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Outstanding in their Field. Now, about that Field… (Fatherhood Grantees/Practitioners)
Again, I am only sampling a field that was sent in place decades ago, has major foundations supporting it (one should ask WHY) as well as the many resources of the HHS, and the “yeah, man — right up our alley!” of one too many tax-exempt religious foundations. Or, as you will, faith-based.
TAGGS.hhs.gov on this group (I searched by its EIN# — which is below).
Recipient Name | City | State | ZIP Code | County | DUNS Number | Sum of Awards |
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INST FOR RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD & FAM. REVITALIZATION | WASHINGTON | DC | 20019 | DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | $ 2,549,350 |
Before we get too far into the economics of this field, I’d like to post a sample of what some of the DYNAMICS of it are about. This 2001 Appeal is interesting because it incorporates how the court responds to evidence of injuring a child on visitation and severe violence (breaking a woman’s sternum and grabbing her by the throat) — that woman being the 2nd wife // stepmother — and because the man in question is on the board of (another — not the above) Fathers’ rights group based in WDC (ACFC). This is one child — a girl, born in 1989 (divorce, 1991, first evidence of post-separation bruising of the girl, ca. 1996) and it covered two states, Michigan and Louisiana. It’s a short-double-spaced read, and I hope you do. Because at least in part — no offence to non-abusive Dads — this is also what the “FR’ movement is about — that FR are FR even when these things happen:
Lauren Hollingsworth v. James Semerad,
Appeal from 3rd Judicial District Court, Parish of Lincoln, Louisiana Trial Court No. 43,428~ Honorable R. Wayne Smith, Judge.
(Dad, see very far below same photo, looks like a very upstanding man):
Similar personnel to the ACFC group (far below) found on this one also: Baskerville, Semerad, Mike McManus (who wants to do away with no-fault divorce), etc. Click on link:
Dads of Michigan Related site, it says (read to see the spheres of influence involved & connection with another WDC organization, “ACFC”):
Rebuilding heterosexual marriage as the social norm is the necessary structural foundation for successful American socioeconomic reconstruction.
Among this testimony we can see both parents being court-ordered to attend a class, one of the (3) experts calling “parental alienation” but the testimony of the others (who felt the child to be credible, and not coached, esp. with the bruises) were concerned. Moreover, it appears that the same father had literally broken the stepmom’s sternum and grabbed her throat’ they were divorcing. he lied under oath about that event and had a new girlfriend to whom apparently the daughter was exposed. It appears that the court’s response is simply to adjust the supervised visitation, not terminate it! This Appeal in question comes fully 10 years after their divorce. Get the picture?
Seriously, it’s a short read and covers many typical issues in family court these days in a case which divorce pre-dated welfare reform but still had the PAS charge…
Does It Matter Who Baked the Pie, so Long as It’s Eaten? Well, That Depends on the Cook(s).
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 |
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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$1,897,000
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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 |
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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Disclaimer:
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Results 1 to 27 of 27 matches
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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 |
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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
Chasing Down Charitable and Corporate Registrations for (more) Court-Connected Nonprofits… [publ. Aug 31, 2011; re-formatted re-post expected in late Dec. 2017]
Post title with short-link (and to explain the 2011/2017 references in the title):
This long (18.7K words) post featuring among others examples in HOW TO and features from various places to check in the process of doing the lookups, the two nonprofits Kids’ Turn San Diego and Kids’ Turn (in San Francisco), both of which after being hit repeatedly in 2011 with simply talking about it, posting boards of directors (plenty of whom were judges), at some point one of them later submerged itself under another nonprofit running training classes to prevent child abuse, in a networked, proprietary-program sort of way across the country. As I recall, and referring (as I recall at the close of 2017 — which is many years ago!) but will double-check, the surviving entity it merged into — thereby “disappearing” its California OAG charitable details record, some of which I posted herein, is SFCAPC (San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center or “Council”). For more details look this up at (now it’s called) BusinessSearch.SOS.Ca.Gov or “Verification” page at California OAG/RCT. ( Go to those sites for more details). California OAG search results have added an EIN# field, but are not otherwise changed in a major way; however the California Secretary of State Business Search website (formerly “kepler.sos.ca.gov”) has been radically revised in both initial level search results, and possibly in reporting requirements.
I do not claim personal — I’ll call it — “credit” for having driven one of two California-based “Kids’ Turn” 501©3s underground, but at least one of them did go underground. It may be just coincidence, BUT the possibility that maybe I did (in addition to the general public-interest purpose of calling attention to how family-court-connected, and business-referrals-taking nonprofits organize and reproduce themselves over time) provides some minor compensation in terms of a sense of making an impact in the behavior of the court cultures nationwide,but in no way compensates for the damages the process inflicted upon my family line, and the legacy for my own children which this process re-directed away from them, and towards the professionals who make their livelihoods speaking on behalf of abused women (who apparently can’t speak), noncustodial fathers (for whom “fatherhood.gov” is still not enough help to “even out” the unfair advantage women supposedly have as mothers in divorce, or the public at large in (allegedly) reducing public debt through Post-PRWORA (1996) Welfare Reform policies scapegoating single motherhood itself and pretending to take into account that one cause of “single motherhood” is abusive fathers. No, encouraging and promoting RESPONSIBLE fatherhood will handle the danger situation, with appropriate and ever-more interventions and court-order therapies/treatments for the abused and the non-abused. etc.
One of the commissioners I stood in front of post-child-stealing event, in order to negotiate how to retroactively reduce my ex-batterers child support arrears (which I’d just been told in person in the child support offices right before, could not happen), I years later learned had been on a Kids’ Turn Board of Directors. As with AFCC, it seems that the nonprofit gave everyone a shot at being listed on the board, which helps those who choose to do so, cite proudly to that community service. That ruling was no favor to our children, who pre-abduction at least had one stable, and consistently working parent (with whom they lived, namely me) although that work life was increasingly under attack once the restraining order had been stripped off and an apparently underemployed (and later admitted in court, wasn’t actively looking for work because he was “depressed” about not having a wife and supportive partner — an excuse I hardly was making at any point).
I worked on a re-formatted version of this post (under separate “cover” — title) earlier this season and am thinking it might be my charitable contribution (of a sort) for 2017. This post is entertaining, and gets into layered foundations and venture capitalists directing their grants to groups like these which don’t even bother to stay current at their state level filings.
I see in hindsight from the part of the post dealing with San Diego Foundation (Gross assets in August 2011 shown as $666M) which in 2007 formed the Carlsbad Community Foundation (which then donated several thousand dollars to Kids’ Turn San Diego), and with the various dbas under which various Kids’ Turn (either SD or SF in this case) donors operated (referring to Taproot Foundation, a dba of “TapFound, Inc.”), with its (Taproot, Inc.s) third-generation venture capitalist startup funding, that the topics covered are still relevant even though many links no longer are intact. Any more commentary from this perspective will be found on the updated, reformatted post.//LGH 12/29/2017…
And moreover, what about all these grantor/grantee relationships with corporations that don’t seem (note disclaimer) to be even operating legally in California? While the promise is that 25 SF courthouses must be shut because of budget cuts….
And I don’t just mean Kids’ Turn / San Diego, which at least were incorporated here legally, but is now (per the databases) on suspended status, charity registrations delinquent.
Entity Number | Date Filed | Status | Entity Name | Agent for Service of Process |
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C1657442 | 12/29/1989 | SUSPENDED | KID’S TURN | CLAIRE BARNES |
C1970774 | 06/05/1996 | ACTIVE | KID’S TURN, SAN DIEGO | JAMES REYNOLDS DAVIS |
Incorporation status suspended for the SF branch (top row), but not the San Diego (which was a spinoff nonprofit).
Organization Name | Registration Number | Record Type | Registration Status | City | State | Registration Type | Record Type |
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KID’S TURN | 075606 | Charity | Current | SAN FRANCISCO | CA | Charity Registration | Charity |
KID’S TURN, SAN DIEGO | 102902 | Charity | Delinquent | SAN DIEGO | CA | Charity Registration | Charity |
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Minor note: The organization’s name is KIDS -apostrophe, so one must move the apostrophe (making it Kid, singular, apostrophe, S) to find on either database.
Also, California, unlike some other states doesn’t tell the on-line viewer WHEN the license was suspended, i.e., before or after outreach such as this:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 20, 2011:
Dateline: San Francisco, California Kids’ Turn formally announces its partnership with Relate and National Family Mediation — two charities in Great Britain scheduled to pilot Kids’ Turn’s curriculum in Fall, 2011. This collaboration is the result of creative international colleagues who let go of ‘attachment to the facts’ believing in the value of shared ideas. We acknowledge the centuries’ old British social service system as the model for social work in the United States. The fact Relate and NFM are willing to implement innovations developed in San Francisco speaks to their commitment to offer evidence-based services to improve the lives of British children negatively impacted by parental separation.
Yes I do believe swallowing some of this would indeed call for release from “Attachment to the facts” such as that this organization has some really strange financial liaisons.
Or, I wonder if Linda Brandes was able to claim her $10,000 donation to Kids’ Turn San Diego, as their charitable status is delinquent, still, also in 2011:
Rancho Santa Fe resident Linda Brandes gives Kids’ Turn San Diego a $10,000 grant
(Posted May 25, 2011 in the Rancho Santa Fe Review)
Kids’ Turn San Diego recently received a $10,000 grant from Rancho Santa Fe resident Linda Brandes through the Linda Brandes Foundation. The grant will be used to support psycho-educational workshops for families going through high-conflict divorce, separation or custody disputes.
Kids’ Turn is a unique program of prevention and intervention dedicated to helping children whose parents have become opponents. A psycho-educational approach, focused on the whole family, helps children understand and cope with the harsh realities of divorce or separation and custody disputes. Kids’ Turn is a non-profit workshop for children and their parents with a proven record.
Kids’ Turn’s psycho-educational approach is the only one of its kind in Southern California.
“Serving the entire San Diego County, and reaching all who need Kids’ Turn are our top priorities, for we have a proven, effective and life-changing curriculum that makes a significant difference in the lives of these children and families,” said Jim Davis, executive director, Kids’ Turn San Diego.
For more information, visit www.kidsturnsd.org.
March 2, 2011 letter from the California Department of Justice (in file, on-line):
[From:] State of California DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 1300 I STREET P.O. BOX 903447 SACRAMENTO CA 94203-4470
Telephone: (916)445-2021×5 Facsimile: (916) 444-3651 E-Mail: RRF1@doj.ca.gov
[TO:] KID’S TURN, SAN DIEGO 16935 W BERNARDO DR NO. 234 SAN DIEGO CA 92127
March 9, 2011
CT FILE NUMBER: 102902
RE: NOTICE OF INCOMPLETE REPORT
The Annual Registration Renewal Fee Report submitted on behalf of the captioned organization is incomplete for the following reason(s):
1. The $50 renewal fee was not received. Please send a check in that amount, payable to “Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts”.
In order to remain in compliance with the filing requirements set forth in Government Code sections 12586 and 12587, please provide the requested information, together with a copy of this letter, to the above address, within thirty (30) days of the date of this letter.
Sincerely,
Tony Salazar Staff Services Analyst Registry of Charitable Trusts
for: KAMALA D. HARRIS Attorney General
Now that they have another donation, they can afford the $50 check. I see no “our check is in the mail” response, perhaps one was sent. And another letter:
Another letter a week later, same file# (CT 102902) reminds Kids’ Turn San Diego, California needs KT to fill out (not just send partial details) their list of donors, i.e., a “Schedule B,” just like you have to file with the IRS (“oops!”). Too busy with international expansions of the programs, or is list of donors too hot to touch?
RE: IRS Form 990, Schedule B, Schedule of Contributors
We have received the IRS Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-PF submitted by the above-named organization for filing with the Registry of Charitable Trusts (Registry) for the fiscal year ending 12/31/2010. The filing is incomplete because the copy of Schedule B, Schedule of Contributors, does not include the names and addresses of contributors.
While you and I don’t get this private information (barring anything on the web), it’s nice to know someone is keeping track.
The copy of the IRS Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-PF, including all attachments, filed with the Registry must be identical to the document filed by the organization with the Internal Revenue Service. The Registry retains Schedule B as a confidential record for IRS Form 990 and 990-EZ filers.
Within 30 days of the date of this letter, please submit a complete copy of Schedule B, Schedule of
Contributors, for the fiscal year noted above, as filed with the Internal Revenue Service. all correspondence to the undersigned.
I learned this from “Don Kramer’s Nonprofit Issues” (i.e., I looked up the IRS form # footnoted on the KT San Diego letter) and learned:
Is a nonprofit required to report anonymous donors to the IRS? Several colleagues have said that it is illegal for a nonprofit to not disclose an anonymous donor to the IRS. Schedule B of the Form 990 provides a listing of major contributors but I have seen 990s that list the amounts without disclosing names.
You are both right. Nonprofits of all types, not just 501(c)(3) charities, that file a Form 990, 990-PF or 990-EZ tax information return are required to identify substantial donors (generally donors of $5000 or more) to the IRS on Schedule B, and must include the names and addresses of the donors. But organizations other than private foundations and Section 527 political organizations may eliminate the names and addresses of donors when they make the Schedule available for public inspection. Therefore, you are undoubtedly correct that you have seen Schedule Bs without names of donors, and your colleagues are correct that the names must have been disclosed to the IRS.
this suggests (but of course doesn’t prove) that the charity in question here (helping kids and parents deal with divorce, right) may have failed to disclose donors of over $5,000 — possibly the figures didn’t add up to the grants received, I don’t know.
The fact that 501(c)(4) advocacy groups and 501 (c)(6) trade associations are not obligated to publicly disclose the names of their donors has made them a very attractive vehicle for people who want to engage in political campaign advertising anonymously. In theCitizens Unitedcase, the U.S. Supreme Court said corporations could engage in campaign advertising. Since (c)(4)s and (c)(6)s are permitted to support or oppose candidates in election campaigns—unlike 501(c)(3) charities that can lose their exemption for electioneering—many have opted to use anonymous donations for this new activity.
6/14/2011
Someone should maybe also contact the “Carlsbad Charitable Foundation” who awarded KTSan Diego $20,000 to do at least four workshops for about 100-120 families in Carlsbad “experiencing” divorce and child-custody “disputes.”
CARLSBAD — The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation awarded more than $44,000 to Kids’ Turn San Diego and The Interfaith Community Services for their efforts in promoting a more civil society in Carlsbad. The awards were presented at CCF’s third annual Grants Award ceremony at the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center in Carlsbad on June 29.
Kids’ Turn San Diego will receive $20,000 to provide no less than four workshops, each lasting four weeks, for approximately 100 to 120 families in Carlsbad experiencing divorce or child-custody disputes. The workshops address the emotional impact that these issues have on children and provide guidance on more effective communication techniques for all members of the family, such as anger management.
Interfaith Community Services will receive $24,545 to assess resources, existing programs and specific opportunities for social outreach at each Carlsbad faith center. ICS will conduct one-on-one meetings to identify discussion points for Carlsbad’s faith-based community and spearhead at least two community-wide town hall meetings to further galvanize all faith communities/congregations around specific issues.
CCF Grants Chairman Tom Applegate noted that collective resources of Carlsbad’s 40-plus faith communities will be more effectively utilized to help persons in need. . . .
with all those faith communities and enough finances to go around, one might think that there’d be fewer divorces and out-of-wedlock births to start with. (:
CCF Board Chairwoman Yvonne Finocchiaro said that grants were made possible through the contributions of the members of The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation. “We’re extremely honored to support Kids’ Turn San Diego and The Interfaith Community Services commitment to our community,” she said. “The intent of these donations is to support activities and programs that unify and inspire Carlsbad residents to make a positive difference in the future of our city.”
Kids’ Turn SD has great reasons to be committed to Carlsbad’s Community — see median household income.
Carlsbad’s median income (per its site, whatever date), $92, 249, and there are 2.55 people per household. I can see how that would be stressful, custody of that extra burdensome 0.55 child, occasioning many divorce “disputes.” The Top 10 employers of this 65,000 population city & average employee salary of $49K, with 40 faith communities, 1% African-American residents, and almost every other adult having a bachelor’s degree, plus 12% master’s or higher, being:
Top 10 employers (2007)
1,429 | Callaway Golf |
1,172 | Life Technologies Corporation (Invitrogen Corporation) |
1,169 | Carlsbad Unified School District |
1,014 | La Costa Resort and Spa |
874 | Park Hyatt Aviara Resort |
862 | LEGOLAND California |
854 | ViaSat, Inc. |
797 | Gemological Institute of America |
714 | City of Carlsbad |
694 | TaylorMade (Adidas Golf) |
The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation is an affiliate of the San Diego Foundation, apparently (nothing is listed directly under that name, as my searches below show):
703 Palomar Airport Rd , Carlsbad , CA 92011 | 760-269-3882
www.carlsbadcharitablefoundation.org
The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation’s mission is to “advance philanthropy in Carlsbad in order to build community excellence, stimulate innovation and enhance the capacity of nonprofits.” Every year the foundation splits the total amount of donations in half. One half goes to grants for the year; the other goes specifically to the Carlsbad endowment, which is for the advancement of the community. CCF is an affiliate of The San Diego Foundation.
Or, in their own words:
Inspired by the desire to build philanthropy in Carlsbad that would have impact immediately and forever, a group of citizens partnered with The San Diego Foundation to establish the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation in 2007. This community-specific effort helps meet the emerging needs of Carlsbad by encouraging and increasing responsible and effective philanthropy by and for those living and working in Carlsbad.
1. What is the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation?Inspired by the desire to build philanthropy in Carlsbad that would have impact immediately and forever, a group of citizens partnered with The San Diego Foundation to establish the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation (CCF) in 2007. This community-specific effort would help meet the emerging needs of Carlsbad by encouraging and increasing responsible and effective philanthropy by and for those living and working in Carlsbad.
4. What is The San Diego Foundation?Founded in 1975, The San Diego Foundation was created by and for the people of the San Diego region. Its purpose is to promote and increase effective and responsible charitable giving. The Foundation manages nearly $500 million in assets, almost half of which reside in permanent endowment funds. Since its inception, The Foundation has granted more than $600 million to nonprofits serving the community.5. What does it mean that CCF is an affiliate of The San Diego Foundation?As an affiliate, the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation benefits from the experience and management of The San Diego Foundation. The San Diego Foundation provides such back-office support as investment management, staffing, marketing and expertise. In return, the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation shares with The San Diego Foundation its local knowledge of the emerging needs and causes important to the Carlsbad community.
6. Who may participate in the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation?The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation encourages everyone who lives, works, and plays in Carlsbad to participate in the Foundation.7. What is an endowment?
(on the SAN DIEGO SITE):
For Nonprofits
. . .
Donor Advised Funds
Designated Funds (note the photo chosen — things “kids” are great fundraiser causes).
The San Diego Foundation holds raffles, and registered for one in 2009 which raised “$42,564.66.”
It’s filings (under the OAG site) show this for 2002 (earliest year shown):
Annual Renewal Information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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and this for 2009 (latest year shown): (notice difference in revenue, but increased assets):
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Organization Details | |||
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EIN: | 952942582 | ||
Name: | The San Diego Foundation — Google | ||
Location: | 2508 Historic Decatur Rd Ste 200 San Diego, CA 92106 |
Report Address Change | |
County: | San Diego County | ||
Ruling Date: | 1975 (Approximate year when founded) | ||
IRS Type: | 501(c)(3) – Public charity: Religious, educational, charitable, scientific, and literary organizations… | ||
Legal basis for public charity or private foundation status (FNDNCD): | 15 – Organization with a substantial portion of support from a governmental unit or the general public | ||
NTEE: | T31 – Community Foundations | ||
Most recently completed fiscal year (TAXPER) | 06/2010 | ||
Total Revenue | $63,742,314 | ||
Total Assets: | $466,087,961 | ||
Organization Mission Statement and Purpose
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The San Diego Foundation improves the quality of life within the San Diego community by promoting and increasing responsible and effective philanthropy. |
In 2003, it Amended its bylaws on two points:
2. Article VIII is added to the Articles of Incorporation of this Corporation and shall read as follows:
The Corporation is specifically authorized to obtain licensure as a grants and annuities society pursuant to California Insurance Code Sections 11520 through 11524 and to conduct a grants and annuities business once licensed.
I. of The San Diego Foundation, a California nonprofit public benefit
3. been duly approved by the Board of Governors.
The foregoing amendment of Articles of Incorporation has
4. The Corporation has no members.
Grants and Annuities means one can receive transfers of property, provided the business agrees to pay out to the Transferror — or the Tranferror’s Nominee — an Annuity. Not just anyone can do it, an organization has to have been in operation for 10 years or more and qualifies according to this code:
INSURANCE CODE
SECTION 11520-1152411520. The following organizations and persons may receive transfers of property, conditioned upon their agreement to pay an annuity to the transferor or the transferor's nominee, after obtaining from the commissioner a certificate of authority so to do: (a) Any charitable, religious, benevolent or educational organization, pecuniary profit not being its object or purpose, after being in active operation for at least 10 years; provided, nevertheless, that 10 years of active operation shall not be required in case of: (1) A nonprofit corporation organized and controlled by a hospital licensed by the State Department of Health Services as a general acute care hospital pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code; and (2) An incorporated educational institution offering courses of instruction beyond high school, organized pursuant to Section 94757 of the Education Code, and which is, and for at least one year has been, qualified pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 94700) of Part 59 of the Education Code to issue diplomas or degrees as defined in Sections 94724 and 94726 of that code; (b) Every organization or person maintaining homes for the aged for pecuniary profit. . . .
This can be problematic, I imagine, if when elders are receiving public guardianship or being placed under a conservator’s care against their will or improperly, for the sake of access to their property.
What is an Annuity? Investopedia explains:
What Does Annuity Mean?
A financial product sold by financial institutions that is designed to accept and grow funds from an individual and then, upon annuitization, pay out a stream of payments to the individual at a later point in time. Annuities are primarily used as a means of securing a steady cash flow for an individual during their retirement years.
The root word represents “yearly,” as in “ANNUAL.”
Women’e Enews puts in a few words about Annuities, their types and their purpose:
Annuity Funding Explained
When it comes to annuity funding and annuities in general many people are confused. The problem is often because there are so many different kinds. There’s single or flexible-payment, fixed or variable, and deferred or immediate.
Regardless the type of annuity funding you’re ultimately interested in, all annuities are financial contracts which have been created to provide you with a good source of income in your retirement years & …..
You can choose from a number of annuity options which include a lifetime income, a guaranteed period income where your beneficiaries would receive any remaining payments, a joint and survivor option for couples as well as many other options that a financial advisor or insurance representative can tell you about
In many cases, options can be mixed and matched to provide you with the best kind of annuity funding possible.
The money contributed to any annuity funding may be in post-tax dollars. The advantage to this is that you can contribute as much money as you would like. However before you put any after-tax savings into any kind of annuity funding, it’s often advisable for you to put the maximum pre-tax amount into a retirement plan.
When an annuity is used to fund a retirement plan, contribution limits usually apply. Federal tax laws also generally require that you begin taking minimum distributions by April 1 of the calendar year following the year in which you reach age 70.
Annuity funding earnings are taxed as ordinary income.
A few more comments on annuities, endowments, and related financial/investment terminology;
I’m a novice in this and I’ll BET that Title IV-A people and others impoverished through violence (or the court battles) or just life, are not educated about these things. That we aren’t is a factor of our school systems and family systems, most likely.
How interesting, because what the child support / fatherhood systems emphasize is getting everyone into a low-income job, garnishing the wages for child support (or don’t) and then, as I like to point out, lose track of it at the state or county level, while splitting the difference with the Feds 66%/34% for a well-behaved State SDU (Statewide Distribution Unit), or failing to report interest income — which can be considerable — if they are not.
How the HHS/OIG/OAS responds to the un-accounted for collected child support is a concerted attempt to get their 66% but a hands-washing response to, they’re only overseeing, not controlling operations, when the situation is pretty much in epidemic proportions country-wide. Where the child support programs WORK is when groups like Maximus, Inc. & MDRC, CPR and PSI etc. get their contracts in, their CEO’s get paid (a LOT) and stock values for shareholders manages to stay above water, even if it loses some value. Meanwhile, what the children are getting, if they’re lucky is a child support allotment that makes it through, is not too substantially compromised, and may represent wages at (judging from what they program materials say they are aiming to help with) perhaps $8.00 to $12.00/hour, not including taxes withheld.
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While there are all kinds of plans for certain types or classes of people (including financially savvy and/or endowed, or sucessful businesspeople or investors) to figure out how to have monthly income — enough to live on, plus some — til they breathe their last breath, even at 80 or 90 years old — and typically its WOMEN living much longer — the philosophy for the vast masses being coached and think-tanked/policy-driven by people that live like this, is that the real cause of widespread poverty includes only one income earner in a household, i.e., fatherlessness and single-motherhood.
I do believe that even my children in elementary school (at least MY kids at that age) could figure out that if one wishes to end up with the number “5” one might add 2+ 3 or 4 +1. Or one might even go, if x=4, 3x-7 and come up with 5, meaning what one needs to live on. The factors can be adjusted.
But somehow we are not to calculate the possibility of variety in income when it comes to marital dissolution and fatherhood movements, or child support program evolution, and the need of judges and attorneys to run nonprofits teaching parents anger management, and (once we learn the background of this) giving them plenty of opportunity to practice, although not regarding the other partner so much as who is forcing this on couples already under financial stressor called divorce? and dealing with the family court’s elimination of the concept that a crime is a crime, even if it was committed by someone you previously had a sexual relationship with.
No mention of where that income comes from; the presumption is always jobs only, or possibly jobs and child support. Not, for example, ANY form of passive income such as may come from a trust, a foundation, investments, annuities, assignment of rents, royalties on books, or virtually anything that would NOT involve being easier to find and control (and/or threaten) by the IRS. Not on any form of initiative taking by the single parent(s), or for that matter low-income married parents.
In other words, “wealth” knows how to consolidate, aggregate, distribute according to wealth’s understanding of how not to pay taxes, after which it can tell significant others (like employees in some of their corporations) how to work jobs in which taxes ARE paid. Last I heard, such things are NOT taught in the public schools K-12; they are still working on reading, period, and basic math, plus how to stand in line without bullying someone else.
So, in 2003, The San Diego Foundation (still solvent, on the books) gets into the grants and annuities business around 2003. They have every right to. I’m just pointing it out they did….
The New York Times Reports:
Promising security, U.S. annuities business takes on a new life
By Paul Sullivan
Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2007
- BOSTON — Wall Street swings between fear and greed. With U.S. stock markets hitting record highs this month, greed seems to be back in the saddle.
Still, the current wave of retirees, the first of the baby boomers, is as fearful as any group leaving the work force has ever been, many still shell-shocked from the bursting of the technology bubble five years ago, which wiped out huge paper gains.
This group is now looking at a future without gainful employment and only their often diminished portfolios to fall back on.
They do not like what they see.
“People are more fearful and realistic,” said John Diehl, head of the retirement solutions group for the Hartford, an insurance company. “There was no fear in the late 1990s. Being respectful of the markets is a good thing. People have started to think the market doesn’t always return 20 percent.”
Enter the annuities salesmen. The once-stodgy insurance product is having a resurgence. New York Life, one of the largest providers of annuities, has had an annual growth rate of 75 percent from 2003 to 2007, according to Mike Gallo, senior vice president in the guaranteed lifetime income department.
The growth in annuities has tapped into this fear. In the old days, people were wary of annuities because they locked up assets and distributed a payment only as long as the policyholder lived. But the industry has become more sophisticated. New products have guarantees for life, adjust for inflation and, at their most sophisticated, allow people access to some or, in extreme cases, all of the principle.
[Meaning “principal,” I think, right?]
ALL YOU NEED FOR $5,000/month in retirement is to put down $100,000, sure!
(not including what a $$ will buy at that time…..)
The difference, he said, is that the most popular annuities now offer a living benefit drawn from an income stream, which can rise with any increase in the value of the underlying principle, while carrying a guarantee that the payout will never fall below the initial amount.
The guarantee is financed by building derivative-style collars into the structure of the underlying portfolio to cap potential losses.
Yeah, like we all know what is a derivative-style collar. Some people in alternative lifestyle, about dog collars, from dog-walking & pet-sitting….
With such a variable annuity plan, “people aren’t as worried about inflation as they are with a traditional payout annuity,” he said. While the payout may remain constant in percentage terms, the cash amount will rise if inflation – or skillful investment – swells the amount of the underlying fund.
And this is what today’s retirees – without the pension plans their parents had, and uncertain of the continued existence of Social Security – want.
“The top concern of the baby boomers nearing retirement is, ‘Do I have enough money to last for the rest of my life,’ ” said Doug Wolff, vice president for business development at Security Benefit, a provider of annuities in Topeka, Kansas. “We’ve seen a major shift from ‘Who can develop the best death benefits?’ to ‘Who can develop the best product to guarantee some minimum investment amount?’ “
Quite different from some people, with more than 0.55 child per household, whose concern is staying alive & housed/fed til next week.
Providers of annuities today encourage people to buy enough coverage for basic expenses, from food to taxes, plus a little bit more. The average portion of a portfolio placed in annuity is 25 percent to 33 percent and most insurers limit a 65-year-old to 75 percent, to ensure the retention of sufficient liquid assets. Coverage of basic expenses can be achieved with either a traditional immediate annuity – the buyer puts $100,000 in and receives a fixed percentage of the initial value, typically 5 percent, every month – or with a variable annuity that guarantees a minimum withdrawal benefit.
. . . Can get a little complicated . . . . .
Something similar can be accomplished with a joint-survivor annuity – essentially paying out for two lives. A further refinement can be added in the form of a cash-refund feature that pays to the heirs whatever principle is left at death.
The next wave of innovation is expected to produce annuities that look to address the large health care bills that many retirees will face as they age, Wolff said.
Pricing all of these permutations of annuities can be complicated. There is one constant, however: The more guaranteed features that are attached – from joint-survivor to inflation adjustment – the higher the cost and the lower the percentage payout.
Jack Lemery, a former chief investment officer for Paul Revere Life Insurance, which sold annuities, maintained that this should dissuade people from putting any money at all into an annuity. Lemery is now a portfolio manager at Emerson Investment Management in Boston, where he has sworn off annuities.
Well, in 2006 “The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation” was founded (same EIN# as San Diego) and began raising some money, part of which they obviously gave to Kids’ Turn to run classes in THEIR neighborhoods, too. Sounds from the description at around around $200 per four-week session per family ($20,000 for four-weeks for 100 – 120 couples).
http://www.sdfoundation.org/CommunityFoundations/RecentNews.aspx
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BEFORE I FOUND OUT tHAT THE “Carlsbad Charitable Foundation” was an affiliate of The San Diego Foundation, I went looking for it, unsuccessfully, in the usual places and found a few more interesting groups.
I cannot locate any business, or charity, called “Carlsbad Charitable Foundation” on either site where they are to be registered. There are 20 results to “Carlsbad Foundation” search.
Apparently this contribution was made, or at least announced, “13 months ago.” In the interim, Carlsbad Foundation’s charitable status seems to have held:
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Actually, that’s fairly strange as there is only ONE annual RRF (charitable registration) form on file, and for the first 6 years, no IRS filings, then after that approximately just about zero (or close to, relatively speaking) assets OR gross (not net) revenue. For example, Apr 2009-March 2010, they reported a whopping $220.00 (so how did the $20,000.00 get to Kids’ Turn? I am such a novice in this field, I don’t see it..) From April 2010 to March 2011, they had zero revenue.
Carlsbad Foundation’s President (at least in 2010), Jim Comstock, (and the foundation’s address is his office, Comstock & Associates,) is a tax, financial and estate planning professional, so I assume he knows better than I how to pull that off legally:
There are also least 75 Marriage and Family Therapists (probably some overlap with the 40 Faith Communities) in Carlsbad, including two in the suite right next to Mr. Comstock and, including them, 15 on the same street, perhaps within two blocks (judging by street #s only). There are fully 20 foundations incorporated in Carlsbad (Search “Carlsbad Foundation) only 4 (and not this one) with “suspended” status:
Entity Name: | CARLSBAD FOUNDATION |
Entity Number: | C2530851 |
Date Filed: | 04/24/2003 |
Status: | ACTIVE |
Jurisdiction: | CALIFORNIA |
Entity Address: | 2755 JEFFERSON STREET, SUITE 102 |
Entity City, State, Zip: | CARLSBAD CA 92008 |
Agent for Service of Process: | JIM COMSTOCK |
Agent Address: | 2755 JEFFERSON STREET, SUITE 102 |
Agent City, State, Zip: | CARLSBAD CA 92008 |
Though it incorporated 2003, the ruling date shows (NCCSDataweb) as only 2007. In 2004, however, they filed with the IRS — only tax return showing here:
There are a lot of blanks and “x”s up, including (NOT checked)< “Check here if your receipts are normally under $25,000.” There are 3 officers, Jim & Linda Comstock, plus Glen Blavet, who appears on Corporation Wiki (for what that’s worth) associated with 2 other corporations.
I looked under “CCF,” but don’t feel like laboring through the entire list. However, under “Carlsbad Foundation” again, this entry is interesting:
Entity Name: | CARLSBAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION |
Entity Number: | C2980846 |
Date Filed: | 02/13/2007 |
Status: | SUSPENDED |
Jurisdiction: | CALIFORNIA |
Entity Address: | 2755 JEFFERSON STREET, SUITE 102 |
Entity City, State, Zip: | CARLSBAD CA 92008 |
Agent for Service of Process: | ** RESIGNED ON 12/02/2010 |
Agent Address: | * |
Agent City, State, Zip: | * |
(see address).
Organization Name | Registration Number | Record Type | Registration Status | City | State | Registration Type | Record Type |
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CARLSBAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | Charity | Not Registered | CARLSBAD | CA | Charity Registration | Charity | |
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There are, like, 3 people involved in this one, apparently. I’m not going to track them down, now that I know the Kids’ Turn grantor was under some other umbrella.
It does make me wonder whether a Donor couldn’t just set up funding and then somehow direct it towards certain charities and not get very well monitored, so long as they keep the amount low enough not to call attention to itself (read on):
SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION:
The San Diego Foundation, having been started original (it says) with 11 people, is still active corporate status: (There are 269 results for “The San Diego Foundation”), which shows you what good management can do.
Entity Name: | THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION |
Entity Number: | C0735981 |
Date Filed: | 05/09/1975 |
Status: | ACTIVE |
Jurisdiction: | CALIFORNIA |
Entity Address: | 2508 HISTORIC DECATUR RD., STE.200 |
Entity City, State, Zip: | SAN DIEGO CA 92106 |
Agent for Service of Process: | MICHAEL PATTISON |
Agent Address: | 2508 HISTORIC DECATUR RD., STE.200 |
Agent City, State, Zip: | SAN DIEGO CA 92106 |
And, yes, their 2010 IRS 990 does indeed acknowledge a grant of $22,500 to Kids’ Turn San Diego for “Human Services” (the form is 99 pages long, search the name!) the grantees (for under $100,000) are asked, in return, to inform the foundation of their “Successes and Challenges” in meeting the conditions for the grant. As KT is all about communication to start with, and the nonprofit clearly is very good with PR, I’m figuring they did this (although it doesn’t seem the registered as a california charity correctly). FOr Donor Advisedgrants over $100,000, IF the Donor advisee requests, the foundation can do some more monitoring. I don’t see that the IRS shows which funds were donor advised or not. There are several to churches & religious schools, $8,500 to Focus on the Family and (interesting)
$10,000 to the “Los Angeles Family Law Help Center” 205 S. Broadway Suite 500, EIN# 26-1252578, filed under “Civil Society.” and
$7,750 to the “National Conflict Resolution Center,” 625 Broadway, Suite 1221, San Diego, EIN# 33-0433314
($15,000 to Oral Roberts University in Tulsa) and many more groups, obviously. The directors (mostly, but not all, unpaid) would not fit on one page, but those who were paid, salaries (not including retirement or benefits plans) was over $1,000,000; understandable for administering so much.
2006 (formation of Carlsbad Charitable…) was not a good year in San Diego,
at least in government circles:
Report calls San Diego’s finances reckless, ‘Enron by the Sea
[08-09-2006, found under USAToday]SAN DIEGO (AP) — The city recklessly and deliberately mismanaged its finances for years, exhibiting disregard for the law and becoming “Enron-by-the-Sea,” according to consultants who investigated how it created a $1.4 billion pension fund shortfall.San Diego “fell prey to the same type of corruption” that ruined companies including Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc. and prompted Orange County to file for bankruptcy protection in 1994, said a report by the risk management company Kroll Inc.
“The evidence demonstrates not mere negligence but deliberate disregard for the law, disregard for fiduciary responsibility and disregard for the financial welfare of the city’s residents,” the report concludes.
Good thing there are foundations to pick up the slack….
The $20 million report, presented at a City Council meeting Tuesday, offers one of the most detailed accounts of how San Diego created its $1.4 billion pension shortfall that has crippled its ability to borrow money.
The shortfall — the gap between the value of its pension assets and its obligation to retirees — soared after the City Council in 1996 and again in 2002 skipped payments to the pension fund and, at the same time, enhanced retirement benefits.
The fiscal meltdown that resulted sparked investigations by the U.S. Justice Department and the SEC in early 2004. Five former city and pension fund officials were charged with federal fraud and conspiracy in January.
The report outlines a series of recommendations, including creation of an independent audit committee and more authority for the city’s chief financial officer.
“You got a second chance here, folks,” said one of the authors, former chief SEC accountant Lynn Turner. “I think it’s a marvelous city, but you need to change it from being Enron-by-the-Sea to Emerald-by-the Sea.”
The report found that several former city officials likely violated federal securities law and others were negligent.
It says former Mayor Dick Murphy and members of the City Council failed to disclose the extent of the city’s problems to bond investors and for “knowingly and improperly” causing the city to violate state and federal law in its collection of sewage fees.
Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, was involved in Kroll’s investigation and said the city overcharged homeowners for sewage to subsidize large businesses.
Wow. Reminds me of the Los Angeles issues with the Department of Water and Power, but that’s another subject.
ANYHOW, Kids’ Turn SAN FRANCISCO, states on its 2010 Annual report (December? 2010) that half its attendees are court-ordered, that it applied for a grant from the FY 2011 AOC (Administrative Office of the Courts) and is pushing a new curriculum, as well as teaching charities in the UK how to operate like itself, presumably:
The following representative results definitely affirm the efficacy of Kids’ Turn’s 2010 services:
• 50% of Kids’ Turn families are Court ordered
That’s efficacy, or that’s a court-connection? ! ! Who’s on the Board of Kids’ Turn, generally speaking?
However, the first thing readers are told on this report is:
Program 1. Kids’ Turn sustained its very specialized services in five Bay Area Counties serving 700 participants over twelve months. Kids’ Turn enrollment is down slightly, likely attributable to the economy. It is our impression families are struggling to pay our fees and we are making every effort to negotiate reasonable tuition costs based on the particular needs of each situation. We still do not charge children to attend Kids’ Turn, and parents pay on a sliding fee basis depending on their income. Workshop records verify 60% of the families attending Kids’ Turn are in the low- to moderate-income range.1
(the footnote explains that this is because more wealthy people have less tendency to divorce, because there’s more money to support their families…In fact, let me quote it here: “As per the Huffington Post’s new DIVORCE page (www.huffingtonpost.com), families with higher incomes have a lower divorce rate, likely attributable to the supporting resources available to them to sustain their marriages (therapists, counselors, mediators).**”
Which just goes to show that **It takes a a Village — of AFCC operatives — for couples to stay married….. Or so, those operatives believe! Those who can’t afford it, might end up needing subsidy to attend Kids’ Turn classes by out-of-compliance nonprofits during their breakup. I would just love to take classes on a sliding fee with people who attribute marital breakup among the not-so-wealthy to inability to pay for a therapist, quoting the Huffington Post…
Seriously now, how does the world manage to keep turning without the advice of these professions?
Other factoids (again, this is the SF, not the San Diego, group):
Development
Kids’ Turn Development activities have been shaped and modified in order to accommodate the recent recession while simultaneously continuing projects that will help improve and develop our trade mark.
1. Kids’ Turn launched its new logo in January, 2010. Development of the logo was the result of a grant from the Taproot Foundation and we are very satisfied with the universal image which emphasizes the protective role of parents for the children in their families.
Although it’s quite likely that many people come to Kids’ Turn after violence- or abuse-related separation, followed by family court involvement, court orders for child support, access/visitation grant diversion for fatherhood promotion, and voila — a parent education project….
2. Kids’ Turn launched its new website in December, 2010. This project was also the result of a partnership with the Taproot Foundation. The new website is cleaner and consistent with the unstated emphasis offered by the logo.
ORGANIZATION NAME |
STATE |
YEAR |
TOTAL ASSETS |
FORM |
PAGES |
EIN |
Tapfound Inc. Dba Taproot Foundation | CA | 2003 | $436,604 | 990A | 13 | 91-2162645 |
Tapfound Industry Dba Taproot Foundation | CA | 2004 | $350,319 | 990 | 15 | 91-2162645 |
Taproot Foundation | CA | 2003 | $187,547 | 990 | 13 | 91-2162645 |
Taproot Foundation | CA | 2002 | $56,366 | 990EZ | 7 | 91-2162645 |
Taproot Foundation | CA | 2002 | $56,366 | 990ER | 6 | 91-2162645 |
Taproot Foundation, Inc. | CA | 2009 | $2,156,525 | 990 | 24 | 91-2162645 |
(Wow. The earliest 2002 is missing page 1; the other, parts are handwritten (on forms), parts typewritten (on blank sheets, for example, the listing of Board Members).
The last board member listed is Jenny Shilling, who works for The Draper Richards Foundation, which apparently started Tapfound, Inc. (The Taproot foundation) with $50,000. The group started with $79,000 assets, not including -$32,000 of “undeposited assets,” for a net assets of $48K. Its “Liabilities & Equity” just about cancelled each other out, and program service accomplishments for this year were “Service Grant Program awarded 18 nonprofits (not shown) with volunteer teams” — $23K.
An “updated July 6, 2003” board of directors is attached.
The 2003 filing (at least the one above I clicked on) shows the act is rather more together, and service program accomplishments reads:
Service Grants were awarded to 63 nonprofit organizations with a total estimated value of $2.5 million (I’ll tell the IRS my return was “close enough for jazz also….”) 582 volunteers were recruited to deliver these services. (at a cost of $148,872 Program Service Expense).
STATUS WITH CALIFORNIA (AS OF TODAY)?
Organization Name Registration Number Record Type Registration Status City State Registration Type Record Type TAPROOT Charity Not Registered SAN FRANCISCO CA Charity Registration Charity 1
and (I searched the EIN)
Organization Name Registration Number Record Type Registration Status City State Registration Type Record Type TAPFOUND, INC. 120759 Charity Current SAN FRANCISCO CA Charity Registration Charity 1
I guess the OAG’s office maybe is behind in their database entry, because for a “current” charity, including tax returns showing revenue over $4 million in 2007, the only year the group’s RRF shows up is for 2008; they only reminded of an unpaid registration fee of $150 in 2010. There is revenue of over $100K on IRS forms from 2003 through 2009, though. OAG’s (then Edmund G Brown’s) office respectfully requests they send in their $150 fee in September 2010:
September 8, 2010
TAPFOUND, INC. CT FILE NUMBER: 120759 466 GEARY ST STE 200 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102
RE: NOTICE OF INCOMPLETE REPORT
The Annual Registration Renewal Fee Report submitted on behalf of the captioned organization is incomplete for the following reason(s):
1. The $150 renewal fee was not received. Please send a check in that amount, payable to “Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts”.
In order to remain in compliance with the filing requirements set forth in Government Code sections 12586 and 12587, please provide the requested information, together with a copy of this letter, to the above address, within thirty (30) days of the date of this letter.
We’re coming up on a year from the date of this letter, so presumably they did, or they didn’t and OAG hasn’t noticed yet, or doesn’t care. Secretary of State has corporate status active, too:
Entity Number | Date Filed | Status | Entity Name | Agent for Service of Process |
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C2374009 | 01/18/2002 | ACTIVE | TAPFOUND, INC. | AARON HURST |
Entity Name: | TAPFOUND, INC. |
Entity Number: | C2374009 |
Date Filed: | 01/18/2002 |
Status: | ACTIVE |
Jurisdiction: | CALIFORNIA |
Entity Address: | 466 GEARY ST STE 200 |
Entity City, State, Zip: | SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102 |
Agent for Service of Process: | AARON HURST |
Agent Address: | 466 GEARY ST STE 200 |
Agent City, State, Zip: | SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102 |
An independent audit states that for 2010:
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Tapfound, Inc. dba: Taproot Foundation as of September 30, 2010, and the changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
The Taproot concept, from which Kids’ Turn benefitted, sounds great:
MAKE IT MATTER
Most organizations tackling social problems don’t have access to the marketing, design, technology, management or strategic planning resources they need to succeed. Without this talent, few are able to have their intended impact on critical issues like the environment, health and education.
Taproot is a nonprofit organization that makes business talent available to organizations working to improve society.
(is it also registering anually as a charity within California, or not?)
We engage the nation’s millions of business professionals in pro bono services both through our award-winning programs and by partnering with companies to develop their pro bono programs. One day, we envision all organizations with promising solutions will be equipped to successfully take on urgent social challenges.
DOWNLOAD OUR 2011-13 STRATEGIC PLAN
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to lead, mobilize and engage professionals in pro bono service that drives social change.
LEAD NATIONALLY BY ACTING LOCALLY
While working to expand the impact of pro bono services nationally by leading the pro bono movement, we concentrate our efforts for social impact within five metro areas where we have offices: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C.
Today, we offer three core programs to increase nonprofits’ access to pro bono services. Through these programs we provide millions of dollars in services annually aimed at best enabling organizations to address local social issues.
Service Grant Program
Our signature Service Grant program operates in five cities and, since its inception in 2001, has engaged professionals in over 780,000 hours of pro bono service on over 1,300 projects.
GET A SERVICE GRANT
DONATE YOUR SKILLSAdvisory Services
With our Advisory Services and leadership resources, we support companies and organizations in designing and developing their own customized, high-impact pro bono programs. We apply expertise garnered through our Service Grant Program to design pro bono programs best meeting our corporate clients business needs while ensuring their employees’ service makes a meaningful impact in their communities.
LEARN MOREAdvocacy
We partner with leading foundations, universities, companies, coalitions and associations to host convenings and run campaigns where we collaborate to design innovative solutions bringing pro bono service to bear for progress on issues facing our cities and society
(July 2010 letter from founder Aaron Hurst….)
There are certain core values that I have made a point of formally celebrating at Taproot. We close the office on Election Day to stress the importance of civic engagement and democracy. We honor civil rights, and in addition to MLK Jr. Day we close the office for Matt O’Grady Day, commemorating the marriage of long-term Root Matt O’Grady to his partner in 2008. The anniversary of every Root is also marked by giving them the day off showing our appreciation for their involvement in our shared success.
We also value the diversity of backgrounds and interests of our Roots and give the team three days a year to create their own holidays. For some people, they use these days for traditional holidays like President’s Day and others use them for their birthday or culturally meaningful days like Chinese New Year, Rosh Hashanah or Cinco de Mayo.
Draper Richards — which provided the first $50,000 for TapRoot (Tapfound, Inc.) is a venture capitalist company, also interesting — in high tech.
Draper Richards L.P. is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies. We fund entrepreneurs with the energy, vision, experience, and desire to build great companies.
I’m not so sure about making themselves the TapRoot being a great idea, although it’s great market positioning for nonprofits. Are they as focused on screening who taps into them as they are on making the connections? And I’ll just point out, this does spread tax benefits around nicely between foundation and nonprofits.
WHY TAPROOT?
A “taproot” is the core root of a plant. It gathers nutrients from lateral roots and delivers them to a plant to enable it to flourish.
We see ourselves as a taproot for the nonprofit sector, drawing nutrients from the community and delivering them to nonprofits to enable them to thrive.
A bit more on the background of Draper Richards, that helped start Taproot, that helped revamp the logo of 1989 court-connected, court-official run (basically), CCSF nonprofit vendor and access/visitation grants beneficiary “Kids’ Turn” (“Kid’s Turn” on the state search sites…) update its logo. NOtice all the companies involved.
History
Three Generations of Venture Capital
The Draper name is well known in the venture capital industry. Bill Draper’s father,General William H. Draper, Jr., became the first professional west-coast venture capitalist when he founded Draper, Gaither & Anderson in 1958. Formerly Undersecretary of the Army, General Draper was responsible for economic reconstruction of Germany and Japan under the Marshall Plan.
Bill Draper began his venture capital career in 1962 with Pitch Johnson, when he started Draper & Johnson Investment Company. In 1965, together with Paul Wythes, he founded Sutter Hill Ventures which was managed with great success until 1981, when he was appointed Chairman of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. In 1985, he was selected to be Administrator and CEO of the United Nations Development Program. While in the venture capital business, Bill Draper was a founding investor in Apollo Computer (acquired by Hewlett Packard), Dionex, Integrated Genetics (Genzyme), Quantum, Qume (I.T.T.), Activision (Mediagenic), Xidex (Eastman Kodak), Measurex, Hybritech (Eli Lilly), and LSI Logic. In 1995, he returned to venture capital by founding Draper International which focused on venture investments in India. In 1996, he turned his attention to technology companies in the U.S. and co-founded a new domestic fund,Draper Richards L.P., with his partner, Robin Richards Donohoe.
Bill Draper’s son, Tim Draper, left Alex. Brown & Sons in 1985 to become the third generation of venture capitalists in his family with the formation of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Tim restructured a family-owned Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) that had been set up by his father in 1979 and then created a highly successful early-stage venture capital fund. Draper Fisher Jurvetson has become synonymous with early-stage venture capital. Among other successes, Tim Draper was a founding investor in Parametric Technology, Digidesign, Parenting Magazine, Upside Publishing, PLX Technology, Four-1-1, Hotmail, and Skype.
> > > > > > And Mr. Draper’s Partner, Robin Richards Donahue’s background:
Robin Richards Donohoe
General Partner
Robin Richards Donohoe has over fourteen years of experience in international venture capital. She has served on the boards of many portfolio companies including Kana Communications, Selectica and Digital Impact. Prior to managing the Draper funds, she served for four years as Managing Director of Seaboard Management Corporation, a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia investing in media and technology companies. Ms. Donohoe has also worked in Prague, Czech Republic for a venture capital fund and in Paris for an investment bank. Ms. Donohoe is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina and has a Master of Business degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She currently serves on the boards of the Stanford Business School Trust, University of North Carolina College of Arts and Sciences, Advisory Council of the Gladstone Institute at UCSF, Bay Area Discovery Museum, and Gateway High School. She is the Secretary for her Stanford Business School Class and an Advisor to Room to Read.
It seems obvious to me — if we really want to end “welfare as we know it” and eradicate poverty, we should encourage kids to get on the venture capitalist in high tech media track, starting with a college degree that will help them get on board, and perhaps take people out of inner city classrooms and let them see how the other half puts together a deal and structures a nonprofit corporation, possibly one doing business in grants and annuities, or catering to the grants-based marketplace.
This might cut down on “enrons by the sea” as we all begin to realize that the social services segment of the public-employee sector cannot be trusted (which, in truth) it can’t! to those setting policy and deciding who is naughty and who is nice in distributing contracts, business, and other grants. Of course i could be entirely wrong, but I also would suggest that the white collar sector who have their noses to the grindstone for (venture capitalists and the risk-takers with more money to play with) start taking some personal holidays to figure out where their taxes are actually being spent, and do it with a KID old enough to understand watching…
But the two parallel sets of infrastructures — the tax-supported and the tax-exempt — both working together, and seeking clientele among the tax-paying low and moderate income, will help drive their incomes lower, and someone else’s wealth higher, leaving credibility in the dust. Of course, with appropriate assets to spin off payments into old age, this may not matter, and if the US goes bankrupt, a b/millionaire can afford to live somewhere else, whereas a person living on social security alone, most likely can’t.
This of course would be a little messy at times, actually teaching ALL children (not just the offspring of venture capitalists and others where business knowledge including about the function of taxes and corporate identities, is absorbed from an early age) how to deal with the invisible, or at least underlying, intangible principles and skillsets, that are the scaffolding sustaining significant, life-supporting wealth (barring extravagances that lead to early death, such as pharmaceutical or other addictions).
OH WELL, more Kids’ Turn turnabouts:
3. Kids’ Turn took dramatic steps to downsize and reduce event expenses. We downsized the May, 2010 event to a cocktail party (not a sit-down dinner); all invitations were sent electronically (eliminating the need for an expensive invitation mailing). We exceeded our event net goal and will build on this success for 2011.
Yep, that would probably be good. I’m looking at the 2006 return, and for fundraising activities (“Golf Tournament, “SF Event” (whatever that is), and “Other”) the ration of revenue raised to expenses is rather interesting:
(GOLF — someone contributed $25K, expenses were $24,423, leaving net income of $12,802 out of $62K receipts. I’m sure golfing was fun. The “SF Event” (great descriptor) gross receipts of $44,475, expenses $10,752, is it fair to say about 25%? or 11/44ths; “Other fundraising events” (plural), raised $1,140, COST $13,618, resulting in a net loss of $12,478. Essentially whatever those other fundraisers were wiped out the golf tournament’s profit completely, except for $530. And there’s a CPA on the Board of Directors, too.)
Perhaps next time they should simply start raffles — of course this would require REGISTERING those raffles and providing signed receipts from the recipient that the funds were indeed distributed. But they could also run raffles for themselves and the overhead is pretty low, right, on that….)
4. Kids’ Turn is developing its presence on electronic social networking. We have an active Facebook Fan page (currently 335 Fans); a Board member ‘tweets’ regularly and posts on our behalf on linkdn. Just recently, we began actively posting comments on the Huffington Posts’ DIVORCE page. Interestingly enough, our Facebook fan count has increased exponentially since raising our profile visibility on social networking sites.
5. We submitted our first grant to the Administrative Office (AOC) of the Court in November, 2011. (??) This grant was submitted in a partnership with the Rally Project. If awarded, the AOC will fund low-income, noncustodial parents and their children to attend Kids’ Turn services.
The “AOC” like “KT” contains AFCC members — and actually represents the “Administrative Office of the COurts” which is charged with administering FEDERAL grants to the states from which KT is likely to benefit. As such, it’s not money from the AOC, it’s money via the IRS from taxpayers.
“The Rally Project” – found in a 2006 obituary of architect Allan Levy
I am posting in August 2011, and this is a FY2010 Annual report, so I’ll just hazard a guess that they mean 2011. I hope there’s more accuracy when it comes to decimal points.
the “rally project” is actually a Family Visitation center, apparently at UCSF. I remember trying to find this before. There are still few references to “the Rally Project’ because that’s not what it’s name is. And this nonprofit is teaching communication skills, too!
Allan M. Levy Died on Thursday, February 16, 2006 after a five-month battle with throat cancer. He was 60 years old. He died at home and in peace, in the company of family and friends. Allan was born and raised in Memphis, TN, and embodied all of the lovely qualities we Northerners associate with Southerners: he was kind and gracious, inclusive, an attentive host (no one ever left Pam and Allan’s house underfed or thirsty), and an avid storyteller. Allan was a creator of community. He had a small army of friends of all ages, sizes, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds from every conceivable corner of the globeHe had definite opinions. About everything. He gave quietly and generously of his time and energy to non-profit organizations like Kids Turn and the Rally Project. …Allan is survived by his wife, Pam; mother, Mrs. Emily Davis; sister, Diane and brother-in-law, Arnold Eger; brother, Donald and sister-in-law, Shelley Levy; brother, Steven and sister-in-law, Betsy Olim; sister-in-law, Kate DiGiacomo; six nieces and nephews, a whole bunch of cousins, the above-mentioned army of friends, and last, but not least, his dog Maggie. A Memorial Service is being planned for Thurs, April 6, 2006, 3pm, at the Officer’s Club at the SF Presidio. In lieu of flowers, it is suggested that donations be made to Kids’ Turn, Rally Family Visitation Services, UCSF Palliative Care Group, and The Women’s Community Clinic.
I should note here, as it came up, Rally Family Visitation Services is listed twice when it comes to “SVN” (Supervised Visitation Network) which I imagine is (yet another!) nonprofit — and people from “Rally Visitation Services” are mentioned on BOTH SVN Standards and Guideline Committee Chairs & on the SVN Board of Directors, right next to the AOC. I’m sure having a Kids Turn Friend & Rally Visitation Center friend who is networked with the people distributing the access visitation grants and setting standards for who gets them (ideally) — would probably help in obtaining this grant, even if someone can’t figure out which year they applied for it in and proofread their (taproot-foundation-assisted) new website to get it up there right.
Supervised Visitation Network Worldwide
SVN, Supervised Visitation Network, is an international membership organization of professionals who provide supervised visitation and access services to families.
SVN was Founded in 1991 to provide opportunities for networking, sharing of information, and training for agencies and individuals who are interested in assuring that children can have safe, conflict-free access to parents with whom they do not reside.
Providing resources for members and families in need of supervised visitation services
That 1991 date is kind of interesting; NCCSDATAWEB says the ruling date was 1997. So far I see it in Tennessee (for about 5 years) and then off to Florida (as of 2007ff) so presumably it started somewhere else, or AS someone else from 1991 to 1996. Assuming it actually began in 1991…
Most Recent Tax Period | EIN | Name | State | Rule Date | IRS Sub- section | Total Revenue | Total Assets | 990 Image |
2010 | 521831498 | Supervised Visitation Network | FL | 1997 | 03 | 218,620 | 31,703 | 990 |
As of 2009, it self-describes (on the 990) as PURPOSE:
PROVIDE COMMUNITIES WITH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT THAT PROMOTE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE SAFE, CONFLICT FREE ACCESS TO BOTH PARENTS THROUGH A CONTINUUM OF CHILD ACCESS SERVICES IN ADDITION, THE ORGANIZATION IS DEVELOPING AND DISSEMINATING STANDARDS FOR PRACTICE OF CHILD ACCESS SERVICES, MAINTAINING A DIRECTORY OF SUPERVISED CHILD ACCESS PROVIDERS, AND PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND FORUMS FOR NETWORKING AND SHARING OF INFORMATION PRINCIPALLY, MEMBERSHIP DUES AND ADMISSION FEES TO THEIR ANNUAL CONFERENCE ARE THE MAIN SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR ORGANIZATION And like many nonprofits, simply repeats that paragraph when asked to describe its accomplishments, and then adds a figure — how much it cost: in 2009 filing, specificallly $218,590 — funds raised from “Contributions” 67,409, “Program fees including govt contracts” $82,875, and “Dues” 62,307.” This ALMOST adds up to what they spent, however, there’s that $92K of salaries and $5K of fees for contracting independent professionals, plus printing, occupancy ($10K) and did I mention “$143K” of “OTHER” expenses, a section I always enjoy looking at…… meaning they operated this year at a $37K loss despite all the help. (The $143, unfortunately, displays sideways if I select & paste, but is predictably mostly on travel ($27.3) Conferences ($65.1), Committee meetings ($14.87) and a regional training ($14.68), plus a few other items. Which makes me think that one great way to travel is to start a new professional, start a nonprofit (dues-based) in which we could meet to figure out how to promote our profession in pleasant locations across the globe, while doing business with the US government (if not a few others), soliciting from the public and/or grants, and write it all (plus some) OFF.SVN Standards and Guidelines Committee Co-chairs:
Shelly La Botte, J.D., California’s Access to Visitation Grant Program, Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts, Center for Families, Children & the Courts, and Nadine Blaschak-Brown, former Program Manager, Rally Family Visitation Services of Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco, CA.SVN Board of Directors (Fiscal Years 2004-2006):
Jody Bittrich, Rainbow Bridge Safe Exchange/Visitation Center, Moorhead, MN, Barbara Flory (see above), Nancy Fallows (see above), Jane Grafton, (see above), Ona Foster, Faith and Liberty’s Place, Dallas, TX, David Levy, Children’s Rights Council, Hyattsville, MD, Teri Walker McLaughlin (President), Della Morton, Merrymount Children’s Center, London, Ontario Canada, Joe Nullet, Family Nurturing Center of Florida, Inc., Jacksonville, FL, Vayla Roberts (Vice-President), Sharon Rogers, Judge Ben Gordon, Jr., Family Visitation Center, Shalimar, FL, Virginia Rueda, Family Visitation Center, El Paso, TX, Rob Straus, (see above), Georgia Thompson, LA Wings of Faith, Los Angeles, CA., and Beth Zetlin, Forest Hills, NY.
I think it’s time to get another crack in about the field of “Supervised Visitation” and the “SVN” network.
First, it is a nonprofit incorporated in Tennessee. These altruistic people (including David Levy of the Children’s Rights Council, which helped push the term “access /visitation” to start with, and which nonprofit includes several such centers, not to mention some close connections in philosophy with AFCC founder, it would seem, Jessica Pearson (see my recent posts trying to track down AFCC incorporations over the year, including one time it showed up in Colorado at the same address as Center for Policy Research (I believe) at the time: Emerson Street, Denver).
This is a 2003 IRS form 990-EZ for “Supervised Visitation Network,” a TN nonprofit of moderate means and large influence:
90~IZ~~ Part III:
Primary Exempt purpose: Public education and awareness;professional development
28.SVNwebsite-provides information for both the general public and for professionals, averaging over 150 hits per week on the pages for parents and over 400 on the pages with information for professionals.- Expenses : $15,000
This blog — which is free, except for my time — gets close to that on a good day, and has been steadily for a few years — including from some sources I know are professionals (like the ones I report on) and others. Note: as with the field of “Parent Education” (court-supported) the interest is higher among the providers than the clientele….i
29.Conference-Trainingfor150professionalprovidersofsupervisedvisitationservices Expenses-Netgainof$14,410
30. Publications -Distributed 500 Handbook for Parents, 160 Handbooks for Professionals; 80 Sexual Abuse Curriculums;850 informational brochures;2 Newsletters, primarily forprofessional training, to 600 individuals;.
Expenses -$7.700
Its revenue is about $40,000 Program Service Revenue including government fees & contracts, and about $37,000 membership fees. Their highest expense is “Products and Promotions.”
Most interesting is the variety of states (plus Canada) the board of directors are drawn from: If you can’t see the graphic, the pdf is on-line for viewing:
(Karen Oehme also directs a family violence studies institute at Florida State; many of these names are well known) in family law circles, obviously.
At least one of these address shows up as the Office of the Attorney General (445 Golden Gate, SF) — no office given, though.
Shelly Glapion (at that address), 6th floor, at least in 2004, (as we speak?) was Senior Program Analyst for
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California’s Access to Visitation Grant Program
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View
Shelly Glapion, J.D.. Access to Visitation Grant Coordinator. Senior Court …
As far back as 2004, there were concerns about financial embezzlement/fraud, shifting financial requirements for supervised visitation, at least in California. This is part of a (available on-line) group email (I’ll post complaint and one reply) about the behavior of a supervised visitation monitor, from a mother, criticized for wearing flip-flops (in California…..) and giving her daughter a birthday cake. it appears that the mother was under supervised visitation, although the typical auspices of this is increased noncustodial (FATHER) parent access, which was how Ron Haskins helped sell it to Congress to start with, as I understand:
Supervised Monitoring Message List
Hi,I’m in CA. I have had this supervised monitor that stated I’m a danger to my daughter because one time during the summer I was wearing flip flops and gave my daugther a birthday cake for her birthday.Well, my question is this…now she is constatnly changing the financial agreement we signed several months ago. And she’s now back charging me for phone calls, emails to arrange visits and she doesn’t even respond to most of them. She is now threatening to take me to court if I don’t keep paying her for things I have never agreed to. Additionally, she charges me for cancelled visits and yet doesn’t even notify me that they are cancelled. Isn’t there any law of how she constatnly changes her fees and agreement? Originally it stated that the cancelle of visits is 100% resposnbile for the fees, well last weekend I was 100% resposnbile and she is refusing to credit her account that everyday she comes up with new fees or changes the agreement that was orginally signed. I’m hoping that when she does take me to court that I will not hav to pay for things that I never agreed to and for visits that is clearly stated that I am not financially resposnbile for. She also charges me $5 per min. to discuss any of this on the phone or email. And then she charges me a flat fee ontop of her min incurred fees. Please help me stop this insanity. I also believe that because my ex won in court because of past bribery that he must have also done this upon the monitor. The monitor did state once that the father told her to charge me more and make it exteremly difficult to see my daughter. And the monitor stated that if I wanted this information that I need to pay her for this.I’ve given up all hope that I’ll be allowed to see my daughter – this justice system provides no justice…because the courts don’t care that they purjed under oath (saying I have a criminal record and a bunch of lies like that..that I can easily prove false), let alone CPS closed the case because it was unfouned..and now that the courts have allowed him to do this to me of taking 50% of all my wages. At least now I’m hoping that I can get this monitor to stop asking me for money that isn’t due and to stop fabricating these charges of $5 per min. to read an email and then her $25 fee to just have it in her inbox (even if she doesn’t read them).Any suggestions????THE REPLY is to contact Shelly Glapion (of SVN board of directors, which this person probably didn’t know, and program administrator, via CFCC)Re: Supervised MonitoringIn a message dated 11/27/04 10:06:34 AM Pacific Standard Time, XXXXX@… writes:
Is she private or with a supervised visitation center?
Especially if she is connected to a supervised visitation center, you should make a public records request for all payoffs she is receiving, and also ask for her tax returns for the duration of time since she has been providing you “service”.Then, go very public with the fact that what she is doing constitutes fraud, illegal and criminal misconduct, so that she will dump you as a client in order to try to conceal what she is doing wrong.
After she dumps you, go to the press with evidence of financial and other fraud operative through your case, saying that this is another example of the type of Access to Visitation Enforcement program fraud that is rampant as the means to promote a pro-abuser agenda in the guise of fatherhood and custody programs. Use this article from NY– re: Viola Stroud of CRC being under investigation for embezzlement — to bolster your case: Click here: Guardian under scrutiny
Next, send a summary (brief and objective re: criminal misconduct and financial fraud) to Shelly Glapion, the CA adminstrator of the SAVP: shelly.glapion@…, asking her, as the person overseeing the AV program in CA, who has been monitoring your supervisor to ensure the integrity of the “service” she is providing. Be sure to tell Ms. Glapion that you hold her personally responsible and legally liable for the kickbacks and illegal payoffs you are sure were being used to cause intential and malicious harm to you and your child on behalf of your ex, using government program funding.
Be sure to send me a copy (use XXXXX not the FCR board) of your complaint, along with the name of the supervisor, the county you are in, your case number, the judges, lawyers and other appointees involved (especially any mediators or custody evaluators) and I will incorporate it into the complaints that we are putting together that are addressing AV program fraud and corruption at the federal level.
Cindy Ross
CA Director
National Alliance for Family Court Justice
To this woman, who says she does not have a criminal record, and apparently CPS was told she was some sort of perp, but closed the case — she is being treated like one, which she reports as basically being cursed (spoken evil of) by the supervised visitation monitor. The other point of view — particularly from someone on this nonprofit SVN group and probably also running a program that provides these services, it’s not a curse, it’s a blessing! Barbara Flory, in THIS message exchange (file under “PR”) The URL is a Florida State University address: http://familyvio.csw.fsu.edu/messageboard/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/BB_winter_04.pdf
The supervised visitation and exchange programs have truly been a blessingfor so many families.
First of all, monitored visitation provides yet another level of protection for the victim and the children. This
protection is essential to victims!
(not mentioned — often, the victims ARE children…. this happens when there’s molestation also):
Second, it allows contact between the perpetrator and the children, which would not have
occurred without said programs.
{{now that’s food for thought…… “contact between perp and children = good.” (?)}}
This is especially important for those perpetrators who are truly trying to improve their lives and those of their children.
And the way to tell if a perp is REALLY sincere and wants to improve his(her) life is ….. ask a supervised visitation professional?
Or a judge on the board of a nonprofit benefitting from access visitation (or other) grantsmanship?
It is also extremely important for the children who sometimes do not understand why they cannot see one of their parents, but want to see that parent.
And one tells which children DO and which children do NOT want to see their perp parent? (See Jack Straton; I get tired of reminding us….)
In many cases it is also the hope of being with the children and helping their children that motivates a perpetrator to understand the cycle of domestic violence.
It’s HOPED that HOPING to see one’s kids will produce character change for a perp. I’m not even sure we can find definite validation that batterers intervention programs do that…..
These programs provide a safe environment for all involved and they further provide hope!
Yes, hope of virtually guaranteed (court-ordered) income for supervised visitation providers who pay into the system!
Other than that —
No they don’t. That’s false! They can become and have obviously become nightmares; moreover, some people have been killed at or around supervised visitation, or while the family was utilizing supervised visitation! See this chart from 2001 (i.e., in recent memory of the above message), particularly 3rd from bottom row: The chart is from “MNCAVA” something reasonably accessible to the people involved above:
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/commissioned/strategies/strategies.html
Staff of the Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation collected examples of behaviors commonly displayed by alleged batterers who were referred to supervised visitation programs in Florida in 2001. As the examples in the following table indicate, the same behaviors of batterers described in the literature, are observed in supervised visitation programs.
Table 1. Common Behaviors of Batterers Seen at Supervised Visitation Programs
Behavior | Manifestation at Supervised Visitation Program |
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Denial of Abuse/ Minimizations | Children may ask parent, “why did you hit mommy?” Visiting parent may deny hitting child’s mother, say it was accident or minimize his action. Or he may say it’s the fault of mother he has to see child at visitation program. One program reports a 12 year old asked his father why he chased his mother with a knife. Father denied doing it saying the mother told him to say that. This occurred despite witnesses to the knife incident. |
Blaming partner | Frequently supervised visitation staff report that a batterer will tell staff “this is all my wife’s fault,” “she’s the one who brought this on.” |
Control/ Manipulation | Often batterers will question, or challenge program rules or suggest exceptions to rules should be made of them. This is seen in examples of refusing to arrive or depart per requirements, bringing unauthorized individuals to visits, bringing gifts or food to visits which may be disallowed, attempting to take videos or photographs. Tearing up rules or throwing intake forms across room. |
Attacking Parenting Skills | Involving staff in apparent false allegations of child abuse against parent who has been abused, trying to use staff to call Abuse Registry. Makes disparaging remarks about mother, “you need to clean up better than mommy.” |
Making Covert/ Overt Threats | Program staff report incidents of batterers showing a weapons permit when asked for identification, driving around visitation site at time of scheduled visits but not coming into program as well as verbally threatening to harm staff, volunteers, judge, partner, etc. during visits. Law enforcement officers referred to programs have come for scheduled visits in full uniform wearing their weapons despite instructions to the contrary. |
Involving Children | During scheduled visitations, batterers may attempt to question children about their current living arrangements (particularly if they are staying at shelter or another undisclosed location); inquire about what their plans are, where they are attending school; or, may try and find out who the child’s mother is seeing. Additionally batterers may utilize visitation times as a vehicle to get children to convey messages back to other parent. |
Stalking | Following a parent who is leaving a program, recording information about parents car. One program reports two examples of cases when the perpetrator had custody. In one case he left with the child prior to his wife (non-custodial) but waited for her in a nearby parking lot. In another, a non-custodial mother picked up her child for a monitored exchange and was followed to a neighboring city by her abuser. Perpetrators may reveal stalking incidents during conviction with their children during visit Questions such as Where were you all last night? or Why weren’t you in school yesterday? |
Financial Abuse/ Manipulation | Refusing to pay for scheduled visits, not going to pay to see my kids. Paying in pennies or other small coins. Saying they will not bring food for visits because they’re paying child support to mother and she should make sure food is available for father’s visit. |
Animal Abuse | Batterers may inform child during visit that a beloved pet has died or had to be given away since the child was not longer in the home. One program reported a father bringing the child’s pet rabbit to the program knowing the child would not be able to take it back to the shelter where he was staying. |
Physical Violence | At least three murders of [WORD missing — Freudian slip?] have occurred on-site or in parking lots of supervised visitation programs in recent years. Other programs report murders or physical assaults by non-custodial parents off site but while family was utilizing services. |
Suicide | Visiting parent telling child and/or staff how depressed he is and how he might just end it all. |
Not to mention, see Joyce Welch / Brian Tippe case, where the supervised visitation monitor was in a bestiality relationship (criminal!) with DOGS and a slave/master relationship (as the slave, i.e., fairly “deviant” behavior for someone involved with children, and around the field of domestic violence, which is itself characterized by inappropriate slave/master behaviors, only without the designated slave deriving (?) sexual enjoyment from the degraded status). The mother was ordered supervised by a commissioner who was at the time on the Board of Kids’ Turn, too….
Guess under what banner I found that:
Strategies to Improve Supervised Visitation Services in Domestic Violence Cases
M. Sharon Maxwell, LCSW, Ph.D.Karen Oehme, J.D.authors commissioned by
Copyright © 2001 Violence Against Women Online Resources
AbstractThe Evolution of Supervised Visitation: From Child Welfare to Domestic Violence Case VisitationRecognizing Common Batterers Behaviors In Supervised Visitation SettingsStrategies to Improve Supervised Visitation in Domestic Violence Cases
Barbara Flory, MSW, LFMT (or whatever) and 2003 at least SVN board member, wrote the above glowing recommendation of supervised visitation; Karen Oehme, here, chairs the FLorida Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation. They are talking about strategies to have less abuse and murder occurring around supervised visitation (no mention made of financial fraud, etc., although it’s been found repeatedly) — and not whether it’s a good or bad idea, based on the fact that murders and further abuse HAS occurred around it!
ACTUALLY, Familylawcourts.com has a page on the “AOC” and says it better than I do; it’s funny, but right:
2. The Elkins Task Force, which was headed by the AOC supposedly to promote accountability and listening to children, was an expensive and expansive white wash.
How else to explain why the AOC commissioned a 50k research project to ask family court litigants questions for the entire state; and the results featured only 53 litigants and 83 AOC staff personnel?
3. One lasting, inept brainchild of the Judicial Council, again working in conjunction with the AOC, was to decriminalize crime via a “Supervised Visitation,” form in which kidnapping becomes the more civilized “parental abduction.”
Thus, 12 years after the Judicial Council working in conjunction with the AOC, created the non-professional field, there remains no oversight. Which con artists have discovered. Which explains how suspected pedophiles are now serving on the boards of some Supervised visitation agencies; and why Supervised visitation monitors are awarding custody to the suspected pedophiles.
As such, if the AOC wasn’t so damaging to the point of lethal, it would be listed as a sub-category to Comic Gold.
Is there anything where AOC excels?
Yes. The AOC excels at wasting enormous amounts of taxpayer funds for slick, expensive conferences, most of which are designed to continue prohibiting access to any real justice in the courts, such as the one below.
http://www.familylawcourts.com/aoc.html
(note: I don’t agree with author in GPS issue, though).
She sarcastically notes:
Practice Hint: Due to the increased number of custody exchange murders, we recommend attorneys request judges order any custody exchange to be made at the local police department. Should a murder occur, not only is it likely the crime will be recorded on a number of video cameras in an around the area, but any number of police officers would already on hand to effect a quick arrest. The video could later be used as part of a plea deal, which would save the state trial costs.
Actually, I experienced so-called “parental abduction” (call it what you will) AT a law enforcement station, after having asked (in vain) previously for supervised visitation or something to prevent this (as I recall the LONG case history). Apparently the problem is I wasn’t willing to cut some deal with CPS and let my children go into foster care needlessly to get revenge on my ex. So, they did nothing, knowing it would be off their plate and safely in family court anyhow. This custody-switch kept the case going, which also (FYI) meant a significant delay in child support matters, probably resulting in a little interest accumulation (at least from program funds) on the side, too. The possible profitable (except to the children) permutations are endless in this system.
I figured I’d just hop on over to Tennessee to look up this nice nonprofit I learned was incorporated there: Surprise:
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WELL, they apparently kept it going about 5 years — with the exception of AFCC, that’s pretty average for nonprofits catering to therapeutic-jurisprudence professions in the courts, which is probably why new ones (such as COllaborative law practice) must constantly be created. …. Maybe the moved to Florida… or just went extra-USA terrestrial…..
TypeDateImage #DetailTermination01/11/20086178-2677Articles of Dissolution01/11/20086178-2675Administrative Amendment12/05/20076164-2457Detail Notice of Determination12/03/2007ROLL 61612006 Annual Report Due 10/01/200612/19/20065902-1491Notice of Determination12/01/2006ROLL 58932005 Annual Report Due 10/01/200510/07/20055578-01582004 Annual Report Due 10/01/200409/14/20045233-08802003 Annual Report Due 04/01/200402/10/20045032-2914Detail Initial Filing09/29/20034922-0943
Registered as a Charity in Tennessee?
(I didn’t find out whether or not).
I THINk the first address listed as c/o Nancy Fallows, who shows up as someone probably good at getting grants, and on the board of a substance-abuse-prevention group, “Putnam (County) Power of One”
Nancy Fallows Secretary,
(Grant-Writing Sub-Committee Chair)
Tennessee Community Services Agency,
Upper Cumberland Director
1000 England Drive, Suite F,
Cookeville, TN 38501(work) 931-646-4087; (fax) 931-520-0080
Nancy.Fallows@tncsa.com
Joe Nullet (also on Board, and the registered agent? in Florida for the TN corporation also) is Harvard, JFK School of Government, father of 3 boys, and:
and obviously someone who knows how to obtain funding for a program. This one is selling educational curriculums, isn’t everyone these days?
Joe Nullet
Joe Nullet, a graduate of Harvard University, is the Executive Director of the Supervised Visitation Network, an international membership organization of professionals who provide supervised visitation and access services to families. Joe was also formerly the Executive Director of the Family Nurturing Center of Florida, *** an organization committed to creating a community of nurturing care for our children.
As recognized Trainer/Consultant for the Nurturing Parenting programs, Joe’s area of strength is in the administration, support, and successful implementation of the Nurturing Parenting programs. Since 2001, Joe has successfully obtained financial support from the Jaguars Foundation, the Community Foundation of Jacksonville, the Reinhold Foundation, the Rice Family Foundation, UPS, Publix, the Martin Foundation, and others for the implementation of Nurturing Parenting programs.
As a father of three beautiful boys, Joe is passionate about nurturing his family and the world in which they live. Joe is available to train your agency staff to facilitate the Nurturing Parenting programs or as a consultant to develop innovative strategies to foster community collaboration, solicit financial support, and manage the effective implementation of Nurturing Parenting programs within your organization and/or community.
Joe Nullet, Executive Director
Supervised Visitation Network
*** per ‘SUNBIZ.org” -a site I really appreciate where you can look up florida organizations — actually, this was incorporated in 1993 as “Family Visitation Center, Inc.” and in 2000 they did a name change (adding the “nurturing”) as we can see in 2001, Mr. Nullet helped them expand the concept, or at least get funding for doing so. The group’s current address, 2759 Bartley Circle (same city) is apparently owned by the City of Jacksonville (a community center) and listed with the courts, or taking business from them:
Family Nurturing Center of Florida
Supervised Visitation, Dependency and Family Law
2759 Bartley Circle
Jacksonville, FL 32207ServicePhone:
Fax:(904) 389-4244
(904) 389-4225
Provides a multifaceted supervised visitation center for children to visit with their non-custodial parents when there have been allegations and/or confirmation of physical or sexual abuse, neglect, or domestic violence.
Services: Information and referral; Other Victims Served: Child Victims of Physical Abuse; Child Victims of Sexual Abuse; Domestic Violence Victims Counties Served: Duval, Clay, Nassau, Baker, St. Johns Circuits Served: 4, 8, 7 Fee: Yes; sliding scale for Family Law clients. Hours of Service: Please see website for hours of operation. Web Site: http://www.fncflorida.org
That site shows them in the 2 primary businesses supported by A/V grants: Parent Education and Supervised Visitation and yes, they are a nonprofit; their “For Parents” link hopefully points to the SVN, and has a hastily (or at least crookedly) scanned “handbook” coaching parents on how to pick the right type of visitation center, i.e., one of ours, listing the SVN at 1223 King Drive (although it’s not been there for a while…..)
FNC is proud to partner with a number of local service providers to offer comprehensive services to clients. We have relationships with each of the certified domestic violence centers within the Fourth Circuit, and we also partner with Family Foundations, Youth Crisis Center, and many others. If you have a question about additional resources which may benefit your clients, please contact us or you can conduct your own search using the 2-1-1 system.
Like Kids’ Turn (etc.) it is described as the 1993 brainchild of a judge — only this one, responding to complaints from parents with children in foster-care:
We opened in 1993 as the Family Visitation Center, the first of its kind in Florida. It was the brainchild of the Honorable Judge Dorothy Pate, who was moved to act after hearing frequent complaints from parents who were not being allowed to see their children who had been placed in foster care.
Representatives from the Department of Children, the Children’s Home Society and the Junior League of Jacksonville met with Judge Pate to discuss a new concept called “supervised visitation.” Since that meeting, we have expanded our agency to include three programs at four locations and changed our name to reflect this growing commitment to improving the lives of families throughout Northeast Florida.
(NoTE — that predates the 1996 welfare reform, the 1994 national fatherhood initiative and violence against women act).
GONE SOUTH — literally, to FLORIDA — or at least here’s another corporation by the same name, in the same city (Jacksonville) that decided to get started up around the time the Tennessee incorporation shut down (or was shut down):
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By the former address, yes, this is the same corporation (see files):
EIN# 521831498
IT’s purpose (see sunbiz.org if this doesn’t show, click on bottom link below Annual Reports) is fairly clear — business promotion and collaboration on how to obtain access visitation funding, basically:
Article III ” The specific purpose for which this corporation is organized” — “Provide a forum for networking and sharing of information
between CHILD ACCESS PROVIDERS and OTHER PROFESSIONALS. Advocate for adequate public and private funding for Child access and visitation programs.”
Others at the first Jacksonville Address (1223 King STreet) address include a window-washing service. Now, 3995 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, FL appears to be a particular real estate group, “Bo Bridgeport Brokers“) which I only figured because google-mapping zooming in on the address contained that label.
Bo Bridgeport Brokers is the premier Commerical and Residential Real Estate Firm in Jacksonville Florida. We specialize in residential and commercial real …
3955 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32205-3312
(904) 358-3955
It’s also listed in “Family and Child Services” in a VERMONT (how’s that for the other end of the east coast?) Child Support / Commission on Women office. Cute:
Family Division and Office of Child Support | Commission on Women
women.vermont.gov/…/family-court-and-office-of-child-support – Cached1223 King Street Jacksonville, FL 32204 904-389-7800 http://www.svnetwork.net/ . SVN is a multi-national non-profit membership organization that is literally a …
1223 King St Jacksonville, FL 32204
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Jacksonville/1223–King–St–Jacks… – Cached
Family Division and Office of Child Support
Vermont Office of Child Support
http://dcf.vermont.gov/ocs/Provides free assistance to those paying and receiving child support. The office keeps track of child support payments, can help with getting a child support order, collects overdue payments, locates absent parents, helps change child support amounts, can help determine paternity, and offers help to child support payers
Vermont Parent Representation Center, Inc.
77 Charlotte Street
Burlington, Vermont 05401
802-540-0200
http://www.vtprc.org
VPRC is a {{YET ANOTHER…..}} not-for-profit public interest law and policy organization. VPRC’s goals include:
To reduce the number of children removed from their families into state and other out-of-home custody; to shorten the length of stay in state and other out-of-home custody for children who have been removed, and to reduce the number of children re-entering state and other out-of-home custody after being reunified with their families.
This says nothing about “custody-dispute” Parental alienation situations, but I’d be surprised if they didn’t handle such things and get some grants or contracts to do so.
This is clearly more directed at CPS & Foster Care uses, but notice how SVN can springboard that into “custody dispute” or “estranged from the other parent” situations . . …
National
Supervised Visitation Network
1223 King Street
Jacksonville, FL 32204
904-389-7800
http://www.svnetwork.net/
SVN is a multi-national non-profit membership organization that is literally a network of agencies and individuals who are interested in assuring that children can have safe, conflict-free {{AFCC code language; not ‘High-conflict”}} access to parents with whom they do not reside. Some of the children who need these services live in foster homes or with relatives. Some live with one parent who is estranged from the other.
6. The City and County of San Francisco initially reduced our 1011 grant award by 10%, but the amount was re-instated in September, 2010 raising our contract award to the original $50,000. This funding is for our very specialized, Nonviolent Family Skills Program for Juveniles.
I presume they are probably meaning the year 2011; someone has a little data input trouble here….. If the SF Courts ever pay off what it is SFTC has a lien for (see my other Kids’ Turns posts) perhaps they can hire a proofreader for their new website, and get their license back. Oh, this may be a little difficult though, because so many SF Courtrooms are being closed, soon, for lack of funding, budget cutbacks, etc. . . . . You know how it goes….
I think that MOST businesses and charities understand (as well as shouldn’t most attorneys who are going to be sometimes doing business with them, or incorporated themselves as an LLP) that one has to register as a nonprofit with the state, and also file annual reports with the secretary of state whether for-profit or not, if doing business in that state. But here it is stated explicitly:
Florida Charity Nearly Ruined
Sun Coast Law Enforcement Charities (Sun Coast) is a police charity benefiting police officers and their families in several Florida counties. Recently, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Department) served the charity’s president with a lawsuit.
Why? Because the charity failed to renew its registration with the Department, even though it had sent letters and made phone calls reminding the charity to do so. In Florida, any charity that asks for donations in the state mustregister with the department each year. It costs between $10 and $400, depending on how much money the charity raises. Sun Coast’s registration fee was $75.
The Department’s lawsuit wanted to impose a $10,000 fine against Sun Coast. Paying that fine would have ruined the charity. According to its IRS filings, the charity’s 2008 total revenue was only $11,000. Luckily it avoided the problem.
It explained to the Department that a former bookkeeper had ignored calls and letters from the Department. The Department took into consideration that Sun Coast had been registered since 2000 and kept up its renewals until the 2009 incident. In the end, Sun Coast paid a $1,000 fine and remains in operation.
Registration Laws
Many states are like Florida and require registration of charities. Arizona, Connecticut, Colorado, and Pennsylvania are good examples. The rules usually are different in each state, though. For example, in some states, a charity must register:
- And pay a fee each year if it “does business” in the state
- And pay a fee only the first year it “does business” in the state, but must submit financial and other records each year
- Before it accepts donations, before it asks for or “solicits” donations, or both
- By completing forms provided by the state, by submitting a copy of the charity’s IRS form, or both
(Courtesy “Charities.lawyers.com“)
Apparently being able to look it up on-line is new? http://www.800helpfla.com/socbus.html
Solicitation of Contributions
Information for Businesses
The Solicitation of Contributions Act requires anyone who solicits donations from people in the State of Florida to register with the Department and renew annually. This applies to charitable organizations, sponsors, professional solicitors, as well as professional fundraising consultants. The Department collects registration fees and has authority to impose penalties for non-compliance. The Department provides financial disclosure regarding organizations on the online Gift Givers’ Guide or you can obtain information about a specific charity by calling our Consumer Assistance Call Center at 1-800-HELP-FLA (435-7352), or out of state 850-410-3800.
Looking at the SVN site, describing the backgrounds of its current Board of Directors, here’s a nice connection to “responsible fatherhood” if you don’t get it yet:
Robert B. Straus, DMH, JD
Cambridge, MA
A psychologist and lawyer was Senior Psychologist of the Family Service Clinic from 1982 to 1988, conducting custody and visitation evaluations for the Middlesex County Family Court. From 1988, he served frequently as Guardian ad Litem in high-conflict custody and access disputes.
In 1991, Dr. Straus started Meeting Place: Supervised Child Access Service, a program of The Guidance Center, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, providing a safe setting in which children in high-risk situations can visit parents with whom they are not living.
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The exact name of the Nonprofit Corporation: GUIDANCE CENTER, INC., THE
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He is a founder of the Supervised Visitation Network. He was President of the Network in 1993-94, helped draft the Network’s Standards and Guidelines for practice, and has served several terms on the Board of Directors.
So maybe if I want to find what state it first incorporated in, I should go to Massachusetts?
From 1995 through 2000 he was Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Coalition for Supervised Visitation, and in that capacity worked with the Governor’s Commission on Responsible Fatherhood and the Supervised Visitation Task Force of the Probate and Family Court, helping draft the Guidelines for Court Practice for Supervised Visitation.
Dr. Straus has a private psychotherapy practice, working with couples and children, and remains the Program Consultant to Meeting Place.
Dr. Straus (psychologist/psychotherapist) published in 1994 (as cited in AFCC publication) on traumatized children in supervised visitation. Maybe if the kids are so badly traumatized, they shouldn’t be there to start with? Anyhow, this abstract for the cite:
Copyright (c) 1999 Sage Publications, Inc.
Family and Conciliation Courts Review of AFCCARTICLE: Traumatized Children in Supervised Visitation: What Do They Need?
Authors’ Note:
This article was presented as a plenary paper at the First International Conference on Child Access Services, Paris, France, November 4-7, 1998.
April, 1999
37 Fam. & Concil. Cts. Rev. 135
Author
Janet R. Johnston and Robert B. StrausExcerpt
The purpose of supervised access, also known as supervised visitation and exchange services, is to provide a protected setting for parent-child contact when such contact presents risk following parental separation, child abuse, or neglect, or after an extended interruption of contact. There has been a remarkable growth in such services over the past two decades, in the United States and Canada, 1 as well as internationally. 2 Although there is a growing literature on the functioning of child access services (see, for example, Pearson & Thoennes, 1997; Straus & Alda, 1994)**, to date there has been little concentrated attention in the field on how better to respond to the vulnerable children who are the primary clients of visitation services. It seems likely that several factors have contributed to the relative invisibility of children’s individual and developmental needs in designing access programs. These factors include the urgency with which the needs of these distressed parents and their advocates call for the attention of decision makers and service providers, the fact that visitation orders (usually made in family courts where children lack their own voice) take precedence in defining how children are served, and, most important, the lacunae in clinical and research findings about the special needs of this population of children.
Whereas supervised access is used to provide supportive services and reunite parents with their children when there has not been trauma, the majority of the child clients of supervised visitation services have not been so fortunate. This article …
** of course there was even then a growing literature from certain sources on access services, particularly with the CRCKIDS.org organization on, and the nonprofit board-member multiple inter-relationships in place from the start. Abstract is from “Lexis-Nexis”
Dr. Straus in Cambridge, “RSJ Corporation” filing (OLD ein# 043061365) corresponds with these dates, somewhat.
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Supervised Visitation Access is not suitable for long-term, has been acknowledged (?) since 1999. Therefore, I can see how if business is to keep coming there would need to be new customers. THEORETICALLY a good bit of supervised visitation access will heal all relationships, reform perps of course (Except parentally alienating ones?) and lead to a reunified family. (Alternately, see Warshak….). OR, it could provide a nice excuse to terminate relationship with the offending parent, possibly the one most offended at (and/or paying for) the supervised visitation to start with. Another Lexis-Nexis abstract, delivered in Paris again — here:
Copyright (c) 1999 Sage Publications, Inc.
Family and Conciliation Courts Review of AFCC
ARTICLE: Supervised Access: A Long-Term Solution?
Author’s Note: This article was originally presented at the First International Conference on Child Access Services, Paris, November 5, 1998.
October, 1999
37 Fam. & Concil. Cts. Rev. 478
Author
Excerpt
Supervised access is ordered to develop, reestablish, or maintain a relationship between a child and a parent, or other relative, generally with the expectation that unsupervised access will at some point become possible. Some courts and commentators have said that supervised access is not appropriate as a long-term measure. Ontario Provincial Court Judge Norris Weisman wrote that supervised access is “a temporary and time-limited measure designed to resolve a parental impasse over access,” not “a long-term remedy.” 1 Lawyer Karen Oehme, cochair of the Family Visitation Program of Tallahassee, Florida, said, “Attorneys should realize that institutional supervised visitation is not a long-term solution in most family court cases, and that the programs should not be thought of as a substitute for addressing the underlying problems that resulted in the need for supervised visitation in the first place.” 2
In a 1992 case, the Ontario Court of Appeal also emphasized that supervised access should not be “a permanent feature of a child’s life” and decided to terminate access, rather than ordering supervised access, where it was not foreseeable that unsupervised access would ever be possible. 3 A year later, the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia, in a case called Bieganski v. Bieganski, said: “Supervised access is not appropriate as a long term measure.” 4 In 1996, the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia clarified that the Bieganski decision did not mean that …
WELL, if one looks at the history and membership of the Children’s Rights Council (which does have a chapter in paris, and the link I clicked seemed to indicate, since about 1999 — not that my French is very good.) and remember who active David Levy (also on board of supervised visitation network is) none of this is too surprising except that it’s not about time to make up some new terminology about now, because Collaborative Law is pretty well established, as is Parenting Coordination. It’s recommended to do this before the U.S. goes bankrupt and the $$ is inflated into worthlessness and no longer the world’s reserve currency, which I can see why considering what we DO with it!
http://www.crckids.org/about-us/who-we-are/board-of-trustees/
David L. Levy, Esq. is a CRC co-founder and former CRC President. He has directed 16 CRC conferences, was editor of the 1993 book entitled “The Best Parents is Both Parents®”, and has recently published an eco-novel entitled “Revolt of the Animals.”
Michael L. Oddenino has been the CRC’s General Counsel since its inception in 1985. He practices family law full time in Arcadia, CA, just outside Los Angeles. He has written numerous amicus (friend of the court) briefs and journal articles on family law. His CRC brief in the 1989 Michael H case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where the court agreed with the CRC that never-married fathers were entitled to a hearing to determine visitation rights to their children, even if the child was born within a marriage of the mother to another man.
Margaret A. Wuwert, Chief Operating Officer, is a retired social worker and serves as Director of CRC of Northwest Ohio. Her agency is one of CRC’s largest chapters with eight Access Centers in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. In 2002, Ms. Wuwert was recognized by the Lucas County Domestic Relations Court for her untiring dedication and supportive access services to the children and families in the Toledo area.
Mark S. Inzetta, J.D. is the Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Wendy’s International, Inc., based in Dublin, Ohio. Before the CRC, Mark served on the Ohio Child Support Guidelines Commission, the Supreme Court of Ohio’s Task Force on Family Law and Children, ***and Board of Directors of the Franklin County, Ohio Chapter of Court Appointed Special Advocates.
*** Lots of AFCC influence on that one, I think I blogged it. To get input, they simply flew the task force out to Arizona (home to an AFCC organization) to sit on AFCC presentations; I may have even blogged that. Given Ms. Wuwert, and others, I can see possibly why CRC shows up on the Indiana Child Support site.
Just to show how “totally” unrelated AFCC is from this SVN (that’s bouncing its corporation status from state to state?) here’s what’s scheduled for the October 2011 SVN conference, I guess tax-deductible for the SVN because it’s a regional training, and probably for attendees under education, and probably who knows what else.
“2011 REGIONAL TRAINING for “SUPERVISED VISITATION NETWORK”: INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA“
“Working with High Conflict and Violent Families, Implications for Supervised Visitation”
Hyatt Regency Hotel Indianapolis, Indiana
October 26,2011
This One Day Institute will focus on the issues presented in Supervised Visitation when Domestic Violence is present. This Institute will provide information to help professionals who work with SV providers, and those who provide direct services, to understand how domestic violence may require changes to their services to respond to the complex dynamic involved.
Scheduled one day before the AFCC (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts) Regional Conference:
“Working with High Conflict and Violent Families: A Race with No Winners” at the Hyatt Regency.
For more information about the AFCC Conference, go HERE
(and you can see the great race-car graphics, too….)
I don’t know about that “no winners” part. It seems like great retirement planning if you’re in the business, particularly if you have published something that could be marketed as “parent education” or how to work with flawed parents, or such . . . . .
Cost: $125 for SVN Members, $150 for Non Members (Includes Breakfast and Lunch):
A rate of $135/night at the Hyatt Regency is available through the AFCC Conference: HERE
I think we should look at the current list of AFCC Board Membership, starting with Linda Fieldstone (of Florida), now President: Is your judge on it?
AFCC Board of Directors
President
Linda B. Fieldstone, MEd, Miami, FL
President Elect
Arnold T. Shienvold, PhD, Harrisburg, PA
Vice President
Nancy Ver Steegh, JD, MSW, St. Paul, MN
Secretary
Richard L. Altman, JD, Napoleon, OH
Treasurer
Annette T. Burns, JD, Phoenix, AZ
Past President
Robert M. Smith, JD, MDiv, Windsor, CO
Hon. Peter Boshier, Wellington, New Zealand Hon. Diana Bryant, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Andrea Clark, MSW, St. Louis, MO patti cross, JD, Toronto, ON
Robin M. Deutsch, PhD, Boston, MA Hon. Dianna Gould-Saltman, Los Angeles, CA Hon. R. John Harper, Toronto, ON Grace M. Hawkins, MSW, Tucson, AZ Mindy F. Mitnick, EdM, MA, Edina, MN Hon. Graham R. Mullane, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Marsha Kline Pruett, PhD, MSL, Northampton, MA Matthew J. Sullivan, PhD, Palo Alto, CA Larry V. Swall, JD, Liberty, MO
AFCC Staff
Executive Director
Peter Salem, MA
Which reminds me, some time, to do a post or two on the Hofstra University (NY) connection to AFCC.
Associate Director
Leslye Hunter, MA, LMFT
Program Director
Candace Walker, CMP, CMM
Business and Administrative Director
Chris Shanahan, BA, CPA
Office Manager & Registrar
Dawn Holmes
Program Coordinator
Nola Risse-Connolly, BA
Program Coordinator
Erin Sommerfeld, BA
Administrative Assistant
Jessica Murdy, BS
AND IF YOU LIVE IN INDIANA, be comforted to know they have the violence/danger thing all under control:
Co-sponsored by the Indiana Supreme Court and Indiana Judicial Center
I notice that the Duluth Abuse Intervention Programs (aka “Minnesota Program Development, Inc.)-related “Battered Women’s Justice Project” has fully enmeshed itself now with AFCC (and continuing to receive preventing violence discretionary grants, no doubt) and as such will be just about useless when it comes to objective critiques of the AFCC and its impact on our culture and the culture of divorce in re: murder/suicides around exchange of children or the filing of protective orders (so to speak) (I’m referring to Loretta Frederick: Go to TAGGS.hhs.gov and see if you can find the name, or search my blog on the organizations it’ll make more sense):
4. Judicial Officers institute— interparental conflict and domestic Violence: structuring Parenting arrangements that account for the implications of abuse
The basic implication of “abuse” is danger to the abused, or if access to hurt the abused is cut off, attempts to hurt HER children instead. The most common sense solution would be separation. But that concept has an “irreconciliable difference” with the fathers’ rights and perpetual new professions contingents, so we need to create more tax exempt entities to confer and rehearse how to make these situations work, even if the idea is ridiculous.
You beat a person — you shouldn’t be around children. GOT IT? Why should everyone else pay an adult to be supervised in the presence of children rather than get that adult AWAY from children and let them deal with their life in an adult manner somewhere else. This is called deterrence.
COMMON SENSE though, wouldn’t support the word “institute” which there seems to be always another one of …….
Research has documented that interparental conflict and violence have multiple negative effects on many aspects of parenting and family functioning and on children’s psychological functioning and dysregulation. It is also associated with multiple adjustment problems in children, including internalizing and externalizing problems, PTSD, sleep problems, and school adjustment problems and performance.
IT meaning “interparental conflict and violence.” Is conflict the same as violence? VIOLENCE is directional, and just might have self-defense counter-moves. Two can have conflict, but generally one starts the violence. ACEStudy.org (Kaiser/CDC study, an old one, but a large and 10-years-long one) talked about adverse childhood events having these impacts, two of which such events included physical violence and sexual abuse.
Presenters in this institute will tie the latest research on [how to rename/reframe partner and child abuse] the impact of interparental conflict and domestic violence on children to the practical task of structuring parenting arrangements that account for the implications of abuse. As a result of this institute, participants will be better able to structure and evaluate parenting arrangements that account for the unique nature of the violence and conflict in the family and link the abuse to the parenting capacities of the parties.
Loretta M. Frederick, JD, Battered Women’s Justice Project, Winona, MN
Hon. Denise McColley, Henry County Family Court, Napoleon, OH
E. Mark Cummings, PhD, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Pamela A. Hayman-Weaner, JD, Defiance, OH Gabrielle Davis, JD, Battered Women’s Justice Project,
Minneapolis, MN
And be sure not to miss this pre-conference institute cliff-hanger:
7. domesticabuse,co-Parentingand Parenting time
The rubric of utilizing multiple hypotheses is essential to ensure appropriate interventions, services and parenting plans while addressing any shifts in parent-child estrangement vs. alienation. This workshop will help participants grapple with the complex and sometimes changing dynamics of families in conflict, particularly where domestic abuse is alleged or identified. Various typologies of abusers, victims, and relationships will be examined. Presenters will explore how to conduct initial assessments while elucidating the importance of ongoing assessment and monitoring of any progress.
Amy Van Gunst, MA, Fountain Hill Center, Grand Rapids, MI
Randy Flood, MA, Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill, Grand Rapids, MI
Make sure to read aloud the portion in red 3 times fast. Then cogitate on the concept of putting “abuse” and “parenting” in the same place at all. Then think about whether you’d like to have people who speak like that to decide where your child lives, or influence others who do.
SUPERVISED VISITATION very linked in with the AFCC and with, at least the California Courts
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SUPERVISED VISITATION NETWORK (SVN) STANDARDS FOR …
http://www.afccnet.org/…/Supervised_Visitation_Nework-Standards%20Final%2…File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View
of the Supervised Visitation Network (SVN) Standards Task Force (the “Task …. 1 TheSupervised Visitation Network acknowledges that the concept of both …California Courts: Self-Help Center: Families & Children: Custody …
Jul 28, 2011 – Why can supervised visitation help in cases where there is or has been … and education requirements of the Supervised Visitation Network. …
WELL, that’s enough fun for one post…. Perhaps it will illustrate a few points for my next one, about the SF Courthouses closing down, but still there are ongoing grants to SFTC from a very interesting few sources….