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Trouble Navigating the Pro/Con “PAS” Conflict? Pt. 2 | The Rx Remains: FIRST ID the AFCC Professionals, THEN Grill the Remaining Violence-Prevention Ones About Their Silence. Then Blow the Whistle on Both Sectors. (Published Oct. 31, 2019.)
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Trouble Navigating the Pro/Con “PAS” Conflict? Pt. 2 | The Rx Remains: FIRST ID the AFCC Professionals, THEN Grill the Remaining Violence-Prevention Ones About Their Silence. Then Blow the Whistle on Both Sectors. (Published Oct. 31, 2019.) (short-link ends “-brF.” About 7,000 words at Nov. 3).
A four-paragraph summary and one “**” (extended, with images) (mid-way) right before I publish:
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I split a post in two. Then I split the first post, publishing its preview section as its own post October 27, then the first post October 30, and now this second, Oct. 31, 2019. Some internal references between these may be shared where it says “see below” or “herein.” While published on three separate days they belong together as a unit.
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Both prior posts incorporated some links to my concurrent Twitter threads featuring (my) recent discoveries of more organizations, people, and websites through illustrating HOW “Parent Coordination” as a specialized, trained practice (specifically) moved from Canada to the UK** while maintaining close, acknowledged connections with the Canada and the USA, namely, AFCC as an organization. That’s why “FIRST ID the AFCC Professionals” often quickly reveals the propagation/replication/train-the-trainers overseas expansion process.
In fact (as I recall) I’d started simply with a recent lookup of the AFCC-Ontario charitable registration in Canada, printed out the board of directors, picked one (female) whose name was familiar to me by association with “reunification” programming (and as mentioned in some mainstream media — with NO reference to AFCC in the media at all, generally) about a year ago and earlier. Looking again at that website quickly led me to the c.v. of a younger (male) mentee which cited other websites (and people) intent on promoting parenting coordination in Canada, and at least one situation where it migrated, — apparently around 2015/2016/2017 — to the UK.
Separately, I’d noticed (didn’t blog, may have mentioned in passing on Twitter) how very recent the “Single Family Courts” were installed in the UK as a separate jurisdiction and administrative operations. This seems to have been around 2014. Coincidence(?) that not long after, another push for “parent coordination” is made? after which (Feb. 2018) AFCC has a [by definition, invitation-only, private) consultation with “Relate” at St. Georges (Windsor Castle).
AFCC — but not only AFCC — has long been featured on this blog, with the various public (federal, state, other) and private funding streams this organization teaches and/or coaches, it seems, its members to organize replicating networks of nonprofits to take advantage of in solving the basic problems of population management and control.
Thus each new generation’s workers becomes aware enough and groomed to JUST the level of cognizance of “how government (and, in general, its finances) works” to become obedient workers. We are to have a greater sense of independence, choice, and leadership who cares and listens to us than actually exists.
The populations (in more than one developed country) are also split between managerial class and the managed “hordes.” In this environment, it increasingly seems that one of the safest jobs is to become part of the (social services focused) managerial class; the idea to keep the pot bubbling but not boiling over and ruining the ongoing “food chain” off which the owner classes feed and hire others to work.
Financial, Intellectual or even political independence from the standard allowable deviation of an increasingly planned economy is discouraged. Obviously this paragraph is my jaundiced opinion, but I still post links to the facts on which it’s based….and discuss how I arrived at it. The next “**” just summarizes from recent posts.
**By showing links to a fairly recent example in images and quotes, as indicators. I’m not saying that’s THE only way, but it is one to become aware of.
EXAMPLE: Overlapping nonprofit affiliations: one individual may belong to two or three AND have a government connection, AND (case in point) have been already previously mentored by known AFCC members running, with likewise overlapping and cross-border membership, nonprofits to run the programs which AFCC family court judges (Judges whose membership is known) can order — in the US has been established, in the UK is I see, now desired — parents to participate. Where parents cannot afford, pro bono or legal help is sought to facilitate more facilitators in their lives… 
AFCC Ontario (reg 11-20-2009) 22 Trustees FYE Jun2018, incl Ahsbourne, Bala, ShelyPolak et al (℅ CRA-ARC.GC.CA),T3010 Reg’dCharity Info Return|SectB – Dirs:T’tees+ Like Officials (viewed 2019Oct26Sat)
[Briefly and in part only: Barbara Jo Fidler: AFCC, Families Moving Forward (“FMF” may not be an entity, but has a website and is a known program name] Overcoming Barriers, Inc. (more details below and previously shown on this blog), per his c.v. AT “FMF” mentored at least in part Jared Norton (of FMF and Riverdale Mediation) in Toronto, Ontario Canada. That c.v. mentioned among his credits a name I hadn’t heard, “Family Law In Partnership” (citing “Gillian Bishop and Felicity Shedden) minus any identifying suffix) which turned out to be a UK organization (See Post #2 for dates) which then set up a FLiP Faculty in only January 2017 after having taken the “Parent Coordination Roadshow” on the road to the UK. A few more images available on recent Twitter threads, which other posts linked to. To see the networks from the outside- in is a lot more work and effort than being ON them working with or for family lawyers or in the family courts, expanding connections once the infrastructure, generally, is in place. That’s unfair to basic comprehension of government itself, in any of (this example) the three countries involved in just a few professionals’ lives: Canada, USA, and the UK. That’s among the reasons I say it resembles RICO more than honest provision of necessary services//LGH
UK Parenting Coordination (PC) Roadshows | Riverdale Mediation (June 19, 2017) this pdf 2019Oct28<~~Link to pdf brief post on RiverdaleMediation.com from which I learned more about the FLiP connection…
Gillian Bishop, per May 22, 2018 article “Law Firm launches diploma in psychological supervision of family lawyers” (posted by Nick Hilborne in “LegalFutures: Market Intelligence for the Future of Family Law”) showing FLiP connection to Christopher Mills, Family Consultant and Psychotherapist (FLiP offering a diploma in Family Law Supervision, sounds like self-care for lawyers; she wrote a forward to his book after being a “guinea pig” for that “three years ago” (about 2015). Then Parent Coordination Training 2016 in Toronto and the Parent Coordination family law tour (Taking Mr. Norton along) in?/as written up June 2017(?), and in January 2017 (I looked up separately, FLiP Faculty Ltd. was incorporated in the UK with just 100 GP spit between three individuals and FLiP, which is “Family Law in Partnership, Ltd.” [Two-image gallery:]
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- Gillian Bishop (May 22, 2018 article) Family Law Supervision diploma (Christopher Mills, psychotherapist)
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- Gillian Bishop (as listed on FLipFaculty.org, entity inc. January 2017) (note mentions mediation, Resolution, Christopher Mills, Parenting Coordination etc.)
Read the fine print in Ms. Bishop’s qualifications as found on that new entity’s website (all “Trainers” listed alphabetically). It appears to have been formed to run just two types of trainings: Primarily Parent Coordination (see image above with 8-part) and Family Law Supervision.
Riverdale Family Mediation Services (Canada) (1 of 2 doorways into the site, the other reads “Trainings”). Here, A President, (Hilary Linton) a Partner (Elizabeth Hyde), and a Retired Ontario Judge (Clifford S. Nelson) are listed. How Found? Jared Norton (MSW 2010, of FMF’s) c.v. had many references to Riverdale Mediation, which also listed the “UK PC Roadshows” (see nearby pdf) //LGH Oct. 31, 2019
Elizabeth Hyde, as shown with all the suffixed initials at RiverdaleMediation.com Notice the emphasis on trainings. One of the entities (Mediate393.com Inc.) seems to have an “in” with the court referrals, but I have not looked up this or the other one listed here (yet).
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KNOW THAT: Where you see Parent Coordination you WILL hear “Parent Alienation” which, generally, indicates “AFCC was here…” either training, or inspiring the transnational establishment of more nonprofits to work with government and promote its ideologies, that is, social engineering through linguistic indoctrination and incrementally increasing control of finances. As AFCC is now openly working with Cafcass, differences between the two operations, while organized differently (AFCC in the US is a private non-profit, Cafcass is not) the agenda’s are blended.
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Thus, in any developed country the public pays to educate itself/themselves on both sides of the conflict and for personnel to settle the conflicts. Tax-exempt foundations “eat it up” as good for their lines of work also… being the good guys, just helping (each respective) government do its job better while rotating personnel in and out of foundation-sponsored positions to direct employment, or at times both…
THIS post’s TITLE, again:
Trouble Navigating the Pro/Con “PAS” Conflict? Pt. 2 | The Rx Remains: FIRST ID the AFCC Professionals, THEN Grill the Remaining Violence-Prevention Ones About Their Silence. Then Blow the Whistle on Both Sectors. (Published Oct. 31, 2019.) (short-link ends “-brF,” this part likely under 6,500 words).
This post has a stronger tone of voice and more of certain kinds of details (drill-downs) than its counterpart, written earlier. It has I believe more links and a stronger tone of voice, reflecting other things I’m observing having taken place in Canada, the UK (specifically in England, Scotland and Wales) and to a degree in Australia, most of which also tie into what has been going on for decades in the USA too, regarding the two-edged sword (?) of protecting children and women from abuse while sponsoring “family-based” programming and setting in place specialized family courts — versus just family “proceedings” — and seeking to dominate who runs them collectively.
A serious conversation needs to be held around this small but vocal and “ensconced in positions of power — or advising power”) entity (and its chapters) the AFCC as it pertains to the origins and conduct of the family court. Tweaking family court conduct after it’s been set up from the outside in with the likes of AFCC is a losing proposition (see frog attempting to climb out of a well. One foot up, two feet back).
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Assembling the Pieces: [1] AFCC 54th Annual Conference (2017)’s Diamond (Top) Sponsor “Avirat” (2001 MN, later -2015- in UK, product “OurFamilyWizard™”) found promoting [2] “Family Works, Inc.” (last found registered in Oregon, running “ParentingWisely™”) which probably profits ℅ royalties from [3] “Center For Divorce Education, Inc.” (Ohio Legal Domiciled Nonprofit at the same Ashland, Oregon, address, under same CEO, running “Children In Between™”) which takes Court-Ordered Parent Education Business (Out-of-State + Spanish-Speaking Parents) from [4] Cuyahoga County Ohio’s Domestic Relations Court’s “Special Circumstances, Rule 34” (1994ff).
Assembling the Pieces: [1] AFCC Conference Diamond (top) Sponsor “Avirat” (2001 MN, later in UK, product “OurFamilyWizard(™)”) found promoting [2] “Family Works, Inc.” (last found registered in Oregon, running “ParentingWisely(™)”) which probably profits ℅ royalties from [3] “Center For Divorce Education, Inc.” (Ohio Legal Domiciled Nonprofit at the same Ashland, Oregon, address, under same CEO, running “Children In Between(™) “) which takes (for Out-of-State + Spanish-Speaking Parents) Court-Ordered Parent Education Business from [4] Cuyahoga County, Ohio’s Domestic Relations Court’s “Special Circumstances, Rule 34” (1994ff). (Short-link ends “-9lB” and the middle character is a small “L” not the number “1”) This link and full title will be posted again further below. Post as published is just under 12,000 words.
(How do you think I keep my own posts straight after nine years and almost 800 of them — by total recall and three-word reminders or by placing as many clues in the title as possible to the contents resulting in outrageously long, but memorable [to me!] titles?)
Dec.12 post: https://wp.me/psBXH-9ld (scroll or page down to middle for section with colorful images on OurFamilyWizard® & AFCC’s 54th Annual (2017) Conference in Boston); Dec. 8 post: https://wp.me/psBXH-8HX
Don’t shoot the messenger. I didn’t make this mess. I’m just untangling and translating some of it.
See nearby image: My last two posts have background on this (mess) and explain why I haven’t dropped the topic yet. (Red Flag for RICO situations evident as well as a prime example of classic court-connected programming). If these two posts aren’t still showing under the widget to the right (i.e., if you’re reading this post months later, knocking them off the “Last Few [10] Posts” list), to access those two posts easily, use this blog’s “Archives” (calendar widget near top right): set it to December, 2018, and click on Dec. 11 or 7, which display on the calendar as having links. The “Most Recent Posts” widget displays dates automatically; Archives links to them automatically;I don’t know why they are one day off from each other. You can also use the links I added to the nearby image caption.
The first of these two, ‘A Substantial Background Check and History,” (posted separately Dec. 12 but written almost a year earlier and originally published then on my extensive Front (Home) Page) has a section on “Avirat” and court-mandated consumption of its digital-platform product (OFW).
The second post shown in nearby image, “The Public/Private Nor-For-Profit/For Profit…” (posted Dec. 8) focuses on the nonprofit “Center for Divorce Education” (“CDE”) as related to the presumably for-profit (NOT tax-exempt) “Family Works, Inc.” (“FWI”) being also at the same Oregon address In this dynamic duo, the nonprofit is legal-domicile Ohio and the other one, at this point, I can’t say in what form or where it still exists…).{{**}}
{{**Later, I found it (?) back in Ohio.. Searchable at the Secretary of State Business Search website}}. Its single incorporator (Don A. Gordon) and the only filings shown are: 1997, 1999, and again in April, 2018, then June 2018. I knew Ohio didn’t require annual filings — but only once every about twenty years??) Typo in Entity # corrected. Correct Entity# is “975105,” it formerly displayed “971505 .” I realize the slideshow (image gallery) format is sometimes hard to see details on, which is why I’ve also provided a link so people may repeat the search on-line themselves from the Secretary of State website, and view whichever pdf images are also available there (recommended!).//LGH Image gallery added Jan. 14; typo in FWI Ohio Business ID or Entity# corrected Jan. 16, 2019 }}
To know whether or even approximately how much revenues stream through CDE through court-mandated referrals (in many different states) to FWI, or separately to FWI directly OR through nonprofits supported by social services federal grants, or federal grants to states, one would have to also find some of those government entities accounting trail that handles those types of grants or that type of programming.
In this post, while I just picked one of many county entities that CDE apparently counts on for its business, I couldn’t even find that county’s CAFRs (comprehensive annual financial report), although the county website freely admits it’s obligated to produce them and submit to a higher authority (the “GFOA.”). It doesn’t admit, in the same paragraphs, that the public might deserve access to these or have an interest in reading them.. It sounds to me, then, that generally speaking, this topic tends to on closer look, run through a leaky circuitry whose overseers are less than interested in talking about such leaks, or plugging them, or that the public should even be aware such leaks may characterize the system overall.
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The Public/Private Not-For-Profit/For Profit “Get Your Clients To Get Them Grants To Run Your Curricula, UpLoad and Automate It” Family-Court-Connected BUSINESS PLAN Works ‘Great.’ [Just ask Jack Arbuthnot + Don A. Gordon] [Written Feb. 2018, published Dec. 7, 2018]
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ACCESS VISITATION GRANTS and UNIFIED FAMILY COURTS WITH PRESIDING JUDGES PRONE TO ORDERING PARENT EDUCATION SUPPOSEDLY HELP THE US TAXPAYERS THROUGH ENCOURAGING BETTER CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS FROM FATHERS THANKFUL TO BE MORE EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED WITH THEIR CHILDREN.
MAYBE — BUT I KNOW FOR SURE THEY HELP SPONSOR PUBLIC/PRIVATE ENTREPRENEURS LIKE THIS — AND APPARENTLY HAVE BEEN FOR DECADES.
ACCESS VISITATION GRANTS + (MANDATORY) PARENT EDUCATION DO SEEM TO PROMOTE TAX-EXEMPT INCOME, FOR LIFE – FOR SOME.
ASK JACK ARBUTHNOT** & DONALD ARCHER GORDON HOW THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT…PhD or no PhD…(in psychology).
{{*Any relation to this? Whether or not, the name seems to be Scottish: http://www.arbuthnotgroup.com/group_history.html}}
Notice the share price! What’s an unusual last name to me and so caught my attention, is not so unusual overseas I see…
Regarding this court-based referral to parenting education programming — for local cases, the referral is going to a behavioral health service provider in Ohio. This is intended for out-of-state parents or Spanish-speaking mandated parent education being handled within this county in Ohio.
POST TITLE: The Public/Private Not-For-Profit/For Profit “Get Your Clients To Get Them Grants To Run Your Curricula, UpLoad and Automate It” Family-Court-Connected BUSINESS PLAN Works ‘Great.’ [Just ask Jack Arbuthnot + Don A. Gordon] [Written Feb. 2018, published Dec. 7, 2018]. (Case-sensitive short-link ends”-8HX”. Post started Feb. 26, 2018 but screen prints taken mid-January, and I added some in the middle re: (Director P. Leslie Herold Ph.D receiving a 2011 AFCC award) as a pre-publication flourish. And the next few images + Britannica.com quote (no attempt to prove direct connection here, just looked up the somewhat unusual last name “Arbuthnot” and find this interesting). Plus, who knows, there may be some geneaology there… Some of the intro is also added.
Whoever latched onto the business model I’m blogging here clearly had some financial smarts, too… and possibly smarts enough to figure out it wouldn’t be figured out by most of the forced-consumption-of-services parents feeding its revenues as a routine process of approaching domestic relations courts for justice or any form of help with divorce or custody issues. I believe if more had figured it out, more would certainly be talking about it and demand better accountability from those courts — instead of better and more training for judges to recognize either fathers’ rights or a real batterer and dangerous parent when they run across them.
(NB: A Cleveland JUDGE recently did only nine months for viciously beating his wife (reconstructive surgery was involved and needless to say, they became “estranged”), in front of two children in a car, was then hired by local on getting out and since stands accused of having stabbed her to death not long ago, per accounts on Twitter. She’s dead, he’s going to be busy for a while, effectively two more traumatized “fatherless” orphans for the system…or his or her relatives.. Articles show just how many people were aware of his behavior and let it slide…) In The Slate, Molly Olmstead, Nov. 19, 2018. His name is Lance Mason:
Former Cleveland Judge Hired by City after Violently Beating His Wife is Now Arrested for her Murder
Former Cleveland Judge Hired by City after Violently Beating His Wife is Now Arrested for her Murder See internal links for more background on rationalization, “give the guy another chance” and who favored hiring him for another government job after getting out of jail early for the first VICIOUS assault.
Former Cleveland Judge Hired by City after Violently Beating His Wife is Now Arrested for her Murder See internal links for more background.
Is lack of judicial training really the issue there and overall? (Or fatherlessness?). How could the wife have gotten along better with THAT? Suppose he hadn’t killed her — then they’d be co-parenting? Ordered to co-parenting education classes locally?
FYI, of interest, only “Arbuthnot.” Arbuthnot Group History (1833-2013)
FYI, of interest, only “Arbuthnot.” Arbuthnot Group History (1833-2013)
(John Arbuthnot, 1667 (Scotland) – 1735 (London, England) Scottish mathematician, physician and occasional (satirical) author, per Britannica.com):
**My, we’ve come a long way since then…to divorce mediator, developmental and social psychologist, Ohio University psychology professor emeritus and trainer of domestic relations judges ((see next image with the real Dr. Jack and Dr. Don self-description on the company website):
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I’ve also tweeted in recent months about the involvement of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (where you’ll find Cleveland), in this routine. Just FYI, I got there from following through with a strange new comic-book-style graphic showing (still) on the California Judiciary Council website which just happened to have been contracted out to (or designed by) a Canadian charity.
Evidently the business plan works well.
The main problem I have with it is that it just seems wrong morally, ethically, and logistically.
The Center for Divorce Education website, Don A. Gordon bio blurb.
The Center for Divorce Education is the nonprofit. It’s legal domicile OHIO but entity address OREGON (“Go figure,” but that’s hardly news when dealing with family court-based business referrals) while featuring on-line delivery of product. I have no idea whether it’s only being pushed through judicial “special proceedings” mandate in Ohio, but doubt it. With the existing networks, it could easily be in other states too — I just happened to run across it there after finding a book by this man being promoted in California…
Family Works, Inc. offering to coach others (agencies, which could include other nonprofits running health & human services programming) to get public funding to run its “Parenting Wisely” program. Family Works CEO being Donald A. Gordon.
This would seem to be (or have been) the associated “for-profit.” Some of the coaching involves how to get grants to better help Dr. Gordon with his retirement(? just a guess) income or at least significant life interests in sharing his parenting wisdom more widely.
Who can find whether Family Works, Inc. is now registered in some other state, or exists as a trade name of a professional provider, or just doesn’t exist — but several hundred thousand dollars of royalties — each year — are allegedly going to it anyhow? I haven’t yet. I just know where it isn’t..
How often, and in how many instances should volunteer bloggers and family court concerned citizens have to look up such things? The nonprofit, so says its return (links and images provided below) was incorporated back in 1987.
How long are we going to NOT be talking about such business models and things like public-funded distribution networks supported by the public parent-by-parent AND collectively? This dyad (the two entities) or if you bring in the judge who ruled it into place in 1994, triad, or if you also consider the federal funds increased nationally (1996), we seem to have a solid, four-point foundation for the practice. Then there are the promoters (salesforce) — other associations, researchers (someone has to have SOME basis for pushing the programming — fatherlessness and public debt burden seems to work well) and so forth…
Seems like a prototype — probably not the first and certainly not the only one. Let me know if this example communicates, either in the comments fields, or on Twitter (all published posts are automatically tweeted by this WordPress blog).
Case in point here — two corporations. One of them, “Center for Divorce Education, Inc.” only has been located as a still active, though strangely organized, nonprofit; the other, probably the one receiving most of the royalties listed as expense of doing business for the nonprofit, is a for-profit “Family Works, Inc.“ (while doing my routine “locate the company before blogging it” I just found out), it seems isn’t –at least under that business name in that address — legal, and wasn’t showing that street address (now visible on-line) as legally associated with the name before 2016, although to read the website, you’d think it’d been around since 2002 or before.
{Section in light-blue background, dark-red border, and between horizontal lines just below marks commentary and any images Dec. 2018 just before publishing this post. The material clarifies some terms and the reference to “Grants” in the post title. Some sarcasm and astonishment at how rare this information hits social media crept in but iI believe is highly appropriate.}
I’ve been around this block enough times (meaning..) (and wish more others also had) to say, this same “not-for-profit/for-profit” –– “Whoops! It WAS here, now where is it (registered legally)?” seems to be a normal part of the business plan also. Another way to describe it (Disclaimer: NOT legal advice: I’m neither a CPA (yet; thinking about it just to get some Qs answered) or an Attorney (no way!), which makes this personal opinion) is doing a good imitation of basic income tax evasion tactics to one’s business plan — while “where’d that money go” when so closely connected to public institutions like family courts, is a question that DEMANDS answers. Hiding it is hardly in the public interest…
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December 7, 2018 at 6:21 pm
Posted in 1996 TANF PRWORA (cat. added 11/2011)
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