – – – -**The phrase “technical assistance and information” ANYwhere should be better read “indoctrination — do it OUR way; but if anyone asks, we’re just “helping” (and not responsible if it backfires).- – – – – – –
Apparently in 2006, “Join Together” was phased out by RWJF to be replaced by a “VULNERABLE POPULATIONS” project:
”
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), which for two decades has been the most generous and visible private funder of addiction treatment and prevention programs in the U.S., has announced that it will no longer have a separate program area for funding addiction-related programs.
“Instead, any new grantmaking related to addiction will take place under the foundation’s Vulnerable Populations portfolio, said foundation president and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., in a recent letter to RWJF grantees. Often the neediest populations such as the chronically homeless, new immigrants, victims of domestic abuse** are faced with multiple health and social issues, including addiction, that must be addressed in an integrated way for these individuals to succeed. The Vulnerable Populations grantmaking effort focuses mainly on these populations.
**the substance abuse is often related to other kinds of abuse, which is already known (acestudy.org) from other longitudinal studies. Perhaps if someone could focus on stopping the INJUSTiCE (including violence towards family members) instead of constantly TREATING it (both victm and perp as if both were responsible) there’d be less substance abuse! (who knows?)
So now they’re going for “supportive housing” to keep kids out of the foster care system. Guess who’s helping with THAT project?
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and three private foundations to jointly fund a $35 million initiative to further test how supportive housing can help stabilize highly vulnerable families and keep children out of the foster care system. . . .Collaborating foundations include the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs, and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
This groundbreaking initiative is based on a successful pilot effort in New York City, known as Keeping Families Together (KFT) that took place between October 2007 and July 2009
This is actually an upcoming grant opportunity, $5 million available, per HHS. It’s under CAPTA (child abuse prevention).
What’s Wrong with this Picture? (coming….)
Interesting: AFCC cite to the foundation: see note at bottom of the page: http://afcc.crinfo.org/action/search-profile.jsp?key=14482&type=web
This beta-test, demonstration gateway has been developed to demonstrate the structure of the Conflict Research Consortium’s joint gateway program to the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
This test site has not, in any way, been approved by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess, Co-Directors and Editors
c/o Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado
Campus Box 580, Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: (303) 492-1635; Contac
— Edited by Outlaw_Wild_DoubleBill-KickbackCourts on Wednesday 4th of July 2012 11:06:09 PM— on Wednesday 4th of July 2012 11:23:37 PM
PARTS II & III:
The powers that be (like ABA, foundations, HHS, etc.) determined among themselves that treatment is better than justice. That some of them happened be in the treatment business must just be coincidence.
From November 1996 through June 1999, the American Bar Association (ABA) developed six Unified Family Court (UFC) systems in three U.S. states and one territory and created a network of national groups to help educate the public about Unified Family CourtsUFCs offer an effective alternative to a justice system that frequently treats substance abuse solely as a legal problem
Notice: justice system — or treatment system. Which would you rather have when walking into a courtroom? Would you like to know which one you’re up for when it says “court” on the outside?
So, here comes that Robt Wood Johnson Foundation:
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched a national program, called Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol & Crime®.
… USPTO and trademarking social service reform (see that “®”?)
- pick “Basic Word Mark Search” and fill it in
- Search . .Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol & Crime and get:
Sure ‘nuf that’s a robert wood johnson trademark:
| Serial Number | Reg. Number | Word Mark | Check Status | Live/Dead | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76117473 | 2592702 | RECLAIMING FUTURES | TARR | LIVE |
| 2 | 75627894 | 2540943 | PROTECTING OUR FUTURE BY RECLAIMING OUR PAST | TARR | LIVE |
They trademarked the act of giving grants!
IC 036. US 100 101 102. G & S: Charitable services, namely, providing grants to programs to combat substance abuse and delinquency. FIRST USE: 2001/01/25. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20010125
{interesting, executive order GWBush establishing faith-based office was 2001/01/29…}{Filed for opposition: August 24, 2000}
| Owner | (REGISTRANT) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The NON-PROFIT CORPORATION NEW JERSEY Route One & College Road East P.O. Box 2316 Princeton NEW JERSEY 085432316 |
| Attorney of Record | Richard C. Woodbridge |
(the logo is also a hyperlink)
In 2001, with a $21 million investment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 10 founding communities located throughout the United States began reinventing the way police, courts, detention facilities, treatment providers, and the community work together to meet this urgent need
Amazing what a $21 million investment can do . . ..
“Reclaiming Futures has been evaluated by The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago.” (RWJF helped pay for the evaluation also)
Now there are six partners, including from OJJDP, HHS (SAMSHA), another foundation, Portland State, and a research institute at Portland state.
“Re-engineer the justice system in your state” (how-to manual):
Bring Reclaiming Futures to Your State or Tribal Lands »
Re-engineer the juvenile justice system in your state or region to avoid unnecessary costs and cut recidivism. Here’s how to get started.
RWJF + ABA = UFCs + Drug Courts (cont’d.)
For the Record, American Bar Association is listed at HHS as “Private Profit (large) Business.”
HHS has donated over $20.6 million of grants to the ABA per TAGGS.hhs.gov. So taxpayers are supporting it, too, even if they’re not engaged in litigation.
ABA activism (from site below about Unified Family Courts):
From 1992 to 1996, RWJF funded the ABA Standing Committee on Substance Abuse’s Community Anti-Drug Coalition Initiative to mobilize lawyers, judges, and justice system leaders to help create new justice systems and structures to solve the substance abuse problem (see Grant Results [] on ID#s 019838 and 023195).
The ABA was also instrumental in persuading legal community leaders to support drug courts for juveniles, which link juvenile justice and community treatment resources to juvenile drug offenders and their legal caretakers.
OK, get JUVENILES into treatment, what next?
The ABA then helped cities nationwide set up drug courts for adultoffenders, which offer defendants who have been charged with a drug offense (typically first-time, non-violent offenders) court supervised substance abuse treatment in lieu of incarceration. Drug courts can motivate drug users to enter rehabilitation programs and reestablish productive lifestyles. These courts have dramatically decreased recidivism rates and drug use among participants. [have they?]
UFC’s complement the work of the drug courts. UFCs combine the functions of family courts (which handle family-related legal issues) and juvenile courts (which handle [criminal or status offence, they should’ve said] cases in which minors are involved) into one entity and provide a comprehensive approach to helping “families in crisis.“ UFCs incorporate treatment for young substance abuse offenders into the wide range of cases heard in civil court involving family matters.
– – – – -OK, what’s that mean?
– – – – Basically, where family court would’ve been perhaps about custody and divorce primarily, UFC’s tempt the judges to order more services, and treat the entire family — although the case may be as simple as a custody/visitation plan or a divorce, NEITHER of which are criminal matters. Also omitted — juvenile courts are not just for people of a certain age — they are for juveniles who’ve caused (or allegedly caused) some problems, committing a legitimate crime (breaking and entering, robbery, rape/sexual assault, etc.) OR “status offence,” i.e. violated some rules that wouldn’t apply to adults, like a curfew, or attendance at school (truancy violations).
Changed the entire climate, definitely affecting people with straightforward business in the FAMILY court who may not be sick or criminal. This was less for the families than for the court’s convenience, and for its liaisons with treatment-providing organizations.
You can look up ABA HHS grants around this time and see:
| #90CW1087 | |
| Award Title: | CHILD WELFARE RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATIONS |
| OPDIV: | ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (ACF) |
| Organization: | CHILDREN’S BUREAU (CB) |
| Award Class: | DISCRETIONARY |
| FY | Recipient | City | State | CFDA | Budget Year of Support | Award Code | Agency | Action Issue Date | Amount This Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 5 | 0 | ACF | 09-17-1998 | $ 700,000 |
| 1998 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 4 | 1 | ACF | 09-30-1997 | $ 80,000 |
| 1998 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 4 | 2 | ACF | 04-15-1998 | $ 26,004 |
| 1998 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 4 | 3 | ACF | 06-24-1998 | $ 21,276 |
| Fiscal Year 1998 Total: | $ 827,280 | ||||||||
| FY | Recipient | City | State | CFDA | Budget Year of Support | Award Code | Agency | Action Issue Date | Amount This Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 4 | 0 | ACF | 09-10-1997 | $ 450,000 |
| 1997 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 3 | 1 | ACF | 12-19-1996 | $ 0 |
| 1997 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 3 | 2 | ACF | 03-29-1997 | $ 0 |
| 1997 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 3 | 3 | ACF | 08-20-1997 | $ 3,369 |
| Fiscal Year 1997 Total: | $ 453,369 | ||||||||
| FY | Recipient | City | State | CFDA | Budget Year of Support | Award Code | Agency | Action Issue Date | Amount This Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 03 | 000 | ACF | 09-25-1996 | $ 400,000 |
| 1996 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 03 | 001 | ACF | 12-19-1996 | $ 0 |
| 1996 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 03 | 002 | ACF | 03-29-1997 | $ 0 |
| Fiscal Year 1996 Total: | $ 400,000 | ||||||||
| FY | Recipient | City | State | CFDA | Budget Yr of Support | Award Code | Agency | ActionIssue Date | Amount This Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 02 | 000 | ACF | 09-29-1995 | $ 400,000 |
| 1995 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 02 | 001 | ACF | 09-29-1995 | $ 38,947 |
| 1995 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 02 | 002 | ACF | 09-30-1995 | $ 3,310 |
| 1995 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 02 | 003 | ACF | 01-22-1996 | $ 0 |
| 1995 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 93608 | 02 | 004 | ACF | 07-15-1996 | $ 55,125 |
| Fiscal Year 1995 Total: | $ 497,382 | ||||||||
| Total of all award actions: | $ 2,178,031 |
AND:
| Award Number: | MCU11A301 |
| Award Title: | PARTNERS IN PGRM PLANNING FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH |
| OPDIV: | HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (HRSA) |
| Organization: | MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH / SYSTEMS EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (MCHB) |
| Award Class: | COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT |
Showing: 1 – 2 of 2 Award Actions
| FY | Recipient | City | State | CFDA | Budget Year of Support | Award Code | Agency | Action Issue Date | Amount This Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | CHICAGO | IL | 93110 | 02 | 000 | HRSA | 09-02-1997 | $ 100,000 |
| Fiscal Year 1997 Total: | $ 100,000 | ||||||||
| Fiscal Year 1996 Total: | $ 100,000 | ||||||||
| Total of all award actions: | $ 200,000 |
Showing: 1 – 2 of 2 Award Actions
| NON-COMPETING CONTINUATN |
| KATHI GRASSO | 7 | $ 100,000 |
So, ABA is a partner in “HEALTH SERVICES.” Principal Investigator “Kathi Grasso”:
Ms. Grasso worked for the ABA Center for Children and the Law, OJJDP atsome point and is a member of NACC based in WDC. She has a degree from Catholic University. .She’s very active around the country and publishing on these matters:
- (footnote to an NACC publication) A Judges Guide to Improving Legal Representation of Children, edited by Kathi Grasso, ABA Center on Children and the Law, © ABA May 1998.
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Kathi Grasso [From OJJDP “staff” list]
Senior Juvenile Justice Policy and Legal Advisor
202-xxx-xxxx
kathi.grasso@usdoj.gov
Video 2: Keynote: Effectuating Reform in Juvenile Justice
Presenters: Kathi Grasso, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention with the U.S. Department of Justice
Link to handout and Juvenile Ten Core Principles
| Award Number | Budg Yr | Action Issue Date | CFDA | Principal Investigator | Sum of Actions |
| 90CW1087 | 02 | 09/29/1995 | 93608 | MARK HARDIN | $ 438,947 |
| 90CW1087 | 02 | 09/30/1995 | 93608 | $ 3,310 | |
| 90CW1087 | 02 | 01/22/1996 | 93608 | $ 0 | |
| 90CW1087 | 02 | 07/15/1996 | 93608 | $ 55,125 | |
| 90CW1087 | 03 | 09/25/1996 | 93608 | $ 400,000 | |
| 03 | 12/19/1996 | 93608 | $ 0 | ||
| 03 | 03/29/1997 | 93608 | $ 0 | ||
| 3 | 12/19/1996 | 93608 | $ 0 | ||
| 3 | 03/29/1997 | 93608 | $ 0 | ||
| 90CW1087 | 3 | 08/20/1997 | 93608 | $ 3,369 | |
| 90CW1087 | 4 | 09/10/1997 | 93608 | $ 450,000 | |
| 90CW1087 | 4 | 09/30/1997 | 93608 | (etc.) | $ 80,000 |
| 90CW1087 | 4 | 04/15/1998 | 93608 | $ 26,004 | |
| 90CW1087 | 4 | 06/24/1998 | 93608 | $ 21,276 | |
| 4 | 03/24/1999 | 93608 | $ 0 | ||
| 4 | 04/26/1999 | 93608 | $ 0 | ||
| 90CW1087 | 5 | 09/17/1998 | 93608 | MARK HARDIN | $ 700,000 |
| 5 | 04/26/1999 | 93608 | MARK HARDIN | $ 0 |
Mark Hardin, National Child Welfare Law Authority, Retires
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 13, 2009 — The American Bar Association is announcing the retirement of Mark Hardin, director of child welfare at the ABA Center on Children and the Law and an Oregon attorney. A legal pioneer in the field of foster care and the role of the courts in aiding abused and neglected children and their families, Hardin spent 35 years utilizing his legal skills and knowledge to improve the plight of children removed from their homes due to child maltreatment.
Beginning as a legal aid lawyer in Portland, Ore., Hardin handled family, juvenile and welfare cases, giving him practical insight into the lives of vulnerable children and families. In the late 70’s, during two years at Portland State University, Hardin forged development of the law on “permanency planning” for abused and neglected children and wrote several early publications helping social workers and policy analysts understand the legal aspects of a child’s placement in foster care. He was among the country’s first trainers of lawyers and child welfare agency staff, educating them in their legal responsibilities relative to children removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect.
Hardin joined the Center on Children and the Law in 1980 where, according to ABA President Carolyn B. Lamm, he became “the country’s foremost legal scholar on foster care legal and judicial reforms.”
Hardin’s experience includes having directed the ABA’s National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues, a program of the Children’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Wait a minute. is this “child welfare resource center on legal and judicial issues” something belonging to the ABA (a large, private, FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS) or the HHS (a dept. of the US Federal government, Executive Branch, of, by and for the people? How can it be an ABA thing AND a program of the Children’s Bureau? Conflict of interest, much?
. . .With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.”
[Was that supposed to be a JOKE? We are having frequent issues with lawyers BREAKING the law!]
AN AWARD NAMED AFTER MARK HARDIN:
First Annual
Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change
The Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change, created by the ABA Center on Children and the Law in 2011 with approval from the ABA Board of Governors, honors the work of Mark Hardin. Before his retirement, Mark served for almost 30 years on the staff of the ABA Center on Children and the Law as director of child welfare. Mark has long been recognized by those who work in this area of law as an early innovator in the child welfare legal field. He is recipient of the “Adoption Excellence Award” bestowed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; an award for “extraordinary contributions to children” from the administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; the prestigious “Outstanding Legal Advocacy Award” from the National Association of Counsel for Children; and an award for interdisciplinary collaboration between law and social work.
This is understandable, given common interests in these goups
ANYHOW, now there is a MARK HARDIN AWARD, and the FIRST (2012) recipient of it is the Director of CALIFORNIA’s “AOC” “Center for Families & Children in the Courts,” — which is part of the Judicial Council — DIANE NUNN.
… {{“multidisciplinary” is code word referring to AFCC many times. It’s their hallmark. Why just have the rule of law when you could have social workers and psychologists as well?}}
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Children’s Institute, Project Fatherhood(tm), and Fatherhood Nonprofits that make you go “Huh?”
(with respect to the late Dr. Hershel K. Swinger, I cannot respect using TANF and other funds to proselytize, and then cheating the California out of transparency and accountability).
(And I SURE as heck don’t respect anyone using the US Government to try to evangelize ANYone!)
This is a SHAMELESS transmigration from a long (project) I’ve been posting over at Scranton Political Times Kids for Cash thread. ALthough it’s actually in response to Joe Pilchesky having posted a SAVING DAMON case (from Southern Cal / San Diego area, and with full panoply of Protective Mothers Rhetoric and groups) on there. Totally out of character for him, but I then decided to look closer at the situation and open my big mouth.
(Better understood in the larger context) I feel sorry for mothers who are (like I was) led around by the nose to become activist before they activate common sense lookups of who they’re dealing with — both as advocates and as adversaries in the court system. For example — get this — Cindy Dumas had somehow a declaration (on her behalf) on “William Eddy” complaint form, but signed by Erik Fox, Ph.D. (who runs sexual abuser treatment programs all over, and actually recommended “abuse inoculation” treatment for Damon, Mom & Dad. I gather that hasn’t happened yet. [The Rest of This Comment on nonreporting [to California] $40million-budgetChildren’s Institute in Los Angeles, incl. its “Project Fatherhood(sm)”]: I’m trying to find out exactly what it is!
Things that make you go “Huh?” In that chart below (TAGGS list of “fatherhood” grantees — at least a few of them) notice the one “Children’s Institute, Inc.” of Los Angeles? Grant (for 2010) two different grants — $1,000,000 + $500,000 ??? That’s a hefty amount, right? I looked at this one before, and the pattern is just TO O o o o…. common: One has to usually check at least 3 to 4 sources AFTER seeing the HHS grant:
1. State Incorporation record (SOS),
2. State Charitable Record (if they’re a nonprofit or taking donations),
3. Sample check some IRS forms (I use “Foundationfinder” or “Nccsdataweb.urban.org”) — and actually look at a tax form (it gets easier with practice) . . . . and then
4. what does their website say as well?
Here we go: 1. California Corporation (Sec of State) registration — there are TWO with the exact same street address (which doesn’t match address on HHS grantee, either).
| C3365104 | 03/30/2011 | ACTIVE | CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES | MARY EMMONS |
| C0085636 | 12/13/1917 | ACTIVE | CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE, INC. | MARK ENGEL |
| Progr Office | Award Number | Award Title | Bud-get Year | Action Issue Date | CFDA # | CFDA Name | Award Action Type | Principal Investigator | Sum of Actions |
| CB | 90CB0159 | ABANDONED INFANT ASSISTANCE | 2 | 05/03/2010 | 93551 | Abandoned Infants | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | MR LUKAS JAEGGI | $ 0 |
| CB | 90CB0159 | ABANDONED INFANT ASSISTANCE | 3 | 09/13/2010 | 93551 | Abandoned Infants | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MR LUKAS JAEGGI | $ 475,000 |
| CMHS | SM058241 | CENTRAL LOS ANGELES CHILD TRAUMA COLLABORATIVE | 02 | 10/21/2009 | 93243 | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services: Projects of Regional and National Significance | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | LESLIE A ROSS | $ 0 |
| CMHS | SM058241 | CENTRAL LOS ANGELES CHILD TRAUMA COLLABORATIVE | 04 | 06/25/2010 | 93243 | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services: Projects of Regional and National Significance | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LESLIE A ROSS | $ 400,000 |
| HSB | 09CH9080 | EARLY HEAD START | 3 | 06/04/2010 | 93600 | Head Start | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | KATY KELLEY | $ 2,261 |
| HSB | 09CH9080 | EARLY HEAD START | 4 | 07/26/2010 | 93600 | Head Start | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | KATY KELLEY | $ 1,590,930 |
| HSB | 09SA9080 | EARLY HEAD START ARRA EXPANSION | 1 | 11/18/2009 | 93709 | ARRA – Early Head Start | NEW | KATY KELLEY | $ 1,098,417 |
| HSB | 09SA9080 | EARLY HEAD START ARRA EXPANSION | 2 | 08/31/2010 | 93709 | ARRA – Early Head Start | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | KATY KELLEY | $ 1,403,640 |
| HSB | 09YC0463 | EARLY HEAD START | 4 | 03/26/2010 | 93600 | Head Start | OTHER REVISION | MANUEL CASTELLANOS, JR. | $- 9,269 |
| OFA | 90FR0076 | PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD | 5 | 09/24/2010 | 93086 | Healthy marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | HERSHEL SWINGER | $ 500,000 |
| OFA | 90FR0088 | PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD, COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM | 5 | 09/27/2010 | 93086 | Healthy marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | HERSHEL SWINGER | $ 1,000,000 |
(per IRS form) 2009 salaries of key officers (5 highest) were plenty high: Mary Emmons (see corp. registration) — $310K; Nena Revoyr, $136K, Jeff Catania, $161K, Hershel Swinger, $167K, Kendis Heffley, $131K. (plus retirement & other income from this or related orgs.)). These are the US Trademarks still “LIVE” with the word “Fatherhood” in them. I didn’t find the one mentioned in the Children’s Institute descriptions, “Project Fatherhood” But it’s interesting one of them is from a PA corporation. You can see the details, including first use, whose idea it was and see that someone showed real forethought. Keeping in mind that welfare reform and the loosening up of federal aid to states for diversions into fatherhood & marriage promotion, both was anticipated — and happened in 1996.
| Serial Number | Reg. Number | Word Mark | Check Status | Live/Dead | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 77602995 | 3738768 | FATHERHOOD IS SACRED | TARR | LIVE |
| 2 | 77013538 | 3474511 | NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE | TARR | LIVE |
| 3 | 75442962 | 2339732 | IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD | TARR | LIVE |
Quite a few, eh? PROJECT FATHERHOOD // Dr. HERSHEL K. SWINGER was started in 1996:
July 8, 2011
Strengthening relationships between fathers and their at-risk children
Children’s Institute Hosts 4th Annual Fatherhood Solution Conference
(very nice youtube tribute to him at the link…)
“Due to the recent passing of Dr. Hershel K. Swinger, CII Senior Vice President and Founder of Project Fatherhood, the morning plenary was a special tribute to his life’s work and accomplishments. Project Fatherhood is a nationally-recognized program for disadvantaged fathers to become more engaged and effective parents.
“Speakers included Dr. Ken Canfield, president and founder of the<> National Center for Fathering; <> Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis, Director of Pepperdine University’s Culture and Trauma Research Lab, an expert on partner and child abuse and societal trauma due to racism, sexism and poverty; and <> Charles Lee-Johnson, MSW, CEO of the National Family Life and Education Center,…”
In reverse order:
- Charles-Lee Johnson’s Nonprofit, that his father incorporated in 1993:
| Entity Number | Date Filed | Status | Entity Name | Agent for Service of Process |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1724782 | 05/07/1993 | ACTIVE | THE NATIONAL FAMILY LIFE & EDUCATION CENTER | JOYCE REECE-KITCHEN |
EIN# 95-4423621 ; their charity is marked “CURRENT” however they haven’t filed an IRS with the state since 2007, or an RRF (state report) since 2008. Received a Deliquency warning 6/5/2008:
“WARNING OF IMPENDING TAX ASSESSMENT FOR WHICH YOU MAY BE PERSONALLY LIABLE ..The Attorney General has not received your organization’s annual report(s) as follows:…IRS Form 990, 990-PF, or 990-EZ report(s) for the year(s) ending: 06/30/03, 06/30/04, 06/30/06, and 06/30/07“
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IRS inconsistent between two sites (State AG vs 990finder). One year, the top 3 officers are receivng $65,73 & 95K; (is Joyce Johnson his wife?) another year, nothing, or something. The 2006 tax return at 990finder was stamped received in 2011; etc. etc. Very inconsistent. The “2009” filing below is an empty form, basically… They have no direct HHS grants but some of the RRF forms show they did receive two or three sources of gov’t support, inl. DCFS (note: they are dealing with foster care youth sometimes). Assets — two chevy vans; — ??
| National Family Life and Education Center | CA | 2009 | $0 | 990R | 1 | 95-4423621 |
| National Family Life and Education Center | CA | 2010 | $113,732 | 990 | 19 | 95-4423621 |
| National Family Life and Education Center | CA | 2009 | $58,470 | 990 | 31 | 95-4423621 |
| National Family Life and Education Center | CA | 2008 | $48,791 | 990 | 25 | 95-4423621 |
| National Family Life and Education Center | CA | 2007 | $136,014 | 990 | 24 | 95-4423621 |
| National Family Life and Education Center | CA | 2006 | $265,681 | 990 | 22 | 95-4423621 |
[/spoiler]
- the “Dr.” in “Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis” is licensed clinical psychologist: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Pepperdine (in Malibu, CA — this university puts out a lot of people who work in the courts also):
http://www.drthema.com/biography/
Dr. Bryant-Davis received her doctorate from Duke University in Clinical Psychology with a focus on the cultural context of trauma recovery, as well as the intersection of gender and racial identity. She completed her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center’s Victims of Violence Program. From 2001-2004, she served as Senior Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of the Princeton University SHARE Program. Dr. Bryant-Davis is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University where she teaches on the topics of indivdiual and family development as well as intimate partner violence. She is a contributing author in the books The Psychology of Racism, The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women, and Featuring Females: Feminist Analyses of the Media.
Dr. Bryant-Davis served for three years as an American Psychological Association representative to the United Nations where she advocated for mental health and human rights globally
MINISTRY:
Apparently also preaches at her brother’s Mega-Church also:
Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis is a licensed preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She preached her initial sermon at Empowerment Temple AME Church where the pastor is Rev. Jamal Harrison-Bryant.:
[spoiler]
“He is the leader of a new breed of ministers who embrace the idea of capitalizing on the ever-increasing marketplace of Internet and technological innovations to spread the gospel. With more than 7,500 members attending weekly services at Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, Maryland, and approximately 35,000 followers on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, he believes that “God is not just in the church; He is also in technology.” His mission is to “empower people spiritually, develop them educationally, expose them culturally, activate them politically, and strengthen them economically.”
FAMILY: Bryant has four daughters Topaz, Grace, and twins Angel and Adore. They reside in Baltimore. He is also the brother of Thema Simone Bryant Davis.
Mega church pastor Jamal Harrison Bryant and his wife Gizelle are headed to divorce court. After 5 and a half years of marriage Gizelle Bryant filed for a divorce in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County on January 9. The clergyman [i.e. Jamal] also filed divorce papers in Baltimore City Court on the same day, the Baltimore Sun reports. . . . (then article launches into some more flattery….)
. . . Scandalous rumors of alleged affairs with several women have been rampant since the couple’s engagement. His supposed womanizing went overboard when he impregnated a church member said to be 17 at the time of the time of copulation. [“the time of copulation”? ]When accusations of this affair surfaced in the Summer of 2007, church leaders asked him to step down while they initiated an investigation and awaited paternity test results. Months after the investigation, Jamal Bryant remains the pastor of Empowerment Temple. Court records acquired from the Circuit Court of Maryland do indicate the pastor is the father of a least one other child who was born before he got married. The couple has a set of 1-year-old twins and a 3-year-old.
As Wikipedia shows, guess he had some of the “evangelizing” [Missionary Position?] (of other women while married) issues common to some in his field. Baltimore Sun article, 2/16/08 by Samathi Reddy:
Bryant and his wife, a former model, are known for their flashy lifestyle, which includes a Bentley and a multimillion-dollar Canton waterfront property. Their lifestyle has attracted criticism from those who say the church is more about his business enterprises and building wealth than religion. Her original divorce complaint stated that he earned more than $350,000 a year.
He is seeking a “limited divorce,” while his wife has requested an “absolute divorce,” according to papers filed in Baltimore Circuit Court. A limited divorce is a voluntary legal separation required in Maryland for a year before most absolute divorces. Absolute divorces, however, are allowed immediately under certain circumstances, such as adultery and cruelty. In Gizelle Bryant’s filing last month, she accuses her husband of adultery, cruel treatment and “excessively vicious conduct” that caused “reasonable apprehension of bodily suffering so as to render cohabitation unsafe.” [/spoiler]
One of MANY reasons I’m not too impressed with the concept of soliciting faith-based organizations to teach responsible fatherhood! However, Dr. Thema Harrison-Bryant is not her brother . . . . More background on their parents’ involvement in civil rights, time in Africa, social justice concern, leadership over many churches
“His efforts ( Back to Hershel K. Swinger of The Children’s Institute) 
resulted in a major expansion of Project Fatherhood – through funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – to 50 organizations located in various parts of Los Angeles County.”(Very nice obituary in the LA times notes what he did):
The clinical psychologist who taught at Cal State L.A. created Project Fatherhood, which has provided therapy, support and training for more than 7,000 low-income urban fathers since 1996.
June 12, 2011|By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
Swinger, a clinical psychologist, was a senior vice president of Children’s Institute who taught counselor education and directed a state-funded child abuse prevention center at Cal State L.A. for many years.
He was the founder and senior director of Project Fatherhood, a program that has provided therapy, support and training for more than 7,000 low-income urban fathers since its inception 15 years ago. Under Swinger’s leadership, it received a $7.5-million federal grant in 2006 to replicate the program in 50 agencies in Los Angeles County. It was recognized as a model program by the Obama administration last year.
Familiar with studies showing that children with absent fathers are far more likely to be poor, abuse drugs, drop out of school and enter the criminal justice system, Swinger believed that focusing on the fathers was a crucial part of the solution.
No mention of “present mothers” or of the fact that since 1996, one of the most dangerous places to be as a mother is attempting to leave violence with children and having a father contest custody — in other words, the climate towards women because of these programs, has become literally hostile. If indeed those facts ARE so, who is to say or not say that the real cause was “father-absence” or not something else? Is that a universal truth, like gravity — or a social construction? It helps expand a grants program if you are on the advisory council to another foundation: Federal funding allowed Project Fatherhood SM to expand in 2006 across Los Angeles County. Now, through a community grants program*, small faith-based and community organizations have been empowered to replicate the Project Fatherhood SM model in their own neighborhoods. …*The Project Fatherhood SM Community Grants Program is part of the Responsible Fatherhood Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance.
ORGANIZATION NAME |
STATE |
YEAR |
TOTAL ASSETS |
FORM |
PAGES |
EIN |
| National Center for Fathering | KS | 2010 | $414,597 | 990 | 28 | 48-1083848 |
| National Center for Fathering | KS | 2009 | $668,266 | 990 | 30 | 48-1083848 |
| National Center for Fathering | KS | 2008 | $541,246 | 990 | 29 | 48-1083848 |
| National Center for Fathering | KS | 2007 | $1,280,008 | 990 | 30 | 48-1083848 |
| National Center for Fathering Inc. | KS | 2006 | $573,780 | 990 | 45 | 48-1083848 |
| National Center for Fathering Inc. | KS | 2005 | $1,471,113 | 990 | 29 | 48-1083848 |
| National Center for Fathering Inc. | KS | 2004 | $719,773 | 990 | 23 | 48-1083848 |
| National Center for Fathering Inc. | KS | 2003 | $355,475 | 990 | 23 | 48-1083848 |
| National Center for Fathering Inc. | KS | 2002 | $241,183 | 990 | 22 | 48-1083848 |
Purpose of this group (KS location):
LIVE SEMINARS ON STRENGTHENING FATHERS. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS PROVIDED FOR FATHERS. PROVIDE LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR FATHERS. RESEARCH FOR ABOVE SERVICES. SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE OF PROGRAMS.
One employee listed got $62K — that turns out to be severance pay:
“KEN CANFIELD, THE FOUNDER, RECEIVED PAYMENTS FOR SERVICES PROVIDED DURING 2007.
JIM MOORE RECEIVED PAYMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS SEVERANCE AGREEMENT. ($62K)”
The National Center for Fathering seeks to improve the well-being of children by promoting responsible fatherhood and equipping men to be more engaged in the lives of children. Programmingissummarizedinfourareas: Research,Training,ProgramsandResources.
Training (notice how many are trademarked. (from 2007 tax return: of its budget, $914K that year was “government grants.” So this is what our gov’t is sponsoring:
. TheNationalCenterforFatheringconductslivetrainingseminarstoequipmen for their role as fathers using its research-based curricula. Specific curricula developed by the National Center include : The 7 Secrets of Effective FathersTM,[+ Book, $12.99] Connecting With Your KidsTM Quenching the Father ThirstTM,Dads ofDestinyTM and R.E.A.D. to KidsTM The Center ‘s father training courses all include a version of its Personal Fathering Profile TM, a self-scored assessment that allows dads to compare their fathering practices with a national database. The Center also conducts train-the-trainer workshops to equip locally-based father trainers who work independently in their communities through faith-based,social service and other organizations to equip men.
I guess if all those fathers need train-train-trainers, maybe they ain’t nuttin’ but a hound-dog, and never will be, according to HHS!Either that, or there’s another reason for all this obsession.
Carey Casey honored as a “Champion of Change” – Watch Video
As Father’s Day approaches there are so many reasons to be encouraged here at the Center … One big reason is an opportunity I had to visit the White House. I was one of ten people honored as “Champions of Change” in the field of fatherhood. This is an effort by the White House Office of Public Engagement and Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to promote positive fatherhood, and it’s my privilege to be there and talk about Championship Fathering … “from the White House to the outhouse,” as I always say. I am also humbled. I know that I … [Read More…]
(ET . . .CET. . . eRA). . . . here’s USPTO.gov — wonder how many of those “tm” items really are “tm” ed! Colorado State marketing a booklet ‘Connecting with your Kids” http://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Self_Help/CO_Parenting_Time_Book2004.pdf
Connecting With Your Kids
Copyright © Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
But it thanks Ken Sanders of (the) “Center on Fathering” and a “Colorado Fatherhood Connection”
Notice that in the MIDDLE of “fathers.com” top row of hyperlinks (to other pages) is “STORE” The store page kinda reminds me of the “cooperative parenting institute” store page (Termini & Boyan):
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Monthly Specials For July
There now — that’s WAY better than actually helping custodial mothers and the children in their house DIRECTLy through, say, child support enforcement — or TANF (food stamps / cash aid) — or else, who knows what might happen? Mom might pick up a pair of extra underwear for her kids, and start feeling more, er independent than is appropriate for faith-based, er, churches… **Re: the woman’s version of abstinence education (for those who don’t know this already) is I guess the counterpart to “every man’s battle” which is aimed at men, and the most obvious of the 10 commandments (in sex realm), thou shalt not commit adultery & I guess thou shalt not covet . . .. http://everymansbattlevideo.com/ 
While I could care less about the original book, here’s what another Christian commentary says about it, which seems apt: “Psychoheresies”: http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/emb112.html [PAL Vol11N2 Apr-May ’03] “EMB is loaded with unsubstantiated information…There is no reference to research to support what Arterburn says. When important and critical statements like that are made, the reader is entitled to some proof beyond Arterburn’s personal experiences…” “Faulting Fred’s father is repeated and amplified throughout the book. It is sinful to give such details because it violates the commandment to honor one’s father. Such details also give the impression that it wasn’t really Fred’s fault that he sinned in this way. One gets the distinct impression that Fred is painting a picture of personal victimhood.“ “the authors do not just refer to these sinful activities by name; they spell out these sinful activities and explicitly express details of “ogling,” sexual dreaming, “sexualized acts,” and “rampant masturbation,” etc. Such explicit details feed the flesh and work to build camaraderie among those men involved in lust. …“ Author Stephen Arterburn is the founder of the chain of New Life Clinics (p. 3). The clinics are advertised on a number of pages in the book with a full-page ad on page 230. An underlying idea here is that, if the reader just can’t make it on his own with this self-help book, he can find help at one of these clinics. As far as insurance coverage is concerned, New Life Clinics function like other secular psychological and psychiatric clinics that dispense psychotherapy and drugs.
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Who Messed with my Message? DNK, but here’s the rest of it…
Huffington Post does moderate its comments and has been caught censoring some from protective mothers (long ago, it was circulated). I was responding to Ms. Stevenson’s commentary on recent legislation affecting the Americans with Disability Act (2008 revs, which clarified it after previous interpretations so narrowed the act as to exclude many disabled, including the war-disabled by PTSD).
I quoted a piece from Courthouse News (12/2011) which predated some MSM commentary on the Pentagon misdiagnosing veterans with PTSD to avoid paying for help. Thanks a lot, they just survived a warzone and are coming back messed up, but that being messed up wasn’t from war, it was really just a “personality disorder.”
For anyone who’s come out of abuse (the frying pan) and landed in a custody contest (the fire), this sounds REAL familiar. Hopefully my blog here is “off-road” enough no key-logger or anyother stranger will feel the need to play games with it while I put out this message, again, continued from comments section at Huffington Post, re: Corporate Lobbyists waging war on the Disabled
“Comment continued @ blog (http://wp.me/psBXH-14M) I think this is vital information”
(see last post). I was adding a comment to direct to here, and while typing, half the post disappeared (without keyboard contact on my part. That’s PROBABLY what I get for comparing war to domestic violence, and the Pentagon’s handling of vets to the family law systems’ handling of “DV-Vets,” and following up with a recommendation we get the next President to RESCIND the faith-based Executive Orders from 1/29/2001 (first two issued by George Bush in a possibly stolen election) and then posting how six sisters in California are suing CPS and the church which covered up YEARS of sexual abuse by their biological parents.
Some of us have been in this “reporting coverup of abuse by major US institutions” long enough that the hacking thing just happens, and it happens in reference (apparently) to specific topics I also note that the US DODNetwork has been on my site a little more than I’m comfortable with.
The top half was deleted, but there’s the conclusion I come to. Really, the problem is that U.S. Citizens have tolerated too much institutional abuse already, starting with the income tax and private banking, proceeding quickly to destroying the currency and forbidding people to accumulate private gold for (decades), and so forth. Basically wars are about Private Greed anyhow (see the book of James for some pontification (: on that).
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1A. The Pentagon tried to dump its responsibility to its own vets on others by misdiagnosing PTSD as nonreimbursable PD (personality disorder), meaning someone else has to pay, or they can just stay injured. It did this to over 22,000 vets since 2001…
2A. The family law system (Conciliation Courts) tries to dump its responsibility to citizens on the public at large by habitually misdiagnosing individual crimes (domestic violence, child abuse, stalking, kidnapping, etc.) as relationship, family matters, meaning someone else has to pay, or they can just stay injured. Since at least the mid-1990s it has this down to a system and is spitting out situations that involve crime scene cleanups.
2B. On 1/29/2001, GWBush issued his first two executive orders (http://tinyurl.com/6oozeww, & http://tinyurl.com/7e2dqss) = (yet) more faith-based involvement in: DOE, DOL, HHS & HUD. These were Presidential orders and had to be followed; they also need to be rescinded! Why? See “six sisters sue state officials for missing sex abuse.” http://tinyurl.com/7w93o92
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Maryland’s Family Court Expansion, AFCC Model, takes Unifying Symbols to a New Level: Paper, Cotton, Leather, Fruit, Wood, Iron…[Publ. Mar. 27, 2012, Reformatted Jan. 19, 2022..]
Maryland’s Family Court Expansion, AFCC Model, takes Unifying Symbols to a New Level: Paper, Cotton, Leather, Fruit, Wood, Iron…[Publ. Mar. 27, 2012, Reformatted Jan. 19, 2022..] (short-link added 2022, ends “/psBXH-13l”)(<~to differentiate “I, 1, and l” characters, as you can see, last three characters are two numbers (one, three) [as in “1,2,3,4,5..”) and a lower-case “L” as in the word “lower” in this sentence).
This post has some tags which I’ll post up here.
2012 text begins below the next two text boxes (Preface/Previews in this color and this color) (basically two sections for me to explain and complain a bit why it’s still necessary to promote and re-publish this information, i.e., why you should still read this and other very early posts, especially one dated Oct. 1, 2012).
Except for adding some structure (boxes, etc.) to the post, or removing large images with now-broken links (i.e., to condense it), the text is as when I first wrote it, cleaned up somewhat and if any added text, I’ve marked it.
This post’s tags (also visible at the bottom of the post) and I see also “categories”:
Written by Let’s Get Honest, March 27, 2012 at 6:38 pm:
Posted in (blog categories): 1996 TANF PRWORA (cat. added 11/2011), AFCC, Business Enterprise, Cast, Script, Characters, Scenery, Stage Directions, Child Support, Designer Families, History of Family Court, Lackawanna County PA Corruption Protests, My Takes, and Favorite Takes, OCSE – Child Support, Organizations, Foundations, Associations NGO Hybrids, Parent Education promotion, Parenting Coordination promotion, Psychology & Law = an AFCC tactical lobbying unit
Tagged with AFCC, AFCC’s agenda, Barbara Babb, Biblical Metaphors (Daniel’s Statue), Child Support, Child SUpport Incentive Grants, Dept of Family Admin, domestic violence, Education, Families Matter, family law, Fatherhood in OCSE grant priorities, Gloria Danziger, HHS influence on Judiciary, high-conflict, Jaycee Dugard, Kids’ Turn, Maryanne Godboldo, mediation, Mixed Metaphors, Parenting Coordination, Phil Garrido, social commentary, Supervised Visitation, therapeutic jurisprudence,Trayvon Martin,UBaltimore School of Law CFCC,Unified Family Courts
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CONTEXT / TIMELINE of THIS REFORMATTING UPDATE, JAN. 2022:
If you detect some sarcasm (and very long sentences), that’s an indicator I’ve been recently exposed to some stunning levels of silence on the infrastructure and key players of the court as well as anything approaching tools to look for the funding, or remember what kind of Constitution we have in the United States of America, and what it’s goals are: NOT centralized control by an elite, self-anointed few who plan all in private and where possible seek to undermine rule of law and separation of powers between federal and state governments, and between the various branches of government. I’m also, upset by my own limitations in getting messages out while managing basic life responsibilities (even without young children still in the home), even after having fled “the scene of the crime” that is, the remains of my connections to my own family — and of course career — in California, after summer 2018…
Someone needs to stand up to the mis-information, not just “stand by” while it slides by and continues gathering momentum. Selling false hope ought to be, but isn’t a crime. It’s just unethical — but I believe that where good ethics fail to show up in the moral category, they’re not particularly likely to be present in legal ones either.
Withholding key information that would shed a different light than the one being sold on a situation, and which might lead to more sensible solutions — or at least refusal to waste time on ones with built-in failures and which refuse to look at the foundations of institutions (such as the family courts as parts of governments) is an indicator that the goal isn’t helping the public, it’s something FAR different, and far less altruistic.
This isn’t the place to identify which nonprofits or social media activity has “gotten to me” the past month or so. I will elsewhere, though..
I recently had cause to quote my October 1, 2012, post called:
Family Courts: Crippled, Incompetent and Corrupt — or just “Broken”? [Published Oct. 1, 2012..] (short-link ends “-1a4”]
Looking on my blog dashboard to locate and label (short-link), reformat it, I mis-remembered the month saw this published (and a few more draft) posts from March, 2012 which might also be worth re-posting. After all, anecodotal information tends to repeat and endure. While survivors come and go, somehow those saying the same types of things about the same systems they survived tend to have a longer “tenure” on publicity — for obvious reasons, i.e., their lives weren’t so disrupted ,devastated, and they didn’t, most of them, abruptly lose work, have to relocate in a hurry, and weren’t stranded a decade or a more in “high-conflict” (sic) divorces in a corrupt (not “broken”) family court system, USA, systems set in place by specific, identified tax-exempt organizations: two more high-profile than the third, but the third had the most vested interest in keeping the corruption in place. (The ABA, NCJFCJ and AFCC, in case you were wondering which ones).
Family Court “Reform” has been on a certain trajectory for two decades now (observed from the USA, but I also see the globe-trotting program reproduction and attempts to get similar legislation (can you spell “Coercive Control”?) legislated throughout the USA now that it’s been sold to the UK (2015ff).
I also think I’m going to re-post the Oct. 1, 2012 essay. It’s been over ten years and it’s time, altnough no lack of new developments to report on…
So, the globe-trotting and conferencing (without actual physical travel still possible) is even more intense recently, especially some of us “formerly-battered mothers/”family court guantlet survivors” haven’t forgotten what it’s like to see an entire sector (the domestic violence sector and self-appointed thought-leaders (as they’ve called themselves, on-line, on website, often for years) year after year spewing a combination of erroneous, undocumented on incomplete information to the unsuspecting, carried under advanced-degree and academic institution association status (i.e., as “experts” and all that goes with the common understanding of that word, in addition to legal definitions of it when testifying in court), and commending and giving air-time and in-hindsight sympathy to any mothers (target niche for carrying pre-fabricated messaging forward) so badly traumatized or devastated in the family courts trying to move on, protect themselves, protect their children, function independently from an impossible dynamic, they’ll go on “auto-pilot” without screening for truth, logic, reliability, and completeness of that which they’ve been fed, or screening what those who’ve been feeding it have been routinely, almost ritually, withholding, because it conflicts with the media messaging and the particular policy goals of such groups.
WHY this Update: To make it more readable while I’m in the vicinity of this post as blog administrator (and only contributor). I now include date and year published, borders, width-limits, and post title with visible short-links (in the opening body of each post). Also a blog format update (to two front pages, allowing one stationary front page and another for “Current Posts”) somehow turned all former posts into a sort of sickly-pale-green background — not pleasant to look at!).
Even though I doubt my older posts are re-read much; they are a record of what I was saying when — and a witness to FOR HOW LONG so much of tis information has been covered-up by people simply with SO much to say, SO many people willing to say it for them, mostly (so it seems) for free, and for a little attention and sense of purpose.
The cover up is just as effective by social “excommunication” from close-knit and in-synched messaging by certain people who’ve been driving the “family court reform” sector as if it were an owned turf — when it’s not. Others live in this country too, and what we have to say matters, whether it’s popular or not. Unfortunately, some us have had to also say — often — that dishonesty and withholding IS the character of cults, abusers, sociopaths, and people with an ulterior motive than truth-telling, or fixing government (for the better, that is). I didn’t ask for that role. Finding enough truth and having a conscience basically has obligated me to speaking it.
Preface to Formatting a VERY OLD (nearly ten years ago) but what I was saying then might as well still be news, given the typical “Family Court Reform” rhetoric, including of known survivor mothers who channel certain nonprofits intent on NOT saying what I’ve been saying — unlike most of these — since the time I first heard of it.
There’s a need to keep at least ONE voice continuing to say this alive. I’m still alive, so I’m intent to keep this voice out there, although it takes longer to put together and document with links (and/or uploaded images) post using reason and proof, than it does to repeat the mantras, incantations, catechisms so people go into trance mode and, like any good cult members, groomed personalities (or, are possibly being paid in more than just moral support and retweets, “honorable mentions” on-line for their collective silence on key elements and more probable causes of the family court custody crises), continue speaking the same ‘details-devoid, proof-absent, omitting the elephant organizations in the room rhetoric.
Meanwhile, periodically and privately, I’ll get messages (either on this blog or Twitter) saying how the information I post (i.e.. here and/or on-Twitter) or shared (privately as I have publically when it came up) has validated what they sensed, and were feeling really isolated about for not going along with the crowds who don’t like to talk specifics or keep “survivors” honest (keeping certain other organizations honest isn’t about to happen, I found out the hard way)…//LGH Jan. 19, 2022.
ORIGINAL (2012) TEXT BEGINS HERE:
This post is PR on something I just discovered recently and, to be honest, am distressed enough about to follow up by phone with the leadership of some of the groups involved, asking they why these things should be happening statewide.
The dialogue illustrates what’s going on, but is a little complex, and unless you have an interest in monitoring the expansion and methods of expansion of the family law bureaucracy WITHIN or as an ADJUNCT to our court system, you may not want to go through it all.
I think there is some legitimacy — however widespread, commonplace, and entrenched this system currently is, and however expensive and status quo it has become — to a theory that the “Family Court Services” if not the “Family Courts” themselves (as it pertains to divorce and custody) — are illegitimate. They are private enterprises posing as public ones, and servicing their funders, who as it happens, tend to occupy high places in (1) the Executive Branch of the United States Government (I’m talking HHS, DOJ in particular) and (2) the corporate /tax-exempt foundation stratosphere — almost none of which is truly accessible to individuals who are coming through these courts, unless they already have prior involvement.
First of all, they are about as unbelievingly condescending and patronizing (‘move over, let us experts handle your family — give us your kid, etc.’) as it is possible for any human relationship to be, apart from some truly unhealthy (i.e., violent/abusive) ones. They deal in force, and subterfuge when it comes to proliferating the program, and like any good, truly “disaster capitalism” enterprise, they deal with distressed populations, exploit them, and call that service. I come from California, and preliminary expose on this was done courtesy one of the oldest and (not exactly being updated) sites around — but it still is up and still serves a purpose — Johnnypumphandle.com. [[FYI, that website is still up I’ve linked to it in the title.//LGH 2022]]
Dedicated to Exposing Illegal and Immoral Practices in The Courts
… Particularly the Family Law System which includes the Courts, Attorneys, Family Services, Psychologists and Therapists,Visitation Monitors, Ad-Litems, Social Workers, Child Protection Agencies and all of the agencies that support these so-called professionals.
Collusion among individuals within the family law system takes place to extract assets from troubled parents. The system is designed to increase the wealth of the family law professionals at the expense and heartbreak of families. Corrupt practices abound. [EndQuote]
For example, why does the “Los Angeles County Superior Court Judges Association” change its name to simply “Los Angeles County Superior Court” in its IRS filings? and what are they actually doing at their special events, including sporting events, and how do they manage to have (year 2010) a net loss of $10,000, being such smart judges (only revenue — membership dues, totaling $50K that year)?
….. (This is a table from the Foundation Center; its format looks different, but I’ve posted tax returns from this source throughout the blog for years. //LGH 2022)…….>> Look under “Candid.org/research-and-verify-nonprofits/990-finder” to re-run this search (use the EIN# below, “95-4663773” NOT entity name!), or go to the IRS (apps.irs.gov/app/eos/ for, these days, probably a more current return. Or check the Secretary of State (businessSearch.sos.ca.gov) if this entity is still registered, which it probably is. The adress in 2019 still read 111 Hill Street (#204)…
ORGANIZATION NAME |
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TOTAL ASSETS |
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| Los Angeles Superior Court | CA | 2010 | $120,654 | 990EO | 10 | 95-4663773 |
| Los Angeles Superior Court | CA | 2009 | $95,314 | 990EO | 12 | 95-4663773 |
| Los Angeles Superior Court | CA | 2008 | $102,801 | 990EO | 11 | 95-4663773 |
| Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Association | CA | 2007 | $87,134 | 990EO | 9 | 95-4663773 |
| Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Association | CA | 2006 | $90,509 | 990EO | 9 | 95-4663773 |
| Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Association | CA | 2005 | $70,106 | 990EO | 8 | 95-4663773 |
| Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Association | CA | 2004 | $55,818 | 990EO | 5 | 95-4663773 |
per “Johnny” (at ‘JohnnyPumphandle.com’)
The Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Association is a good example of one of the latter Non-Profit organizations whose stated purpose is “promotion of judicial profession pursuant to section 501(c)(6)”. (see form 3500 – Exemption application). The Association boasts a budget of over $100,000 – none of which will be received from members dues {?} – and most of which will be funded by “Professional Education programs for the legal community”. Unlike most professional organizations, this organization was granted(?) the use of County premises, complete with facilities for it’s [sic] office space and management of it’s business within the County Court facilities at 111 North Hill Street.”
They call it collaboration, or cooperation, or “interdisciplinary.” This person calls it, more correctly, “collusion” and states the purpose as accurately as anyone else . .. to extract assets from troubled parents. Like I said, disaster capitalism. Ambulance chasers. Sometimes they (family law professionals) get impatient and take control of the wheel, cause accidents, and then show up to help solve the resulting “Family conflict,” at public and/or parent expense. How philanthropic.
REGARDING THE TITLE OF THIS POST:
I called up Liz Richards of NAFCJ.net (who I think I’ve made it clear, has provided the skeleton which started my years of investigative reporting here on this blog and off it — not the motivation, but enough clues to grab onto, validate, and develop as now my own material).
She declared (I would like to see) that any family law judge in the state of Maryland must be an AFCC member to take office. That’s an INexact quote, but I was very shocked to hear that possibly membership is a pre-requisite to the practice statewide. Whether or not that’s so, it’s absolutely clear that this state is pretty well sewn up by those interests.
I have blogged before (herein) on UBaltimore’s School of Law “CFCC” in context of therapeutic jurisprudence.
This time, let’s talk about whose idea was it to create a system of family courts in the state? Perhaps you should forward questions to this person about what analogies of Paper, Cotton, Leather, FRUIT, etc. say about the Department of Family Administration’s disturbing (in)ability to sort, label, categorize and prioritize information.
Barbara A. Babb
Director and Associate Professor of Law
B.S., Pennsylvania State University (interesting — does she keep up with the Penn State, Luzerne County or Lackawanna County scandals?)
M.S., Cornell University
J.D., Cornell Law SchoolUB faculty member since 1989. Member, New York and Maryland bars. National leader in family justice system reform, focusing on creation of unified family courts. Spearheaded Maryland’s efforts to create a family court in 1998. Advisory Board Member, ABA Standing Committee on Substance Abuse. Member, ABA Unified Family Court Coordinating Council and the AFCC Family Court Review Editorial Board. Past chair, Family/Juvenile Law Section, Association of American Law Schools.
Telephone: 410-837-5661
E-mail Barbara Babb
This professional is clearly AFCC-friendly (so is the ABA, it seems), and heads up this Center at a Law School. Notice the bolded part. This is what AFCC professionals, who can do this — do. They Unify Family Courts (then preside over them, and appoint cronies). I’ve seen it in state after state. The Hon. Chester Harhut did this in Lackawanna County (as I recall) and the parents are already picketing outside the courthouse. Or, were, until some of the protesters got manhandled (so to speak) by a local judge’s sheriff’s, resulting in a federal lawsuit on the civil rights violation, and a second one on the inappropriate pushing of the GAL system on the county without running it by the public!
I’m only including the next individual to show that she hails from London! (see “three cities that rule the world”) in a country from which, allegedly, the United States fought a war of independence, in part to establish a DIFFERENT form of government …
Gloria Danziger
Senior Fellow
B.A., London University
M.Phil., Oxford University
J.D., Georgetown University Law CenterFormer staff director, ABA Standing Committee on Substance Abuse, focusing on how substance abuse/truancy are addressed in the justice system. Former director, Communities, Families and the Justice System, an ABA unified family court initiative. Former public policy consultant, reporter and editor.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Families Matter Symposium: Working Toward a More Therapeutic Family Justice System
The invitation-only “Families Matter” Symposium was held last Thursday and Friday, June 24 and 25, at the University of Baltimore. Co-sponsored by CFCC** and the American Bar Association Section of Family Law, the symposium promises to be a powerful catalyst for change. It was exhiliarating to participate in the exchange of groundbreaking ideas that emerge when you put together some of the leading professionals from a range disciplines to discuss how to improve the experience of children and families in the family justice system. More exciting, however, is the fact that this group of high-powered experts is committed to move from theory to action by implementing many of their recommendations for changing the family law system.
[[IN HINDSIGHT: Jan. 19, 2022, update: re-formatting and re-reading this post nine-plus years later,]] I notice that “CFCC” is not an entity and so cannot co-sponsor anything. This is part of a sales pitch (I’m currently struggling to get out — again — several posts detailing and showing how awareness of exact ENTITY names involved is key to following any funding. When it comes to the “CFCC” at the University of Baltimore School of Law, know that this School of Law along with the University of Baltimore is part of the Maryland University system — it’s a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY. Hence this symposing was in effect a public/private “invitation-only” symposium held at public expense. Also (I’m blogging this as I speak), the ABA Section of Family Law isn’t a separate entity. So the real sponsors here (at least as labeled) were too huge established institutions pursuing what seems like a private agenda for “Families.” How does that fit with the established ways to represent the will of the people and get laws passed? This group of “HIGH-POWERED EXPERTS” intended to CHANGE THE FAMILY LAW SYSTEM.
The irony of it, the ABA and AFCC (obvious primary connection Babb, and likely also Danziger at the CFCC) were, along with (per a 1997 Ohio Supreme Court document which I blogged, probably under the post titled “Blueprints” or a nearby one) the NCJFCJ, the ones who spearheaded establishments of family courts around the country — and by the turn of this century, hadn’t even got them in all fifty states. So, apparently if you established a thing, you’re also in charge of reforming the thing. No matter what the public does or doesn’t know about its origins, its financing and the private cult-like behaviors and allegiances of those administering it — and no matter that the public pays for it collectively AND, as parents going through it, individually. //LGH 2022.
Most definitely, if laws, and law systems are to be seriously changed, it should be through closed-door conferences of high-powered experts excited about their collective clout, at law schools –and absolutely not through the legislative process involving the general public voting on bills they had some say in, or (God forbid) perhaps even initiated.
A Dec. follow-up specifically acknowledges AFCC leadership in this, and gives a detailed plan, which I gather has been followed, and we might as well read about for a retrospective!
Thursday, December 2, 2010 Families Matter: Reforming the Family Law Process
It is hard to believe it already has been almost six months since CFCC and the ABA Section of Family Law co-sponsored the Families Matter Symposium. We at CFCC are excited about the work that has been done since the symposium to expand the Families Matter initiative. Because of the partnerships that this initiative created – among CFCC, the ABA, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), to name a few – we are able to tackle the issue of family law reform from every angle, something that has been a struggle in the past.In the coming months and years, we will work together with our partners to ensure that therapeutic reform touches legal and court structures, relevant service providers from across disciplines, and the lawyers and other legal actors who work so closely with families.
“and other legal actors”???
The 2008 newsletter I quoted is titled” Families Matter.” Now that we know where that came from, let’s go back to this 2008 piece of ?? listing marketable commodities to connect with court reform years….
“. . .Paper, Cotton, Leather, Fruit, Wood, Iron…”
SERIOUSLY?
Yes, apparently. Look for yourself:
Newsletter of the Department of Family Administration
…and this is now nearly four years ago! Shame!!! on those who did NOT blog the AFCC when they blogged against “PAS,” subconsciously? taking cues from leadership who, while knowing quite well about this, chose not to mention it in their press releases, news letters, or triumphantly mainstream on-lines, leaving the job up to volunteer bloggers, commenters (on those on-lines) and other “lone wolf investigators” who were honest enough to recognize something was missing in the protective mothers AND in the domestic violence rhetoric.
These people — and they still exist, generation after generation — should expect something a little better than to have the same groups simply sell out the mothers for profit, for professional respectability, for the ability to publish, for public platforms in setting agenda, and for nice websites.
To better understand this, also see the site “MDJustice.com” (I have a draft post explaining the presence of Parenting Coordination right next to Domestic Violence in a Family Law Task Force. This is relevant because the training and resources are intended for PRO BONO service providers. However, it would make this post too long….
I was very upset (and tweeted this) to discover HOW inbred the Women’s Law Center, and a spiffy website resource (MDJustice.com) focusing on pro bono legal services — not only are they sharing language of “parenting coordination” right next to “domestic violence” talks in the family law task force, (a clear indication of AFCC’s fathers’ rights agenda. You can talk about domestic violence, or even child abuse, so long as you don’t seriously believe this should affect how much contact the offender has with the victim, and act on that belief to protect the child or (often as not) his/her mother.
Newsletter of the Department of Family Administration
Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts (“AOC”)
Vol. 8, No. 1 summer 2008
What’s going on when a system of progressive reform and expansion of the family law system (with a token nod towards protecting people) chooses to name each year of reform after a COMMODITY? Subliminal message, much?
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PAPER
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COTTON
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LEATHER
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FRUIT
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WOOD
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IRON
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WOOL
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BRONZE
(See newsletter). These are collective labels to conveniently (and privately to those who get the newsletter) describe an 8-year agenda for family court reform. The use of these unifying symbols is specific to this court (from what I can tell) and is just — to tell the truth — weird. I am remembering about this time how Hitler was adept at using symbols, flags, mottos, gestures, and of course music & staged events to get his point across. So are the Boy Scouts. So were are certain religious cults. Is this what we’re heading for, again?
What do these commodities (which they are) have to do with the situations they are hooked to, except to, in the minds of the readers, signify some collective progress achieved in a collective goal?
Even little kids are often taught as youngsters, sorting shapes, and being tested on their ability to categorize various common objects. But look at this order — is it by durability? Is it by function? Is it by value? No – it’s a hodgepodge:
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PAPER COTTON LEATHER FRUIT WOOD IRON WOOL BRONZE
By the most obvious (to me, at least) functions of the material, it would go:
- Writing, clothing & linens, clothing & bookbinding, FOOD, building & fuel, Building & tools, Clothing, Statuary-sculptures.
- very, very less, Huh?, yes, with some tinder, no – must be smelted, yes, no unless you have a serious furnace.
The book of Daniel (Daniel 2), (Old Testament) Nebuchadnezzar’s dream , at least stuck to one material, and stuck them in some sort of order, from precious, to common, showing the ability to (1) sort and (2) prioritize.
1And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. 2Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
In some ways, reminds me of our current Republican (?) system, complete with task forces, commissions, institutes, and initiatives.
4Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
5The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.6But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
31Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
32This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Perhaps our current leaders should take a lesson from history — and learn to sort and select: The statue was described in general — and then in particular, from the HEAD to the FEET. Each part, in order, was described as to what it was made of. Then, stage set, the action was described:
34Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.35Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
36This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king
To begin with, the four empires with their metals and beasts [different part of “Daniel”] fall into a simple pattern: they are listed in order of decreasing splendor and increasing strength and cruelty to symbolize their moral degeneration from one to the next (cf. Daniel 2:39).
In the vision of the statue in Daniel 2, the four empires are symbolized by four metals: viz., the golden head of Babylonia, the silver chest of Media, the bronze loins of Persia, the iron legs of Greece, and the iron-and-clay feet of the successor states of Greece. The metals decrease in monetary value yet increase in strength from the top to the bottom of the statue.
Our author probably got the idea of the four ages from Hesiod, an eighth-century BC Greek poet. Hesiod taught that the world has gone through four ages, each one morally inferior to its predecessor: viz., the ages of gold, silver, bronze, and iron (Works and Days 106-201).[8] Our author need not have read Hesiod; he and his fellow Jews probably picked up the idea from Greeks living in that part of the world.
SO, What, exactly, is the organizing and ordering principle behind this Department of Family Administration Newsletters’ selection of:
PAPER COTTON LEATHER FRUIT WOOD IRON WOOL BRONZE
IS THE TRUE MESSAGE BEHIND THE METAPHOR ITS INHERENT MEANINGLESSNESS?
BASED ON THE CONTEXTS, POSSIBLY THE CONTENTS AND WORDS ARE, INDEED MEANINGLESS, ESPECIALLY GIVEN WHICH IS NEXT TO WHAT….
Here’s the cute description provided in newsletter, after which on to more serious matters, for example, what is the DFA doing, anyhow? Why are there DFAs? WHY are courts adding divisions to their regular courts, and doing so in particular “flavor”??
Scroll past my indented summary in this color font, to get to that discussion. The choice of metaphors is basically frivolous and meaningless — the real agenda has already been identified years earlier and is in operation nationwide, anyhow. The newsletter simply makes it sound more legitimate….
PAPER – Year 1 — “we have produced a lot of paper in ten years!” ~ COTTON – Year 2 — “Courts have found creative and powerful ways to make connections with their communities. In 2006, Carroll County Circuit Court participated with a network of community providers to create a guide that provides survivors of violence with a roadmap to recovery.” (Cotton refers to a “Clothesline Project” The word “Cotton” is as arbitrary as Paper in usage). LEATHER – Year 3 — “Over the past decade, the public “purse” that supports the family justice system has been strength-ened thanks to the advocacy of Chief Judge Robert M. Bell and State Court Administrator Frank Broccolina and the support of the Maryland General Assembly. Family divisions and family services programs are supported by jurisdictional grants given annually to each Circuit Court. In Fiscal Year 2008, courts received $11.2 million to support case management innovations and services to families involved indomestic and juvenile case types.” (LEATHER — the Purse Strings. The State Legislature, obviously, opens and closes that purse, and for its own reasons, opened it towards the establishment of more programs and services). FRUIT – YEAR 4 — “We profoundly hope that the efforts of the last ten years have borne “fruit” in the experiences of Maryland families and children. {{for that level of grants, it had better be more than just “hope”}} One measure maybe the level of involvement parents have in their children’s lives post-litigation. {{translation: access/visitation grant systems, plus some.}} WOOD – Year 5 — “The Maryland “bench” has been innovative in the last ten years,{{and produced a lot of paperwork}} and courts have shown a willingness to try new approaches. Administrative judges have adopted case management strategies to ensure family and juvenile cases are handled effectively”
(Currently in Pennsylvania, those administrative orders, for example, to hire a certain guardian ad litem, are coming under FBI fire (Lackawanna County, Stefanov case, Pilchesky case, see my other blog http://lackawannafamilycourtfederal.blogspot.com and recent local news coverage)
WOOD is for “The Bench.” Cute. etc. For example, WOOL – Year 7 — “Families entering the justice system are wrapped in the “mantle” of services that enable courts to make more effective decisions and that aid and guide families in transition. All Maryland courts offer co-parenting education, Family Law Self-Help Centers, child access mediation, and custody evaluations. Some courts offer psychoeducational programs for children and specialized parenting courses; others are experimenting with parenting coordination, employment programs for child support payors, and special dispute resolution services for high-conflict families.”*(*IN OTHER WORDS, BUSINESS AS AFCC/CRC/WELFARE REFORM USUAL). BRONZE – YEAR 8 — “The Judiciary’s family court reform efforts have brought attention to bear on the special needs of victims of domestic violence.” (It seems very appropriate that the concern for domestic violence should be limited to their “special needs” not their protection — and come last.)
The Administrative Offices of the Courts (nationwide) are enough of an issue themselves (and the various “CFCC’s underneath some of them, like in California). Yet under this Maryland one is a Department of Family Administration. I guess we all one big happy family, then? Or if not — and there are some unhappy upstarts, this can be administered? (reminds me of the Texas Office of Attorney General’s “Office of Family Initiatives” associated with, at least recently, Michael Hayes).
NOTICE THE DETAILS:
Family Administration – Maryland state court system (http://mdcourts.gov/family/index.html)
Notice of Funding for Family Division/Family Services Grants: Grant Documents
http://mdcourts.gov/family/grantadmin.html
Yes, please do click on the “notice of Funding” link above. You’ll see about 9 different categories of funding. I looked at “Child Support Incentives.” These are programs that bring money to the courts, if these services are utilized (the $2/1 ratio, I believe) and while it’s labeled sometimes Welfare, there is a way to get non-welfare cases involved as well. For example (and this is a CURRENT, 2013, OPEN (well, just closed 2/2012) grant solicitation):
“NOTICE OF FUNDING AVAILABILITY — CHILD SUPPORT INCENTIVE FUNDS GRANTS — ISSUED 1/3/2012, APPLICATIONS DUE 2/15/2012″
(Hover cursor over link or click on it to read description of the grant’s purpose — this is important, because it shows the HHS/Maryland Judiciary financial connection, in a Cooperative Reimbursement Agreement (CRA) according to performance incentives — i.e., how many child support orders did you establish, etc.
(update note: The link is broken, but the text showing if you “hover over link” is housed on this blog and can still be read (a magnifying glass might help.. or “zoom” function).
Given that, Funding Priorities, Category “A” actually seem to relate to — child support enforcement. Such as: “Privatizing and outsourcing of child support enforcement services; Improving automation capabilities; Creating public awareness projects; Developing programs and special projects;
But Category “B” may sound familiar to some parents with the toughest custody cases around, that are behaving very oddly, given the circumstances of the case: And this includes (notice order of Priorities here).
Other categories of programs that are considered “non-Title IV-D” that may still be eligible for funding upon the receipt of a written exception by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement are set forth in OCSE-AT-01-04** and include, but are not limited to:
Fatherhood programs; Education and job programs for non-custodial parents; Programs targeting incarcerated or putative fathers; Teen pregnancy programs; Parenting programs; (in CALIF, this would be a “KIDS TURN” or KY or PA, a “KIDS FIRST” get it?) Mediation or couples counseling (including as provided by faith-based grantees, no doubt), and Visitation issue resolution when linked to non-payment of support.**
**WTH does that mean? When a noncustodial parent actually says, “I’d be more willing to pay my child support ORDER if I were given more ACCESS to my KID(s)??” In practice, this may possibly include supervised visitation, it may also include abatement of child support arrears in exchange for more time with the other parent.
These programs must also demonstrate a clear connection and collaboration with the Maryland Child Support Enforcement program.
**”OCSE-AT-01-04” refers to an “Action Transmittal.” Overall, this shows us that (no matter what a parent may have been told while filing for custody, or its modification up front) the judiciary is deeply hooked into the HHS financing and its incentives to do this, or that, regarding something as essential to life (in many cases) as child support. . . . . . And I believe this particular grant notice demonstrates that the OCSE/Child support Incentives ARE indeed in good deal about fatherhood programs” and parenting education (etc.).
Supporting Children Through the Judiciary Conference
(Broken link/Image removed/ description read simply “Photo of children and families.” The url reads: http://mdcourts.gov/family/conferences.html)
The Department of Family Administration is responsible for assisting Maryland’s courts in developing a comprehensive family law system. Family Administration has overseen the creation of family divisions in Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Montgomery County and Prince George’s County, and family services programs in the remaining 19 counties. We work with judges, masters, court administrators and family support services coordinators to develop family law policy and to identify and promote best practices in the handling of domestic and juvenile cases.(1*)
“The mission of family divisions is to provide a fair and efficient forum to resolve family legal matters in a problem-solving manner, with the goal of improving the lives of families and children who appear before the court. To that end, the court shall make appropriate services available for families who need them. The court also shall provide an environment that supports judges, court staff and attorneys so that they can respond effectively to the many legal and nonlegal issues of families in the justice system.”
Connie Kratovil-Lavelle, Esq.
(*1) The sentence “we work with judges, (etc.) . . . to develop family law policy to . .. identify and promote best practices…..” indicates a different identity, a distinction between (1) “WE” (meaning the Dept. of Family Administration/”DFA”) and (2) said judges, masters, etc. . . . . . .
As I can see below, the Executive Director of this DFA is promoting AFCC policy, hook, line and “sink-it.”
There’s a long, colorful newsletter above, which mixes talk of in order, page 1, Civil Protective Orders (DV issues) & Parent Coordination Promotion.
(An AFCC created profession, hostile to mothers in practice, which does an end run around legal protections and due process (as it was intended to) and to date already has brought up serious objections from parents and issues of billing, in PA at least (I blogged this over at http://thefamilycourtmoneymachine.blogspot.com, including the underlying case Yates v. Yates, where a father protested the parenting coordinator, and the family law div. of PA Bar Case Notes (newsletter 2009), exulting in how they shot down all his arguments. Some of the casework I read showed a custody evaluator appointed in 2002 or 2003, who I looked up. It turns out that in 2004-2005 (per 2006 Winter Psychology Board newsletter), this same man was cited for discipline and subjected to supervision of his practice!
NEWSLETTER, PAGE 1, TOPIC 1 — “SEE, WE ARE HELPING STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!”
Statewide Civil Domestic Violence Database to be Launched this Summer
By Clifton Files, Esq., Domestic Violence Specialist, Administrative Office of the Courts, Department of Family Administration
The Maryland Judiciary will be one of the first states with a comprehensive database of civil orders of protection when it launches the Domestic Violence Central Repository this summer. In September 2006, the Department of Family Administration was awarded a grant by the Office of Violence Against Women from the Grants To Encourage Arrest Policies Program (GTEAP). The focus of the grant was to develop a Statewide Civil Domestic Violence Database. The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) and the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (MNADV) coordinated with an advisory committee and held six regional focus groups to discuss and consider recommendations on policies, procedures, and uses for the database.
The end result of these efforts is a central database for District and Circuit Court judges and staff that will store all domestic violence orders, produce statistics, and enhance enforcement (cont’d on page 23….)
PAGE 1, TOPIC 2 — “BUT DON’T WORRY, DADS & AFCC PROFESSIONALS — WE REMEMBERED YOUR AGENDA TOO”*
Refining Emerging Practices Proposed Parenting Coordination Rule Completed
By Pamela Cardullo Ortiz, Esq., Executive Director, Department of Family Administration
Innovation always happens on the ground.*** In their efforts to better serve families, courts have experimented with emerging practice models, especially those with promise for assisting high conflict families who often require a great deal of court intervention. Over the last several years, a number of Maryland Circuit Courts have begun to refer high conflict families with child access issues to “parent coordinators.”
As practiced in other states, and defined by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC): Parenting coordination is a child-focused alternative dispute resolution process in which a mental health or legal. . .(Cont’d on page 24)
..professional with mediation training and experience assists high conflict parents to implement their parenting plan by facilitating the resolution of their disputes in a timely manner, educating parents about children’s needs, and with prior approval of the parties and/or the court, making decisions within the scope of the court order or appointment contract. (Guidelines for Parenting Coordination, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.)
A Maryland Version of Parenting Coordination
To ensure that Maryland courts have the requisite authority to order parties to work with a parenting coordinator, and to guide courts and define the practice in light of Maryland law, the Custody Subcommittee of the Judicial Conference Committee on Family Law has developed a proposed parenting coordination rule. The subcommittee, chaired by Judge Deborah S. Eyler of the Court of Special Appeals, worked for two years with judges, court professionals, parenting coordinators, attorneys, and others to devise a draft rule and proposed application for parenting coordinators. Those documents were reviewed and approved by the Committee on Family Law at their meeting this April. The proposed documents have been approved by the Conference of Circuit Judges and will be forwarded to the Rules Committee for consideration.
The proposed rule defines the practice for Maryland courts and addresses issues relating to the appointment of a parenting coordinator, qualifica- tions, selection, term of service, removal and withdrawal of a parenting coordinator, fees, and the powers and scope of appointment.
Innovation always happens on the ground.*** In their efforts to better serve families, courts have experimented with emerging practice models, especially those with promise for assisting high conflict families who often require a great deal of court intervention. Over the last several years, a number of Maryland Circuit Courts have begun to refer high conflict families with child access issues to “parent coordinators.”
by Diane Bukowski (photo from http://justice4maryanne.com/) August 12, 2011
DETROIT – Despite testimony that Mia Wenk, a “social services specialist” with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, authorized the psychiatric hospitalization of Ariana Godboldo-Hakim, 13, and the administration of four dangerous psychotropic drugs, without reviewing the child’s medical records, a jury found Aug. 9 that it was Ariana’s mother Maryanne Godboldo who had neglected her.
Godboldo, who obtained alternative holistic treatment for her daughter from a medical doctor, testified earlier that she was suffering from a reaction to immunizations administered in Sept. 2009. She said Ariana had been diagnosed with encephalitis, not a psychiatric disorder. Neither she nor Ariana’s father Mubarak Hakim authorized their daughter’s treatment at Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric facility after an army of police seized her from her home on Blaine near Linwood in Detroit March 24, 2011.
Sometime the silence is religious, but not always.
So, when these mothers then figure out there are more activist, feminist women’s groups who really do say NO! !!! to sexual assault (including in relationships) and violence — and seek some help or leadership in navigating their legal and civil rights in the matter, and/or the police force, reporting, district attorney’s office, or as it may be, nonprofit domestic violence support groups which might help them file a pleading to protect their lives (and/or their kids), when they couldn’t safely flee or separate on their own — we should expect to be treated as equals and intelligent adults in knowing who has a seat at the roundtable deciding our future, and the future of others in our shoes.
In Maryland, it’s crystal clear — the women’s law groups and pro bono service providers — do not see fit to check back with these mothers after years after in the court, and to perhaps courageously revamp whether the Parenting Coordination Pushers deserve a seat at the round table.
FIRST, mothers, being women, tend to look for women’s groups for leadership when it comes to defense against severe violence in the home, or in attempting to terminate a relationship. I know that’s all who helped me out — no patriarchal institution around did squat to stop, report, intervene with, or refer me to anyone who could intervene with, my ex’s nasty habit of assault & battery when offended, or when simply ornery, plus all the other things that I later learned compromised domestic violence (but knew at the time were simply terrorism).
Such mothers in these situations KNOW we could be killed, and after separation, are sometimes being stalked, threatened, have suffered serious injuries, major setbacks to maintaining stable employment and social involvements outside the home — or only such social involvements as will NOT intervene with the family situation and tell the batterer to stop!!! or suffer at least social consequences.
We also know (by now) that while the domestic violence groups have developed a language to describe and “unify” such situations, the domestic violence groups have lumped women WITHOUT children together with women WITH children (i.e., mothers), and focused their efforts on tactics and issues that assist the former — while failing to report in a timely and transparent manner about their dealings with the “fatherhood” (men’s supremacy) groups. They do not even report that these groups exist, what their names are, and how their influence affects custody hearings.
They do not even name the groups, do not name the primary groups running the family law system; they do not warn mothers about what lies ahead in enough time to protect themselves, or to build some sort of “ark” to keep from being financially and psychologically drowned in the legal system after the DV group got its warm body, a protective order, a ## to put on a report, and enough to justify next year’s funding.
In short, they do not report what they know because it’s simply not a transparent situation.
Mothers are not told that they are fighting a contest which is funded on the opposing side by the welfare institution that perhaps may be providing them with housing, food initially. That this institution literally has been diverting millions of dollars to assist “noncustodial fathers” in regaining contact with their kids, based on the theory that these same mothers are the serious risk to their own kids’ futures by the fact of not having a man in the home who is that kids’ Dad even when that kids’ Dad was assaulting her and/or them (or molesting them) is as such not a fit parent.
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The Roots of Welfare DeForm — An Off-Road List of Links — and the Virtues of Educating Oneself
At bottom are the links from the blog “The Family Court Franchise System.” In one of the recent posts I said, “I’m not your mother” and suggested people educate themselves. Plus two interesting links, “Educate Yo’self” and “Educate Yourself” which is where I got part of my education.
Where I got the habit of educating myself goes far back — but in these matters, it came from having relied on others’ information, which — though true enough — was (1) not the overview– critical elements were missing, and (2) given what was missing, almost irrelevant. Instead they (includes Lundy Bancroft, and classic DV rhetoric) talked psychology and group dynamics and some law — something anyone living through what I did has already figured out (though how nice to have the correct terminology).
But they should’ve talked finances — and corporate influence, federal incentives, and private nonprofit associations running demonstration social science projects on as many POOR people (or other distressed populations) as possible, allegedly for the public’s benefit, and definitely at the public’s expense. In fact, public and private are so blurred at this point, it might be best to ignore what the law says about domestic violence and criminal behavior, and rebuttable presumptions against custody going to the batterer (after all — plenty of judges, family law attorneys, custody evaluators, guardians ad litem and child support professionals most certainly do. And we have to deal with them anyhow, so why not figure out what’s going on!
ROUGHLY in TWO PARTS: I. “EDUCATE YOURSELF” — and several examples. And then II. (as to the Roots of Welfare) — some links to do so. (under 7,000 words this time). That’s if you care to. I’m not your babysitter, I do this for conscience, possibly for therapy, and for a track record. But they are — as this shows — hauling off (kidnapping) children systematically from good parents, to get drugged under foster care. They are, when there are two parents fighting for custody, able to prolong and make horrible the fight for years — and so “justify” major grants continuations (under TANF, which makes this possible) to promote marriage and fatherhood, and other very chauvinistic (antifeminist) ideas. At the heart of this is the concept that it’s OK to force indoctrination (“education”) on poor people to address why they are poor, that the elite are appropriate in “molding” the poor — through force — to understand their function and place in society. Religion is a good aid to this policy.
Too much of this policy comes from places like the British monarchy, or the Nazi apparatus, or prior to that, Prussian educational ideas. Too much of it depends on free time to philosophize on the backs of workers that barely make ends meet and have far less freedom or mobility simply because they have no family wealth (assets), whether earned, or inherited. Add to this things like eminent domain (government condemning, then seizing, then selling to cronies, private property) and we’re headed back towards the concentrations camps. Depending on when “Judgment Day” comes — or does not. Whatever the status of “judgment day” — there is nothing “just” or equitable about Welfare Reform, which enables flexible grants to the states, and gives bribes to states for going along with federal policy. Federal policy rubberstamped by Congress — but managed by the Executive Branch (White House and friends) through a grants system. The grants system itself is based on the TAX system — and there you go.
This is commonly called fascism ,centralization and we know already where that heads off to.
I know what dictatorship is at the family level, the personal level — and am pretty hot and bothered to see how far down the line it is at the national level as well. When one’s life’s work is repeatedly interrupted, and finally stopped — talking about the essential things one has done in life — one has to rethink the “hold a job til retirement model,” particularly being a female of a certain age in the USA, Post-Bush1 & Bush 2.
(Read PART I, those comments will make more sense).
PART I
Educate Yo’self was actually the domain name of a link someone else passed along. What a source!
The Declaration of Independence – 1776
The Articles of Confederation – 1777
The Constitution for the United States – 1787
Its Sources and Its ApplicationCommitment One: To Freedom
The commitment of greatest importance is a DEDICATION To FREEDOM at all levels of society, and in all dimensions of our existence.
A commitment to freedom, at all levels, is automatically a commitment to Rigorous Honesty, the Truth of Reality. After all, once freedom is insured, why would one need to lie?
Any “security” that is gained through loss of freedom is a Commitment to Fear. Any nation that puts “national security” above personal freedom has lost its power base
And, tidbits such as (from 2008 — an election year. Worth a review this year?):
545 People Responsible for America’s Woes
by Charley ReeseHave you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices – 545 human beings out of the 300 million – are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
. . . .Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. . . .
REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS . . .
They continue to re-authorize the bastard child called “Welfare Reform,” which has simply expanded the ways to steal from the public, without proper monitoring, to infinity. Go review the beginnings of the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (I’ve blogged). Or, how from state to state, the We, the People method of disciplining criminal judges (leaving ethical ones on the bench) — which was the grand jury — was replaced by “judicial complaint boards.”
It was passed in 1996, a Bill Clinton year. See “From the Transvaal to TANF” talking about “triangulation” and how Clinton promoted this version of the “contract with America” as inbetween and somehow “above” party politics. The fact is, the Republicans had succeeded in shutting down government over this, his ass was in trouble with Monica Lewinsky, and there was the Hillary problem; in fact there were plenty of problems.
The “Transvaal’ refers to Cecil Rhodes. Bill Clinton, among others, was a Rhodes Scholar. The purpose of the Rhodes Scholarship, and the beyond-my-liftime-goal of Mr. Rhodes, was to regain the British control of the world, particularly the return of “the US colonies” to their master. Some people were born to lead, others were born to serve, obviously. Now, fast-forward to TANF reform and look at who it’s targeting for program indoctrination on how to stay married, and quit propagating outside of marriage, etc.
The fact is, were it not for the artificial income tax / fiat currency situation (our $$ is off the gold standard), were it not the need for extremely wealthy corporations to maintain their wealth by a constant flow of competition for jobs in their industries (i.e., keep wages down, profits up) and to through a HUGE variety of means — including trying to designate everyone, almost, a behavioral health case, and where possible, proscribe some nice medication for them (i.e., control by medication, even sterilization) — it would be a piece of cake for an intelligent, motivated and in control of her own infrastructure single mother (or single father) to handle their own affairs.
One of the affairs the largest mistakes made by OUR forebears (generally speaking of USA citizens), over a century ago, was to hand over the raising of our kids to the government in the form of compulsory public education — which is compulsory time-wasting and dumbing down, and has been for decades. It’s an ABSOLUTE disgrace and has become simply a values battleground anyhow. And as to equalization — go check your senators — and all the representatives in the state — how many of them are sending their kids to public schools, and were themselves the product of public schools. How many of them came from honest working backgrounds and were not raised with a silver spoon, or a political spoon?
Some of the greatest minds and leaders had the least traditional schooling — for themselves. Horace Mann fits that example, and it appears 1837 was the first year there was a “Secretary of Education” at least in massachusetts. Now we have a Secretary of Health and Human Services (more control over this country than you realize, and the current one is from Kansas), plus the “Czars” — interesting term, huh? Look at him:
HORACE MANN‘s SCHOOLING
” The Father of American Education”,” Horace Mann, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, in 1796. Mann’s schooling consisted only of brief and erratic periods of eight to ten weeks a year. Mann educated himself by reading ponderous volumes from the Franklin Town Library. This self education, combined with the fruits of a brief period of study with an intinerant school master, was sufficient to gain him admission to the sophomore class of Brown University in 1816” (4, Cremin). He went on to study law at Litchfield Law School and finally received admission to the bar in 1823 (15, Filler). In the year 1827 Mann won a seat in the state legislature and in 1833 ran for State Senate and won.” Throughout these years Horace Mann maintained a thriving law practice, first in Dedham and later in Boston” (5, Cremin).
” Of the many causes dear to Mann’s heart, non was closer than the education of the people. He held a keen interest in school policy. April 20, 1837, Mann left his law practice and accepted the post of the newly founded Secretary of Education” (6, Cremin). During his years as Secretary of Education Mann published twelve annual reports on aspects of his work and programs, and the integral relationship between education, freedom, and Republican government. He wanted a school that would be available and equal for all, part of the birth-right of every American child, to be for rich and poor alike. Mann had found “social harmony” to be his primary goal of the school. (8, Cremin).
Horace Mann felt that a common school would be the “great equalizer.” Poverty would most assuredly disappear as a broadened popular intelligence tapped new treasures of natural and material wealth. He felt that through education crime would decline sharply as would a host of moral vices like violence and fraud. In sum, there was no end to the social good which might be derived from a common school (8, Cremin).
Reformers, some influenced by the Prussian education reforms of the early 1800s, emerged at an incredible rate hoping to change the general form and ideals of American education to keep up with the evolving country. No longer would small rural schoolhouses, untrained teachers, or limitations in education opportunities suffice. A more defined system, which, as Mann and others had hoped, would also be free and universal, slowly garnered both grassroots and governmental support. The goal was to mold individuals from all socio-economic backgrounds into good people and good citizens through education. It was believed that in doing so everyone would be able to achieve to their fullest potential.
What about Ben Franklin? (1706-1790)– was he adequately schooled? Methinks not:
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin’s mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children.
Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling. But, as young Benjamin loved to read he had him apprenticed to his brother James, who was a printer. After helping James compose pamphlets and set type which was grueling work, 12-year-old Benjamin would sell their products in the streets.
What about Albert Einstein’s schooling?(1879-1955) (from a UK site): (take some time, here…)
Albert Einstein was born on 14th March, 1879 at Ulm, Germany. He spent his early life in Munich, where his family owned a small manufacturing business. He studied Judaism at home, where he also was taught to play the violin. He showed a great interest in Mathematics and taught himself Euclidian geometry at the age of 12.
What sort of education did Albert receive?
Albert Einstein began school in Munich, but does not seem to have been particularly interested in what was offered there. . .
He was already a self-motivated learner, with experience in (I presume) language, music, and geometry. Are schools BORING the gifted? along with how many others?
Einstein hoped to become an electrical engineer and, at the second attempt, enrolled at the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich in 1896.
It seems that he continued to show little respect for his teachers, as he was not a regular attender at lectures. He spent considerable time studying physics on his own. Despite the lack of time in lecture halls, he graduated as a teacher of physics and mathematics in 1900, but was unable to obtain a post in the university. It has been suggested that he had not impressed his professors enough, which is perhaps not surprising, given his attitude, and so did not receive their all-important backing for an academic career.
Perhaps this lack of respect comes from someone who found something better to do with his time, working on self-assigned projects of interest.
What did he do next?
Albert Einstein became a temporary teacher of mathematics, first at the Technical High School in Winterthur, and secondly at a private school at Schaffhausen.
In 1902 he began work at the Swiss patent office in Bern as a technical expert third class. He remained there until 1909, having been promoted, in 1906, to technical expert second class! He married Mileva Maric, by whom he had two sons, in 1903. They later divorced.
During his time there, Albert Einstein devoted a great deal of his spare time to the study of theoretical physics, and in 1905, received his doctorate for a thesis entitled On a new determination of molecular dimensions. He also published three important papers on theoretical physics
In 1952, he declined the offer of the presidency of Israel and continued his work towards the world renouncing nuclear weapons.
Albert Einstein died on 18th April, 1955 at Princeton and was cremated that day at Trenton, New Jersey. He is, perhaps, the best known scientist of the 20th century
Cranbrook Schools is a private, PK–12 school located on a 319-acre (1.29 km2) campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The schools comprise a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational high school with boarding facilities …Romney went to public elementary schools[17] and then from seventh grade on, attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, a private boys preparatory school of the classic mold where he was the lone Mormon and where many students came from even more privileged backgrounds.[18][23][24][25] He was not particularly athletic and at first did not excel at academics.[18] While a sophomore, he participated in the campaign in which his father was elected Governor of Michigan.[nb 2]Cranbrook Schools is a private, PK–12 school located on a 319-acre (1.29 km2) campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The schools comprise a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational high school with boarding facilities. Cranbrook Schools is part of the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC), which includes the Cranbrook Institute of Science, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Cranbrook House and Gardens. (Nearby Christ Church Cranbrook remains outside this formal structure.) The Cranbrook community was established by publishing mogul George Booth,Cranbrook was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989 for its significant architecture and design. It attracts tourists from around the world. Approximately 40 acres (160,000 m2) of Cranbrook Schools’ campus are gardens. As of 2006, Cranbrook Schools had an endowment of $191 million, among the 15 largest held by America’s boarding schools.[1] In addition, the Cranbrook Educational Community, of which the Schools is a member, has an endowment in excess of $300 million.[2]
Ann Lois Romney (née Davies) (born April 16, 1949) is the wife of American businessman and Republican Party politician Mitt Romney. From 2003 to 2007 she was First Lady of Massachusetts.
She was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and attended the private Kingswood School there, where she dated Mitt Romney. Influenced by their relationship, she converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1966. She attended Brigham Young University and married Mitt Romney in 1969. She completed her undergraduate education through the Extension School at Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in 1975.
As First Lady of Massachusetts, she served as the governor’s liaison for federal faith-based initiatives.
Now THAT is disturbing . . . .
Her background — daughter of the mayor of Bloomfield Hills, who was anti-organized religion. So, she converts to LDS (like Mitt) and her college is put on hold while he completes his. Their marriage, being Mormon:
Ann Davies and Mitt Romney were married by a church elder in a civil ceremony on March 21, 1969, at her Bloomfield Hills home, with a reception afterward at a local country club.[4][12] The following day the couple flew to Utah for a wedding ceremony inside the Salt Lake Temple; her family could not attend since they were non-Mormons, but were present at a subsequent wedding breakfast held for them across the street.[4][14]
When she fell ill, she had access to mainstream and alternative treatments for MS (a very serious disease) — such as equestrianism. Suppose this had been one of her children — they’d have had that access also.
Ann was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998 and has credited a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments with giving her a lifestyle mostly without limitations. In one of those activities, equestrianism, she has consequently received recognition in dressage as an adult amateur at the national level and competing professionally in Grand Prix as well
“No Mandatory Mental Health Screening For Children!” by Ron Paul
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 Op-Ed by Congressman Ron Paul
Maryanne Godboldo, a mother in Michigan, noticed that pills prescribed by her daughter’s doctor were making her condition worse, not better. So Mrs. Godboldo stopped giving them to her. That’s when the trouble began. When Child Protective Services (CPS) bureaucrats became aware that the girl was not receiving her prescribed medication, they decided the child should be taken away from her mother’s custody on grounds of medical neglect. When Ms. Godboldo refused to surrender her daughter to the state, CPS enlisted the help of a police SWAT team! On March 24 of this year a 12 hour standoff ensued and young Ariana was taken into custody. The drug involved was Risperdal, a neuroleptic antipsychotic medication with numerous known side effects. Ms. Godboldo had decided on a more holistic approach for her daughter. She is still engaged in a costly legal battle with the state over Ariana’s treatment and custody.
This is one example of how government’s increasing proclivity to medicate children with questionable psychiatric drugs violates the rights of parents. Just recently, the Government Accountability Office released a report on the astonishingly high rate of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs for children in the foster care system. It is absolutely astounding that nearly 40% of kids in foster care are on psychotropic drugs, some of them taking up to 5 different pills at a time. Some of these children are under one year of age – too young to safely take over the counter cold medication!
Ethan A. Huff,
Natural News
December 15, 2011The horrific saga of Maryanne Godboldo’s battle with domestic terrorists in the government of her home state of Michigan appear to finally be coming to an end. TheDetroit Free Pressreports that two higher courts have confirmed the ruling of a lower court several months ago that Godboldo’s refusal to administer the dangerous Risperdal drug to her daughter was fully legal, and that all charges and actions taken against her by the state were unwarranted.
In case you missed the story, Child Protective Services (CPS) in Michigan sent a SWAT team and tank to Godboldo’s Detroit home back in April after the mother refused to keep giving her 13-year-old daughter Risperdal (risperidone), a dangerous schizophrenia drug that had been causing her daughter to experience severe adverse reactions. Godboldo’s doctor had recommended that she discontinue use of the drug, but CPS felt otherwise, and decided to launch a full-scale terrorist raid on the woman’s home, where they proceeded to illegally kidnap her daughter (http://www.naturalnews.com/032090_M…).
Godboldos focus on daughter’s release: April 17, 2011, The Michigan Citizen, Eric T. Campbell“This case is very simple,” Defense Attorney Allison Fomar told the Michigan Citizen. “The child was taken out of the home without any legitimate, lawful authority. They took her in the most drastic way they could think of, which was to involve Detroit police.. . .Ariana has been in state custody since March 25 without medication.
“If the issue was medication, where is the justice?” Penny said. “Why isn’t she home with her father right now? He has complete authority after Maryanne. To me, they sent her into harms way.”
Penny {{the mother’s sister and a dance teacher at Margrove College}} says her niece was active and normal growing up in a home-schooled environment. She was active in church and received lessons in piano and horseback riding. “There were absolutely no mental issues with her until she had the immunizations and even more with the Risperdal,” Penny said. “It’s been a hell ever since.”
Ron Scott of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality . . .“The child has a father and an aunt and that’s where the mother thought the child was going when she released her,” Scott said. “Judge Pierce says she’s an advocate for families, so we’ll see what happens.”
According to Scott, CPS knew the daughter was doing fine without Risperdal and she was not considered an imminent danger to herself or anyone else.
JURY RULES AGAINST MARYANNE GODBOLDO IN CUSTODY TRIAL
Posted on 08/16/2011 by Diane BukowskiDETROIT – Despite testimony that Mia Wenk, a “social services specialist” with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, authorized the psychiatric hospitalization of Ariana Godboldo-Hakim, 13, and the administration of four dangerous psychotropic drugs, without reviewing the child’s medical records, a jury found Aug. 9 that it was Ariana’s mother Maryanne Godboldo who had neglected her.
Godboldo, who obtained alternative holistic treatment for her daughter from a medical doctor, testified earlier that she was suffering from a reaction to immunizations administered in Sept. 2009. She said Ariana had been diagnosed with encephalitis, not a psychiatric disorder. Neither she nor Ariana’s father Mubarak Hakim authorized their daughter’s treatment at Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric facility after an army of police seized her from her home on Blaine near Linwood in Detroit March 24, 2011.
Wenk said that as she watched the stand-off with police that resulted at Ariana’s home, her only concern was, “I didn’t want her to end up shooting her daughter.”** Wenk is currently facing a federal lawsuit filed by Nathaniel Brent (see next story) for taking his five children, who are of Native American heritage.
Captions: Maryanne Godboldo speaks at rally July 17, 2011 . . . Children’s Center recruits foster parents in billboard off John C. Lodge Fwy.; they are paid $34 per day per head by DHS for each child they take
(**Wenk provoked the crisis to start with, which seems to be pretty standard protocol, where possible to get away with. It also signifies a serious attitude problem, job description or no job description. In this situation, they simply didn’t reckon with an armed mother, and a supportive community expressing its outrage AND investigative reporting on it! The problem is the presence of a system which enables this. That the SWAT team would come in this situation shows that Wenk and friends hold far too much sway. Meanwhile, over in Connecticut, a little boy (and across the country this is happening) is being tortured with symptoms BOTH medical and behavioral, as attested to by doctors — and the GAL in the case still has custody with the father who is doing this! WHy not remove THAT child?) (Answer: money in the family hasn’t been sucked out yet. See CT page on my other blog).
I keep finding more — and very disturbing — information on this case. First of all — we note that this is a mature mother, not a teen mother (see photo, and article below says she’s in her 50s). She is dedicated to taking care of her daughter who is an amputee, and was doing a good job of it; the troubles began with a school-required vaccination, and reactions to it. And although parents are separated, this was not a case which could be played Mom VERSUS Dad.
Health Impact News Editor
According to the Detroit News, a 56-year-old woman faces multiple felony charges and is being held on $500,000 bond after a 10-hour standoff with police, claiming she was protecting her 13-year-old daughter from unnecessary medication. The story which led to this incident, as reported in the Detroit News and The Voice of Detroit, is quite disturbing.
Maryanne Godboldo’s daughter was born with a defective foot that required amputation of her leg below the knee, which led to Maryanne becoming a stay-at-home mother after her birth. Maryanne and her sister Penny now run a dance school in Detroit. Penny Godboldo reported in the Detroit News her niece’s confidence grew, and despite her handicap, she swam, sang, danced and played the piano. However, as she approached middle school age, she apparently wanted to start attending school, and therefore had to “catch up” on required immunizations.
As the Detroit News reports:
“We believe she had an adverse reaction to her immunizations,” Penny Godboldo said.
“She began acting out of character, being irritated, having facial grimaces that have been associated with immunizations.”
Evans said Maryanne Godboldo sought help for her daughter from The Children’s Center, an organization that helps families with at-risk children, where a medical and mental health treatment plan was developed. Godboldo told relatives the medications ordered by the doctor worsened symptoms, including behavioral problems.
“It is an undiagnosed condition, but the doctor had given her psychotropic drugs that caused a bad reaction, made things worse,” said the girl’s father, Mubuarak Hakim. “Maryanne’s decision to wean her from that was making a difference, making her better, helping her to be a happy kid again.”
Maryanne Godboldo apparently has a good reputation in her community, and during the 10 hour standoff many people from the community offered to help with the negotiations, including ministers and community activists, according to reports in the Detroit News. Ironically, it was Wayne Circuit Judge Deborah Thomas, a former polio sufferer and advocate for the disabled, who finally convinced Maryanne to surrender
Embarrassed — or exposed? — although the mother had her criminal charges dropped, and her child back (late December) the Wayne County District attorney, per spokesman, is thinking of re-instating them. They are crazy — but smart enough to know that this case is probably a good chink in the wall.
http://www.miweekly.com/news/85-detroit/5705-mom-in-police-standoff-awaits-decision-on-charges
Last Updated: December 10. 2011 1:00AM
Doug Guthrie/ The Detroit News
Detroit— A judge is expected to announce his decision Monday whether to reinstate criminal charges against a mother who resisted police who forced their way into her home to take her teenage daughter during a dispute over medications. . . .
Acting on a call from a Wayne County Child Protective Services (=CPS) worker, who told police she had obtained an order to remove the child on a claim of medical neglect, the officers responding to Godboldo’s home accused her of firing a handgun at them through a plaster wall after she refused to let them in. Godboldo was talked out of the house. She was jailed for several days until her release on bond, and her daughter was held in a state psychiatric facility for almost two months.
Godboldo was charged with resisting and assaulting police, as well as use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Giles tossed out the charges in August because he said the order used by police as authority to enter the house was invalid. It was never authorized by a judge, but had a rubber stamp signature. Police also testified they don’t normally enforce civil court orders, but had been told by the protective services worker it was a criminal warrant.
And the police didn’t LOOK at the warrant? Do criminal and civil warrants look different from each other?
Some excellent reporting.
Talk about the disparity of viewpoints: Family, Community — versus the System who wants the child to be medicated.
My reading has led me to the conclusion — this is a class war, and at the bottom of the barrel (as to scapegoating) are women who look and act like this one. Like Albert Einstein, Horace Mann, and other leaders, her daughter’s education was not traditional — and part of schooling these days is getting the vaccinations (I even found a reference to James Franklin — Ben’s older brother — protesting vaccinations in his time!). Drugging people is a form of medical control — not just profits — get it? If certain classes of people are being used as test cases for the effects of dangerous drugs, then this comprises a class war against them. Why should this mother AND her community have to wage a legal battle to “buy” back a daughter which had been kidnapped improperly? Why should anyone have to?
At some level, we have got to start acknowledging that mature, independent mothers are a threat to the status quo. For the rest of us, the family law system with its fatherhood funding gets the job done without SWAT teams. But both methods are extortionist.
Listen to “Managing Oneself” (found by checking out the spelling: Onesself or Oneself?)
(Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review, 1999) It’s password protected from copying a single sentence, but (bottom of page 5 or so) talking about what a knowledge ecomony we have, and how one must manage oneself, including knowing one’s learning style. Are you a writer or a reader? For those who learn by writing, he says, school is pure torture– writers learn by writing — not by listening and reading (guess I’m one of those!). Because schools don’t let them learn that way, they get poor grades (speculation, I suppose, as to cause)….
Schools do not accommodate the different learning styles, forcing everyone to learn “the way the school teaches” is “sheer hell for students who learn differently.”
“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves, their strengths, their values and how they best perform.”
Easy to say, but that Michigan Mom seems to be someone who knows herself, her strengths (and her daughters) and certainly her values — so why should she catch this kind of hell, and have her daughter in a psychiatric institution for two months or more, where there is some question whether or not she was also sexually assaulted (some news accounts bring this up) — in the land of the free and the home of the brave?
In case you can’t guess why this case has so grabbed my attention, even though I don’t have a disabled child, while my children were not (to my knowledge) forcibly medicated, the “kidnapping” was enabled around accusations of educational neglect (among others, none of which were proved, as is common) which was in fact educational choice, and an informed one. When we’ve come to kidnapping and tanks/helicopters to prop up a bad decision by a CPS worker, and (see Voice of Detroit reporting, plus I recognized some of the companies investigated, and the system) everyone has to go into behavioral health testing grounds EXCEPT those who are rich enough and independent enough to escape the target range of these programs – then I have to ask – what are we putting our lives and taxes toward to start with? Is THIS something you want to really endorse?
A closer look is warranted at the entire system, and its background. It’s already “culling” the population and in a crisis (see Katrina) guess who gets sacrificed. Now read from Transvaal to TANF, read the congressional testimony just prior to enacting 1996 Welfare Reform (or even read some of the current talk/writing — if you can do so without regurgitating — and, in the mirror, ask whether this was accidental or planned.)
It took me a while to come to the conclusions I have, and I don’t expect others to agree immediately — or ncessarily ever. But I do stand my ground — pay less attention to the talking heads, the mainstream media, and a lot more to your legislators and do NOT underestimate the influence of the family court system. After all, a lot of money is going missing in the process — so what’s that money going INto? Drugs? Legal or illegal, or is there a difference?
It takes a good deal of context to separate Info from DISinfo. And it’s work, too. With time, it gets a lot easier, though.
At bottom are the links from the blog “The Family Court Franchise System.” In one of the recent posts I said, “I’m not your mother” and suggested people educate themselves. Plus two interesting links, “Educate Yo’self” and “Educate Yourself” which is where I got part of my education.
Where I got the habit of educating myself goes far back — but in these matters, it came from having relied on others’ information, which — though true enough — was (1) not the overview– critical elements were missing, and (2) given what was missing, almost irrelevant. Instead they (includes Lundy Bancroft, and classic DV rhetoric) talked psychology and group dynamics and some law — something anyone living through what I did has already figured out (though how nice to have the correct terminology).
But they should’ve talked finances — and corporate influence, federal incentives, and private nonprofit associations running demonstration social science projects on as many POOR people (or other distressed populations) as possible, allegedly for the public’s benefit, and definitely at the public’s expense. In fact, public and private are so blurred at this point, it might be best to ignore what the law says about domestic violence and criminal behavior, and rebuttable presumptions against custody going to the batterer (after all — plenty of judges, family law attorneys, custody evaluators, guardians ad litem and child support professionals most certainly do. And we have to deal with them anyhow, so why not figure out what’s going on!
ROUGHLY in TWO PARTS: I. “EDUCATE YOURSELF” — and several examples. And then II. (as to the Roots of Welfare) — some links to do so. (under 7,000 words this time). That’s if you care to. I’m not your babysitter, I do this for conscience, possibly for therapy, and for a track record. But they are — as this shows — hauling off (kidnapping) children systematically from good parents, to get drugged under foster care. They are, when there are two parents fighting for custody, able to prolong and make horrible the fight for years — and so “justify” major grants continuations (under TANF, which makes this possible) to promote marriage and fatherhood, and other very chauvinistic (antifeminist) ideas. At the heart of this is the concept that it’s OK to force indoctrination (“education”) on poor people to address why they are poor, that the elite are appropriate in “molding” the poor — through force — to understand their function and place in society. Religion is a good aid to this policy.
Too much of this policy comes from places like the British monarchy, or the Nazi apparatus, or prior to that, Prussian educational ideas. Too much of it depends on free time to philosophize on the backs of workers that barely make ends meet and have far less freedom or mobility simply because they have no family wealth (assets), whether earned, or inherited. Add to this things like eminent domain (government condemning, then seizing, then selling to cronies, private property) and we’re headed back towards the concentrations camps. Depending on when “Judgment Day” comes — or does not. Whatever the status of “judgment day” — there is nothing “just” or equitable about Welfare Reform, which enables flexible grants to the states, and gives bribes to states for going along with federal policy. Federal policy rubberstamped by Congress — but managed by the Executive Branch (White House and friends) through a grants system. The grants system itself is based on the TAX system — and there you go.
This is commonly called fascism ,centralization and we know already where that heads off to.
I know what dictatorship is at the family level, the personal level — and am pretty hot and bothered to see how far down the line it is at the national level as well. When one’s life’s work is repeatedly interrupted, and finally stopped — talking about the essential things one has done in life — one has to rethink the “hold a job til retirement model,” particularly being a female of a certain age in the USA, Post-Bush1 & Bush 2.
(Read PART I, those comments will make more sense).
PART I
Educate Yo’self was actually the domain name of a link someone else passed along. What a source!
The Declaration of Independence – 1776
The Articles of Confederation – 1777
The Constitution for the United States – 1787
Its Sources and Its ApplicationCommitment One: To Freedom
The commitment of greatest importance is a DEDICATION To FREEDOM at all levels of society, and in all dimensions of our existence.
A commitment to freedom, at all levels, is automatically a commitment to Rigorous Honesty, the Truth of Reality. After all, once freedom is insured, why would one need to lie?
Any “security” that is gained through loss of freedom is a Commitment to Fear. Any nation that puts “national security” above personal freedom has lost its power base
And, tidbits such as (from 2008 — an election year. Worth a review this year?):
545 People Responsible for America’s Woes
by Charley ReeseHave you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices – 545 human beings out of the 300 million – are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
. . . .Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. . . .
REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS . . .
They continue to re-authorize the bastard child called “Welfare Reform,” which has simply expanded the ways to steal from the public, without proper monitoring, to infinity. Go review the beginnings of the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (I’ve blogged). Or, how from state to state, the We, the People method of disciplining criminal judges (leaving ethical ones on the bench) — which was the grand jury — was replaced by “judicial complaint boards.”
It was passed in 1996, a Bill Clinton year. See “From the Transvaal to TANF” talking about “triangulation” and how Clinton promoted this version of the “contract with America” as inbetween and somehow “above” party politics. The fact is, the Republicans had succeeded in shutting down government over this, his ass was in trouble with Monica Lewinsky, and there was the Hillary problem; in fact there were plenty of problems.
The “Transvaal’ refers to Cecil Rhodes. Bill Clinton, among others, was a Rhodes Scholar. The purpose of the Rhodes Scholarship, and the beyond-my-liftime-goal of Mr. Rhodes, was to regain the British control of the world, particularly the return of “the US colonies” to their master. Some people were born to lead, others were born to serve, obviously. Now, fast-forward to TANF reform and look at who it’s targeting for program indoctrination on how to stay married, and quit propagating outside of marriage, etc.
The fact is, were it not for the artificial income tax / fiat currency situation (our $$ is off the gold standard), were it not the need for extremely wealthy corporations to maintain their wealth by a constant flow of competition for jobs in their industries (i.e., keep wages down, profits up) and to through a HUGE variety of means — including trying to designate everyone, almost, a behavioral health case, and where possible, proscribe some nice medication for them (i.e., control by medication, even sterilization) — it would be a piece of cake for an intelligent, motivated and in control of her own infrastructure single mother (or single father) to handle their own affairs.
One of the affairs the largest mistakes made by OUR forebears (generally speaking of USA citizens), over a century ago, was to hand over the raising of our kids to the government in the form of compulsory public education — which is compulsory time-wasting and dumbing down, and has been for decades. It’s an ABSOLUTE disgrace and has become simply a values battleground anyhow. And as to equalization — go check your senators — and all the representatives in the state — how many of them are sending their kids to public schools, and were themselves the product of public schools. How many of them came from honest working backgrounds and were not raised with a silver spoon, or a political spoon?
Some of the greatest minds and leaders had the least traditional schooling — for themselves. Horace Mann fits that example, and it appears 1837 was the first year there was a “Secretary of Education” at least in massachusetts. Now we have a Secretary of Health and Human Services (more control over this country than you realize, and the current one is from Kansas), plus the “Czars” — interesting term, huh? Look at him:
HORACE MANN‘s SCHOOLING
” The Father of American Education”,” Horace Mann, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, in 1796. Mann’s schooling consisted only of brief and erratic periods of eight to ten weeks a year. Mann educated himself by reading ponderous volumes from the Franklin Town Library. This self education, combined with the fruits of a brief period of study with an intinerant school master, was sufficient to gain him admission to the sophomore class of Brown University in 1816” (4, Cremin). He went on to study law at Litchfield Law School and finally received admission to the bar in 1823 (15, Filler). In the year 1827 Mann won a seat in the state legislature and in 1833 ran for State Senate and won.” Throughout these years Horace Mann maintained a thriving law practice, first in Dedham and later in Boston” (5, Cremin).
” Of the many causes dear to Mann’s heart, non was closer than the education of the people. He held a keen interest in school policy. April 20, 1837, Mann left his law practice and accepted the post of the newly founded Secretary of Education” (6, Cremin). During his years as Secretary of Education Mann published twelve annual reports on aspects of his work and programs, and the integral relationship between education, freedom, and Republican government. He wanted a school that would be available and equal for all, part of the birth-right of every American child, to be for rich and poor alike. Mann had found “social harmony” to be his primary goal of the school. (8, Cremin).
Horace Mann felt that a common school would be the “great equalizer.” Poverty would most assuredly disappear as a broadened popular intelligence tapped new treasures of natural and material wealth. He felt that through education crime would decline sharply as would a host of moral vices like violence and fraud. In sum, there was no end to the social good which might be derived from a common school (8, Cremin).
Reformers, some influenced by the Prussian education reforms of the early 1800s, emerged at an incredible rate hoping to change the general form and ideals of American education to keep up with the evolving country. No longer would small rural schoolhouses, untrained teachers, or limitations in education opportunities suffice. A more defined system, which, as Mann and others had hoped, would also be free and universal, slowly garnered both grassroots and governmental support. The goal was to mold individuals from all socio-economic backgrounds into good people and good citizens through education. It was believed that in doing so everyone would be able to achieve to their fullest potential.
What about Ben Franklin? (1706-1790)– was he adequately schooled? Methinks not:
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin’s mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children.
Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling. But, as young Benjamin loved to read he had him apprenticed to his brother James, who was a printer. After helping James compose pamphlets and set type which was grueling work, 12-year-old Benjamin would sell their products in the streets.
What about Albert Einstein’s schooling?(1879-1955) (from a UK site): (take some time, here…)
Albert Einstein was born on 14th March, 1879 at Ulm, Germany. He spent his early life in Munich, where his family owned a small manufacturing business. He studied Judaism at home, where he also was taught to play the violin. He showed a great interest in Mathematics and taught himself Euclidian geometry at the age of 12.
What sort of education did Albert receive?
Albert Einstein began school in Munich, but does not seem to have been particularly interested in what was offered there. . .
He was already a self-motivated learner, with experience in (I presume) language, music, and geometry. Are schools BORING the gifted? along with how many others?
Einstein hoped to become an electrical engineer and, at the second attempt, enrolled at the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich in 1896.
It seems that he continued to show little respect for his teachers, as he was not a regular attender at lectures. He spent considerable time studying physics on his own. Despite the lack of time in lecture halls, he graduated as a teacher of physics and mathematics in 1900, but was unable to obtain a post in the university. It has been suggested that he had not impressed his professors enough, which is perhaps not surprising, given his attitude, and so did not receive their all-important backing for an academic career.
Perhaps this lack of respect comes from someone who found something better to do with his time, working on self-assigned projects of interest.
What did he do next?
Albert Einstein became a temporary teacher of mathematics, first at the Technical High School in Winterthur, and secondly at a private school at Schaffhausen.
In 1902 he began work at the Swiss patent office in Bern as a technical expert third class. He remained there until 1909, having been promoted, in 1906, to technical expert second class! He married Mileva Maric, by whom he had two sons, in 1903. They later divorced.
During his time there, Albert Einstein devoted a great deal of his spare time to the study of theoretical physics, and in 1905, received his doctorate for a thesis entitled On a new determination of molecular dimensions. He also published three important papers on theoretical physics
In 1952, he declined the offer of the presidency of Israel and continued his work towards the world renouncing nuclear weapons.
Albert Einstein died on 18th April, 1955 at Princeton and was cremated that day at Trenton, New Jersey. He is, perhaps, the best known scientist of the 20th century
Cranbrook Schools is a private, PK–12 school located on a 319-acre (1.29 km2) campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The schools comprise a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational high school with boarding facilities …Romney went to public elementary schools[17] and then from seventh grade on, attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, a private boys preparatory school of the classic mold where he was the lone Mormon and where many students came from even more privileged backgrounds.[18][23][24][25] He was not particularly athletic and at first did not excel at academics.[18] While a sophomore, he participated in the campaign in which his father was elected Governor of Michigan.[nb 2]Cranbrook Schools is a private, PK–12 school located on a 319-acre (1.29 km2) campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The schools comprise a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational high school with boarding facilities. Cranbrook Schools is part of the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC), which includes the Cranbrook Institute of Science, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Cranbrook House and Gardens. (Nearby Christ Church Cranbrook remains outside this formal structure.) The Cranbrook community was established by publishing mogul George Booth,Cranbrook was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989 for its significant architecture and design. It attracts tourists from around the world. Approximately 40 acres (160,000 m2) of Cranbrook Schools’ campus are gardens. As of 2006, Cranbrook Schools had an endowment of $191 million, among the 15 largest held by America’s boarding schools.[1] In addition, the Cranbrook Educational Community, of which the Schools is a member, has an endowment in excess of $300 million.[2]
Ann Lois Romney (née Davies) (born April 16, 1949) is the wife of American businessman and Republican Party politician Mitt Romney. From 2003 to 2007 she was First Lady of Massachusetts.
She was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and attended the private Kingswood School there, where she dated Mitt Romney. Influenced by their relationship, she converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1966. She attended Brigham Young University and married Mitt Romney in 1969. She completed her undergraduate education through the Extension School at Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in 1975.
As First Lady of Massachusetts, she served as the governor’s liaison for federal faith-based initiatives.
Now THAT is disturbing . . . .
Her background — daughter of the mayor of Bloomfield Hills, who was anti-organized religion. So, she converts to LDS (like Mitt) and her college is put on hold while he completes his. Their marriage, being Mormon:
Ann Davies and Mitt Romney were married by a church elder in a civil ceremony on March 21, 1969, at her Bloomfield Hills home, with a reception afterward at a local country club.[4][12] The following day the couple flew to Utah for a wedding ceremony inside the Salt Lake Temple; her family could not attend since they were non-Mormons, but were present at a subsequent wedding breakfast held for them across the street.[4][14]
When she fell ill, she had access to mainstream and alternative treatments for MS (a very serious disease) — such as equestrianism. Suppose this had been one of her children — they’d have had that access also.
Ann was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998 and has credited a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments with giving her a lifestyle mostly without limitations. In one of those activities, equestrianism, she has consequently received recognition in dressage as an adult amateur at the national level and competing professionally in Grand Prix as well
“No Mandatory Mental Health Screening For Children!” by Ron Paul
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 Op-Ed by Congressman Ron Paul
Maryanne Godboldo, a mother in Michigan, noticed that pills prescribed by her daughter’s doctor were making her condition worse, not better. So Mrs. Godboldo stopped giving them to her. That’s when the trouble began. When Child Protective Services (CPS) bureaucrats became aware that the girl was not receiving her prescribed medication, they decided the child should be taken away from her mother’s custody on grounds of medical neglect. When Ms. Godboldo refused to surrender her daughter to the state, CPS enlisted the help of a police SWAT team! On March 24 of this year a 12 hour standoff ensued and young Ariana was taken into custody. The drug involved was Risperdal, a neuroleptic antipsychotic medication with numerous known side effects. Ms. Godboldo had decided on a more holistic approach for her daughter. She is still engaged in a costly legal battle with the state over Ariana’s treatment and custody.
This is one example of how government’s increasing proclivity to medicate children with questionable psychiatric drugs violates the rights of parents. Just recently, the Government Accountability Office released a report on the astonishingly high rate of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs for children in the foster care system. It is absolutely astounding that nearly 40% of kids in foster care are on psychotropic drugs, some of them taking up to 5 different pills at a time. Some of these children are under one year of age – too young to safely take over the counter cold medication!
Ethan A. Huff,
Natural News
December 15, 2011The horrific saga of Maryanne Godboldo’s battle with domestic terrorists in the government of her home state of Michigan appear to finally be coming to an end. TheDetroit Free Pressreports that two higher courts have confirmed the ruling of a lower court several months ago that Godboldo’s refusal to administer the dangerous Risperdal drug to her daughter was fully legal, and that all charges and actions taken against her by the state were unwarranted.
In case you missed the story, Child Protective Services (CPS) in Michigan sent a SWAT team and tank to Godboldo’s Detroit home back in April after the mother refused to keep giving her 13-year-old daughter Risperdal (risperidone), a dangerous schizophrenia drug that had been causing her daughter to experience severe adverse reactions. Godboldo’s doctor had recommended that she discontinue use of the drug, but CPS felt otherwise, and decided to launch a full-scale terrorist raid on the woman’s home, where they proceeded to illegally kidnap her daughter (http://www.naturalnews.com/032090_M…).
Godboldos focus on daughter’s release: April 17, 2011, The Michigan Citizen, Eric T. Campbell“This case is very simple,” Defense Attorney Allison Fomar told the Michigan Citizen. “The child was taken out of the home without any legitimate, lawful authority. They took her in the most drastic way they could think of, which was to involve Detroit police.. . .Ariana has been in state custody since March 25 without medication.
“If the issue was medication, where is the justice?” Penny said. “Why isn’t she home with her father right now? He has complete authority after Maryanne. To me, they sent her into harms way.”
Penny {{the mother’s sister and a dance teacher at Margrove College}} says her niece was active and normal growing up in a home-schooled environment. She was active in church and received lessons in piano and horseback riding. “There were absolutely no mental issues with her until she had the immunizations and even more with the Risperdal,” Penny said. “It’s been a hell ever since.”
Ron Scott of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality . . .“The child has a father and an aunt and that’s where the mother thought the child was going when she released her,” Scott said. “Judge Pierce says she’s an advocate for families, so we’ll see what happens.”
According to Scott, CPS knew the daughter was doing fine without Risperdal and she was not considered an imminent danger to herself or anyone else.
JURY RULES AGAINST MARYANNE GODBOLDO IN CUSTODY TRIAL
Posted on 08/16/2011 by Diane BukowskiDETROIT – Despite testimony that Mia Wenk, a “social services specialist” with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, authorized the psychiatric hospitalization of Ariana Godboldo-Hakim, 13, and the administration of four dangerous psychotropic drugs, without reviewing the child’s medical records, a jury found Aug. 9 that it was Ariana’s mother Maryanne Godboldo who had neglected her.
Godboldo, who obtained alternative holistic treatment for her daughter from a medical doctor, testified earlier that she was suffering from a reaction to immunizations administered in Sept. 2009. She said Ariana had been diagnosed with encephalitis, not a psychiatric disorder. Neither she nor Ariana’s father Mubarak Hakim authorized their daughter’s treatment at Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric facility after an army of police seized her from her home on Blaine near Linwood in Detroit March 24, 2011.
Wenk said that as she watched the stand-off with police that resulted at Ariana’s home, her only concern was, “I didn’t want her to end up shooting her daughter.”** Wenk is currently facing a federal lawsuit filed by Nathaniel Brent (see next story) for taking his five children, who are of Native American heritage.
Captions: Maryanne Godboldo speaks at rally July 17, 2011 . . . Children’s Center recruits foster parents in billboard off John C. Lodge Fwy.; they are paid $34 per day per head by DHS for each child they take
(**Wenk provoked the crisis to start with, which seems to be pretty standard protocol, where possible to get away with. It also signifies a serious attitude problem, job description or no job description. In this situation, they simply didn’t reckon with an armed mother, and a supportive community expressing its outrage AND investigative reporting on it! The problem is the presence of a system which enables this. That the SWAT team would come in this situation shows that Wenk and friends hold far too much sway. Meanwhile, over in Connecticut, a little boy (and across the country this is happening) is being tortured with symptoms BOTH medical and behavioral, as attested to by doctors — and the GAL in the case still has custody with the father who is doing this! WHy not remove THAT child?) (Answer: money in the family hasn’t been sucked out yet. See CT page on my other blog).
I keep finding more — and very disturbing — information on this case. First of all — we note that this is a mature mother, not a teen mother (see photo, and article below says she’s in her 50s). She is dedicated to taking care of her daughter who is an amputee, and was doing a good job of it; the troubles began with a school-required vaccination, and reactions to it. And although parents are separated, this was not a case which could be played Mom VERSUS Dad.
Health Impact News Editor
According to the Detroit News, a 56-year-old woman faces multiple felony charges and is being held on $500,000 bond after a 10-hour standoff with police, claiming she was protecting her 13-year-old daughter from unnecessary medication. The story which led to this incident, as reported in the Detroit News and The Voice of Detroit, is quite disturbing.
Maryanne Godboldo’s daughter was born with a defective foot that required amputation of her leg below the knee, which led to Maryanne becoming a stay-at-home mother after her birth. Maryanne and her sister Penny now run a dance school in Detroit. Penny Godboldo reported in the Detroit News her niece’s confidence grew, and despite her handicap, she swam, sang, danced and played the piano. However, as she approached middle school age, she apparently wanted to start attending school, and therefore had to “catch up” on required immunizations.
As the Detroit News reports:
“We believe she had an adverse reaction to her immunizations,” Penny Godboldo said.
“She began acting out of character, being irritated, having facial grimaces that have been associated with immunizations.”
Evans said Maryanne Godboldo sought help for her daughter from The Children’s Center, an organization that helps families with at-risk children, where a medical and mental health treatment plan was developed. Godboldo told relatives the medications ordered by the doctor worsened symptoms, including behavioral problems.
“It is an undiagnosed condition, but the doctor had given her psychotropic drugs that caused a bad reaction, made things worse,” said the girl’s father, Mubuarak Hakim. “Maryanne’s decision to wean her from that was making a difference, making her better, helping her to be a happy kid again.”
Maryanne Godboldo apparently has a good reputation in her community, and during the 10 hour standoff many people from the community offered to help with the negotiations, including ministers and community activists, according to reports in the Detroit News. Ironically, it was Wayne Circuit Judge Deborah Thomas, a former polio sufferer and advocate for the disabled, who finally convinced Maryanne to surrender
Embarrassed — or exposed? — although the mother had her criminal charges dropped, and her child back (late December) the Wayne County District attorney, per spokesman, is thinking of re-instating them. They are crazy — but smart enough to know that this case is probably a good chink in the wall.
http://www.miweekly.com/news/85-detroit/5705-mom-in-police-standoff-awaits-decision-on-charges
Last Updated: December 10. 2011 1:00AM
Doug Guthrie/ The Detroit News
Detroit— A judge is expected to announce his decision Monday whether to reinstate criminal charges against a mother who resisted police who forced their way into her home to take her teenage daughter during a dispute over medications. . . .
Acting on a call from a Wayne County Child Protective Services (=CPS) worker, who told police she had obtained an order to remove the child on a claim of medical neglect, the officers responding to Godboldo’s home accused her of firing a handgun at them through a plaster wall after she refused to let them in. Godboldo was talked out of the house. She was jailed for several days until her release on bond, and her daughter was held in a state psychiatric facility for almost two months.
Godboldo was charged with resisting and assaulting police, as well as use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Giles tossed out the charges in August because he said the order used by police as authority to enter the house was invalid. It was never authorized by a judge, but had a rubber stamp signature. Police also testified they don’t normally enforce civil court orders, but had been told by the protective services worker it was a criminal warrant.
And the police didn’t LOOK at the warrant? Do criminal and civil warrants look different from each other?
Some excellent reporting.
Talk about the disparity of viewpoints: Family, Community — versus the System who wants the child to be medicated.
My reading has led me to the conclusion — this is a class war, and at the bottom of the barrel (as to scapegoating) are women who look and act like this one. Like Albert Einstein, Horace Mann, and other leaders, her daughter’s education was not traditional — and part of schooling these days is getting the vaccinations (I even found a reference to James Franklin — Ben’s older brother — protesting vaccinations in his time!). Drugging people is a form of medical control — not just profits — get it? If certain classes of people are being used as test cases for the effects of dangerous drugs, then this comprises a class war against them. Why should this mother AND her community have to wage a legal battle to “buy” back a daughter which had been kidnapped improperly? Why should anyone have to?
At some level, we have got to start acknowledging that mature, independent mothers are a threat to the status quo. For the rest of us, the family law system with its fatherhood funding gets the job done without SWAT teams. But both methods are extortionist.
PART II LINKS:
First set of links are ### some stats (food for thought in a land flush with marriage/fatherhood theory — and grants).
Second set of links are $$$ — including some searchable databases to know about.
The three links beginning with “—” I just felt were important summaries. Right about now, J.A.I.L.4Judges is making a whole lotta sense (see site). I also put my “What Rhetoric Are You” up there just to remind us — be aware whose rhetoric you are hearing. It’s in the tone, language, and framing. The third “—” link is an unbelievable account (except it’s happening nationwide; the rarety here is what a mother did to stand up, and that her case was eventually turned around) that we should read, it’s symptomatic. (Maryanne Godboldo case).
After that, I go into some chrono links — at least a few references by year.
After that, it’s alphabetical by some of the organizations.
There’s a reason librarians are paid — and I’m not one. But I felt that if I continue writing posts, and writing posts — no one will get through this information. The best learning — anyhow– is situation relevant, and from people who are highly motivated to acquire the understanding or skill RIGHT NOW to address a problem facing them. In other words, the best learning is self-taught, and from someone or some source you’ve checked out as reasonable, which knows more than you do. Period.
Failure can be a far better teacher than success. Perhaps that’s why I can’t look to those still holding on to their middle-class or lower-middle class jobs to figure this out. People who’ve been treated like tetherballs IN the public institutions tend to be better reporters; they’ve had to work harder to regain their center of balance. I am one of many such people around; look for loners, not followers! And always check out FIRST (as to organization) are they honest in (1) corporation status (2) filing tax returns with the IRS and (frequently missing) (3) filing with their local state as required by corporation and by charitable trust, if required.
Another common lie I find is date of the beginning of some organization. When the corporation “begins” it has a record with a year attached. Unless mythology is OK, check talk to incorporation. You’d be amazed what’s out there.
“It’s Elementary” — The Links Tell The Story
- ##s-$$ Obama to ADD to Fatherhood Funding (2010, $500Mil)
- ##s-Actual Welfare Recipients testifying in 1990s Congressional Testimony on Welfare Reform (17 of 600!)
- ##s-Obama refers to women’s issues in Inaugural (0. Bush-1, Clinton-1)
- ##s-Obama refers to women’s issues in State of Union Addresses (2 of 4)
- ##s-US Women Still Majority (Census, 51%)
- ##s-US Women Still Minority (Congress,17%)
- $$ [State’s name] Charitable Registry Searches
- $$ Corp Registration SOState Sites (CoordinatedLegalTech) KISS this site! Do Lookups!
- $$ Interlocking Directorate: “ALEC”
- $$ NCCSdataweb: KISS this site! Nonprofit Tax Return Lookups, National
- $$ TAGGS (HHS Grants Database) (unreliable, but still an eye-opener)
- $$ USASpending.gov (Search by DUNS#) (almost NEVER matches TAGGS)
- —J.A.I.L.4 Judges: Judicial Immunity=Tyranny
- —What Rhetoric Are You: Father, Mother, or Mediator? (1/2011)
- –The Extraordinary Case (Courage) of Detroit Single Mom, Maryanne Godboldo=Where It’s At+Great Reporting
- 1973 War and Emergency Powers Act (Sen.Rpt. 93-549: README!)
- 1995 Clinton’s (Fatherhood) Compromise
- 1996 “Personal Respons.Work Oppty Reconciliation Act” (Welfare Reform/TANF)
- 1999 Film: 6 Welfare Mothers Try To Play by New Rules
- 2001 Bush’s FIRST Exec Order establishes OFBCI (Faith-based Office in White House).
- 2001 Prospecting Among the Poor:Welfare Privatization
- 2003 Cindy Ross (N.Calif) Classic Summary of Fed Funding.FamCourts.Misogyny
- 2005 TMAP/PENNMap Whistleblower:Pushing Psychotropics for the Poor (GWBush-style)
- 2006 HHS Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood=226 grantees
- 2006 PA OIG Whistleblower, TX lawsuit on Pharma Payoffs
- 2007 OH: Downside of State “Offices for Faith-Based”
- 2008 Sept USGAO: HHS Lacks Mechanisms to Track HMRF Grantees’ Compliance!
- 2008 TANF: Pushed to the Altar (Public Eye, Good Summ’y)
- 2009 March: Attorney Richard Fine kidnapped, incarcerated w/o charge
- 2009, Feb. Calif Gov Signs Retro-Immunity for Judges SBX-211 (next up, jail Fine!)
- 2011 HHS Budget: $500 million (more) for WHAT??!?? (search “marriage”)
- 2011 Scranton PA messageboard (&my obnoxiously long comments/research)
- 2011-FBI raids “in the best interests of the child” courthouse (Lackawanna County PA)
- 45 CFR 303.109 Fed Regs for Access-Visitation Grants (Social Science Projects, Centralized Control to HHS Secretary :See Reg. (b)(2))
- AFCC History (“Beware”) from StopCourtOrderedChildAbuse
- AFCC History In Its Own Words (the “spin”)
- Bush-Moon-“True Parents” Obsession
- Bush-Moon-Extreme GOP Christianity:Unholy Alliance (Why Family Courts really do behave like “cults”?))
- CRC (court-related nonprofits to watch) history
- Fatherhood&Families Coalition (Understand this Group!)
- Ford+Feds+Foundations= MDRC (1974) Know This Group
- Foundations: **1982 Norman Dodd Intvw (re: Ford, Rockefeller, etc.)
- Foundations: Carnegie
- Foundations: FORD has a (global) Plan
- Foundations: MacArthur (John D Catherine T)
- Foundations: Rockefeller
- Foundations: Wm T Grant (Social Science Research, esp. Youth)
- Foundations:Wm T Grant (Obama Whitehouse Appointees)
- Foundatns: Annie E Casey (funds Fatherhood esp)
- Governors Overhaul by Exec Order-Kansas (2012)
- Govt Overhaul by Exec Order: KS 2012 (SRS)
- Govt Overhaul by Governor:CO 2012 (CDHS)
- Models for Change (MacArthur plan, by State & Issue)
- Models for Change (Mindtools,Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze)
- National Alliance for Family Court Justice (Exposes the Welfare Reform-Family Court Paradigms,1993ff)
- NCADV (sliding-scale membership) Nonprofit
- OCSE (on Child Support: FinePrint Historic, from House Ways’N Means)
- Opus Dei (Vatican/Pentagon)
- TANF: CRS Issue Rvw @ 2003 (Congressional Research Service)
- Tavistock-Social Engineering into Slavery…
Also, after several months on a forum in Scranton, the forum message board is posting a photo of a targeted public person (I gather) in his briefs. JUST FOR THE RECORD — in the past week or so of 2012, the leading photos have featured a hooker leaning over onto a police car, a crude graphic of a man trying to plug a damn with water spouting out through his ear (i.e., flowing through his body) and then this. Either Mr. Pilchesky is back on board, or something happened — but FYI, I wouldn’t have put out all that research onto the site with this level of visuals, and (though it’s been deleted since) inf act spoke up about some of this in 2011.
PART II LINKS:
First set of links are ### some stats (food for thought in a land flush with marriage/fatherhood theory — and grants).
Second set of links are $$$ — including some searchable databases to know about.
The three links beginning with “—” I just felt were important summaries. Right about now, J.A.I.L.4Judges is making a whole lotta sense (see site). I also put my “What Rhetoric Are You” up there just to remind us — be aware whose rhetoric you are hearing. It’s in the tone, language, and framing. The third “—” link is an unbelievable account (except it’s happening nationwide; the rarety here is what a mother did to stand up, and that her case was eventually turned around) that we should read, it’s symptomatic. (Maryanne Godboldo case).
After that, I go into some chrono links — at least a few references by year.
After that, it’s alphabetical by some of the organizations.
There’s a reason librarians are paid — and I’m not one. But I felt that if I continue writing posts, and writing posts — no one will get through this information. The best learning — anyhow– is situation relevant, and from people who are highly motivated to acquire the understanding or skill RIGHT NOW to address a problem facing them. In other words, the best learning is self-taught, and from someone or some source you’ve checked out as reasonable, which knows more than you do. Period.
Failure can be a far better teacher than success. Perhaps that’s why I can’t look to those still holding on to their middle-class or lower-middle class jobs to figure this out. People who’ve been treated like tetherballs IN the public institutions tend to be better reporters; they’ve had to work harder to regain their center of balance. I am one of many such people around; look for loners, not followers! And always check out FIRST (as to organization) are they honest in (1) corporation status (2) filing tax returns with the IRS and (frequently missing) (3) filing with their local state as required by corporation and by charitable trust, if required.
Another common lie I find is date of the beginning of some organization. When the corporation “begins” it has a record with a year attached. Unless mythology is OK, check talk to incorporation. You’d be amazed what’s out there.
“It’s Elementary” — The Links Tell The Story
- ##s-$$ Obama to ADD to Fatherhood Funding (2010, $500Mil)
- ##s-Actual Welfare Recipients testifying in 1990s Congressional Testimony on Welfare Reform (17 of 600!)
- ##s-Obama refers to women’s issues in Inaugural (0. Bush-1, Clinton-1)
- ##s-Obama refers to women’s issues in State of Union Addresses (2 of 4)
- ##s-US Women Still Majority (Census, 51%)
- ##s-US Women Still Minority (Congress,17%)
- $$ [State’s name] Charitable Registry Searches
- $$ Corp Registration SOState Sites (CoordinatedLegalTech) KISS this site! Do Lookups!
- $$ Interlocking Directorate: “ALEC”
- $$ NCCSdataweb: KISS this site! Nonprofit Tax Return Lookups, National
- $$ TAGGS (HHS Grants Database) (unreliable, but still an eye-opener)
- $$ USASpending.gov (Search by DUNS#) (almost NEVER matches TAGGS)
- —J.A.I.L.4 Judges: Judicial Immunity=Tyranny
- —What Rhetoric Are You: Father, Mother, or Mediator? (1/2011)
- –The Extraordinary Case (Courage) of Detroit Single Mom, Maryanne Godboldo=Where It’s At+Great Reporting
- 1973 War and Emergency Powers Act (Sen.Rpt. 93-549: README!)
- 1995 Clinton’s (Fatherhood) Compromise
- 1996 “Personal Respons.Work Oppty Reconciliation Act” (Welfare Reform/TANF)
- 1999 Film: 6 Welfare Mothers Try To Play by New Rules
- 2001 Bush’s FIRST Exec Order establishes OFBCI (Faith-based Office in White House).
- 2001 Prospecting Among the Poor:Welfare Privatization
- 2003 Cindy Ross (N.Calif) Classic Summary of Fed Funding.FamCourts.Misogyny
- 2005 TMAP/PENNMap Whistleblower:Pushing Psychotropics for the Poor (GWBush-style)
- 2006 HHS Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood=226 grantees
- 2006 PA OIG Whistleblower, TX lawsuit on Pharma Payoffs
- 2007 OH: Downside of State “Offices for Faith-Based”
- 2008 Sept USGAO: HHS Lacks Mechanisms to Track HMRF Grantees’ Compliance!
- 2008 TANF: Pushed to the Altar (Public Eye, Good Summ’y)
- 2009 March: Attorney Richard Fine kidnapped, incarcerated w/o charge
- 2009, Feb. Calif Gov Signs Retro-Immunity for Judges SBX-211 (next up, jail Fine!)
- 2011 HHS Budget: $500 million (more) for WHAT??!?? (search “marriage”)
- 2011 Scranton PA messageboard (&my obnoxiously long comments/research)
- 2011-FBI raids “in the best interests of the child” courthouse (Lackawanna County PA)
- 45 CFR 303.109 Fed Regs for Access-Visitation Grants (Social Science Projects, Centralized Control to HHS Secretary :See Reg. (b)(2))
- AFCC History (“Beware”) from StopCourtOrderedChildAbuse
- AFCC History In Its Own Words (the “spin”)
- Bush-Moon-“True Parents” Obsession
- Bush-Moon-Extreme GOP Christianity:Unholy Alliance (Why Family Courts really do behave like “cults”?))
- CRC (court-related nonprofits to watch) history
- Fatherhood&Families Coalition (Understand this Group!)
- Ford+Feds+Foundations= MDRC (1974) Know This Group
- Foundations: **1982 Norman Dodd Intvw (re: Ford, Rockefeller, etc.)
- Foundations: Carnegie
- Foundations: FORD has a (global) Plan
- Foundations: MacArthur (John D Catherine T)
- Foundations: Rockefeller
- Foundations: Wm T Grant (Social Science Research, esp. Youth)
- Foundations:Wm T Grant (Obama Whitehouse Appointees)
- Foundatns: Annie E Casey (funds Fatherhood esp)
- Governors Overhaul by Exec Order-Kansas (2012)
- Govt Overhaul by Exec Order: KS 2012 (SRS)
- Govt Overhaul by Governor:CO 2012 (CDHS)
- Models for Change (MacArthur plan, by State & Issue)
- Models for Change (Mindtools,Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze)
- National Alliance for Family Court Justice (Exposes the Welfare Reform-Family Court Paradigms,1993ff)
- NCADV (sliding-scale membership) Nonprofit
- OCSE (on Child Support: FinePrint Historic, from House Ways’N Means)
- Opus Dei (Vatican/Pentagon)
- TANF: CRS Issue Rvw @ 2003 (Congressional Research Service)
- Tavistock-Social Engineering into Slavery…
Also, after several months on a forum in Scranton, the forum message board is posting a photo of a targeted public person (I gather) in his briefs. JUST FOR THE RECORD — in the past week or so of 2012, the leading photos have featured a hooker leaning over onto a police car, a crude graphic of a man trying to plug a damn with water spouting out through his ear (i.e., flowing through his body) and then this. Either Mr. Pilchesky is back on board, or something happened — but FYI, I wouldn’t have put out all that research onto the site with this level of visuals, and (though it’s been deleted since) inf act spoke up about some of this in 2011.
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What About that 66/34 effect?
Several times on this blog (and another forum or so), I have promoted the “AbuseFreedomLive” blogtalk Tuesday Night radio show, (and been on it once, called in sometimes) because there are simply so few people around actually that actually seem to understand the role played by the welfare/child support system’s incentives in the domestic relations / family law system.
And to understand this to get a pretty good measurement of where this country is overall. It’s a HUGE issue. It is also part of how the well-to-do and corporations exert control over the poor (and make sure there are plenty of poor around) to help regulate the middle class and employ (for now) a large sector of said middle class, including white AND blue-collar professionals, in regulating and administratively studying, tabulating (etc.) the huddled masses that either started in the US, were imported in the bottom of ships for free labor (see “corporations”), or fled bloodshed, famine incited by theocracy and religious prejudice, in other countries. And their descendants.
As the rich tend to understand money (and more forms of it, and more ways of accumulating it, and more ways to not pay income taxes, and more ways to write off taxes, and more tax shelters) than people raised, drilled, and limited to ONE form of (above-the-radar) income production called JOBS, which the rich are supposedly always creating more of, which is why Congressmen should continually give them more tax breaks. And let them pass adjustments to welfare requiring the poor to get and/or stay married (etc.).
MSM agrees with this on me. I didn’t hear it on Dr. Phil (because I don’t watch Dr. Phil), however, for once I agreed with Michael Moore (on Tavis Smiley, recently) a show with about a dozen guests that I caught a fragment of. Mr. Moore pointed out that, f the wealthy wished to get rid of poverty, they could — however it’s handy to have the poor around to keep the middle class in line (and vice versa — my opinion). So no, this is not too esoteric a subject. It cuts to the heart of “whose kids ARE they?” and for that matter, “Whose am I? Do I belong to myself?” Most people would say yes — or wish to say it, which then puts them in conflict with others who have.
So when I am talking about federal incentives, meaning what the IRS distributes, to something as basic as the States and what they do with it to handle the poor (which allegedly is what welfare and child support are THERE for), I am cutting to the heart of the American experience, and to any matter dealing with child custody, visitation — including visiting by parents when the state has the child, or visiting with parents when parents don’t cohabit, and so forth.
This 66/34 matter has so many influences on our culture, it qualifies as PRIMAL .
And we know which sectors of society baked up: once married always married, joint custody recommendations, and the pro-marriage/anti-feminazi movement– and how. Well, at least I do and if not totally, at least the picture is fairly clear, and these are father-friendly organizations, so-called. The “few prominent thinkers” and “Close to Washington D.C.” and Think Tankers. The Heritage Foundationers, Family Research Council-ers, Focus on the Families-ers, and so forth, plus the parallel on the progressive side (there IS a parallel to the fatherhood movement in the non-faith-based sector). AFCC/CRC etc.
These are the “Expensive Remedy In Search of a Legitimate Problem” that certain mothers (primarily) groups have been protesting for years, and protested again in front of the ways and means/ appropriations subcommittee in June 2010 (Liz Richards article, re-blogged recently here).
- Typically fathers protest VAWA and Some mothers protest Fatherhood Funding/Access-Visitation/Marriage (etc. promotion). You do not have, typically, fathers groups PROtesting the fatherhood funding — which sometimes comes with pro bono help to increase noncustodial (father) parenting time. More typically, while vigorously protesting bias against men in the family courts –and doing something about it — these are standing in line to form groups to get more grants to preach this gospel. Or just evangelize in general, when it comes to “faith-based” only through marriage counseling and relationship classes. etc.
- Activist Fathers’ groups also lobby alongside conservative groups (married women and second wives as well) against anything removing children from their home, or forcing them to, in their eyes, pay exorbitantly to support the mothers of their departed (or in some cases abandoned) exes. That’s the general breakdown.
- Although some of us (I’m never quite sure where my “us” begins and ends, but I have a flexible concept of the juicy center of it) wish to inform some of the fathers’ groups who’ve been extorted (for real, not for “if I can’t see my kids I sure as heck am not going to support them” group) that there is a middle ground here, and we have more in common in wishing to eject program fraud from ALL sectors, and in fact to reduce, curtail if not STOP TANF diversions to Designer Family Building programs.
- In other words, not every father is a Jeffrey Leving, a Glenn Sacks, or a Warren Farrell (or, for that matter, a Richard Warshak, although I don’t know if he’s a Dad). Some Dads are simply living their lives, or trying to, and are not out for blood & guts fame in reforming government.
I’ve blogged plenty on the welfare/child support system’s incentives in the domestic relations / family law system, and on the Federal/State % incentives built into it. I’ve several times recommended such unrealistic (but one can always put the idea out there!) scenarios as let’s eliminate the OCSE (Office of Child Support Enforcement) as it’s by this point so “fatherhood” — alternately enraging certain types of fathers, oppressing others — as to be a literal danger to the children, and many mothers, who it is supposedly for, AND sometimes innocent bystanders (Seal Beach, CA 2011, Washington D.C. Sniper (Mildred Muhammed’s ex), Sandoval/Torres/Starczyk (officer), 2008, etc.), not to mention the public burden and crime scene cleanups.*
(*I’ll repeat the italicized part several paragraphs later to connect this point below to my concerns, below):
This post addresses a concern — or question — I have about the direction of the 66/34 Effect show, and particularly one section of it seen in today’s news alert. I think it’s relevant, because it’s showing up as new light on a difficult situation; high-profile speakers from various industries (not only court-related, although that’s the focus) are producing a lot of information and food for thought. And in an information age — no information is neutral, it all has values attached. And above all, it should be honest. No one is 100% accurate (and I try to correct my factual mis-speaks when I see them or it’s brought to my attention. Not typos, but where I got my facts wrong, due to error in recall, or error in attribution — but never is it intentional.
I don’t state the issue until near the bottom of the post; scroll if need be, or read the post for context, reasoning, explanation. Then again the troublesome part is at the very, very bottom of the email alert, and probably most people missed it. But it seems to be a clue.
And while here, I’ll drive home this two-thirds/one-third (66/34) matter, which I think bears teaching, re-teaching, and explaining the import of, weekly (at least) until people get it: Stop Federal Incentive Welfare-related Diversionary Programs (in order to stop widespread waste & fraud) and Face It — this is Fascism in the Making, if not just about ready to come out of the oven!
(“Fascism” meaning, the combining and centralization of government by degrees — hey, Obama wants to merge agencies, but ALL agencies are already to encourage fatherhood promotion (Clinton, 1995), pay for more noncustodial FATHER involvement in the families (Welfare reform 1996, see Oklahoma Marriage Initiative for how to jumpstart a statewide program) and Faith-based Inclusionary Activities (see Bush, 2001 January). Don’t ever forget, Hitler considered himself a Christian, too. So did pastors on BOTH sides of the Rwandan massacre (see “Left to Tell” or the book on which “Hotel Rwanda” was based). Christian groups from United States –including some on the marriage movement take — had to quick, dissociate themselves with a “kill-the-gays” law in Uganda, but I assure us (and it’s seen) that some of these US evangelical groups love to test their material on sub-Saharan Africa, or other places too distressed to properly resist. . . .I distinguish “fathers” from “fatherhood” the way I distinguish “religion” from spirituality, which is a lot closer to ethics and what’s in the center of a person.)
This phrase (and its position, likely not to be noticed, on the very bottom of the email alert) really concerns me:
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Which then shows the link to a “Change.org” petition posted by a noncustodial MOTHER who is now paying her ex child support; this petition (I also have the link on blogroll, or did for quite a while) was originally assembled by Athena Phoenix (prior to that username which is associated with the blogtalk radio show) anyhow — who is also female, not male and not a father.
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This is an excellent petition, and speaks in detail of some of the areas of consistent program mismangement and waste. I feel it is very well written. However, it’s not whichever responsible father hosted the show’s petition — it was written by a very smart woman who’s become famliar with this material through research.
It goes, in part, like this (no link to the budget is provided, but people can look the data up) (in pink font):
Why This Is Important
This letter is to request that you take action to cut spending on pork barrel spending on certain TANF Title IV-D programs which represent $4 billion untraceable dollars that no one keeps track of. These funds meant for needy children were diverted and wasted by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to non needs based programs available to all fathers engaged in the family court litigation industry—no matter how wealthy they are. These parents now ask Congress to take a stand to hold ACF’s defective leadership and the programs destroying families accountable by demanding the following budget cuts:
1. TANF Contingency Fund authorized under 403(b) Social Security Act for payment to States and other non-federal entities under Titles I, IV-D, X, XI, and XIV “to remain available until expended.” (p. 474)
2. ID Code 75-1552-0-1-609, lines 0005 and 0009 [$990 million] (p. 473)
3. ID Code 75-1501-0-1-609 lines 0002, 0003 [Access and Visitation] [$1.7 billion] (p. 474)
4. Discretionary “Child Support Incentives” to States [$305 million] (p. 475)
5. ID Code 75–1512–0–1–506 “Healthy Families” [$1.7 billion] (p.476)
6. ID Code 75–1512–0–1–506 “Abstinence Education” [$1.7 billion] (p. 477)
7. Line 0129 “Faith Based Initiatives” [$1 million] (p.479)
Struggling parents want things like jobs, housing, education, childcare, and access to medical care to help them weather the current economic crisis. Instead, these hard working families are forced to invest $4 Billion in irresponsible, extortion based, Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) programs that promote widespread Medicaid and child support fraud, protracted high conflict litigation, and bogus therapy programs.
Child support agencies deliberately withhold and mismanage billions of paid collected support, which starves children onto TANF and causes parents to be falsely prosecuted for nonpayment.
Good parents are being exploited, bankrupted, and emotionally destroyed while their kids are needlessly placed on the welfare, Medicaid, and foster care system rolls. Billions of dollars of child support remains unaccounted for nationwide.
This petition was posted by Liora Farkowitz on Change.org, who also presented at the last BMCC conference (July 2012):
See “Cut TANF Title IV-D programs which represent $4Billion of waste.” While Ms. Farkowitz may be very responsible, it’s evident she’s not a father. Was this just a mistaken link?
The wording indicates that a responsible father asks people to sign “this” (not “his”) petition. Yet no mention is made of the responsible mother who posted it or its actual author, who also is female. The programs they re protesting specifically are stated to target and help noncustodial fathers increase custody share (whether or not this actually takes place); is it more true and more credible in the eyes of men if a man points to it? Well, probably — but is that the important message?
Is anyone on the program tonight (which includes a number of nonprofits in the juvenile corrections and preventing human trafficking practices, with an emphasis on Georgia) receiving possible program funding from HHS?
Possibly: And in fact two posts (from the last two days of blogging) I’ve been drafting in regards to the organization ALEC, showed me how that even in this matter of very legitimate problems related to racist lockup policies (harsher sentencing for males of color) and the attendant (multiple) nonprofit juvenile justice foundations focusing on DIVERSIONARY programs — has some overlap, but a lot of conflict — when the same principles affect custody courts — which they do. And they affect custody courts the MOST when it comes to matters of attempted separation from abusive parents, including some parents in lockup rightfully, from violence.
For example (see program flyer for tonight, if you’ve received on, or if my last link was accurate):
LOCKING UP KIDS WHO HAVE COMMITTED NO CRIME COULD COST GEORGIA MILLIONS IN FEDERAL FUNDS, By Jim Walls, JJIE Journal, 1/12/2012
Original content found here.
Every week, Georgia locks up juveniles who’ve committed no crime. A new study contends Georgia risks losing millions of dollars in federal funding if it continues doing so at the current rate.
They are runaways, truants, curfew violators, underage smokers and drinkers. They’re called status offenders because their actions are only an issue due to their status as juveniles; if an adult did the same thing, it wouldn’t be a crime.
Now, a report commissioned by the Governor’s Office for Children and Families warns that the practice could cost the state about $2 million a year in federal funding, particularly if Congress follows through with plans to tighten guidelines for placing status offenders in secure detention.
Let’s look at the HHS grants to this office: I see two streams, one which has no DUNS#. Although I suspect that the funding they are referring to is more likely to be DOJ funding, let’s see what the same office is getting, here:
| Recipient Name | City | State | ZIP Code | County | DUNS Number | Sum of Awards |
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| GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | DECATUR | GA | 30032 | DE KALB | 000000000 | $ 4,045,342 |
| GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | DECATUR | GA | 30032 | DE KALB | 828115951 | $ 3,946,786 |
If you click on both those, you’ll see grants that (I’ll wager — and see if I can check quickly here) sound like “AE” Abstinence Education and FR (Fathers Rights), one from a FYSB (Youth bureau) and the other from CB (Children’s Bureau):
| Program Office | Grantee Name | Award Number | Award Title | Budget Year | Action Issue Date | CFDA Number | CFDA Program Name | Award Class | Award Activity Type | Principal Investigator | Sum of Actions |
| CB | GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | 0802GAFRPG | 2008 FRP | 1 | 05/21/2009 | 93590 | Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grants | CLOSED-ENDED | SOCIAL SERVICES | $ 862,805 | |
| CB | GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | 0902GAFRPG | 2009 FRSS | 1 | 09/17/2009 | 93590 | Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grants | CLOSED-ENDED | SOCIAL SERVICES | $ 1,091,492 | |
| CB | GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | 1002GAFRPG | 2010 CBCAP | 1 | 09/09/2010 | 93590 | Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grants | CLOSED-ENDED | SOCIAL SERVICES | $ 1,073,087 | |
| CB | GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | 1102GAFRPG | 2011 CBCAP | 1 | 09/02/2011 | 93590 | Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grants | CLOSED-ENDED | SOCIAL SERVICES | $ 1,017,958 | |
| FYSB | GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | 0902GAAEGP | 2009 AEGP | 1 | 05/21/2009 | 93235 | Affordable Care Act (ACA) Abstinence Education Program | BLOCK | SOCIAL SERVICES | $ 1,100,934 | |
| FYSB | GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | 0902GAAEGP | 2009 AEGP | 1 | 07/30/2010 | 93235 | Affordable Care Act (ACA) Abstinence Education Program | BLOCK | SOCIAL SERVICES | $- 824,398 | |
| FYSB | GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | 1002GAAEGP | 2010 AEGP | 1 | 09/27/2010 | 93235 | Affordable Care Act (ACA) Abstinence Education Program | BLOCK | SOCIAL SERVICES | $ 1,810,331 | |
| FYSB | GA Governor`s Office for Children and Families | 1102GAAEGP | 2011 AEGP | 1 | 09/01/2011 | 93235 | Affordable Care Act (ACA) Abstinence Education Program | BLOCK | SOCIAL SERVICES | $ 1,859,919 |
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Results 1 to 8 of 8 matches.
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Going to USASpending.gov with the one DUNS# we have here, it seems that this DUNS# could refer to either the above office, the office of “Children and Youth” (see “Abstinence Education”) or simply the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget. The DOJ/OJJP projects show up there (some, close to $2 million) under delinquency prevention. ALSO clear is that this DUNS dates to 2009 and no earlier (on this database anyhow). For example (that’s just one award):
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Or, a slice of these grants (26 in all, total receipts $23 million, with largest sector in 2009 — which tells me, “ARRA” or “recovery.gov”
Transaction Number # 24
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Date Signed: July 13 , 2010 Obligation Amount: $1,897,000 |
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While the AbuseFreedomLive 66/34 Effect host show claims (clearly) it may not share all the viewpoints of the guests, the host also selects the guests. I take it with a grain of salt — the HHS also disclaims some of the viewpoints of groups it links to on its site, but it still links to them!
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Home Page
Notice the paragraph at the bottom, following all the various ways readers can get to fatherhood promotion pages: This is just for reference, if you don’t like it, caveat emptor – don’t blame us!
Responsible Fatherhood GrantsThe Claims Resolution Act of 2010 provides funding of $150 million in each of five years for healthy marriage promotion and responsible fatherhood. Each year, $75 million may be used for activities promoting fatherhood, such as counseling, mentoring, marriage education, enhancing relationship skills, parenting, and activities to foster economic stability. |
Healthy MarriageHealthy marriage services help couples, who have chosen marriage for themselves, gain greater access to marriage education services, on a voluntary basis, where they can acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain a healthy marriage. |
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Effective ParentingInvolved fathers provide practical support in raising children and serve as models for their development. Children with involved, loving fathers are significantly more likely to do well in school, have healthy self-esteem, exhibit empathy and pro-social behavior compared to children who have uninvolved fathers. Committed and responsible fathering during infancy and early childhood contributes emotional security, curiosity, and math and verbal skills. |
Economic StabilityResources for helping fathers improve their economic status by providing activities, such as Work First services, job search, job training, subsidized employment, job retention, and job enhancement; and encouraging education, including career-advancing education. |
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Access, Visitation, Paternity, & Child SupportAbout half of all children spend some part of their life apart from one or both of their parents, and most often the parent that does not live with the child is the father. The laws that cover these relationships are the responsibility of the state (Family Law), but the Federal Government does provide states with funding to assist in the development of programs that help establish paternity, collect child support, and provide non-residential parents with access to their children. |
IncarcerationThe Department of Justice has estimated that over 7.3 million children under age 18 have a parent who is in prison, jail, on probation, or on parole. Given these numbers, it is important to understand how children and their caregivers are affected by the criminal activity of a parent and their subsequent arrest, incarceration, and release. Additionally, it is important to know which services and assistance might be available to those under criminal justice supervision to help them be better parents and to return successfully to the community. |
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Research, Evaluation, & DataGood research and program evaluations assess program performance, measure outcomes for families and communities, and document successes. Information on previous and current research and evaluation efforts can help programs and researchers to direct limited resources to where they are most needed, and most effective, in assessing results. |
Program DevelopmentThe principal implication for fathering programs is that these programs should involve a wide range of interventions, reflecting the multiple domains of responsible fathering, the varied residential and marital circumstances of fathers, and the array of personal, relational, and environmental factors that influence men as fathers. |
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Assistant Secretary for Planning & EvaluationASPE is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible for major activities in policy coordination, legislation development, strategic planning, policy research, evaluation, and economic analysis. Pertinent Fatherhood topics found there include: Child Welfare, Employment, Family and Marriage Issues, andViolence. |
Other Research ResourcesFederal information relating to fatherhood research is spread throughout multiple departments and agencies. This area includes other websites that have federal sponsored research related to responsible fatherhood. |
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Nevertheless, this is a US Government Agency page, and its sustenance paid for by the public. The same standards also go for MONITORING the program funds and effectiveness after it’s distributed. The GAO, or the HHS/OAS/OIG gets in their sporadically, but basically once started, they’ll sample audit, they’ll report back, but there’s so little teeth — that this black hole of (for example — only one example) program fraud and “undistributable child support collections” is –unknown in extent. Don’t blame us — we’re only overseeing.
This “we’re only overseeing” rebuttal has also (call and ask) been used repeatedly to people investigating grant usage as individual citizens, i.e., particularly members of the National Alliance for Family Court Justice. I’ve seen some of the letters discussing how to deflect inquiry on the funds usage; they may show on a discussion group (yahoo) or you can contact the website owner for more info. The point is – NO ONE is really responsible, which is bad news for John and Jane Doe.
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The “66/34” reference refers to the Federal/State relationship towards programs. This excerpt comes from a brief written (years ago) by an attorney (I think it’s the same one, at least) found receiving a diversionary child support award in California. The brief explains:
PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION SURVIVES SUPREME COURT’S BLESSING V. FREESTONE DECISION by Leora Gershenzon
The United States Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in Blessing v. Freestone1 that custodial parents may not sue in federal court to force a state to comply substantially with the general requirements of federal child support law found in Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.2 Significantly, however, the Court refused to limit in any way the right of individuals to sue government officials who deprive them of statutory or constitutional rights while acting “under color of state law.” The right to bring such lawsuits, based on 42 U.S.C. § 1983, is commonly referred to as a “private right of action.”
The plaintiffs in Blessing v. Freestone had filed a class action lawsuit against Arizona’s Department of Economic Security, the state’s child support agency, contending that it operated the child support program in violation of federal law
Statutory Framework
Under federal law, any state that receives federal funds to operate a Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program3 also must operate a child support enforcement program. To be in compliance with statutory requirements, states must locate noncustodial parents and their assets; establish paternity; and establish, modify, and enforce child support orders. These services must be provided to families receiving TANF benefits and, for a nominal fee, to all other families who choose to participate in the program.
The detailed statutory and regulatory scheme contained in Title IV-D sets strict time limits for performance of the specific duties imposed on the state child support agency. For example, states must open a case within 20 days of an application or a referral from the welfare office, use appropriate locate sources to search for a noncustodial parent within 75 days and repeat every three months, if necessary, and, within 90 days of locating a noncustodial parent, establish paternity and obtain a support order or attempt to or complete service of process on that parent.
The federal government pays over two-thirds of the costs of the program in every state, and up to 90% in some states. Due to welfare savings resulting from child support collection as well as to other factors, more than half the states experience a net gain from their child support collection programs
[{OTHERWISE EXPRESSED: THIS WORKS IN BARELY OVER HALF THE CASES, DESPITE FEDERAL SUPPORT APPROACHING 2/3 OF THE COST. TRY AND RUN A PRIVATE BUSINESS LIKE THIS, AND YOU’D BETTER HAVE PLENTY OF CAPITAL FOR START-UP. WHICH OF COURSE, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES NOT, IT JUST EXERCISES ITS PRIVILEGES TO INCREASE FEDERAL DEBT LOAD, HENCE WE ARE NOW TALKING IN TRILLIONS, WHEREAS THE CHILD FAMILY SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM COSTS “ONLY” IN TERMS OF BILLIONS, AT LEAST THE PART THAT WE’RE COUNTING…}]
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services is responsible for reviewing and evaluating state child support programs to ensure compliance with federal law and regulations. In general, a state will be found to be in substantial compliance if it provides necessary and timely services to 75% of the families (90% in some instances) who seek child support assistance. If a state is found to be out of compliance, the Secretary can impose a penalty of up to 5% of the state’s TANF block grant. However, a state can avoid the penalty by submitting a Corrective Action Plan, and only a couple of states have ever been penalized.
The Arizona Litigation
By any objective standard, Arizona’s child support program has been failing children and parents. Between 1985 and 1991, the state failed every federal child support audit. With each failure, the agency submitted a Corrective Action Plan and the Secretary waived any penalties
Child Support itself if a highly contentious issue, with some damaging afterglow when pursued, or modified:
Sometimes they kill, sometimes they just abduct, sometimes they engage in prolonged custody litigation, and sometimes (far too much and far too often), the money is collected, held (collecting interest for the agency — not the household the child support is for) and for each and every scenario, there is an option which profits court-connected professionals, including judges, and increasingly impoverishes families. Having thus collected sufficient funding (and being salaried, without judges causing THEM to lose their jobs with unfair or frivolously ridiculous rulings), these court-connected professionals have a system enabling them to fly around the country to various vacation locales to communicate with each other about how to do it better next time.
Some of these tax-write-off, public-funded (i.e., dues for the professional membership AND travel/hotel can be written off under one from or another of education, including continuing CLE education (providers and or participants, probably). For example, I read (and yes, it’s on the blog here) about a Task Force or commission in Indianapolis which was considering flying their membership out to an AFCC conference. The decided instead to simply approach AFCC about holding a nice conference IN Indianpolis next time, saving the air fare, and putting it into hosting. I believe this has already happened.
One of the most demonstrative states around in pushing parent education, fatherhood promotion, all kinds of diversionary programs around openly on the website, and I’ve repeatedly referenced it here, is the Kentucky Courts. On examination of SOME of their 11 divorce education programs (which is only part of the offerings), we can find one company based in Scranton, PA area (where the FBI is examining case-steering, overbilling, or whatever evidence they hauled off for Lackawanna County) marketing through Kentucky books written (many of them) in California, and some in Massachusetts, or recommended by a nice AFCC Massachusetts Judge.
California, where much of this baloney originated, IS truly the “Golden State” if you’re in control and in the right profession (or three) within government. Ask Mr. Gwinn, the Lockyers, the Thorns (Kids’ Turn), Dr. Carolyn Curtis (Sacramento Healthy Marriage, or whatever its current title), the Past, Present, and Future Boards of Director Judges of some of these Access Visitation Subgrantees (Kids Turn San Diego being one), ask almost anyone in the Los Angeles Court System, and ask those cycling between positions in the legislature, and CEO of domestic violence organizations. Ask the heads of Futures Without Violence, etc.
The system is FAIRLY straightforward in operation, though diverse in execution. Form a nonprofit. It’s not necessary to completely stay incorporated, file tax returns with the IRS OR the State annually, as required by law. To fire up the ignition a little further, call yourself Faith-Based, and connect up with the NARME or other chameleon organization to study how to Take the Money and Run. For an example, see Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Initiatives, which is still around, and see how the original staff did it, and got some CYA report from Baylor University Texas, from a person who just also happens to be a member of the nationwide “CJJDP.”
For an example of how to double-bill and wipe your mouth saying, “I see NOthing,” even after you’re caught at it, this has been going on so long, we can now reference old-school and new-school versions of this, most of which involves switching a child from a known decent parent to the other one, often abusive, thereby causing the decent one to fight for custody, rather than simply abandon the child. I’m naturally thinking of situations of over-billing and program fraud such as is reported in:
Visitation Fraud Reported in Amador County(Complaint filed 9/7/99)
The following is a copy of a complaint filed to the Judicial Council of California regarding federal funding fraud by Amador County Superior Court. It exemplifies how federal “family” programs are mis-used to protect incest offenders/batterers in the family law courts. Liz Richards, of the National Alliance for Family Court Justice has contacted you regarding these abuses in the courts. These family programs, and those who abuse them, need to be fully investigated by competent persons who have no vested interest in protecting any involved in the abuses. . . .
(the Karen Anderson case) . . .
Through an initial contact with Senator Jackie Speier’s office, I was directed to Lee Mohar (sp?). During my conversation with Mr. Mohar, I explained to the best of my ability my concerns about how the public funds of the state Family Law Facilitator Program (hereinafter “Facilitator”) and the Federal Access to Visitation Program (hereinafter “A/V”) were directly involved in my private family law matter before Amador County Superior Court (“Court”). At Mr. Mohar’s request, you contacted me about this issue to more fully understand my concerns.
During my conversation with you, I explained the following: The Program Director for the federal Access to Visitation grant, Helen O. Page, represents my ex-husband in my private family law matter 98 FL 0084, and continued to do so through all of the dates inclusive, in which the Court was accessing A/V funds through this program. I have obtained records from the county auditor, as well as from the Court, in the form of payment vouchers, the grant application, and the grant contract. These documents declare that that the intent of the A/V program is to “encourage contact between children and both parents,” to “facilitate contact between non-custodial supervised parents and children” with a criteria for a “step-down” in supervised visitation.
{She then goes on to relate how custody was reversed to her, and she was put on Supervised Visitation based on “PAS”, the collusion of a minors’ counsel with a supervised visitation business owner, and how she was forced to pay cash for it! To see her kids!}}:
During the term of the A/V contract, the program director, Helen O. Page, under the authority of the Court, violated the entire intent of the program and specific terms of said contract for the gain of her private client, who is my ex-husband. Payment vouchers to herself and to other participants who are/have been involved in the private litigation of case 94 FL 0084, namely Larry Leatham, Marsha Nohl, and Nohl’s supervised visitation program A.F.T.E.R., prove that while mandated to comply with the terms of the A/V contract, all the forenamed have collectively engaged in accessing these public funds under a conflict of interest, thus violating the terms of the contract.
Here’s a few more of the players and the interrelationships – notice, some were made grant sub-contractors. All of this comes under “Access/Visitation” grant programs — which are only a fraction of the other diversionary programs coursing through the system, and diverting parents from their primary purposes in life, which is to raise children, provide an inheritance of possible for them, and to be able to focus their lives on their kids — not on self-defense from abusive systems and program fraud by people working (some, as public employees aka “civil servants”) IN those system. Remembering this is from 1999 — 12+ years ago!
The court orders which have obstructed my liberty interest in parenting my children and left my children at risk of continued molestation, along with the continual harassing litigation perpetrated by Page for her private client, cause the case to be categorized as “highly contested” for which Page/Court is able to access the A/V funds according to the grant application. While Page fights through private litigation for her client, my ex-husband, to keep me on supervised visitation, this also causes the case to fall into the category that provides the necessity for the A/V funds according to the grant application, which in turn personally benefits her financially through payments she receives from the grant. In order to maintain the case in the category that provided access to the A/V grant money, Page used Marsha Nohl (who Page made into a grant sub-contractor) and Larry Dixon (state funded minor’s counsel), as allies in support of the original grossly negligent evaluation and testimony of Leatham (who Page also has made a grant sub-contractor). I have been maintained on supervised visitation and the case itself is maintained as highly litigated, through acts of perjury, misconduct, intentional misrepresentation, willful obstruction of justice, and witness tampering, by Page, Nohl and Dixon
It’s known — and has been known for years, but not blogged enough for “the common women” (fathers’ groups tend to be told this) that the funding can come from BOTH the parent (in cash, as per Karen Anderson, and now parents in Lackawanna County, PA have been protesting the same issue, as I recall, with both supervised visitation, and/or parenting coordinator). They had to pay cash for services. To a decent parent, not seeing one’s offspring after removal from the home is NOT an option, so they paid AND the federal government funding stream, which is OCSE diversion.
And I showed readers recently that for FY2012, the HHS requested that — in light of how important continuing to promote “fatherhood” (whatever this is), they want mandatory access visitation orders for EVERY child support order, which then moves custody and visitation matters further out from a judge’s decision based on facts (allegedly, or at least potentially) to an administrative boilerplate (generally speaking) managed by a court-connected program manger or designated professional.
This is called Double-Billing. “Don’t Ask. Just Do it for your Kids.”
In years since, others have continued to research the same topic upwards and downwards, namely, taking it to the source: The funds come from the HHS (grantees recorded in TAGGS database, and some other places), and child support TANF diversions. At around the same time (post-1996, late 1990s, early 2000s) California along with other states was under a federal “centralize into a Statewide Distribution Unit (“SDU”) system for child support distribution — or give up your welfare assistance. Of course, if you don’t need food stamps, cash aid, (Medicaid?) and other help from Big Brother, then don’t. YOU put up 34$, we’ll put up 66% (not mentioned: this 66% comes from funds previously collected through taxes etc. from the public, or interst/investment gains on it).
So yes, it does matter who baked THAT cake, because it’s got a little “leavening” in it which makes it a high-rise profit system for those in the system, and a debt production machine for stressed-out parents who eat from it. How many people know going IN to the courts that any child support order, and EVERy child support order, and I’ll hazard a guess, in EVERY State and US territory, has as 66/34 effect called INCENTIVE. In fact one of the hard lessons I learned (obviously) was to find out WHO is speaking to you whenever help or relief from injustice or danger is offered, in response to one’s cries for help, or without even those cries.
Who Bakes the Domestic Violence Group Cakes? The same supplier — it may not be the 66/34 effect as to DV programs, but we’ve seen they are heavy into HHS funding (not just DOJ) and collaborating with fatherhood-oriented groups when protective mothers aren’t watching, while teaching them distracting information lest they DO watch. See Loretta Frederick, who I’ll bet did NOT highlight her connection with AFCC (or teach women who AFCC was) at the last BMCC (“Battered Mother’s Custody Conference”). In 2011, access visitation was mentioned from the podium by someone WITHOUT some product to market (after the conference was — like it appears to have been this year, too — well over an hour behind schedule on the last segment of the conference) but as soon as the speaker went to the podium, a lunch break was called. Un believably, I saw the same thing happen again this year — a break was called, and a woman’s voice at the mike (Ricky Fowler, search my blog) was surrounded by noise of coming and going, but when someone protesting what she said spoke up, another grabbed the mike and told everyone to quiet down and listen, because “this is important.” (like the previous comment wasn’t?) and tried to counter it.
So, your Domestic Violence Advocacy and Protective Mothers Advocacy groups have, as it were, pre-baked cake mixes from pretty much the same source. They have — amazingly coincidental — the same blind spots; which a little experience has shown is not blindness – it’s a “no-fly-zone.”
I’ve several times recommended such unrealistic (but one can always put the idea out there!) scenarios as let’s eliminate the OCSE (Office of Child Support Enforcement) as it’s by this point so “fatherhood” — alternately enraging certain types of fathers, oppressing others — as to be a literal danger to the children, and many mothers, who it is supposedly for, AND sometimes innocent bystanders (Seal Beach, CA 2011, Washington D.C. Sniper (Mildred Muhammed, ex-wife of D.C. Sniper, “Scared Silent” ca. 2002/John Muhammad, a Devoted Dad?
Connecting the Sniper case to family court corruption and federal fatherhood program fraud. (Part 1)
by Cindy Ross © October 28, 2002), Sandoval/Torres/Starczyk (officer), 2008, etc.), not to mention the public burden and crime scene cleanups, plus trials that follow).
It is VITALLY important, in other words, that more people understand and protest the continued funding of a system of “evolving purposes” all labeled’ family” which are resulting in habitually increasing scenarios involving roadkill. This scenario claims that the family is the basic unit of society, anything that threatens “family” is itself (by definition) a threat to society, and women’s right to live alone versus live with constant domestic terrorism based on the fact that they’re female, or vulnerable and happen to get paid less per $$ then men overall — and are not represented even halfway proportionately in our primarily white male Congress & Senate. Sorry to put it that way, but one hellish marriage, and an equally long hell in the court system simply leads me rationally to acts of Congress designed to promote fatherhood. I didn’t promote or pass these at the time, and am simply reporting their existence, and in part, their costs. Plural.
This is the rationale which (if it’s bought & believed, or tolerated) which priorities “family” over Bill of Rights in EVERY case where there is a custody dispute. That philosophy then enables passage of programs in which we find fraud, and incentives — which have zero (NO) place in promoting justice. If courtrooms are not neutral — meaning, they are bribe-free — and they are “OUT-COME based” versus PROCESS-based” — they are kangaroo courtrooms. So we need to report honestly — Let’s get Honest — about this facet in particular. At the annual price tag of approximately $4 billions, and for the Jessica Gonzales’ the Dawn Axsoms, the Catalina Torres’, and the Officers shot in the line of duty during domestic dispute hostage situations, let’s defuse the need for the Federally Sponsored (with corporate help) “Special Interest Resource Centers” Publish, Design a Logo, Link to GroupThink, or We Perish industry.
It’s important. Look at the site (probably not most current, for general idea only):
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
[HHS/ACF — and ACF is one of the largest OpDivs [Operational Divisions] of HHS)
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FY 2012
BUDGET PAGE APPROPRIATION LANGUAGE ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 269
AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION …………………………………………………………………………………………. 270
APPROPRIATIONS HISTORY TABLE ………………………………………………………………………………… 271
AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR OBLIGATION ………………………………………………………………………… 273
OBLIGATIONS BY ACTIVITY ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 274
SUMMARY OF CHANGES ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 275
JUSTIFICATION:
GENERAL STATEMENT ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 276
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS ……………………………………………………… 276
BUDGET REQUEST……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 278
OUTPUTS AND OUTCOMES TABLE ……………………………………………………………………………… 280
RESOURCE AND PROGRAM DATA ………………………………………………………………………………… 282
STATE TABLES …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 287
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Here are selected states (fairly whimsical, but I tried to honor Republican Primary Candidates, and Kansas gets a mention because it so recently re-organized the SRS department (which gets the OCSE funding) and is recommending women marry their way out of poverty, too bad for domestic violence (see Topkea) and as advised behind closed doors by some ultra-conservative experts, i.e., Wade Horn, etc. Marriage & Fatherhood promotion are diversionary programs enabled under welfare law, and typically recruiting or program enrollment often happens at the child support level). Look at some of the program titles and which branch of government gets the funding (or most of it), which varies by state:
| Grantee Name | State | Award Number | Award Title | Budget Year | CFDA Number | CFDA Program Name | Award Class | Principal Investigator | Sum of Actions |
| KICKAPOO TRIBE OF KANSAS | KS | 11IAKS4004 | 2011 OCSET | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 535,121 | |
| KS ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL & REHABILITATION SERVICES | KS | 0904KS4004 | 2009 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 698,875 | |
| KS ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL & REHABILITATION SERVICES | KS | 1104KS4004 | 2011 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 27,012,837 | |
| Kansas Dept of Social and Rehabilitation Services | KS | 90FD0145 | OCSE SECTION 1115 | 3 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | MONICA REMILLARD | $ 15,469 |
| PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI INDIANS | KS | 11IBKS4004 | 2011 OCSET | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 250,000 |
IOWA, TEXAS, UTAH
| Grantee Name | State | Award Number | Award Title | Budget Year | CFDA Number | CFDA Program Name | Award Class | Principal Investigator | Sum of Actions |
| IA ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES/HUMAN SERVICES | IA | 0904IA4004 | 2009 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 2,535,162 | |
| IA ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES/HUMAN SERVICES | IA | 1104IA4004 | 2011 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 18,224,176 | |
| IA ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES/HUMAN SERVICES | IA | 90FD0183 | MAPPING THE FUTURE OF PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH GIS | 1 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | JOE FINNEGAN | $ 95,214 |
| Iowa State Dept of Social Services/Human Services | IA | 90FD0144 | LINKING CHILD SUPPORT WITH THE IOWA PRISONER REENTRY INITIATIVE | 3 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | HAROLD B COLEMAN | $ 50,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | TX | 0904TX4004 | 2009 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 1,735,514 | |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | TX | 1104TX4004 | 2011 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 193,122,346 | |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | TX | 90FD0137 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION-PROJECTS IN SUPPORT OF THE PAID INITTIATIVE | 2 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 0 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | TX | 90FD0137 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION-PROJECTS IN SUPPORT OF THE PAID INITTIATIVE | 3 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 50,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | TX | 90FD0169 | URBAN FATHERS ASSET BUILDING PROJECT | 2 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 75,000 |
| UT ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | UT | 0904UT4004 | 2009 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 446,019 | |
| UT ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | UT | 1104UT4004 | 2011 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 22,067,247 |
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Results 1 to 11 of 11 matches.
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MINNESOTA, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA:
| Grantee Name | State | Award Number | Award Title | Budget Year | CFDA Number | CFDA Program Name | Award Class | Principal Investigator | Sum of Actions |
| IA ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES/HUMAN SERVICES | IA | 0904IA4004 | 2009 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 2,535,162 | |
| IA ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES/HUMAN SERVICES | IA | 1104IA4004 | 2011 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 18,224,176 | |
| IA ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES/HUMAN SERVICES | IA | 90FD0183 | MAPPING THE FUTURE OF PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH GIS | 1 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | JOE FINNEGAN | $ 95,214 |
| Iowa State Dept of Social Services/Human Services | IA | 90FD0144 | LINKING CHILD SUPPORT WITH THE IOWA PRISONER REENTRY INITIATIVE | 3 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | HAROLD B COLEMAN | $ 50,000 |
| LEECH BAND OF OJIBWE | MN | 11ICMN4004 | 2011 OCSET | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 143,405 | |
| MILLE LACS BAND OF OJIBWE | MN | 07IDMN4004 | 2007 OCSET | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 14,098 | |
| MILLE LACS BAND OF OJIBWE | MN | 11IDMN4004 | 2011 OCSET | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 217,386 | |
| MN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | MN | 0904MN4004 | 2009 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 490,616 | |
| MN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | MN | 1104MN4004 | 2011 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 101,786,892 | |
| MN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | MN | 90FD0127 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION | 2 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | PATRICK W KRAUTH | $ 0 |
| MN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | MN | 90FD0127 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION | 3 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | PATRICK W KRAUTH | $ 0 |
| MN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | MN | 90FD0140 | OCSE SECTION 1115 – FAMILY-CENTERED SERVICES FOR UNWED PARENTS | 2 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | JILL C ROBERTS | $ 0 |
| MN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | MN | 90FD0140 | OCSE SECTION 1115 – FAMILY-CENTERED SERVICES FOR UNWED PARENTS | 3 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | JILL C ROBERTS | $ 69,684 |
| MN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | MN | 90FD0147 | OCSE SECTION 1115 – PRISONER REENTRY INITITATIVE | 2 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | KAREN L SCHIRLE | $ 0 |
| MN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | MN | 90FD0147 | OCSE SECTION 1115 – PRISONER REENTRY INITITATIVE | 3 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | KAREN L SCHIRLE | $ 50,000 |
| OH ST DEPARTMENT OF JOB & FAMILY SERVICES | OH | 0604OHHMHR | 2006 HMHR ** | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | CLOSED-ENDED | $ 198,000 | |
| OH ST DEPARTMENT OF JOB & FAMILY SERVICES | OH | 0904OH4004 | 2009 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 2,961,680 | |
| OH ST DEPARTMENT OF JOB & FAMILY SERVICES | OH | 1104OH4004 | 2011 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 111,207,241 | |
| OH ST DEPARTMENT OF JOB & FAMILY SERVICES | OH | 90FD0142 | OCSE 1115 – PRISON REENTRY INITIATIVE | 3 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | ATHENA RILEY | $ 50,000 |
| OH ST DEPARTMENT OF JOB & FAMILY SERVICES | OH | 90FD0174 | OHIO OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT, COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WILL PROVIDE FINANCIAL EDU | 2 | 93564 | Child Support Enforcement Research | DISCRETIONARY | ATHENA RILEY | $ 75,000 |
| PA ST DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE | PA | 0904PA4004 | 2009 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 4,560,291 | |
| PA ST DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE | PA | 1104PA4004 | 2011 OCSE | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 150,800,949 | |
| RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS | MN | 11IAMN4004 | 2011 OCSET | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 403,801 | |
| WHITE EARTH RESERVATION TRIBAL COUNCIL | MN | 11BIMN4004 | 2011 OCSET | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 307,298 | |
| WHITE EARTH RESERVATION TRIBAL COUNCIL | MN | 11IBMN4004 | 2011 OCSET | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | OPEN-ENDED | $ 230,371 |
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Results 1 to 25 of 25 matches.
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**This “demonstrates” that at least browsing where money from the Dept. of HHS/OCSE is going from time to time, can be illuminating. When one sees an unexplained acronym, it may be worth a closer look. I figured “HMHR” had something to do with “Healthy Marriage” and was right. Here’s the rest of the Ohio “HMHR” grants (spent for What? Ohioans should look up) and found $198K per year for several years. I also figured this is going on in more than one state, i.e., it’s some federal policy — and was right:
OHIO only (see grant award number has “OH” in it)
| Fiscal Year | Award Number | Award Title | Budget Year | CFDA Number | CFDA Program Name | Award Class | Award Activity Type | Award Action Type | Principal Investigator | Sum of Actions |
| 2011 | 0604OHHMHR | 2006 HMHR | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | CLOSED-ENDED | DEMONSTRATION | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | $ 198,000 | |
| 2009 | 0604OHHMHR | 2006 HMHR | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | CLOSED-ENDED | DEMONSTRATION | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | $ 198,000 | |
| 2008 | 0604OHHMHR | 2006 HMHR | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | CLOSED-ENDED | DEMONSTRATION | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | $ 198,000 | |
| 2007 | 0604OHHMHR | 2006 HMHR | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | CLOSED-ENDED | DEMONSTRATION | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | $ 198,000 | |
| 2006 | 0604OHHMHR | 2006 HMHR | 1 | 93563 | Child Support Enforcement (CSE) | CLOSED-ENDED | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
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Results 1 to 5 of 5 matches.
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$1.194 million so for — hope it’s a good program!
From the web:
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Chapter 2: Healthy Marriages Healthy Relationships—Grand Rapids …
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/strengthen/eval…/grand_ch2.htmlThe HMHR project was awarded a Child Support Enforcement … TheHMHR project proposes to reach at least 2500 people over 5 years with direct …*
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More Specifically (and predictably):
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Healthy Marriages Healthy Relationships—Grand Rapids (HMHR) is a community-based initiative that delivers relationship skills-building services intended to encourage healthy relationships between parents, and between parents and their children, and to increase the financial well-being of children in a low-income urban area of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The HMHR project was awarded a Child Support Enforcement Demonstration Section 1115 waiver in October 2003. The Federal funding required a non-Federal match, and HMHR received a private grant from the Grand Rapids Community Foundation in November 2003. Community needs assessment, recruitment, and relationship building with partners and service delivery planning led to the delivery of relationship skills-building services starting in June 2004.
2.1 Project Goals
The HMHR project proposes to reach at least 2,500 people over 5 years with direct family-strengthening activities such as training in parenting and relationship skills. The initiative has established goals that are broad-based and comprehensive—they encompass improving couple relationships and the parenting skills of low-income parents in the community. Ultimately, HMHR aims to “enhance the financial and emotional well-being of children” (Health Marriages Grand Rapids [HMGR], 2004a; Health Marriages Grand Rapids [HMGR], 2004b). The specific goals of the initiative are to
- increase the number of prepared healthy marriages among low-income couples in Kent county.
- decrease the divorce rate among low-income couples in Kent county.
- increase the active, healthy participation of noncustodial fathers in the lives of their children.
- increase the responsible and effective coparenting skills of married and unmarried parentsto include improvement of the relationship between low-income adults parenting children.{{I.e., Marital Counseling = Child Support Enforcement (diversionary waiver…) philosophy — typical!!
- facilitate, in Kent county, the measurable increase in agreement with the perspective that healthy marriages, healthy relationships between parents, and responsible parenting are criticalto the financial well-being of children.***SERIOUSly?? ????? Governor Gray Davis (abou 2002 or so) vetoed an attempt to endorse
Kids Turnprograms to help children navigate the rocky terrain of divorce on the basis that he (as Governor of California) didn’t feel — although the legislature (which probably had a better idea of how this system works) that it was the place of the California Judicial Council to measure mental health matters. Obviously persistent program promotion works.{{I.e.,brainwashing,excuse me, attitude adjustment, typical favorable to religious views of independent mothers as dangerous more as wombs than full-status humans. “HERE: Take my classes, and afterwards sign this agreement (survey) saying you believe this stuff, so we can get our grant next year, too! Hungry? well, go to the childs upport office and seek a modification, or to get it enforcement; that’s not a service we offer (directly) here”}}
Taken together, achieving the above objectives are intended to support** the following Title IV-D child support enforcement goals:
- Improve compliance with support obligations by noncustodial parents, when needed.
- Increase paternity establishment for low-income children born to unwed mothers (HMGR, 2004a; HMGR, 2004b)
**the road to hell has always been paved with “good intentions.” It’s only in recent times? that merely expressing intent to “facilitate” attitude adjustment in order to reduce poverty (i.e., by increasing sales of relationship skills programs has been so well (federally) rewarded with so little justification. See “Smartmarriages.com” and acknowledge how very smart that corporation’s founder indeed was! (place of incorporation, Washington, D.C., which is where conferences are also held yearly, or were? from 2000-2010, as I recall).
About these SIP programs (from HHS) — This is another place for marriage/fatherhood programs to come in. For the novice, a marriage promotion program (as we’ve seen the HHS organizations doing this, not one of which is truly feminist) IS a FATHERHOOD program. the same is practically true of programs called “CHILD” any more.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage/funding/child_support_past_projects.html
ACF-FUNDED HMI DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS AND GRANT ACTIVITIES:
Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)2003 SIP Grants (see above link for active links to these).
2005 SIP Grants
2006 SIP GrantsThe Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) facilitates State and Tribal development of programs that locate non-custodial parents, establish paternity when necessary, and obtain and enforce child support orders..
Special Improvement Projects (SIPs)
{{isn’t that “special”?}}
SIP grants fund faith- and community-based organizations, as well as state, local, and tribal agencies, to improve child support outcomes such as paternity establishment and child support collections and improve the well-being of children.These grants are authorized through Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. During 2003-2006, the following projects received funding to provide child support and marriage education services to improve outcomes for children.
While it reads “to provide child support services” we can see the “roundabout” reasoning, meaning, Tour de Marriage Enhancement, and possibly — well, we hope — this will result in more child support payments.
Several States (award goes directly to states) got these awards, all are marked “budget year 1” all are “Demonstration” and none have a “principal investigator” listed. MOST of the funding is as “Administrative Supplement” and this has been going on since 2003 or 2004. Here’s a list omitting grantee institution so it’s alpha by state, “NEW” only, which is 27 awards out of 68 (a little less than half of them):
All of these are under straightforward CFDA 93563, “Child Support Enforcement” (although a separate category even exists for “research and demo). These relationship mongering skills are Special Project Waivers.
| State | County | Award Number | Action Issue Date | Award Activity Type | Award Action Type | Sum of Actions |
| CO | DENVER | 0604COHMHR | 01/06/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 276,726 |
| FL | LEON | 0504FLHMHR | 07/15/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 333,333 |
| FL | LEON | 0604FLHMHR | 07/14/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 333,333 |
| GA | FULTON | 0504GAHMHR | 05/27/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 192,000 |
| GA | FULTON | 0604GAHMHR | 07/14/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 192,000 |
| ID | ADA | 0404IDHMHR | 10/03/2003 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 110,880 |
| ID | ADA | 0404IDHMHR | 12/01/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 110,880 |
| IL | SANGAMON | 0504ILHMHR | 11/29/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 273,003 |
| IN | MARION | 0804INHMHR | 07/16/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| KY | FRANKLIN | 0504KYHMHR | 07/15/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 333,333 |
| KY | FRANKLIN | 0604KYHMHR | 07/14/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 333,333 |
| LA | EAST BATON ROUGE | 0404LAHMHR | 09/10/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 308,000 |
| LA | EAST BATON ROUGE | 0504LAHMHR | 08/11/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 308,000 |
| LA | EAST BATON ROUGE | 0604LAHMHR | 07/14/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 308,000 |
| MA | MIDDLESEX | 0504MAHMHR | 11/29/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 324,939 |
| MI | INGHAM | 0404MIHMHR | 10/03/2003 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| MI | INGHAM | 0404MIHMHR | 12/01/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| MN | RAMSEY | 0404MNHMHR | 09/10/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| MN | RAMSEY | 0504MNHMHR | 08/11/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| MN | RAMSEY | 0604MNHMHR | 07/14/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| MN | RAMSEY | 0704MNHMHR | 08/07/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| OH | FRANKLIN | 0604OHHMHR | 07/14/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| TX | TRAVIS | 0604TXHMHR | 10/11/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 499,092 |
| WA | THURSTON | 0604WAHMHR | 03/15/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 200,000 |
| WA | THURSTON | 0605WAHMHR | 04/20/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
| WA | THURSTON | 0704WAHMHR | 08/08/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 200,000 |
| WA | THURSTON | 0705WAHMHR | 08/07/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | $ 198,000 |
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For comparison — in ONE year (nationwide) 772 OCSE grants (including, but not limited to these), totalling:
| Total of 772 Award Actions for 171 Awards | Total Amount for all Award Actions: | $ 3,176,826,043 | |||||
This doesn’t include important federal programs like abstinence education, either. . . . . .
Anyhow, click around TaGGS some, look at CFDA 93564 and find out just how much experimentation is really going on — plus get at least a few principal investigator’s names together to figure out what’s up. Here’s a segment (no years selected) showing just how active TENNESSEE & TEXAS are, not to mention showing that sometimes people write “TEXAS” or “TX” or “State of” when it comes to state name format and sometimes, unbelievably, the word “Mr.” is entered under the name category, as I found out as to California, “Principal Investigator” for a $29,000 grant to help connect Title IV-A (TANF) and Title IV-D (Child Support). I hope the person making all these clerical errors (?) isn’t earning much more than $29,000 of my money to do so. Who’s training the database submission personnel at HHS, anyhow? Howsabout some basic filing protocol, eh? For reference, see phone book.
What this tells me is that these states are fairly busy in “Child Support Research and Demonstration” These are all CFDA 93564 (not 93563, and not 93597, which is Access/Visitation — which also promotes some of the same things.
California:
| CA ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES | 90FD0003 | PRIORITY AREA 4.01 – NONCUSTODIAL PARENTS & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT SYST | 3 | 09/15/2009 | DEMONSTRATION | OTHER REVISION | PEGGY JENSEN | $- 73,983 |
| CA ST DEPT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES | 90FD0083 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM – PRIORITY AREA 4 | 1 | 09/15/2003 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | LEORA GERSHENZON | $ 60,000 |
| CA ST DEPT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES | 90FD0114 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANTS | 1 | 08/24/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | DANIEL LOUIS | $ 150,000 |
| CA ST DEPT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES | 90FD0114 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANTS | 2 | 09/19/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | DANIEL LOUIS | $ 75,000 |
| CA ST DEPT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES | 90FD0114 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANTS | 2 | 08/29/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | LESLIE CARMONA | $ 0 |
| CA ST DEPT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES | 90FD0114 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANTS | 3 | 09/09/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LESLIE CARMONA | $ 75,000 |
| CA ST DEPT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES | 90FD0114 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANTS | 3 | 10/22/2009 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | KATHY HREPICH | $ 0 |
| CA ST DEPT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES | 90FD0158 | SERVE OUR IV-A/IV-D PROGRAM COLLABORATION | 1 | 09/24/2009 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | MR BILL OTTERBECK | $ 29,000 |
| STATE OF TENNESSEE | 90FD0108 | TENNESSEE DPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES PRIORITY AREA 1 | 1 | 06/23/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 82,853 |
| State of Louisiana, Department of Social Services | 90FD0125 | OCSE SECTION 1115 (PA-2) | 1 | 08/23/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | ROBBIE ENDRIS | $ 59,983 |
| TEXAS OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0113 | OCSE SECTION 1115 | 1 | 07/20/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | GILBERT A CHAVEZ | $ 108,112 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0077 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANT, PRIORITY AREA #4 | 1 | 08/26/2003 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 60,000 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0102 | TENNESSEE DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES | 1 | 09/16/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | LINDA CHAPPELL | $ 62,300 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0108 | TENNESSEE DPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES PRIORITY AREA 1 | 2 | 07/31/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 101,427 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0108 | TENNESSEE DPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES PRIORITY AREA 1 | 3 | 07/27/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 100,688 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0108 | TENNESSEE DPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES PRIORITY AREA 1 | 3 | 03/06/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 0 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0108 | TENNESSEE DPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES PRIORITY AREA 1 | 3 | 02/24/2010 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 0 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0129 | SECTION 1115 – PRIORITY AREA 1 | 1 | 09/20/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 54,612 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0129 | SECTION 1115 – PRIORITY AREA 1 | 2 | 08/09/2009 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 52,034 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0129 | SECTION 1115 – PRIORITY AREA 1 | 2 | 07/12/2010 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 0 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0129 | SECTION 1115 – PRIORITY AREA 1 | 2 | 05/13/2011 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 0 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0129 | SECTION 1115 – PRIORITY AREA 1 | 3 | 09/01/2010 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 50,000 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0129 | SECTION 1115 – PRIORITY AREA 1 | 3 | 05/18/2011 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 0 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0139 | FAMILY-CENTERED SERVICES FOR UNWED PARENTS IN THE IV-D CASELOAD | 1 | 09/01/2009 | OTHER | NEW | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 100,000 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0139 | FAMILY-CENTERED SERVICES FOR UNWED PARENTS IN THE IV-D CASELOAD | 2 | 09/01/2010 | OTHER | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 71,240 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0139 | FAMILY-CENTERED SERVICES FOR UNWED PARENTS IN THE IV-D CASELOAD | 2 | 03/14/2011 | OTHER | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 0 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0139 | FAMILY-CENTERED SERVICES FOR UNWED PARENTS IN THE IV-D CASELOAD | 3 | 08/08/2011 | OTHER | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 47,500 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0148 | TENNESSEE PROJECT IN SUPPORT OF THE PRISONER REENTRY INITIATIVE | 1 | 09/01/2009 | OTHER | NEW | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 49,300 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0148 | TENNESSEE PROJECT IN SUPPORT OF THE PRISONER REENTRY INITIATIVE | 2 | 09/01/2010 | OTHER | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 49,300 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0148 | TENNESSEE PROJECT IN SUPPORT OF THE PRISONER REENTRY INITIATIVE | 2 | 03/14/2011 | OTHER | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 0 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0148 | TENNESSEE PROJECT IN SUPPORT OF THE PRISONER REENTRY INITIATIVE | 3 | 08/14/2011 | OTHER | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MR CHARLES BRYSON | $ 49,300 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0171 | BUILDING ASSETS FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES | 1 | 09/25/2010 | OTHER | NEW | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 85,000 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0171 | BUILDING ASSETS FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES | 2 | 08/14/2011 | OTHER | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 75,000 |
| TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | 90FD0177 | INTEGRATING WORKFORCE STRATEGIES WITH CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES IN TENNESSEE | 1 | 09/24/2011 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | CHARLES BRYSON | $ 55,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0052 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM (PRIORITY AREA III) | 1 | 09/15/2009 | DEMONSTRATION | OTHER REVISION | WILLIAM H ROGERS | $- 8,058 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0073 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANT-P.A. 2 | 1 | 09/15/2009 | DEMONSTRATION | OTHER REVISION | MICHAEL HAYES | $- 6,976 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0078 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANT, PRIORITY AREA #5 | 1 | 08/26/2003 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 80,040 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0085 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANT, PRIORITY AREA #4 | 1 | 08/26/2003 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 60,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0088 | SECT. 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANT PRIORITY AREA 1 | 1 | 08/29/2003 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | WILL ROGERS | $ 196,555 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0088 | SECT. 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANT PRIORITY AREA 1 | 2 | 09/27/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA CAFFERATA | $ 196,555 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0088 | SECT. 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANT PRIORITY AREA 1 | 2 | 01/08/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | KAREN HENSON | $ 0 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0088 | SECT. 1115 DEMONSTRATION GRANT PRIORITY AREA 1 | 3 | 08/16/2005 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | KAREN HENSON | $ 196,555 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0092 | TEXAS OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 1 | 09/09/2004 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | MICHAEL D HAYES | $ 125,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0113 | OCSE SECTION 1115 | 2 | 07/27/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | GILBERT A CHAVEZ | $ 108,400 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0113 | OCSE SECTION 1115 | 2 | 03/19/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | GILBERT A CHAVEZ | $ 0 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0113 | OCSE SECTION 1115 | 2 | 06/26/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | GILBERT A CHAVEZ | $ 0 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0113 | OCSE SECTION 1115 | 3 | 07/31/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | GILBERT A CHAVEZ | $ 108,400 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0113 | OCSE SECTION 1115 | 3 | 06/27/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | GILBERT A CHAVEZ | $ 0 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0124 | OCSE SECTION 1115 (PA-3) | 1 | 08/29/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | HAILEY KEMP | $ 60,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0124 | OCSE SECTION 1115 (PA-3) | 2 | 08/11/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | TED WHITE | $ 60,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0124 | OCSE SECTION 1115 (PA-3) | 3 | 09/01/2009 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | TED WHITE | $ 50,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0124 | OCSE SECTION 1115 (PA-3) | 3 | 03/30/2010 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | TED WHITE | $ 0 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0134 | OCSE RESEARCH GRANTS 1115 WAIVER | 1 | 09/29/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 703,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0137 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION-PROJECTS IN SUPPORT OF THE PAID INITTIATIVE | 1 | 08/16/2009 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | KAMMI SIEMENS | $ 100,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0137 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION-PROJECTS IN SUPPORT OF THE PAID INITTIATIVE | 2 | 09/07/2010 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 75,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0137 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION-PROJECTS IN SUPPORT OF THE PAID INITTIATIVE | 2 | 01/13/2011 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 0 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0137 | SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION-PROJECTS IN SUPPORT OF THE PAID INITTIATIVE | 3 | 09/25/2011 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 50,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0169 | URBAN FATHERS ASSET BUILDING PROJECT | 1 | 09/25/2010 | OTHER | NEW | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 85,000 |
| TX ST OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL | 90FD0169 | URBAN FATHERS ASSET BUILDING PROJECT | 2 | 08/29/2011 | OTHER | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL HAYES | $ 75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | 90FD0141 | FAMILY-CENTERED SERVICES FOR UNWED PARENTS IN THE IV-D CASELOAD | 1 | 09/01/2009 | OTHER | NEW | MARILYN R SMITH | $ 99,348 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | 90FD0141 | FAMILY-CENTERED SERVICES FOR UNWED PARENTS IN THE IV-D CASELOAD | 2 | 09/19/2010 | OTHER | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MARILYN R SMITH | $ 75,000 |
| US DHHS, ACF, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES | 90FD0115 | COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, PRIORITY AREA #2 | 1 | 09/01/2006 | DEMONSTRATION | NEW | JOHN BERNHART | $ 150,000 |
| US DHHS, ACF, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES | 90FD0115 | COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, PRIORITY AREA #2 | 2 | 09/26/2007 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | JOHN BERNHART | $ 75,000 |
| US DHHS, ACF, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES | 90FD0115 | COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, PRIORITY AREA #2 | 2 | 08/10/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | JOHN BERNHART | $ 0 |
| US DHHS, ACF, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES | 90FD0115 | COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, PRIORITY AREA #2 | 2 | 06/15/2011 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | JOHN BERNHART | $ 0 |
| US DHHS, ACF, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES | 90FD0115 | COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, PRIORITY AREA #2 | 3 | 08/31/2008 | DEMONSTRATION | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | JOHN BERNHART | $ 75,000 |
| US DHHS, ACF, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES | 90FD0115 | COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, PRIORITY AREA #2 | 3 | 06/22/2011 | DEMONSTRATION | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | JOHN BERNHART | $ 0 |
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RE:
The 66/34 Effect Show with Athena Phoenix was sponsored this week by a responsible father who wishes to assist us in carrying out o[u]r mission to improve the way the family courts do business. He asks that you please consider signing this petition to tell Congress and the President to stop wasting money on HHS programs that lack oversight and harm families and children caught in the family courts:
The shows bring up consistently valuable speakers, and it’s true some segments have featured the effect of the TANF budget, and the 66/34 effect. The press-releases prior to show are jam-packed with links and information and shows in themselves.
My perspective and purpose differs somewhat, and I believe that given the urgency of the times, it is vERY necessary to locate people (particularly mothers) who are willing to blow the cover on the DV industry sellout AS MOTHERS in custody challenges, and FATHERS who are willing to blow the cover on how these program diversions are actually conceived with intent to divert profits to already profiting individuals in various institutions, and expand welfare until it blankets the United States with relationship education, whether or not this entails poor and needy families on the “take our program” side. I have a general idea of what kind of people are drawn to the “give me a grant, I’ll push your product” side — whether at the professional level (the two professors from UDenver who have PREP, Inc. thing going), and other contracting organizations (MDRC, Maximus, etc.) who defraud (allegedly, judging by how often they get sued) and the judges etc. with their retirement plan & income supplementation at public expense plans (the Kids’ Turns and Family Justice Centers of the world) and the “let’s do a NICE conference business.
In recent days/weeks, I’ve had an absolutely wonderful looking, articulate, attractive intelligent mother (a widow) and grandmother in her sixties come up to me, at a loss regarding finding work. She was downsized after twenty-nine (29) years in what sounds like very responsible, executive responsibility support staff in an engineering firm for a huge company. What is she to do? I looked at her with my court-custody-DV-strewn work life scenario and was thankful that at least this disaster prepared me for handling more of the same; my disadvantage working to my survival advantage in a rapidly changing world.
And I prefer to bake my own cakes at many points. Years of having social / community relationships compromised by court filings and sudden disappearance of my kids (I don’t think a mother EVER gets over that, no matter what else she does in life), not because they served in Iraq, but because they were born in this country and in that decade of Jim Crow times regarding civil rights for women, too.
(and here’s the end of my 11,000 — so far — word post. That includes the tables, of course): A person working to stop child slavery in California is on: here is the nonprofit description of HOW children girls are kept in line:
Director of this Chino, California organization, The Faces of Slavery, is “Juana Zapata.” It’s site has tremendous graphics, and “FACES” is an acronym: Fight Against Child Exploitation And Sexual Slavery of AMERICAN CHILDREN. “Amber’s Story” deals with a runaway (my mind immediately thinks of reasons a child might run away, one of which is violence or abuse in the home, including molestation. So why not do better at stopping that to start with?)
Please read this site. The problem is real! (see “Franklin Coverup” also)
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See the bullets above? Sometimes many of those features happen WITHIN nuclear families — sometimes even within families that have biologically related Mom, Pop and Kids. And yet still the building block of society has to be families?
for the healing process — imagine this:
How We Can Make a Difference
What does a child like “Amber” need to heal from the deep mental, emotional, and physical scars that have been inflicted upon her? She needs a warm, safe, peaceful, place. She needs to be surrounded by people who will gently guide her, support her, encourage her, and show her what real love is. We can provide these very things.
Our property in California is tucked away in a beautiful, quiet and safe place. We are surrounded by trees and ponds and mountains. We have the ability to provide fun and “normal” activities such as hiking, swimming, other water sports, museums, dining out, movies, playing games so she can regain her childhood.
Similarly, after severe violence IN the home — although surely this must be worse — children who grew up “Exposed to Violence” including watching one parent beat the other (adjust to accommodate step-parent, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc.) — they too need a healing and detox period.
But they are not getting it for long — and primarily they are not getting this because the custody courts, with their AFCC, their Access Visitation (CRC theory), their incentives to prolong war (while claiming they stop it) and their assets-stripping, bone-chilling, never ending encouragement of the worse parent when “worse” is obvious — will not allow for, our society is just not ready to accommodate and SAY NO TO custody — ANY type of custody and particularly not joint, and not shared — when one parent has already demonstrated assault and battery, threats, economic oppression & “pimping” (this happened to me. I worked, he got the checks, I got threatened and slapped, kicked, choked, etc., sleep-deprived anyhow. I provided the job reference for the credit application — he got the credit! etc. Once you start one of these relationships, if you are not committed to IMMEDIATELY terminate it, it’s very hard to get out.
And in this climate, once you get out, here comes “conciliation code” and a bunch of people who are not “rich enough” yet to defraud people of their rights to exist, legally and simply live, as INDIVIDUALS in this country. See “Ohio Fatherhood Commission” (targeting counties with single mothers) for a nice example. It is ONLY going to get worse until this is stopped, and I know that I alone cannot stop this.
Here is a facebook page which states Government Agencies are looking to F.A.C.E.S.S. but we also need your donations
REGISTRATION, Secretary of State? I don’t know: I see these (after FACESS and “Fight Against” searches didn’t turn up a registration) or “FACESS” with or without the periods:
http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/cbs.aspx
Results of search for ” F.A.C.E.S. ” returned no entity records.
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As to those initials for Charities (i.e., nonprofits) in California, the only ones I see (both delinquent) relate to Autism, i.e., that’s what the “A” in the acronym stands for. Our F.A.C.E.S.S. doesn’t show in California as a nonprofit:
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(facebook logo’ FB shows 392 followers on the page)
These would be the corporate registrations. Only one (formed about a year ago) is left standing here in California:
| Entity Number | Date Filed | Status | Entity Name | Agent for Service of Process |
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| C2439255 | 03/01/2004 | SUSPENDED | CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHILD EXPLOITATION, A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT MUTUAL BENEFIT CORPORATION | DAVID REPLOGLE |
| C1229360 | 10/12/1983 | DISSOLVED | FAMILY AWARENESS OF CHILD EXPLOITATION – IN-TRUDERS | CHARMAINE DENNIS |
| C3367022 | 03/17/2011 | ACTIVE | FOUNDATION AGAINST CHILD EXPLOITATION & HUMAN TRAFFICKING | ERIC BUSH |
| C1195950 | 03/06/1987 | SUSPENDED | PEOPLE AGAINST CHILD EXPLOITATION | JAMES D DAVIES |
So far, I see a facebook page. The website direcst people to the Facebook page, and the law enforcement link (on the website) is by password only, understandably.
Just that if someone is seeking donations, we seek an EIN# and registration. It’s that simple. So perhaps I will call in and simply ask — is there an umbrella organization?:
There are “10 people” names Juana Zapata in California, and 1 (with 1 connection only) on LinkedIn. There’s the mother of a young man whose car crahsed into and killed a police officer in Freson, listed as his 47 year old mother (the young man not living at home at the time, and being the youngest of 5 at age 19)
http://www.kristieslaw.org/fresno.htm This is a hard story to hear, and probably a different woman involved, as apparently this mother needed a translator. It’s undated.
Featured here, protesting (it seems) an “adult” page in a paper, or on-line, from “The Majestic Dreams Foundation”
http://www.themajestic.org/blog/2011/10/07/Press-Release-The-Daily-Titan.aspx
”The advocates of anti-slavery held signs that read, “Hey Ortega! Real men don’t buy girls” and “I am the key to free,” while protesting Ortega and the conglomerate which owns BackPage.com.Lizeth Sebastian, 21, pioneer of the anti-human trafficking club at Chapman University called Set Captives Free, said many people are unaware that sex trafficking is happening in local areas.Juana Zapata, from Faces of Slavery, said for the past three years her organization has been rescuing and protecting girls who have been victims of human trafficking and who were advertised on BackPage.com, averaging one girl every six weeks.“We are a permanent residential place for them (the victims),” said Zapata, who was invited to the protest by Cenedella. “For us it’s very important that the public knows that this is actually happening right here; it’s not international. Students have to be fully aware what’s happening with their generation and they are the voice.
This is a GRIPPING story of Aimee, and what happened after she reported abuse from the ages of 8 to 12 by a priest, a friend of her aunt. She reported it at age 17 to a minister, then to law enforcement, and was subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment, a 51-50 psychiatric hold (without her mother’s knowledge) with resulting lasting damage, and in general was treated as the criminal .
Her report went from minister to law enforcement to hold, to hospital in short order. Her family which refused to believe the story are estranged — BUT she was able to make a film.
This day forever changed the rest of her life. That very day, Aimee underwent hours of questioning by the local police department as the suspect, Honesto Bismonte, was placed immediately in jail. After a long interview, receiving scrutiny from the police department, Aimee was sent to undergo a psychological evaluation by a county psychologist. However, to her surprise, when she was being escorted by two police officers, they admitted her into the hospital without her knowledge. She was placed on a 51-50, hold, which means she legally must remain admitted for psychological evaluation for up to 72 hours. . .
When Aimee was 16,** she fell into an abusive relationship with her boyfriend of 3 1/2 years. He would physically abuse her and attempted to kill her on various occasions. Through the numerous years of psychological, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse Aimee has received, she decided to turn everything into a positive learning experience. She wanted to show abused victims and survivors, that despite any obstacle, you can succeed. Aimee is proud to say, that throughout it all, she has never smoked or taken any drug of any kind. “Just because horrible things happen in our lives, we must be strong to not let it get the best of us.”
Aimee has been a strong advocate for victim’s rights. She is an avid supporter of RAINN (Rape, Abuse National Network), Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking, ACF Trafficking, SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), Perverted Justice and more.
| Entity Number | Date Filed | Status | Entity Name | Agent for Service of Process |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200501110252 | 01/10/2005 | ACTIVE | AIMESTER PRODUCTIONS LLC | AIMEE GALICIA TORRES |
Main OfficeNew America Foundation |
California OfficeNew America Foundation |
Laurie Garduque
Adele L. Grubbs
Byron Johnson
Steven H. Jonesen
Gordon A. Martin, Jr.
Pamela Rodriguez
Deborah Schumacher
Trina Thompson
Richard Vincent
The Georgia Fatherhood Program, created by the Division of Child Support Services (DCSS) in 1997, works with non-custodial parents who owe child support through DCSS but are unable to pay. Georgia’s Fatherhood Program is the largest state-operated fatherhood program in the country. Several thousands of non-custodial parents received services through the program during the past year. Gainful, stable employment enables these parents to provide regular financial support for their children. Fatherhood Program participants paid $18.7 million in child support during FY 2005.
Georgia recognized early on that many non-custodial parents wanted to pay their court-ordered child support, but lacked the economic capacity to do so. DCSS has partnered with other government and community agencies to develop a comprehensive network of services for this group.
The Fatherhood Program:
• Generally takes three to six months to complete.
• Serves both fathers and mothers who are non-custodial parents. . .
The Georgia Fatherhood Program is implemented by the Fatherhood Services Network, sponsored by the Department of Human Services’ Division of Child Support Services. The Network includes:
• Georgia Department of Human Services
• Child Access and Visitation Program
• Voluntary Paternity Acknowledgement Program
• Georgia Family Connections Partnership** (a nice nonprofit including a Juvenile Court judge on its board…)
• DCSS, which contracts with:
• Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education
• Georgia Department of Labor
• DeKalb County Fatherhood Initiative Network
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CROOKS.
Your Money, Their Tax Exemption,
Your Kids Gone (or Abused) courtesy
Your Government. Your President(s) Promoting it, Too,
Clinton, Bush, Obama, ….???
Name me one that didn’t promote faith, marriage and fatherhood.
Or have a background involving some real estate deals pre-Presidency.
I’ve been looking (too long, probably) at what these organizations do, how they behave, and what the pattern is. Unilaterally, it’s sickening (i.e., it’s corrupt). I believe that collectively this is the “air we breathe” and that it gets back to the money system — a dual class cartel being created and expanded, where those closest to the “Court” may save or prosper their own asses — but it will be at the expense of ethics, truth, and others. This will lead to more bloodshed, as some are going to resist by non-economic means.
All of this may sound complex (particularly as I don’t present it visually in the best manner — I’d be better in a Q&A, or live; and don’t have graphics skills). But as to concepts, it isn’t. If you can think conceptually (and surviving depends on more of it these days) — you can understand these concepts. The thing is, most people’s lives don’t require analyzing so much of their government from top to bottom, while not being IN it or ON it. Those of us who got so marginalized and don’t like fake answers (hard truths are OK, “Placebo” truths are not) — have been doing so.
THINGS FLOW: Electricity, water, air (lava, sometimes), sap, blood, lymph (with help), sewage, OK, MILK, semen, right?– and money.
AND – information / IDEAS — in the form of words, sounds, images, smells — almost anything that involves one of the five senses. This is your: face to face, and technology over the decades: Paper (Gutenberg), Radio, Telegraph, and now, The Internet — Social Media — the web. . . . . Etc.
(Some — many — also assert that spirit exists, and as such, it’s been compared to: wind, fire, and water. (“Earth, Wind and Fire?”)
THINGS FLOW — and they flow GEOGRAPHICALLy and CHRONOLOGICALLY. MONEY FLOWS.
In a sense, property ownership ALSO “flows” — from one owner to another.
THINGS FLOW — and when they do, there are conduits, surfaces, or carriers (irrigation systems, etc.) through which they flow. Or seep. Or, are transmitted.
Extended illustration that WHAT flows, matters. Maybe some things shouldn’t be:
As they flow, and over time, they sometimes are themselves transformed (water) or transform (give life — or death) to — other things. Right now in Pennsylvania, there’s the issue of SHALE (“fracking”) which forcibly injects a mixture of liquids (carrying pollutants) to get the desired oil out, I guess. (see link) Here’s a description which proves that, if you flush something out that wasn’t meant to be flushed — there is a resulting flow of crap, which has to be hauled away. I seems that presently the Governor of PA (Corbett) is appealing municipalities protests of an unconstitutional (and so ruled, by the Supreme Court of PA) restriction on local municipalities to protest zoning that would — enable this fracking, I think. What did the GOV do? Well, the apparatus was already set — there were states’ attorneys, and a (centralized development agency), the OECD, over which he appointed a crony (“walker”) (or, at least donor to his campaign, and with a financial interests in defeating this Ruled-Unconstitutional act. Power at work…).
Now, what to do with it? This is about FLOW and just an illustration. A large one, of course:
Flowback and Brine Treatment in Pennsylvania
The Municipal Authority of McKeesport accepts 80,000 gallons per day, which is then mixed with treated sewage and dumped into the Monongahela River upstream from Pittsburgh. Hawg Hauling is part of Chesapeake Energy.
Somewhere between 20% and 40% of the water used for hydro-fracing a gas well returns to the surface as flowback, and later as produced water. In addition to the frac fluids added by the gas drilling companies, this water picks up other contaminants from deep in the Earth (~ 7,000 feet deep) with one of the most notable ingredients being salt.
Let’s talk about what’s in it: (from same site — just browse…)
about which, per the EPA
Trihalomethanes (THM) are a group of four chemicals that are formed (along with other disinfection byproducts) when chlorine or other disinfectants used to control microbial contaminants in drinking water react with naturally occurring organic and inorganic matter in water. The trihalomethanes are chloroform, bromodi/chloromethane, dibromo/chloromethane, and bromoform (I inserted the “/”s)
That’s sweet, disinfecting with chlorine and other agents creates Chloroform, something used to kill butterflies and sometimes aid in a kidnapping.
BACK TO TOPIC ABOUT THE FLOW OF IDEAS —
AND WITH THEM, MONEY. SUCH AS IT IS….
ANOTHER THING THAT SEEMS TO “FLOW” (WITH CERTAIN “CARRIER” ITEMS) IS — POWER. AND THAT’S WHAT WE NEED TO BE MOST CONCERNED ABOUT, BECAUSE THAT POWER INCLUDES THE POWER TO INCARCERATE, THE THUMBS-UP OR THUMBS-DOWN POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH OVER PEOPLE, OR GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
SOME PEOPLE are just REAL INTENT in consolidating power, and have developed many ways to do so.
In my quest to see why I couldn’t even break a lousy individual (batterer husband) — or my own family off me, I came to understand more and more of these matters affecting the courts, and to understand (I believe) the courts for what they are — gateways to the flow of power DOWNWARDS and not for the right reasons. I’ve seen enough, and while knowledge is power, it is the delivery system which really counts (which those holding power certainly know) — as well as the MAINTENANCE OF MYTH:
When it comes to MAINTENANCE OF MYtH — there’s nothing like religion + internet. When it comes to hiding assets, there’s nothing like nonprofits and the internet — and pre-existing institutions. When it comes to DISTRACTION — there’s nothing like trapping people’s time in a SINGLE system (with captive, so to speak) audiences — rather than understanding how systems interact with each other.
As we speak, I have been accumulating layers (weaving, as it were) of understanding of various threads. ALL of those threads lead to distribution of money and bring up the question of the IRS. This brings up the question of whose bright idea it, and the Federal Reserve, and so many other coordinated things that they absolutely do comprise a FABRIC with a certain MODEL that is being (has been) stretched over the U.S. over time.
The CORE of this model is — I’m sure of it now — ECONOMIC
It is the centralization of wealth (as opposed to “money”)
with frightening systems of control, destruction, incarceration, potential forced psychiatric drugging, or simply peddling of narcotics (in addition to the drugging of kids in foster care — or schools — to control them, as well as the elderly, as well as the mentally unstable, as well as the . . . (get it?) )
we have become also accustomed (too many of us) to believe that DOLLARS are MONEY —
when Dollars are NOT real money– Dollars are Debt-Notes.
They might as well be play-dough.
And too many legislators have a dual allegiance — one of which is in the Vatican.
The others which say they aren’t Catholic have forgotten that George W. Bush has been called a better Catholic the John F. Kennedy. JFK actually had a fight with his conscience where faith fought his oath as President of the United States to uphold and defend the Constitution.
I don’t think the former Presidential contestant, Rick Santorum (nor, Michelle Bachmann)
would have had such troubling thoughts as a conscience of the law of the land might give.
They do seem to center geographically on Washington, D.C. (and historically so), with of course hot spots in various states where certain (nonprofit trade associations) have coalesced. Like, Denver, or Chicago — or some in California (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco). In the middle of the country, Minnesota (out of all places) has been a hotspot of “DV” activity. Wisconsin seems to have been a test state almost, for welfare reform (Tommy Thompson, etc.) and is the home state of this “AFCC” I keep talking about. . . . . . Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma are — well, what they are (very “fatherhood” friendly). Don’t ask me why NY comes to mind in this area — but it doesn’t.
LET’s CHANGE GEARS:
This blog has been “FAMILY COURT” focused (for its duration). However, as I kept pulling strands like this — ON MARRIAGE AND FAITH-BASED GRANTEES, SET UP BY HHS COMPASSION GRANTS, MARKETING MATERIALS FROM “SMARTMARRIAGE.COM” CONFERENCEES, DIVERTING FUNDS FROM WELFARE (NEEDY, OFTEN SINGLE-MOTHER HOUSEHOLDS) TO END UP IN PROGRAM HANDS, AS THE “LOW-INCOME” POPULATION STAY THAT WAY — BUT AT LEAST HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF BECOMING PART OF A SOCIAL SCIENCE ENGINEERING TEST RUN, IN ASSOCIATION WITH COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION INSTITUTES ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY “CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE” LAND, INCLUDING IN GEORGIA, DENVER, AND ELSEWHERE: **
. . . . I kept running smack into the problem that, the problem is the dual class system set up by Nonprofit status, to start with. Nonprofits form boards, have salaries paid, either do (which = prosperity) sell out to HHS policy (which is itself blended with corporate wealth, see GWBush, already) — or go the private foundation route (i.e., PRIVATE wealth) — and from that platform, go about attempting to restructure the entire PUBLIC institution infrastructure, for its own good (as defined by the privately-founded wealth) etc. Roughly speaking, this might be called — and was exemplified by, the Robert Rectors (Heritage Foundation — i.e., just let us BE the United States Government, after all, we already know how to run things) versus the Peter Edelmans (Georgetown Law, and with the proven track record in Civil Rights, and in association with Children’s Defense Fund, see (his wife), Marian Wright Edelman, who are — let us FIX the United States Government — and by the way, we are taking private wealth.
What about people whose goal is NOT world change (“OUR version, for everyone — not THEIR version, for everyone), but, supporting ourselves and our families, staying active in our communities, and having time left to sleep — plus food to eat? Suppose we are happy within normal spheres of endeavor — we may want to travel some around the globe, but are not invested in owning and running it?
If I had to go to dinner with one of the two, I’d pick the Edelmans any day, but I do not endorse either of their policies; both are “change agents” and believe that their collective personal vision should be inflicted on future generations, whereas, I’m a single mother (or was), and have daughters — and just don’t happen to agree. Why? Because there’s such a thing as too much “SYSTEM.” Whoever runs a system for the nation, controls the nation — and a lot of its funding. And the public school system is similar to the family law system. They’re both here, feed on each other, and put IDEAS (not just people) in boxes, demand payment from someone else for doing this, but when it comes to FENCES (regulations on the administrators of the system), then the parents and nonparents supporting these systems — are FENCED out. See “metal detectors” and “lockdown.” I cannot think of a more overt collective attack on this country than those two systems, combined, have done to its children — and with the children, the parents who actually DO care about them, but must fight the government for access to their own kids, or a relationship with them.
In short, I don’t believe in nationwide SYSTEMS, period, except where absolutely essential. I say that having (sort of) survived an abusive “nuclear family” system and am still reeling from the extended family (plus friends) GANG simply because my children were wonderful (and irresistible), and, can you spell, “the love of money”? I believe this is what middle-aged people (both genders) do when their own (professionally OK, or even successful) lives are simply boring, unrewarding, or meaningless.
(SO, that long link above link is to a topic on Scranton PT which has a recent dredging of the marriage- and faith-based shell corps (and resulting headlines about their various frauds) AND shows how a major community change initiative by Saul Alinsky (Industrial Areas Foundation — now based out of Grace Episcopal in Chicago) (a) worked and (b) morphed from “using” the access to people that churches represented, to strengthening churches AS institutions and centers for receiving (federal) grants to change communities. It seems the HHS was fine with that — and somehow money is getting lost in the process.
CHURCHES COMMUNITY CHANGE AGENTS WITH CONTROL-CENTRAL:
A few of the posts (on that topic & forum) also uncovered in the process a COPYCAT of the Industrial Areas Foundation adapted to Christianity — or at least the veneer of churchianity — apparently some woman was overly impressed by some man who (it turned out) had himself been through PICO training. What “PICO” is appears to be a recruiting process — an organization trawls locally for leadership material and then recruits them into separate membership which becomes a “change agent” and then that local leaders goes forth and conquers. . . . . . . . I guess this is an alternative to normal judicial & legislative processes, perhaps…. (A SAMPLE COMMENT)
Here’s re: PICO, allegedly modeled after Saul Alinksy ideas and around neighborhood organizing. Apparently neighborhoods now being more fractured, they headed for the churches (ca. 1980s). Interesting and relevant from wikipedia. PICO (Pacific Institute for Community Organizing) started in Oakland, CA 1972, by a Jesuit priest, John Bauman
PICO conducts six-day national leadership development seminars four times a year, teaching the theory and practice of congregation-based organizing. Each year an additional seminar is presented in Spanish. Local affiliates also provide members and leaders with training on building and sustaining strong organizations, identifying potential leaders through one-on-one relational meetings, researching community issues, developing budgets, and working with public officials.[11]
PICO leader attracted to ideas of Saul Alinksy, i.e. incl. Alinsky’s tactics were often unorthodox. In Rules for Radicals Alinsky wrote, “[t]he job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a ‘dangerous enemy.'” According to Alinsky, “the hysterical instant reaction of the establishment [will] not only validate [the organizer’s] credentials of competency but also ensure automatic popular invitation.”[8]
PICO is basically community organizing to solve the world’s (i.e., it mentions urban, suburban and rural) projects — with connections to Central America and Rwanda…
In PICO’s congregation-community model, congregations of all denominations and faiths serve as the institutional base for community organizations. Rather than bring people together simply based on common issues like housing or education, the faith-based or broad-based organizing model makes values and relationships the glue that holds organizations together.
PICO builds community organizations based on religious congregations, schools and community centers, which are often the only stable civic gathering places in many neighborhoods
REGARDING the North County Sponsoring Committee (aka Faith Works) — it’s basically a PICO affiliate.
FROM 2002 return, its nonprofit purpose is to provide leadership training:
To strengthen North San Diego County families and communities by assisting religious congregations and other community groups in the development of leadership that is educated and organized for effective participation in civic life
No officers paid yet, and no employees. Largest expense under “other” includes PICO consulting fee: $14,675, plus training fees and training mileage:
This is fascinating — but mostly in its context, which I realize you are not, just now.
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August 17, 2012 at 9:25 AM
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