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Finding a Firm Place to Stand, Prying Loose Violence and Abuse

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Note on display:  Twice, I painstakingly went through and re-inserted the paragraph breaks in this post, and saved the revisions.  I do not know why they aren’t all displaying anymore, so presume only the most curious readers will wade through the nonparagraphed texts.  I did not (waders will find this quickly) correct all typos.  I am talking about how to THINK about the issues in family court and deal with them.  They become greater, often, than the issues which brought a family there to start with, and generally result in impoverishment of one or more spouses in the process, which then becomes an ongoing issue for the duration of the case.  
Although the label on the door speaks ‘reconciliation” “mediation” “family” and “negotiation” “parenting” and all kinds of good fuzzy words, the fact is it is a form of warfare.  First, between the parents, and second, upon the parents, and their rights and of course their wealth. I have been in this system many years as have other mothers I know.  Stamina is always an issue, and attitude even more so.  What I am interested most in, though, is angle of approach and reducing personal frustration by refusing to hold to myths which have proven to be myths, and arguing points that, though they shouldn’t be, are truly “moot.”  
I finally got out of my abusive violent marriage, and good thing, when I found a place to stand and vocabulary to describe the situation.  Then I had to experientially understand that something else was possible.  I had to believe that other ways to exist would open up, even if I didn’t yet know what they were, but the one firm decision was, this was NOT the way I was going to spend XX more time, no matter how murky the exit seemed.
I would like to leave a bridge for others and tell them where the U-turns and dead ends are, like a scout.  This would be best done before both my children have “aged out” of the system (one almost has).  Part of that process is chosing the right place to stand in looking at it.
ALMOST NONE of the evaluations of the family law system, or recommendations to reform it, deal with the issue of child support, although certainly both mothers (and mothers’ groups) and fathers (and fathers’ groups) complain loudly about unfair support orders, or unpaid ones.  That seems foolish to me.  While many others talk about the professionals in the courts, and complaints and versions of them, very few talk about the entire SYSTEM of this, or the HISTORY of this.  So in order to understand a thing, one must step OUTSIDE and look further, after the “full-immersion” version of what’s in there.  I was shocked, and am shocked, to find a trail leading back to places like Washington, D.C., Denver Colorado (in an upcoming post) and places like Minnesota, or Texas, in explaing what the heck is going on in California.  Or for that matter, on other continents.  Failure to understand this is silly, given globalization and the internet, however typically this is about how it goes on the local level.  
When I walked into some domestic violence family law places many years ago to try and get a handle on the violence that was ongoing and becoming more frequent, more frightening, more destructive (to work, relationships, income), and I was concerned also about whether it would turn deadly, the business of the day was bonding with other women, hearing their stories, learning I was NOT alone or without resources to change something, and learning the vocabulary.  While this is normal (and part of abuse is generally being talked AT and down TO, not conversed WITH, so this experience was important and validating), what I did not do at that time was question what this center was doing, who was running it, who had conflict of interest with whom, and why we were headed into the family law system when I had felony level domestic violence going on at home?  Why weren’t these people showing us how to deal with police?  
One time during an incident, they even SENT police (when I called to try to avoid an attack that was building up and couldn’t get out), but why wasn’t the difference between criminal and civil explained, that I recall?
Now these organizations have “morphed” also, which is another topic.
Meanwhile, this post “morphed” into two topics, and then I started reflecting, which makes three:  
So please bear with the initial posting, and then in a bit I will cut the pie into appropriate, more digestible pieces.  
I used to, more often, wonder about what happened to this statement, in the family law system’s communal “head” and reasoning.
It’s already been voted into law  I believe this statement to be true, experientially:

http://www.sddvc.com/pdf/2008finalwithsignatures.pdf
This is out of San Diego: Law Enforcement Protocol:

The California State Legislature has declared that:

(1) “[S]pousal abusers present a clear and present danger to the mental and
physical well-being of the citizens of the State of California.” (California
Penal Code section 273.8.)

(2) “A substantial body of research demonstrates a strong connection between
Domestic Violence and Child Abuse.” (California Penal Code section
13732(a)). 

So the next question is, “What are YOU going to do about it?” (when in court).
Or, “What can I do about it, when this is my family?”
Or, “What can I do about it, when this is my friend, or my community, or . . . . . . “
Or, if one is exceptionally social-minded or moved by this:  What can I do about this?”  PERIOD.
My approach, until I learned, experientially, the next truth, was this(same document):

“The decision to prosecute a batterer lies within the discretion of the District Attorney
and the City Attorney. Victims do not “press charges”, “drop charges” or
“prosecute” their batterers.

Ay, there’s the rub.  So, they go get civil or family court restraining orders, which are less respected.  Or, they go to their family, friends, faith institution, etc.  Then they find out what their:  family, friends, faith institution, etc., are about.  And the years go by, the kids grow up. . .  . . . 


Ay, there’s the rub.**  So, they go get civil or family court restraining orders, which are less respected.  Or, they go to their family, friends, faith institution, etc.  Then they find out what their:  family, friends, faith institution, etc., are about.  And the years go by, the kids grow up. . .  . . . 


**”To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub”  

Origin From the celebrated ‘to be, or not to be‘ speech in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, 1603:

HAMLET:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
 To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;

 

When there is a clear and present danger, one (which one?  ONE!  We.  I, you, the mother, the wife, the father, the neighbor, the society, although I’m not into communal society dreaming a single particular dream. . . . . It runs to abuse . . .. . Who interprets the dreams?  WHo dreams them, the king?  Do we have a king in this country?  Ostensibly no, but our behaviors don’t always indicate this belief, no matter who’s currently in office), one cannot afford to dream.
But in “Family court matters” we are told to, as parents, or have our head examined by the local shrink more familiar with the dream.
I’m burnt out on all the propaganda in this field, let alone being preached AT from multiple quarters.  The beginning of any school year, which for a former teacher, and former mother with kids in the house, and former musician/performer, is often a tough time emotionally.  
So I’d say a WHOLE lot of this system is itself a “moot point” and intentionally so.  It’s not what it pretends itself to be, and don’t you tell me this is because judges jsut don’t “understand” the domestics of domestic violence.  They understand the power dynamic JUST FINE and are part of it.
Well, THIS post will have to be revamped for sure tomorrow morning!  What a day!
1.  Moot points and
2.  Paradigms as tools to pry loose from a confining world view that leaves one trapped in useless dialogue.
 And now here is
3.  Reflections, descriptions.
Just to be ornery, let’s do this in reverse order:

3.  How it feels (reflect, describe, (OK, complain)):

(I also have spliced in some reflection and reaction (personal).  Well, I will sort this thought laundry after it’s been rinsed, spun and dried. The situation arises today because I’m simply tired of a lifestyle of seeking funding, seeking grants, seeking ways to make a dysfunctional system function (it’s not “dysfunctional from certain points of view) and weighing that alternative with the prospects of launching a proper civil suit to demand damages for torts, or access funds due people in my situation, it’s called “victims of crime” funding, but they are working on shuffling this into the domestic violence shelters, supposedly), OR simply getting through another day when life is racing by, with no way to access and have reasonable contact with either daughter?  What would I do?  Bring one of them along for a grants application, or have them sit by while I fill out legal paperwork against their current caretakers?  Not hardly! I no longer associate with the former professionals, or have even funds for a museum trip.  Show them how to ask a stranger for bus fare?  This gets old after a while, particularly processing so many alternatives.  I need to pray).
I have about five decades of life under my belt, and now two-fifths of these dealing with a singular issue — family violence, and leaving it.  And approximately four and a half of these inhaling and exhaling music, for which I no longer even have an appetite, which is bothersome if you’ve lived and breathed this mode of living for such along time.
Of the approximately two-fifths of these decades dealing with the family violence issue, up until three years ago, my sole focus, intent, and drive was 3-fold:  
1.  set boundaries, and defend them so I could adequately
2.  Get both daughters a reasonable education without so much stress and melodrama (because the fight was over this, within the family)i.e., get them back into the arts and off to colleges on scholarships.  Literally the only way to do this as a single mother and with such limited funds, was homeschooling, which had just been stopped, or an alternate variety of the public school which gave them (and me) time to do the arts through independent study, or collaborative agreements with (by their ages now this was available) a local community college.  We got 2 weeks only into this in summer 2006, anda the girls were literally stolen by his father and a girlfriend from my custody on an overnight visitation, sending into chaos 1, 2, and this:  
3.  Regaining financial self-sufficiency and some decent STABLE relationships (or, barring that, at least income) by engaging in:  piano, choir and voice — which was what most of my life had been about, apart from being a mother and leaving abuse.

I believe it’s quite understandable why I don’t feel like taking up with a male for either sex, warmth, shared housing, or simple companionship before feeling literally, safe in my own skin, house, and profession.  For one, it’s outside of my personal beliefs to sleep around, and part of this is practical. I do not want to engage in another relationship without the financial capacity to leave should it turn the same direction again.  PERIOD.  And, I don’t want to engage in a relationship with a needy male who can’t pull his own weight and needs a woman to do so, or to help punish and ex, which is the type of person my ex made a beeline for in his second live-in relationship.
The question, who ARE you continues to come up, when the usual definitions don’t do, and this is an issue women constantly face as they go through life.  When the trip through family court adds to the turmoil with stigmatizing labeling, psychologizing and theologizing about who a woman is because she has personal limits on abuse and (________ deleted), it takes strength to redefine where one stands.
Which brings up the issue of, if you’re that strong, what does one “need” a partner for, as most of us do want to be wanted.  Sex?  Money/  Someone who knows you over time to eat a meal with on a regular basis, and some conversation (I’m strongly tending towards the latter)?  Someone to have some fun (and intimacy) with?  Yep.  So, then which religion do we throw out, eh?
 
I have always known that I was able to relate solitary (as to the art and work, nature, writing, etc.) BUT also in social groupings and communities was necessary, including individual friendships and relationships.  My family was nothing of this to me, they went through the routines, and in fact the only one whose conversations hold much weight with me at this point is actually my father, who has been gone 26 years.  At least he had a sense of humor, all I get from the surviving relatives is dogma, and bitterness, now that I surfaced as individual AND mother, and serious about both.  Like I said, i was tolerated to the extent I forked over the futures of two children I gave birth to, and the less complaint, the better.  That concept was disgusting to start with, and how it happened, worse.  How much more important values can a mother transmit to her daughters than that it’s unacceptable for any man to assault a woman, let alone a pregnant one, and that they are NOT commodities, but individuals?  That the laws of this land exist to protect them (actually false at this point, they are “moot” in practice) and that RIGHT is in this direction and WRONG is in that direction.  That true is true and false is false when it comes to certain facts, and that these matter?  That the sky, not the gutter, is the limit for them in all categories of life, and this includes demanding no double standards in work, in marriage, in life, and in schooling.  IN communication and anywhere else.
And that it is of CRITICAL importance to call that event what it was, several years ago, and a travesty and misfiring of the justice system, and a coverup of a felony action, covered up because it was committed against a female, not a male.  In the long arch of life, these are important.  
As is choice of college.
As I’m running out of years, and options (and have run out of funds) and have hammered away at the problem of ethics, illogic, and troubling immorality within, in order:  marriage, family, faith institutions, and ever expanding circles, including legal, family court, child support, and finally (how much further up can one go?) the U.S. Federal Government, and how it’s put together, apparently, I struggle between investing in another income initiative (knowing what this brings on from the family) and going for legal enforcement of some right (knowing how corrupt THAT system is) and continually calculating the odds.
Over the years, and as a female, I was naturally taught to seek help, collaborate and cooperate in this matter of throwing out a man that was dangerous, and maintaining a safe, but kindly access to my kids’ father, and yet also asserting –and REbuilding, really — a personal integrity and identity as mother, and professional.  
After multiple betrayals, and eventually, watching my  non-immoral, non-narcissistic, employed, tax-paying, non-law-rejecting supportive friends and colleagues (many of them also parents) vicariously, through this support, worn out, drained, and finally need to distance themselves to protect their OWN livelihoods and personal time, what remains instead is the toxic relationship with the ex-parent, and a continual need to replenish income and social contacts, however there is little common experience on which to make them.  
Meanwhile, whether with children or (criminally, was how this happened) absent children,  I was seeking simple law enforcement, asserting a right to reach financial independence in any legal moral way I saw fit, not in the politically correct to relatives and ex manner. I wanted control of my own infrastructure, and I wanted EVERYONE out of my personal turf that had no legal business there and no right to be there.  Boy, THAT was a war!  
How suspicious this is to our society in general.  Can’t a woman get a little peace?  My “liberal” relatives had a snit fit over me, without a resident male in the household, even though the resident male was, literally tearing up the place, and at times, portions of my face.  In front of our children, too.  What’s liberal about THAT?
I have been literally ordered to give my relatives what they wanted, and shut up about it afterwards — make the court orders, ALL of them “moot points,” prostrate myself and fork over all major decisions about life income and their schooling.  They wanted MY KIDS, through the father, who at one time tried to offer his custody rights to these people in order to follow through in a prior personal threat to do this, solitary confinement for the sin of standing up!
In that sense, yes, it was “about the kids,” but when it gets to suppressing facts, lying, and breaking laws, it’s not about any children but about ego.  How dare these folks use me as a surrogate mother to compensate for a prior elective choice, irreversible past menopause, to not have children?  And break laws, intentionally ignore and dismiss domestic violence, and felony child-stealing, all kinds of bribery, manipulation and extortion, and serious character defects in the father (such as failure to support even himself, let sufficient work to also help support them) in order to get their way?  
How dare my daughters be used for social, emotional props from a religious group that tolerates wife abuse?  But they are.  How DARE their distress fund the legal systems in two counties — but it does.

2.  Paradigms, Tools to Pry Loose, Places to stand and the Lever of Language

Well, there are a lot of fish in the sea, tne the ones that don’t travel in schools that dart too and fro as athey are told to, and with each changing current, are the somewhat smaller groups of predators with teeth.  So, I guess the task at hand is to figure out where the “teeth” are in this life.  And where is the MOST relevant truth at any individual point in time.  Where is the place to stand to move the system, or at least pull up the heavy stage drapes revealing the scaffolding, the catwalks, the prompters, and the actors without their stage makeup on.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
So, the first rule in depth perception is using both eyes — 2 Points of View.
For someone totally immersed, the first key is another set of experiences, a paradigm or language tools with which to Uproot Abuse and expose its roots.  Hint:  If one way fails, perhaps you have the wrong tools, and/or are standing in the wrong place.
(Where I’m eventually going with this is the money trail in the courts. . . . .. we won’t get there today….)
The reason I KNOW this is both the man who knocked my teeth loose
(for adjusting the volume on the radio from  earsplitting loud, at the wrong time)
AND
my family of origin
AND
it’s obvious by now the family law system (cf. grants to courts for “Access/Visitation” being administered by OCSE,
office of Child Support Enforcement.  There’s not even an attempt to conceal this on the websites)

2A.  Dude, it’s about the money.  That’s the paradigm to understand in understanding the family law system.  This means child support and federal grants have to be examined as well, as well as job referrals, and private conflicts of interest among professionals on the same case.

They all know it’s about the money.  So why do we all go into court and pretend it’s about the laws, REALLY?  It ain’t.  What is that, a courtly dance?  Pirouettes, music, and all?  And to half the people involved, at least, who can REALLY believe any more it’s about the kids – good grief!  (see my last post).  They themselves are growing up and saying they’re TIRED of being used in this manner.  They grow up suffering all kinds of problems later, and then support other underground economies, like DRUGS.  Then the fatherhood groups say this is because there’s a lack of father involvement.  The fact is, the converse might be true — abusive Dads were KEPT in relationships too long. And while aspects of the system might be responsible for excessive jailing of African-American men, and men more than women, that’s not the woman’s fault when a child is at stake!

You know what some women I’m aware of got jailed for?  Primarily,  failure to pay child support, and taking their kids to prevent child molestation after it’s already happened.  There’s a woman in southern California without contact with her kid.  She says she found him pimping himself on the internet and contacted him (with an RO in place) to say STOP DOING THAT!  She was threatened with jail for breaking a no contact order.  Was anyone else concerned about a young man pimping himself on the internet to get away from an abusive Dad?  There are all kinds of horror stories, and they are not just stories, either.

2B.  Anything that is obviously, over time, a moot point, then this is not the reigning paradigm, even if you wish it were or thought it should be.  Another one is actually primary.  is the goal to change the system or win your case

(and which first?  Because one timeframe is shorter than the other.  This is where many organizations, with a cash flow, employees, business offices, and a little momentum, have a different world view than mothers, who have fast-growing children and fast-changing situations personally.)


MOOT POINTS:  
When I was married, pretty much every thing was a “moot point” but what “mood” someone was in.  It didn’t take too long to figure this out, but what to do about it was definitely a work in progress, and required my adjusting my concepts of both marriage, self, relationships, and (most importantly) PRIORITIES until I came to the conclusion that OUT was BEST.  

I have been questioning recently why I bother to blog.  Will it change anything?  Does it make someone feel better or give a person hope or more tools to make sense of their situation?  Does it help record these “stolen” years?  I blog, therefore I am?  Is it as much a contribution to society as my former practice, teaching kids, youth, and adults to SING, which I know was empowering and helpful to society.  It was another “paradigm” for many of them, to hear what they could do, especially ensemble. And there is some terrifically beautiful and inspiring choral music out there; one can draw from different centuries and DEFINITELy different cultures. ANd build a skill, some discipline, some good times in the process also.  What a great profession!

On the other hand, in the years behind me is a trail of court actions pronouncing one thing or another, after which I’ve been dumped by the roadside of life, having fulfilled my civic duty:  Surrogate mother (as to our family line) and Family Court Client (as to the last many years).  Before then in life, tuition has been paid through two sets of bachelor’s degrees, and our difficult divorce has justified (supposedly) the existence of several court-related and many nonprofit institutions, none of which (from MY standpoint) have fulfilled their assigned purposes, as judged by what the titles proclaim they do.  For example, “Child Support Enforcement” “Restraining Order” “Custody Order” and “visitatin/vacation” schedule.  All became “moot points” in our case history.  So as far as “giving at the office,” I’ve done my part in life.
The collateral of THESE becoming “moot points” is that my work history and efforts have become JUST as “moot..  I would get jobs, only to lose them around the above.  And then  be targeted for further ridicule from my own family who were both the source of many of the job losses and (my mother) of some of the help to recover from them, since my local government determined not to enforce its own laws when a mother & woman was concerned.  Go figure THAT one out.
Now we are to start again, but the situation has not been closed, and moreover, more cooks are involved, within my own family.  The second chapter of leaving abuse is leaving the family of origin, or the abuser’s associates’ influence. 
So, I have been bounced out of the paradigm of getting and maintaining and income, and investing some planning in doing so, into the paradigm of navigating either the government bureaucracy of welfare, being insulted that the same government drove me and my kids back there, from a different segment, OR (as my ex either does, or simply exists under the radar; which isn’t clear yet) trying to go “off the grid,” OR, getting back into the arena.  
What happens with wrong paradigm?  You lose! A lot.
Oh, by the way, did I mention that, barring repentance, a new character implant, or true reformation, or actual, actual inner spiritual awakening (not just the kind that gets probation vs incarceration, or that wins the heart of a gullible vulnerable female), “conciliation” isn’t really the reigning paradigm in the family law courts.  OSTENSIBLY it is, but in practice and practice shows intent, it ain’t.
While I was operating under the (illusion, I say) paradigm of LAW vs. Enforcement/compliance, etc., and with the vocabulary I learned post-separation to describe this abuse — because without a tool for the mind, the words, one is hard put to dig, pry, or loosen a situation, to objectify it and decide what to do with it, the people on the other side of the court motion, including one unrepentant woman-batterer, were using the pretense of negotiation to enforce ultimatums, point by point, on my life that no court order warranted.  And while the courts and police exist to handle this, it was not practically possible once the downward slide got going with some speed.  And the first thing that slid away was jobs. and with them relationships and sources of referral for more work (i was self-employed in the profession as many if not most classical/teaching musicians are)
So  WORDS ARE CRUCIAL, just as words justified abuse and oppression in marriage — the wider picture was the rapids ahead — family law, instead used the exact opposite paradigm  the paradigm of pathologizing conflict and reuniting family.   The paradigm of Big Brother (and his other relatives) as “doctor” and anyone that comes through the doors as little children needing coaching for their “squabbles.”  It was the paradigm of “Reunification” for the good of society.  Only much, much later did I learn of the paradigm of the social crisis of “fatherlessness.”
Words alone are not indicators; when they are only as good as their context and who is speaking.  So listening to content only is a literal, Western-minded, linear type of thinking that just don’t work in the jungle.  One has to listen differently than one was taught to in school and in other areas where tuning out the static and background noise would actually be functional.   Again, abusers and people whose intent is to dominate, not reason together, listen and observe in this manner also.  This listening goes on outside the courtroom, and in fact outside the courtroom is often MORE relevant, and INSIDE, while the arena whre a judge signs and order, is a very, very small portion of time in the life of a lawsuit.
WORDS.  So, enter “cognitive dissonance” the first time it hits you, and a lot of water (time) under the bridge dealing with it emotionally.  THAT is the point of the game . . . . .   like a spider injects toxin into its prey, to numb it, or a lion roars, or sometimes headlights can blind a deer.  The point is the fascination that freezes the prey.  The TALK is the toxin.
So for some years and months, and to different entitites, I kept talking law, rules, safety, and “get real!”, while this system kept talking different words, but they were only smokescreen words.  I had already (the year prior) translated the family “talk” sufficiently to act on it.  I deciphered that they rejected the analogy of domestic violence (not to mention the restraining order then in place, also) and I acted accordingly, and went about my won business.  Problem?  Hadn’t fully analyzed the situation yet, how adversarial indeed it was, and what was at stake, namely total control of my daughters.  
To take the words coming through the family law system at face value is to deal with the pawns, not the bishops, knights, rooks, or kings and queens in the game, which have different powers, patterns of movement and move (except the king) further and faster, although if you get the ponderous king stuck between a pawn and a knight, it’s still check-mate.
So, there are two paradigms and two languages in effect; one is public (glitter and sham) and the other is private, and that IS the money and professional affiliations involved.  That IS the business of the court, literally, and it is interlaced with the business of government, and the total transformation of society into basically, I’d summarize it, basically back to a feudal system.  The Court, The Courtiers, the Courtesans (of course) and the subjects.  Fealty counts.  Betrayal of secrets is punished harshly, as individuals suffer when attempting to individually break a family code that tolerates almost anything WITHIN its ranks, but not disloyalty to “outsiders.”  To them, this is “good.”  TO those who disapprove of the family cult or clan, it is “bad.”  There you have it.

2C.  GENGHIS KHAN:  Who was he?  Who was his army?  How did they conquer so much territory?

That’s a lot of territory. Now, it’s less geography, populations.  Technology and using language to transform beliefs.
The Devil’s Horsemen:

“The Devil’s Horsemen.”

 

The conquering Mongols were most feared by their victims as “the devil’s horsemen” who carried everything before them and left nothing behind.” (Genghis Khan & the Mongol Conquests, 1190-1400 [page 8]) The “invincible” Mongolian Army faced little opposition, physical, nor mental, until they began campaigning in areas outside of the steppe regions.

. . . 

The first problem that the Mongols and their current leader Genghis Khan overcame, was the complex planning needed in order for them to defeat their more organized, and better equipped foes. “New military technologies therefore had to be learned and relearned

. . . 

At Xiangyang in 1272 Khubilai Khan was forced to send to his kinsmen in the west for counterweight trebuchets, the latest thing in siege catapults, to breach its walls.” (Genghis Khan & the Mongol Conquests, 1190-1400 [page 9]) The need for a more strategic way of fighting allowed the Mongols to evolve. Without that evolution, the Mongols would never have been able to stand up to their well-trained, well-organized enemies. This extraordinary skill to adapt, and thus survive, helped the Mongols not only in the physical aspects of warfare, but the psychological. Becoming an enemy that has the ability to adapt and thrive in any situation and on any terrain earned the Mongols the title of “the Devil’s horsemen”.

Application:
When you begin studying grants, particularly as to “Domestic VIolence Coalitions” and “Healthy Marriage Coalitions” as I have, you’ll see the heavy upfront investments in INFORMATION DISSEMINATION and “Technical Support” infrastructures.  Money to shelters may be cut back, but not discretionary grants to preventative organizations that confer, publish, conference, and advise — no sirree!  
This is the “technology” of our age.  Backed up, though is the reputation of terror.  This system can literally terrorize, tear up, traumatize, and restructure a family at will.  As Ghenghis Khan united warring tribes, after establishing his reputation, I can trace (and others have) how certain organizations (nonprofits / for-profits) have positioned themselves as “experts” in several fields and united, dominated the conversations in these fields for decades.  As I like to say, “before you got up for breakfast.”
Whereas formerly these fields supposedly (and probably) were separated:  “Father’s Rights’ (i.e., anti-feminist), Violence Against women (i.e., feminist, meaning, we’re human beings with equal rights, not baby-producers or upstart rebels), and Child Protection Services (I can’t say whether these groups ever performed the function, and I haven’t studied them as much) they now pride themselves on collaborating.
The “technology” of our time is the internet and information, but it is indeed backed up by police force to incarcerate — OR, to release from prison some thug that is GOING to kill or terrorize again.  Toms River, Minnesota, California, Nevada, you name it, it happens.  

The Mongols

by antonio2godoy</a>” href=”http://socyberty.com/author/antonio2godoy/” mce_href=”http://socyberty.com/author/antonio2godoy/”>antonio2godoy in History, March 29, 2009

This is an a little description of what the Mongols were like under Genghis Khan’s rule.

(I put it in very fine print, because it’s not central to this post, just related:)

The Mongols were amazing herders and horse back riders. Within time they dominated China and Eastern Europe. Who would have envisioned that these nomads, herders that relied on animal and natural resources for survival, would reign over a great deal of territory belonging to the Chinese and Eastern Europeans?! But with the leadership of Genghis Khan, the Mongols conquered all who opposed them and ruled with an iron fist earning a reputation for extreme cruelty. Then, after a hundred years the Mongol empire disappeared. After reading this you’ll learn how the Mongols put effective leadership first and then effectively manage it with discipline.

 

. . . Genghis Khan changed his name from Temujin after numerous victories. Temujin was born in 1162 and was part of the Kiyad tribe close to the Burhan Khaldun Mountains. He had three younger brothers and his father, Yesugei, was the tribe leader. Yesugei arranged Khan’s marriage to Borte at a young age. Yesugei was poisoned at a dinner of a neighboring tribe. Although Temujin was next in line, he still had to prove that he was the strongest to before he can lead over the tribe. At the young age of 13 he killed his brother while hunting. Age 17 Temujin married Borte and united two tribes. Borte was then kidnapped by an enemy tribe. Legend says that Timujin sent an army of 40,000 to rescue his wife which may have led him to his destiny. After Temujin conquered and united numerous tribes, as well Mongolia his name was well known throughout the land as Genghis Khan, Ruler of the world.

 

{{establish dominance.  A “name” is very important to leadership}}

 

Many historians consider Khan ahead of his time because his army was well structured, trained and equipped. He organized his 80,000 soldiers into divisions of 10,000, with 1000 in each regiment, 100 in each company and 10 in a squad. In 1206 all of Mongolia was conquered. {{HE WAS 44 years old}} 

Khan made all of his soldiers from different tribes pledge loyalty to him. He won his victories with his skilled horse warriors and archers. He required his soldiers to wear light leather and metal tunics with protective silk undergarments. Khan also made sure his soldiers had enough equipment like 2 bows, a quiver of 60 arrows, scimitar, and attached 5 horses. His soldiers also carried useful tools such as meat pots, needle and thread and objects to sharpen arrows.

 

Khan controlled his people by a code of law he created called the Yasa. These laws were extremely cruel and harsh. The death penalty was a sentence for many offenses including stealing, cheating on your spouse, {{interesting, eh?}} resigning from combat in the middle of a battle, not paying taxes three times and even peeing in public water routes

 

Genghis never taxed the outside land he conquered. He let defeated kingdoms live as they liked, which gave people the choice of religion, and to live with their custom laws and celebrations.

 

((Therefore not provoking their rebellion.))


Another place to stand to move the world.

When I finally Decided to Leave / Moot Points.

The final decision to get OUT came when I experienced two full weeks (not just one, as I had an earlier time in the marriage) actually free from his abuse and threats, for the most part, and still fully functional in my beloved profession of music.  This was WITH little girls (stilll, then) in attendance.  I was amazed at the experience of being talked to, working, and interacting with people for several days in a row with no trauma, and no likelihood of imminent trauma, geographically near.  
Then I returned, and experienced the response to my having been “allowed” out of this man’s control for the first 2 weeks (that I recall) in almost 10 years.  Literally.  There were no other such 2 weeks.  
To “pay” for this, all my belongings were thrown out of the bedroom I was then living in, and my ex ensconced himself IN, putting locks on the door, and again, I was (since not working) reduced to hoping or asking for a $1.oo or perhaps $2.00 for the day, with small children to care for, and I do not recall if an operational car at this time.  Yes, I did, but cars still need gas to go anywhere.  I specifically remember shamelessly, if he forgot to close the door all the way, going through his pants pockets for spare change.  This is a while back, but as I recall there was no bank account and no income — the last full-time apparently had so threatened the guy that another man was brought into the home to try & persuade me to turn all income over to my husband shut down my bank account.  Alternately, I could quit my job.
 This was discussed in front of me AND two growing daughters, as if I were not even there.  We are talking a woman in her 40s, and in an urban California area.
Because I now had, experientially, not just theoretically (BIG difference!) 2 points of view, back to back, this highlit the situation.  The guy was indeed right to be extremely threatened by letting us out from underneath his thumb for a few weeks, because witnessing his retaliation to this, DID indeed tip the scale between fear of action and inaction.  I was disgusted enough and wanted the better way of living ENOUGh, to get out.  
When others got out:
In another blog here, I mention a woman who was held captive to her father for many years, and had to bear children for him.  She was able to report WHEN SHE KNEW HER KIDS WERE SAFE.  “Alyssa” a.k.a. Jaycee Dugard, who also fathered two children for HER kidnapper/rapist (though not her own father) was also able to get free finally, when she was in one room, and her captor/father of her daughters (Phillip Garrido) in another room, both with law enforcement there.  I don’t know all the details, but I bet that Mr. Phillip was NOT in the room during the conversations with Ms. Alyssa when the truth came out.  
Another woman, that Phyllis Chesler connected with the Dugard case, and that I also mentioned on-line, had been kept captive in a BOX 23 hours a day for years, until she was allowed out and graduate to family slave.  She’d been told that a group called ‘the Company” would come and cut off her fingers, or do horrible things to her family, if she rebelled or left.  (Incidentally, I consider stalking and other threats, along these lines, basically, this is a form of control and intimidation to force compliance).
One day the other woman got tired of the same man’s betrayal and mistreatment, and she told the captive that there was no “Company.”  The person then got on a bus and went home.  She’d been captive for YEARS.
When an individual parent exhibits this amount of control over contact with the other parent, and child abuse or domestic violence has not been identified as a cause, the court would be RIGHT to switch custody.  However, instead they tend to do it in the opposite situation after it HAS been identified, and sometimes even on the record, with evidence, etc..
What is happening in the court system, my friends (and enemies) is that mothers, morally, cannot get out, because their kids are going into unsafe situations.  In this scenario, they have a choice of abandoning their own kids under basic threat to hurt them MORE to save themselves, or staying in the fight, and passing off the drama and drain to society.  
Therefore, the family law forum, and the systems that resonate to its drumbeat (or vice versa, it’s a synergy!) is practically a foolproof business model. While there is SOME attrition — some people will escalate, and annihilate one or more family member, but even then the survivor and the paternal grandparents or maternal can duke it out around who gets the kids and how.  Meanwhile, new kids and new divorces/separations are happening weekly, monthly, year after year.  
Other “attrition” could be considered when parents actually do settle out of court and do NOT escalate to high-conflict (a misnomer) and/or violent custody battles.  To the parents, this is good.  To business, it’s not, really.  Hence, putting a child into the hands of the wrong parent guarantees they will come back, and back, and back, until some or both are destitute or dead, or simply cannot handle it any more (my current situation is 2 out of 3, and you can figure out which one I’m  not).
 In this paradigm, the “business model” paradigm, a kidnapping – – though on the books, a felony — can be even better — someone can, but depending on which parent (male or female) may not get jail time.  
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA how many federal grants and studies are based on captive audiences, literally?  Plus the professions staffing the jails, and the skillsets those professionals acquire?  For example, the social worker from a corrections center, in Lodi, California — whose wife he imprisoned, starved, and humiliated for 22 months, until finally she called 911, and when the police cars approached, she RAN out and DOVE through an open patrol car window. They apprehended this man it says with $23,000 and NINE (count’em) (9) weapons.  Her life musta been hell.  The man doing this learned how to control people and play two-faced “let me fix you” (while I use my woman at home, that I imported for the purpose) and apparently how to use a gun also.  (search my blog I blogged this article recently).
Generally, though, with a kidnapping, the left-behind traumatized parent is going to go to court again and again to try and get justice, just as the disgruntled ex did when the cause of separation was domestic violence or child abuse.  Evaluators mediators and court-appointed attorneys are hopping for business, and I’d imagine have more caseloads than they can personally handle.  The profession is certainly booming.  Supervised visitation centers and professionals to go with them, and software to support these centers, is also BOOMING.  It is a replicatable business model described and sold on the internet — see “The Duluth Model.”  See Family Justice Center Alliance, st arted with a million ($1million) grant from Verizon (may blog this).  
The presses (on-line and/or print) are churning, and periodicals addressing the problems in the family law venue area going full steam, and to publish in these is a notch in the career belt; to quote them lends a sense of authority, and along with these there are conferences on how to stop violence against women, help fathers become better parents (and gain access to their children) and of course how to stop children from experiencing abuse, trauma, molestation, kidnapping, or anything distressing.  That IS, presumably, (??) what family law is all about.
And so, I was thinking about my situation here, where so many avenues already tried, and failed, failed, because the law is a “moot point” unless enforced, and the law enforced is also a moot point if the person held back by it gets pissed off and comes close to express this is in a nonverbal way, either stalking (itself an escalation), or the risk implicit behind the stalking, which I don’t want to name just now.  All of the theory is moot point in certain circumstances.
I know that I need to stand a different way and in a different place, probably with a different TOOL, to do THIS:
???
Archimedes:

The engraving is from
Mechanic’s Magazine
(cover of bound Volume II,
Knight & Lacey, London, 1824)

Courtesy of the
 Annenberg Rare Book &
 Manuscript Library
 
 University of Pennsylvania
 Philadelphia, USA

Wall painting in theStanzino delle Matematiche in theGalleria degli Uffizi(Florence, Italy). Painted by Giulio Parigi (1571-1635) in the y

“Give me somewhere to stand and I will move the earth.”

Greek Mathematical Works, by Ivor Thomas, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1941, vol. II, p. 35

 

First, analyze the situation accurately.  Accurately, the chances of a court order being respected in my situation, or someone doing something about this (even if officially asked to in a motion) are nil.  Most times, while I went about this, a guerrilla attack (and clearly purposed as such) came from another “gang” member offended by the principle that my motions should disrupt their equilibrium, the equilibrium of the self-anointed, self-evaluated, self-selected, with zero accountability.  Point 1.  The lever must be long enough and not break under the weight.  The longer the lever, the less weight need be applied.

Where to stand?  I say, look at the finances.  Do not approach a crook and talk about ethics!  Do not talk about someone drunk with power and talk about the immorality of using their power!  Talk in terms they understand, not your own paradigm!  How do you think we got into this place to start with?

WOMEN NEED A PLACE TO STAND IN THIS LIFE.  WE NEED TO MAKE AND DEFINE THIS PLACE IN FAIR NEGOTIATION WITH MEN.  WHEN CHILDREN ARE INVOLVED, THIS FAIR-NESS IS EVEN MORE CRUCIAL.

YOUNG WOMEN NEED TO BE TOLD SOME HARD TRUTHS — THERE ARE MEN THAT WILL GO FOR YOU TO PRODUCE A BABY (THIS CAN ALSO BE TRUE OF THE YOUNG MEN).  PARTICULARLY IF YOU ARE YOUNG AND FERTILE, AND HE’S ON A REBOUND.  OR IF YOU ARE OLDER AND AFFLUENT, IN THIS CASE, YOUR HOME IS NEEDED FOR A NEW HOME FOR HIS KIDS FROM THE FIRST WOMAN.  OR, ALTERNATELY, YOUR CHILDREN FROM A FORMER MARRIAGE MIGHT DO, TOO.

i feel this is just as applicable to professional women in their late mid to late 30s/early 40s as others. Until our society starts VALUING women as people and as women (including mothers!), the whole climate isn’t healthy enough all round, and people need to know in the river of life where the rapids and sharp rocks lie.  This differs by culture and community, and it AIN’T up to Washington D.C. and a bunch of economists and human behavioralists drawing research from shelters, prisons, and head start outfits, to set the standards!  (OR, churches, dammit!  The average church these days, I’ll speak for Protestant, is basically a cult.  In every sense of the word.  Marketing spirituality and social connection and good feelings, for a price, allegiance. . . .  And money, and services).

 

So now we get too MOOT POINT.  This post is just about a moot point today: I’ll revisit it in a while.

 

Idiom:  Moot Point


If something’s a moot point, there’s some disagreement about it: a debatable point. In the U.S., this expression usually means that there is no point in debating something, because it just doesn’t matter. An example: If you are arguing over whether to go the beach or to the park, but you find out the car won’t start and you can’t go anywhere, then the destination is said to be a moot point.

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Wiktionary:

  1. (US) An issue regarded as potentially debatable, but no longer practically applicable. Although the idea may still be worth debating and exploring academically, and such discussion may be useful for addressing similar issues in the future, the idea has been rendered irrelevant for the present issue.
    Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot 

     

Moot point  (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/moot-point.html)

Meaning

An irrelevant argument.

Origin

Some may disagree with the above meaning and argue that it means ‘a point open to debate‘, rather than ‘a point not worth debating‘. That former meaning was certainly the correct one when the term was first coined, but that’s going back a while.

In this post, I refer to the second usage


Laurence Humphrey, the president of Magdalen College, Oxford, wrote Nobles or of Nobilitye, a manual of behaviour for the English nobility, in 1563. In that he wrote:

 

“That they be not forced to sue the lawe, wrapped with so infinite crickes and moot poyntes.”

 

In medieval England, moots, or meets, were assemblies or councils where points of government were debated. The country was split into juridicial areas called hundreds and administered via assemblies known as hundredmotes. The form of government has long since vanished but the term hundred is still in use as the name of the procedural device which gives consent to MPs’ resignation. British MPs aren’t allowed to resign and, when members wish to leave Parliament they may do so by applying for the notional position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds. In such assemblies points which were put up for discussion were said to be mooted.

The change in meaning has come about following the introduction of ‘moot courts’, which are sessions where law students train for their profession by arguing hypothetical cases, i.e. ‘moot points’. The lack of any substantive outcome from these theoretical cases has led to the ‘unimportant/not worth discussing’ meaning of ‘moot point’, which is what many people accept today.

 

 

 

 

Here is one WHOPPER of a “moot point.”  I used to think that bringing this one up would make a difference.  I was so glad to see this written here.  But, it’s a moot point — in practice no one actually believes this.  If they did, too many programs would have to shut down.

 

Let’s go over this again:

http://www.sddvc.com/pdf/2008finalwithsignatures.pdf
This is out of San Diego: Law Enforcement Protocol:

The California State Legislature has declared that:

(1) “[S]pousal abusers present a clear and present danger to the mental and
physical well-being of the citizens of the State of California.” (California
Penal Code section 273.8.)

(2) “A substantial body of research demonstrates a strong connection between
Domestic Violence and Child Abuse.” (California Penal Code section
13732(a)). ”

Now, same document:

“The decision to prosecute a batterer lies within the discretion of the District Attorney
and the City Attorney. Victims do not “press charges”, “drop charges” or
“prosecute” their batterers.

So, those offices bear looking at. When they don’t prosecute for any of those (or child-stealing, case in point).

 

Ay, there’s the rub.**  So, they go get civil or family court restraining orders, which are less respected.  Or, they go to their family, friends, faith institution, etc.  Then they find out what their:  family, friends, faith institution, etc., are about.  And the years go by, the kids grow up. . .  . . . 

 


 


The ACES study — Bridging apparent Skipped Synapses in Family Court thinking….

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Happy Labor Day post.  I give you one study I refer to often on this blog, that dates back to 1998, and one (more) inane/insane custody discussion from Australia, case dating 1999-2003, and topic, joint legal custody and visitation with a young girl and the father who crushed her baby brother’s skull with his bare hands, baby being 3 weeks old and in his father’s arms at the time.  The court is less concerned with that behavior than the mother’s “phobia” (odd label, eh?) about that behavior.  Nothing much new for Family Law Arena — this is its speciality, in fact, stigmatizing parents that actually seek to protect their kids from trauma, abuse, and possible (in that case) death.

 

ACES (below):  Bridging the Gap between Childhood Trauma and . . . . .Negative consequences later in life.

 

Or should I call this bridging the gap between theory and reality?  Which results in the ever-widening “Chasm,” the Court public Credibility Gap.

So, how does one talk with mad engineer at the helm of a runaway train with one’s kids on it?  How get one’s kids safely OFF the train?  because in this venue, it doesn’t seem possible.  If they spend the duration of their childhood on this train, perhaps this will become their new “normal” and then another generation of trainsters and railway-hoppers will grow up, have kids, and provide new cargo for this Trip to Nowhere (except the trips to the bank for the railroad and its employees).  Like the formerly renowned rail system in the U.S., it took a lot of subsidy to keep the thing operational.

There are basically two types of conversations going through the courts:  

1.  IN open court — in open, and 

2.  Behind closed doors — in private.

The heart of the matter is in the 2nd arena.  Best interests of the child is static, sound-fluff and media-bytes.  It’s not reality, and I don’t any longer believe that any one who makes a living in this arena seriously, seriously believes in this paradigm — or if they do, their eyes are simply closed, because the cat is out of the bag.  

I believe the language the speak, as any good employee or business person truly does, is that of who is paying their bills. One reason I know this is that I actually experienced leaving an abusive marriage, and how vital a part finances was in getting free.  I also watched systematic economic abuse (mismangement, comandeering of access to basic funds/cash flow/steady jobs that would make this possible, and so forth), which restricted and delayed the exit.   

Which would you be more accountable to as a secretary whose family’s food and rent (lifestyle) depends on your pleasing that employer?  Up to your own personal level of moral/social tolerance (and ability to choose), a disgruntled customer in the waiting room or on the phone?  Or your employer?    . . . . Well, what about judges and other professionals, some of whose salary (US$) is well over $100,000 and lifestyles and associates to match?  Along with judgeships go political influence and possibly later activity — it’s a career path.  It took a lot of convincing in California (and publicity) for these judges to give up (statewide) their almost $20 million in SUPPLEMENTAL pay, but not until one of their own, an attorney in Los Angeles, was firmly intimidated and jailed for reporting financial corruption (Richard Fine case), which was his actual job to do in this city, as I understood it.  He was put in punitive solitary conffinement, moreover, and I heard, disbarred, for actually bucking this system.

However, these articles ARE about “best interests of the child” and whose head is where in being unable to figure that out in a given case involving infanticide! Or other horrors to any growing child, or the parent of any such child.

 

I am going to start grading the Family Law systems in my country, and in any country that imitates policies that I give an “F” in my country:

 

1998 THIS study is also old, and underestimated.  Probably because of its common sense, like the 1989 and 1992 ones I quoted earlier, from NOMAS, talking about why the HECK have we got to continue exposing each new generation of children to more and more parents who batter, and then posing STUPID questions like, why is the next generation ending up in jail, or beating THEIR women, or taking the assaults, either.

WHY is business as usual, THAT’s why.  A case came to light today where an Australian court (dealing with similar issues down under) is ordering psychiatric evaluation for the mother of a two-year old because the two-year-old’s father, quickly knocking up another woman, had just crushed to death the newborn (3 weeks old) infant with his bare hands, in response to the baby’s crying.  The man is in jail, and the court is trying to tell the mother that she needs to have her head examined for wanting to make sure this doesn’t happen to the one that came out of HER womb.  No, I am not kidding!

 

FAMILY LAW – Children – parenting orders – contact in prison – father incarcerated for killing child of another relationship – specific phobic anxiety of the primary carer and compromised capacity to care for the child – no significant contact ordered.

At what point do we get to have the COURT’s “head”  – and values — examined?   ???

 

O & C [2005] FMCAfam 200 (29 April 2005)

Last Updated: 6 June 2005

FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT OF AUSTRALIA

REASONS FOR JUDGMENTIntroduction – the proceedings

1. This matter comes before me as the final hearing of the competing applications of the various parties concerning B M C born 9 March 1999. Final parenting orders were made in relation to B on 20 February 2002 whereby B lived with the mother and the father had regular contact. However, on 11 March 2003, the father killed his newborn child of another relationship, Z, and the father is now incarcerated until approximately February 2006.

Yes you read that right.  Infanticide:  3 years.  3 hots and a cot.  Wonder if he’ll get out on parole early, like Garrido did, in time for a repeat performance.  Sounds like it didn’t affect his entitlement much, being incarcerated for baby-killing; he still wants to assert his shared parenting responsibilities and rights.  Where’s KING SOLOMON (of the Bible) when you need him?   Where’s the anti-abortion pro-lifers when you need them?  This mother, of child “B” is a pro-lifer.  She doesn’t want HER kid to suffer the same fate.  For expressing and acting on this protective, motherly sentiment, she may be sentenced to a lifetime — or at least for the duration of B’s childhood — of having her “head examined” over this “phobia.”

“Phobia” being, I guess, being afraid of something the Court isn’t afraid of, probably because it’s not the Court’s offspring involved or at risk.


2. The proceedings were initiated by the mother filing an application on 1 July 2003 in which she sought that previous parenting orders made by this court on 20 February 2002 be suspended and that she have sole responsibility for making decisions about the long term and day to day care, welfare and development of B. Effectively, she sought that there be no contact between B and the father.

3. On 21 November 2003 a Form 3 response was filed and served on behalf of the father  {{BEING AS HE WAS INCARCERATED??}}. Relevantly, the father sought joint responsibility for long term decisions affecting B and contact in prison 

 

RELEVANT:  What the jailed Dad wants.

IRRELEVANT:  what the killed 3-week old baby wanted before his Daddy crushed his skull together:  probably either some cuddling, a diaper change, some milk, or to be held differently.  Or his Mama.

IRRELEVANT:  What the mother wants, safety for HER kid, and her concerns taken seriously.

YES, this WAS 2006, “DOWN UNDER,” and a term well-earned from what I can see of this decision, at least.

As to his paternal grandparents:  Well, their son was an adult at the time, but still, they raised this guy.  PERHAPS this should be considered “relevant” in allowing unsupervised contact of child “B” with them.  (Not mentioned are her parents. . . . or mother of the deceased newborn.    )

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I give you one more reason (not including Phillip Garrido, Jaycee Dugard, and any woman who opts to marry a convicted kidnapper and raper) to take domestic violence seriously:  The children:

   

 

What is the ACE Study?

The ACE Study is an ongoing collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention and Kaiser Permanente.  Led by Co-principal Investigators Robert F. Anda, MD, 
MS, and Vincent J. Felitti, MD, the ACE Study is perhaps the largest scientific research study 
of its kind, analyzing the relationship between multiple categories of childhood trauma 
(ACEs), and health and behavioral outcomes later in life.

 What’s an ACE?

Growing up experiencing any of the following conditions in the household prior to age 18:

 

  1. Recurrent physical abuse
  2. Recurrent emotional abuse
  3. Contact sexual abuse
  4. An alcohol and/or drug abuser in the 
    household
  5. An incarcerated household member
  6. Someone who is chronically depressed, 
    mentally ill, institutionalized, or suicidal
  7. Mother is treated violently
  8. One or no parents
  9. Emotional or physical neglect

 

Origins and Essence of the Study (2003)

 

ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND STRESS:  PAYING THE PIPER (2004?)

 

The findings of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, an ongoing collaboration between Co-Principal 

Investigators Vincent J. Felitti, MD, of Kaiser Permanente, and Robert F. Anda, MD, MS, of the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

 

 

Because the two links above are in multi-column format, I can’t copy and paste.  I exhort you to take a look at some of this.

 

Please note that “one or no parents” was NOT on the top of the list, as it is on current “fatherhood.gov” policy, or HHS/ACF grants prioritization in the Designer Family mode it appears to be stuck in.

 

Women, including women like me, whose children have been exposed to from 1 to all of the factors above, are after removing their children FROM such factors, having the courts force them back in through shared parenting considerations.  IN this case the theoretical ideal is held over the head, and clubbing protective parents, of the practical reality that Batterers do NOT make Good parents until they thoroughly address the battering behavior, and what drives it.  Moreover, men have graduated with flying colors from programs allegedly adjusting their attitudes, and gone right out to murder that bitch who forced them to sit through it (McAlpin is one case that comes to mind, Bay Area, 2005.  Within just a few days, her body was discovered in a trunk).

 

 

 

 

Again, the issue becomes who gets to rig the test and give the grades?  I give any policy that lacks common sense — protect the kids! — and ignores the golden rule and “F.”

 

Golden Rule in Family Law:  Do unto OTHERS as you would have them do unto YOU (i.e., if it were YOUR kid, whose father just killed a newborn, would you as a judge order the woman who was alarmed at said murder to have her head examined, and the child ordered into contact with the parents of the killer, OR would you yourself be alarmed, and rule accordingly?)

 

If it’s not good enough for YOUR kid, it’s not good enough for HER kid.  That’s the golden rule in the courtroom, I say.

 

This of course presumes that a judge cares about his or her own kids, which may be a presumption indeed; some judges have been convicted of collecting child pornography and making some of it (Thompson, NJ), another of sexual harassment of female employees (Fed. District judge in Texas).

 

 

Mixed Sentiments — from a different battlefield — on the Passing of Senator Ted Kennedy, who valiantly fought: Brain Cancer, for Not Leaving Children Behind, and for Caring for the nation’s Health.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

 

I rarely sleep, and as the TV flashed with news of this lion of a personality, and carrier of the family name, it coincided unfortunately with the third year since I lost my daughters to felony child-stealing, in retaliation for reporting, in seeking asylum from domestic violence.

I struggle with respecting this event, with discomfort about our nations hyper-respect of public figures.  Senator Ted apparently was a womanizer as well as struggled with alcohol, and eventually married a woman 22 years his junior; do his many public accomplishments compensate, is this just the way of “famous men” that change society?

He lost two brothers to assassination, assassinations that affected our country.

I am currently reviewing the work of a young woman, local, that lost a sister and a brother to murder, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and probably also wrong color.  She too is near the end of her dynasty — both parents gone.  Her mother took the loss of two children hard, and also was fighting cancer.  Her older sister was seen talking to some people in a van.  She was found later, hog-tied, stabbed many times, raped many times, and thrown out like trash in a dumpster.  Her SISTER.  Her brother was stabbed in the heart for confronting someone trailing other women.  Why do I run across people like this?  I don’t know, except I don’t live in a castle or gated community, and I find people’s stories interesting.  I have been cut out of my own daughters’ stories by a  top-heavy, supposedly well-intentioned system that knew that two bright girls were not going to escape its radar or grasp, and that mother must therefore disappear.

Unlike me, she figured out FAST that a system was not going to protect her own two sons, and found a trusted friend to become guardian, so at least she can see them.  Like others, for a fee.  Like me, she wants some version of the truth to survive for her children.


We are allowed to give birth, but too often, not to also speak.

 

How famous is Senator Ted, then, and how much more important his story, and his contributions?  Should I mourn him more than others?  And yet it’s clear he worked hard, campaigned hard, pushed initiatives through, and changed our society.  How can I handle this today, when I shouldn’t be blogging but doing something more self-preserving.  Do I share the national regret and awe?  

Quite honestly, no, but I mean no harm in saying so.

How long can I afford to pause and commemorate? 

Probably shouldn’t have today, but i did.

 

it is easy and common to pick heroes and praise them, and transfer parts of our identity to heroes who gave their lives in service, and forget the non-heroes, some of whom I commemorate below.

I am not sure where Senator Ted falls in this mix.  I think the metaphor of this book has come to the rescue.  It seems both to symbolize the federalism and the poverty, and the reporting of it that go together in the topic “FAMOUS.”  

 

 

Let us Now Praise Famous Men

The book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions among white sharecropper families in the U.S. South. It was the time of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt‘s “New Deal programs designed to help the poorest segments of the society. Agee and Evans spent eight weeks that summer researching their assignment, mainly among three white sharecropping families mired in desperate poverty. They returned with Evans’ portfolio of stark images—of families with gaunt faces, adults and children huddled in bare shacks before dusty yards in the Depression-era nowhere of the deep south—and Agee’s detailed notes.

As he remarks in the book’s preface, the original assignment was to produce a “photographic and verbal record of the daily living and environment of an average white family of tenant farmers.” However, as the Literary Encyclopedia points out, “Agee ultimately conceived of the project as a work of several volumes to be entitled Three Tenant Families,though only the first volume, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, was ever written.” Agee considered that the larger work, though based in journalism, would be “an independent inquiry into certain normal predicaments of human divinity.

 

The resulting single book is a critically praised opus that leapt over the traditional forms and limitations of journalism of the time. By combining factual reportage with passages of literary complexity and poetic beauty, Agee presented a complete picture, an accurate, minutely detailed report of what he had seen coupled with insight into his feelings about the experience and the difficulties of capturing it for a broad audience. In doing so, he created an enduring portrait of a nearly invisible segment of the American population.

 

My father had a love, and some ear, for poetry, and always claimed he could hear the rhythm of the Lord’s Prayer (or possibly it was the 23rd psalm) in Agee’s “Knoxville, Summer of 1915.”  Ever the critic (and unable to carry a tune himself) he tried to talk me out of both music, and Christianity (unsuccessful in both cases), and we had something of a truce.  I do not have, emotionally or socially, a family at this point; I have made my own in life, and as to the one with whom I share DNA, it’s the two daughters only (now gone) and the deceased Dad, and my memories of him will have to do.  . . .  

So perhaps the Agee reference, the federalism, and my wish to point out, that deep poverty and distress still exist, sometimes still caused by either the basic human lusts, or the governmental god-like posturing, will make up for my mixed sense of duty in perhaps failure to “note” with enough awe, the passing of another member of the Kennedy dynasty, regardless of on how wide a screen and with how broad a stroke for how long, he painted his visions of what the United States should be.  For one, as a woman, a mother, and a Christian, I do not share his multiple visions on how to help the poor and educate America.  I do not think this is the original American vision, a totalitarian welfare state, an inverted pyramid building the 21st century equivalent of pyramids of social structure.  I think this “nation/religion” is the way of Egypt, milennia ago.  No, I do not.  But still, Let us Now Praise Famous Men.  

 

One of the follies of humanity is poor choice of who to praise and with whom to associate — famous  preempts worthy. 

 

Throughout the book, Agee and Evans use pseudonyms to obscure the identity of the three tenant farmer families. This convention is retained in the follow-up book And Their Children After Them

lthough Agee’s and Evans’ work was never published as the intended magazine article, their work has endured in the form in which it finally emerged, a lengthy, highly original book. Agee’s text is part ethnography, part cultural anthropological study, and part novelistic, poetic narrative set in the shacks and fields of Alabama. Evans’ black-and-white photographs, starkly real but also matching the grand poetry of the text, are included as a portfolio, without comment, in the book.

Although at its heart a story of the three families, the Gudgers, Woods, and Ricketts (pseudonyms for the Burroughs, Tengles and Fields) the book is also a meditation on reporting and intrusion, on observing and interfering with subjects, sufficient to occupy any student of anthropology, journalism, or, for that matter, revolution.

 

 

THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY 1962-2009

August 26, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Senator Kennedy has authored more than 2,500 bills throughout his career in the United States Senate.  Of those bills, several hundred have become Public Law.  Attached is a sample of some of those laws, which have made a significant difference in the quality of life for the American people. Download the PDF document of his accomplishments here.

 

Reflections:

Who old enough does not remember? the assassinations, the plane crash, and now we have newsbroadcasts, and a nation commemorating the legacy of this Senator from Massachusetts.  It is healing to commemorate, with respect, men who have changed the face of the nation.  Last night, I watched on TV, Charlie Rose seeking to know this man through former friends and writers, and also speaking with the Senator also.  As I saw the shock of white hair, the broad, broad charismatic smile, and listened to Senator Kennedy promote Education and Health Care, his two major federal programs and passions, I had a hard time.  I heard the Senator talk about how America cannot be left behind in globalization and MUST give EVERY child the capacity to succeed in a global economy.

 

I thought, where are the memorials for the people who were not born into Kennedy family, but still died?  

Viet Nam Memorial

By thee have I run through a troop and leapt over a wall

Psalm 18:

1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

. . . . 

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip

 

WHO MOURNS THESE?

 

Deborah Ross (51) and Ersie Charles Everette (58)

2009 Tried to break up, Shot to death at work, in a Tollbooth, and her male friend in a parking lot, ambushed

Cross said the shootings appeared to stem from a domestic dispute as Burris and Deborah Ross, 51, a California Department of Transportation toll booth collector, had recently broken up.

“He clearly had no regard for human life, so we wanted to apprehend him as soon as possible,” Cross said. “We had authorities all throughout Northern California trying to find this guy.”

Burris apparently opened fire with a shotgun shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, killing Ross and Ersie Charles Everette, 58, of San Leandro, Calif., who was sitting in his truck in the toll plaza parking lot.

Ross and Burris had shared a house in Richmond, and neighbors said the two had been having financial problems. Richmond Police were called to the house on Saturday, police spokeswoman Sgt. Bisa French said Wednesday. It is unknown what the nature of the call was as no report was taken, French said.

Although their relationship had just ended, Burris was aware of Everette, who drove Ross to work Tuesday, Cross said.

“Somehow, he knew the guy was there at her job, there’s a connection between the two victims, but what that relationship is, we don’t know at this time,” Cross said.

Everette, known as “Chuck” by those who knew him, was a longtime, well-respected bus driver for Golden Gate Transit who had received numerous accolades, spokeswoman Mary Currie said Wednesday.

“He was a likable guy, a good guy,” Currie said. “Passengers liked him. His co-workers liked him.”

Tuesday’s shootings occurred at the bridge over the northern portion of San Francisco Bay that connects well-to-do Marin County with Richmond and other East Bay suburbs. Witnesses said a man used the butt of a shotgun to shatter the window of the No. 3 toll booth, then fired at least three times inside, stunning rush-hour commuters in the westbound lanes before fleeing in the van owned by Western Eagle Shuttle of San Rafael, Calif.

Officers found Ross’ body inside the booth, while Everette was discovered slumped over in a white pickup truck in a nearby parking lot.

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2009/2008  Torres, Catalina (44) & Eustacio (41),  Sgt. Paul Starzyk

Brother, Sister, both domestic violence workers, both murdered by an “ex”

 

According to the San Francisco chronicle, on the evening of July 19th, Eustacio Torres was shot by his ex-girlfriend at a converted garage that Torres was renovating. Torres and his girlfriend, Bernadette Agustin, met about five years ago when Torres was renovating her house. They became partners in that business for a few years. The market started to tumble downhill, and their buildings went into foreclosure causing them to lose money. This caused tension between the couple. After some time, their relationship started to become difficult for both of them. Torres realized that Agustin was dangerous; however he never got a restraining order against her. On the evening on July 19th Agustin went to meet Torres at the garage. Prior to this incident she bought a pistol. She brought shot him with it.

About a year ago Eustacio Torres’ sister, Catalina Torres, a volunteer for a battered women’s group, was shot and killed inside of her Martinez apartment while trying to protect one of her customers in a beauty salon.

Her customer’s husband, Felix Sandoval, entered the beauty salon raged at his wife who had a restraining order against him. Catalina and her customer jetted out of the beauty salon. Sandoval couldn’t find his wife so he followed Torres to her apartment and shot her in the head, simply because she was affiliated with the incident. He then shot at the door and hit Sgt. Paul Starzyk. He still busted in and shot and killed Sandoval.

Since these two murders are a year apart and both victims come from the same family, the Torres family is suffering deeply from these two tragedies.

It is sad, yet ironic how both tragedies happened in the way that they did. They were related and both incidents happened a year apart. Considering the fact that Eustacio, Catalina’s brother had to help bury her, it is sad that he got killed also. They both worked together in a domestic violence group together. Now the Torres family has lost two of their family members to similar incidents.

MARTINEZ — Last September, Catalina Torres’ family struggled to find answers about why she died at the hands of an estranged in-law who also killed a Martinez police sergeant.

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Less than a year later, they find themselves again trying to find clarity after the slaying late last month of her brother, Eustacio Torres, by an estranged girlfriend in San Diego.

According to San Diego police, the bodies of Eustacio Torres, 41, and Bernadette Agustin, 52, were discovered by his nephew — Catalina Torres’ son — in the early-morning hours of July 20 at his home on in the Paradise Hills area. Investigators believe that Agustin shot Eustacio Torres and herself.

Eustacio Torres’ death follows the slaying of his sister Sept. 6, 2008, by Felix Sandoval. Sandoval burst into a Martinez beauty salon looking for his wife. She was not there, and he confronted her cousin, Catalina Torres, at a nearby apartment. While she shielded one of the home’s residents, Sandoval shot and killed her.

Sandoval then shot at police approaching the apartment, mortally wounding Sgt. Paul Starzyk. But Starzyk’s final act was to kill Sandoval, saving the others in the apartment.

Sandoval was in the midst of a divorce from his wife, who had filed a restraining order against him, and Catalina Torres had been supporting her separation from him. In San Diego, Eustacio Torres was severing ties with Agustin. Although the Torres family has experienced two devastating losses, Noe Torres, youngest of the six siblings, said they do not feel like victims.

A memorial fund has been established in Eustacio Torres’ name. Donations can be made at any Wells Fargo Bank branch to the account number 2629533015.

 

Since these two murders are a year apart and both victims come from the same family, the Torres family is suffering deeply from these two tragedies.
It is sad, yet ironic how both tragedies happened in the way that they did. They were related and both incidents happened a year apart. Considering the fact that Eustacio, Catalina’s brother had to help bury her, it is sad that he got killed also. They both worked together in a domestic violence group together. Now the Torres family has lost two of their family members to similar incidents.

 

2008 account “Details emerge in Martinez triple shooting:

Catalina Torres survived domestic abuse and became a strong advocate for a nonprofit group that helps victims of domestic violence.

“She was a battered woman who became an advocate,” said Maria Preciado, Torres’ close friend. “She took negative experiences and turned them into positive things.”

In a tragic turn of events, the 44-year-old STAND Against Domestic Violence volunteer lost her life Saturday, an innocent bystander in a deadly domestic disturbance involving her cousin’s estranged husband.

Officers were called to the salon about 11:35 a.m. Saturday on reports of a domestic disturbance. Sandoval broke the salon’s front window with his hand and entered holding a gun, police said. According to witnesses, he was looking for his estranged wife, salon owner Margarita Sandoval.

Martinez police Chief Tom Simonetti said Felix Sandoval, who was waving the gun around, never fired a shot in the salon, but confronted his teenage daughter in the parking lot behind the salon and told her he was going to kill his wife and his other children. Sandoval ran to an upstairs apartment on the opposite side of the parking lot where Torres, an unidentified woman and three of Sandoval’s children were, the chief said.

 

Elnora Caldwell, 46

She asked for protection

 

SEPTEMBER 2008, This beautiful woman Tried to Leave, Died, Stabbed, on side of the road

Contra Costa sheriff building death penalty argument in wife stabbing

 

 

Investigators said Monday that they are trying to build a death penalty case against an Oakland man who allegedly stabbed his estranged wife near the Caldecott Tunnel and pushed her out of his pickup in front of stunned motorists. Robert Woods, a 47-year-old former maintenance worker for the city of Oakland, was arrested on suspicion of murdering Elnora Caldwell, 46. Caldwellobtained a restraining order against Woods earlier this year, saying she was afraid of him. She was stabbed to death Saturday night and pushed from the pickup on a stretch of Fish Ranch Road that passes over the east end of the Caldecott Tunnel. ..Caldwell’s family members believe she was kidnapped Saturday from her Oakland home, perhaps by someone other than Woods.

Police and witnesses said Woods went to Caldwell’s Oakland apartment and washed up, then turned himself in to an Oakland police officer in the area. More than a dozen motorists stopped to help Caldwell. Some gave her chest compressions and others jotted down the license plate number of the GMC pickup. Alameda County Superior Court records show that Caldwell applied for a domestic violence restraining order against Woods on April 29, and that the order was to be active until 2013. 

Caldwell wrote in her application for the restraining order that Woods had shoved her after showing up unannounced at the Nordstrom department store in San Francisco where she worked and accusing her of infidelity. In 2007, she wrote, Woods pulled her hair during an argument in his truck, forcing her to flee and take a taxi home.

In a third incident, Caldwell said, her husband broke a glass sliding door at her apartment.

It has to stop,” Caldwell wrote of alleged verbal and physical abuse.

Court records show that Woods was fired from his job as a maintenance worker for the city of Oakland last year for allegedly doing drugs and threatening to kill co-workers.

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Domestic Violence Murder/Suicides – Here’s a summary:

In the U.S., estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) are that more than three women a day are killed by their intimate partners. Women are killed by intimate partners more often than by another acquaintance of stranger.Most of these murders involved were preceded by physical and psychological abuse.

Outside the domestic realm, males are killed much more often than females; they are killed most often in fights with other men.

According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, 1,055 women and 287 men were murdered by their intimate partners in 2005. These figures are striking, because in the past, in the 1970s and earlier, the numbers of men and women so victimized were about even. In other words, there has been a significant decline in the numbers of men killed by their partners but not for women.

The number of men who were murdered by intimates dropped by 75% between 1976 and 2005 (BJS). The number of black females murdered in this time has declined but the number of white females murdered has dropped only by 6%. Statistics Canada (1998, 2005), similarly, reveals a sharp decline in the numbers of male domestic homicide victims but not of female victims of homicide.

The reason that women are resorting less to murder of their partners is most likely because many of these women were battered women who felt trapped in a dangerous situation. Today, the presence of violence prevention programming and the availability of shelters are paving the way to other options. The fact that domestic violence services apparently are saving the lives of more men than women is a positive, though unintended consequence of the women’s shelter movement (see van Wormer and Bartollas, 2007).

 

 Nina Reiser (31), mother of 2.  No asylum in America

2006, Russian-born Oby/Gyn tries to divorce Hans Reiser (WIKIPEDIA) but disappears on exchange of children

Nina Reiser Hans Reiser

Hans Reiser Admits to Murdering Nina Reiser, Pleads to Reduced 

In 1998, while working in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Hans Reiser reportedly selected from a mail-order bride catalogue,[9] and subsequently married, Nina Sharanova (Нина Шаранова), a Russian-born and trained obstetrician and gynecologist[10] who was studying to become an American licensed OB/GYN. Reiser himself stated that he met Nina when he went to a date set up by a Russian dating service; Nina had come along to translate for his date. . . . 

In May, Nina Reiser alleged in court filings that her husband had failed to pay 50 percent medical expenses and childcare expenses as ordered by a judge and was in arrears for more than $12,000. [13]

Recovery of Nina’s body and sentencing

According to officials, prosecutors agreed to a deal whereby Reiser would reveal the location of his wife’s body in exchange for pleading guilty to second-degree murder. The deal was made with the agreement of Nina’s family, but was subject to final approval by Judge Goodman.[45][46] On Monday, July 7, 2008, Reiser led police to Nina’s body buried in the Oakland hills. Reiser’s attorney, William DuBois, who was handcuffed to Reiser and accompanied by a heavy police guard to the site, said that the remains were found buried on the side of a hill between Redwood Regional Park and the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, less than half a mile (< 800 m) from the home on Exeter Drive where Reiser lived with his mother, and where Nina Reiser was last seen alive on 3 September 20

 

Anastasia Melnitchenko, 22, unmarried, No asylum in America 

2005 Tried to break up, stalked; a clearly preventable homicide — her body found in car trunk

Body-in-trunk suspect got lots of counseling

‘Doing satisfactorily’ after 6 months of weekly sessions

He was fulfilling that obligation Oct. 19, two days before Melnitchenko disappeared, when he attended a weekly session of a program in Richmond run by Priority Male Center for Positive Peaceful Living

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

The El Sobrante man charged with murdering a woman he had repeatedly terrorized attended a two-hour counseling session for domestic violence offenders just days before the slaying, authorities said Tuesday.

McAlpin was on probation stemming from eight felony convictions in two separate cases for stalking, threatening and attacking Melnitchenko on several occasions from 2001 to 2004. Part of his sentence in the most recent case was that he attend a yearlong domestic violence prevention program.

THE BEST WAY TO “PREVENT” VIOLENCE IS TO SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO GIVE NO QUARTER TO PERPERTRATORS.  MCALPIN WAS A COCKY OVERENTITLED YOUNG MAN WITH NO RESPECT FOR THE WOMAN, OR THE LAW — AND FROM THE STORY, IT’S CLEAR WHY HE HAD NO REASON TO RESPECT THE LAW, TOO.  I DNR BUT I SUSPECT HE WAS WHITE.  I DON’T THINK THIS POOR WOMAN EVER EVEN LIVED WITH HIM.  THEY DATED BRIEFLY.  SHE DIED.  THE STORY OF HER DEATH INTERSECTS WITH THE STORY OF A JUDGE WITH A MISSION; I MAY TELL IT ANOTHER TIME.  THIS EVENT INTERSECTS WITH MY ATTEMPTS TO GET HELP IN 2005, THE SAME YEAR. I REMEMBER TRYING TO TELL MY FAMILY THAT THIS STALKING, THESE INDICATORS, SPELLED TROUBLE!  MY PROBLEM WAS WHO I TOLD, WHO I SOUGHT HELP FROM, AS WAS ANASTASIA’S.

Taking matters into their own hand; two brothers kill widow & her relatives: 

Winta Mehari, 28; her brother Yonas Mehari, 17;

and their mother, 50-year-old Regbe Bahrengasi

Widow and HER relatives killed in revenge, seeking money, by deceased husband’s relatives.  2 year old involved.

2006 – No Asylum for Eritrean Family from revenge, greed,

extortion? in the Golden State

Planned to exterminate family during Thanksgiving Dinner?  

ALAMEDA — A dispute over money was the cause of the shooting deaths of three members of an Eritrean family in Oakland on Thanksgiving Day, a relative of the victims alleged Tuesday after the suspects in the case were arraigned on charges that could bring them the death penalty.

Asmeron Gebreselassie, 43, the suspected gunman, and 39-year-old Tewodros Gebreselassie were each charged Tuesday with three counts of murder; one count of attempted murder for the non-fatal shooting of Yehtram Mehari, the brother of Winta and Yonas; one count of kidnapping for allegedly taking Winta Mehari’s 2-year-old son from the scene; and two counts of false imprisonment involving two other family members, Angersom Mehari and Merhawi Mehari.

 They also were charged with two special circumstances murder allegations that could earn them the death penalty: multiple murder and murder during the course of a kidnapping.

 The victims and the defendants were all members of Oakland’s sizable Eritrean community. About 50 members of that community, many dressed in traditional Eritrean clothing, packed Tuesday’s court hearing.

Oakland police say they think the motive for the shooting at the Keller Plaza apartment complex at 5301 Telegraph Ave. in Oakland about 3 p.m. on Thanksgiving was that the Gebreselassie brothers wanted revenge for the death of their brother, Abraham Tewolde, 42, on March 1.

Police said Abraham Tewolde’s cause of death was undetermined and his brothers were suspicious of Winta Mehari, his widow.

 Keflezighi said Tewolde died of natural causes but Tewolde’s family members asked Mehari’s family members to give them money.

 

I REMEMBER THIS ONE.  I WAS DRIVING TO EAT DINNER, TAKEN CHARITABLY IN, NOT WITH MY DAUGHTERS, BECAUSE THEY’D ALREADY BEEN TAKEN, COMPLICIT WITH MY OWN FAMILY AND AROUND MONEY ISSUES ALSO.  I RAN INTO POLICE CARS & TV CAMERAS BLOCKING THE WAY.

Was this misogyny?  Was this something like an honor killing?  What WAS this?  A young man, apparently a good one, was killed, victim to two men seeking revenge on his mother.  His crime?  Being a brother, apparently!

Meanwhile, students and teachers at Berkeley High School were mourning the death of Yonas Mehari. The boys varsity soccer team, which he played on, wore black armbands in his honor and dedicated its season to him Monday night.

All the victims and suspects were immigrants from Eritrea, and the killings have shocked the East Bay’s tightly-knit community from that small East African nation. Many people packed the courtroom today, and others without seats waited in the hallway.

Hundreds of mourners have been visiting the apartment complex, home to a large number of Eritreans and Ethiopians, to pay their respects. Many have also brought food for the family and donated money for transporting the three bodies to Eritrea for burial, for medical bills for others injured in the attack and for care of Winta’s Mehari’s son.

Police said the brothers, who also live in the apartment complex, were angry at Winta Mehari over the unexplained death of their brother, Abraham Tewolde, 42, who was her husband. A mechanic who ran a small auto shop on Broadway, Tewolde collapsed and died March 1. An autopsy was unable to determine the cause of his death, coroner’s officials said.

Police said the Gebreselassie brothers suspected Winta Mehari had some role in her husband’s death. Tewodros Gebreselassie, an engineer, attended the party at the Mehari’s third-floor apartment on Thanksgiving, and police said he admitted to helping his brother plan the attack.

Witnesses told police that Tewodros Gebreselassie was talking on his cell phone and said, “Yeah, they’re all here,” according to court records. Minutes later he opened the apartment door for Asmeron Gebreselassie, who then opened fire on the Mehari family. When the shooting started, Tewodros Gebreselassie grabbed his 2-year-old nephew, Winta Mehari’s son, and carried him back to the second-floor apartment where the Gebreselassie lived, witnesses said.

Asmeron Gebreselassie also shot his brother-in-law Yehtram Mehari in the foot, witnesses told police. Another brother, Angersom Mehari, jumped out a window and suffered a broken back. A third brother, Merhawi Mehari, hid in the closet and avoided injury.

Police found the boy unharmed after the two brothers surrendered to a SWAT team following a brief standoff at their apartment. The guns he allegedly used were later found, police said.

At Berkeley High School, students, teachers and counselors spent Monday and today remembering the 17-year-old Yonas Mehari, who played soccer, ran cross country and helped tutor other students.

“I’ve known him for four years, and I really saw him as a leader, an independent thinker and just a really sweet kid to be around,” said Kristin Glenchur, athletic director at Berkeley High. “He was always around volunteering for something” such as working the scoreboards during football games or the concession stands, she said.

His slain mother was active in the Eritrean Orthodox Church in Oakland and was popular among her immigrant community, estimated by the Eritrean consulate in Oakland at to be about 3,000 people.

Donations to the Mehari Family Fund can be deposited at any Bank of America branch under account number 0560942210.

 

SUMMARY:

Sometimes there is no refuge from family violence — members take the law into their own hands; oftentimes greed is a factor, as in many cases above.  McAlpin appears to have just been a man with a mission intersecting with a system with a different mission.  She got cross in the cross-fire of attempts to reform a man after:  kidnapping, stalking, assault, and threats to kill.  

How IMPORTANT is it that the United States set the standard that misogyny is “anathema” it’s unacceptable?

I fear that Senator Ted, Presidents Bush, Clinton, and now Obama, have failed to do this.  Moreover, women’s groups also, subject to the same human emotions, claw and fight each other sometimes to the top, seeking scarce prestige, or abundant federal funds.  This is also a spinoff of misogyny.  We who watch such things don’t see such huge, huge divides among the men’s groups.  We have now an older Republican white President, a young and charming (and philandering) white President, and an even younger and MORE charming African-American President, all united in fixing the crises of fatherlessness, and making sure that mothers don’t actually get to (safely) fulfil their motherhood unless a man is present, and it’s CLEAR we do not have have equal protection or rights under law, despite the claims to the contrary.  If so, where are all the dead men on the side of the road simply for leaving?  Where are the women blowing away a few family generations to take the law into their own hands?  They just aren’t there!

 

I should be more respectful, and I will take another day to be so, of the passing of a major political figure this week, Senator Ted Kennedy.

I wish I did not have a troubling memory of his womanizing, of the two programs he promoted the mOST (education/health) which have negatively affected my family the MOST.  I wish that the date of his passing did not coincide with the date my kids were stolen, yet remain within (at last sighting) driving distance, but inaccessible to me, because I simply took a stand against misogyny and violence.

I took a stand for telling the truth in court, and not mincing words.  Perhaps I am very disrespectful.

I wish I were not thinking of how he endorsed our current President, for whom I too voted, not being fully aware of his stance on the ubiquitous and impoverishing, endangering to women “fatherhood” movement.  It is never enough, never enough — always another initiative, another grant, through churches, through family members when they are themselves swept up and confronted by their failure to confront, and through family law system, and through an unbelievably condescending virtual caste system by the elite making it near impossible for less fortunate to escape the economic abuse that would enable them to escape threats of injury, death, having children abducted, either by the ex or through the courts or (case in point) both, and through violence to our civil rights within this nation.

They said Sen. Kennedy worked like a dog, and i believe it. Some of us do, too, on a single issue that doesn’t often go away.  I never tried to raise his offspring, and I do not appreciate his or any other administration , or their programs, just because they have the platform, prating on about how to raise mine, married or single, through a burdensome system that doesn’t even impart decent values, let alone decent academics.  And in 20 years of THIS battle, I’ve never had a hand laid on any of mine, anything that was mine, or on ME, from someone who openly said he or she hated me or wanted to hurt me.

It was always from the “helpers” and those “concerned.”  Sure. . . . 

 

But in re:

Kennedy’s Battle With Cancer Lost


U.S. has lost a great statesman, obviously.  But before this, long before this, we have lost something else.  We have lost self-respect as individuals, and transferred it to our leaders, HOPING in them.  This is misplaced hope too often, and it’s unwise.

Jeremiah was a prophet who watched and spoke out against the deterioration of his nation:  For this, he got left in a pit without water, and would’ve starved there, were he not later rescued.   Later, Jesus Christ, also preaching “repent” got crucified.  

Jeremiah 17

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5 Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out his roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is desperately sick: who can know it?

10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

11 As the partridge that gathereth young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

For the past 20 years, I have sought refuge in my home, from my home, from my family’s close resonance to the tune my ex-husband played. I have a logical mind, and mind seeks logic to piece a life together, even if the logic is to accept chaos.  But I HAVE found a logic to the, what I will call, narcissistic, self-referential habit of federal domination of the markets — well MOST markets.  Education, family design, health care, welfare, child-bearing practically, and reform.  

The U.S. is succeeding at incarceration — we are the world’s LARGEST jailor — and failing at education.  The reason we are failing at education is because we have trusted our leaders to design a system.  Instead, they designed an ECONOMY to support themselves, and placed our children at its mercy.  This was a transformational system of values sold as good, but not in practice good.  It is possible to succeed very well in this educational system and be an utter failure as a person.  It is also possible to fail in this system and be a business success.  Or to fail all round.

I am 50-plus.  At this age, I had to pick WHAT to dedicate what’s left of my life to; and it was a hard choice between Family Law system and Educational System.  Both systems hurt my kids and my family, and are creating the tiered society, while claiming to provide the opposite.  I have a relative with her own children run through a private school system that took offence that i too — in a different way — opted out of the local public schools.  In truth, I believe that if our daughters succeeded without wealth at what she’d sacrificed to become wealthy and with wealth BUY, it would somehow show up her life plan.  Our respective nieces might be competing for similar college slots – – I don’t know.  

But I have watched close up, and then system-wide, forced failure and social exclusion for simply doing something about it.  So have many fellow-blogger mothers (see right column).

Look at this graphic:

(it’s an old one) from “America, What Went Wrong“? An book that documents the destruction of the middle class.

An INDEPENDENT middle class, with time to think, and understanding basic business principles, will hold its government accountable.  A DEPENDENT (upon professional jobs, many of them government-sanctioned or supplied), which my generation came from (but not my parents) will indeed do the dirty work and bidding of the top group, keeping the heirarchy in place.

From 1990 to 2009, I have been overexposed to impoverishment, and how it’s manufactured.  I watched my husband do this, in order to keep himself on top, he was willing that the ship should go down.  Nothing more mattered, and all discussions were moot (or off) that didn’t first establish this dominance.  Neither I nor our children were actually to show up as people, or with needs, but as performers.

Now, according to the myths taught in public school (and elsewhere) about HOW government works (which dealing with in-home abuse didn’t really leave time for an official study of), it should be possible to leave the situation.  No one should care HOW I leave it, so long as it’s done legally and without harm to our children.  However once we showed up as a household, without a resident male, in waltzed the “experts,” ignoring the facts, the danger, the track record, and proudly proclaiming situations that didn’t exist as though they did.  

Having some exposure to the Bible and its language, this was easy to detect as playing “god.” And naturally, I protested.

And so, the divide and conquer of the middle class, overeducated fools (lots of academia, insufficient truly hard times), scrabbling to assert their intellectual dominance and right to explain away that violence happened in their family, and they, too, failed to report.  

In the long run, I chalk it up to basic human emotions of (1) pride (2) fear (3) greed (4) prejudice (THIs kind, “misogyny.”)  Where logic fails, dominance by gender — or age (it keeps flipping around, the varieties of messages I get), only a few years — or marital status, or SOMETHING to preserve the us/them, Object/subject relationship which is not a human relationship.  Because surely they didn’t misdiagnose a situation, the judges were wrong, I was wrong, the statistics were wrong, everyone else was wrong, and this intact family unit (sort of) was “right.”  Or else. . . . . Social shunning was tried, and I didn’t repent, to the antes were upped, and my kids were stolen, and all contact cut off.  

Perhaps it is because of working so hard on these issues, I have been watching politics from afar.

Perhaps it is because of these issues, I have a different “take” on the passing of a Senator that was compared last night to Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.  The words “dynasty” may apply, but these are NOT words coherent with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Here’s a woman talking sense:

 

In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world– through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts…. New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters — to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets.

 

This is the theme of the National Fatherhood Initiative, there is a “crisis in fatherlessness.”  I have watched these manufactured crises on a personal level and also a national level and have begun to get an understanding of some of the causes and sources, ONE of which is most definitely the educational system.  Divide and conquer, and assume control of assets and assessments.  That’s elementary.  One very empowering activity, to young people, is the arts, and self-sufficiency.  No problem.  Delete the arts, if possible, and free time, and uninterrupted quantities of time for reflection, and also do not study (honestly) either history or the economic system, in particular not the history of any system one is currently in.  Again, I saw this in my marriage, how the most basic amenities were threatening to my “intimate partner.”  THE most threatening one apparently was access to a steady cash flow.  If I got this by working, the reserves must be eliminated by his working less, or making the process of getting to/from work more burdensome and timesconsuming.  Rooms got trashed or re-arranged while I was out, at class or working or with the kids.  There was no stability.  Once you get the pattern, it’s only a matter of breaking it.  My writing (I was also journaling the abuse) threatened this person.  I exported the journals.  He exported his behind and friendship to the people into whose care I’d put them.  I went and got them back. . . . . But it was too late.  They had to be turned, I guess (?).

Here’s another one which speaks to it about “lockdown” of the fortress continents.  Care must be taken to incorporate cheap labor:

Fortress continents

The US and Europe are both creating multi-tiered regional strongholds

There is so much in life to be considered, but in considering memorials, again, I keep coming back to scripture:

“Pray for kings and all that are in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.” (I Tim. 2:1).

“It is not good to have respect of persons.” (James).

You know what, with all due respect, it’s not.  LIFE is about what you respect, and who you honor:  Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.”

There is not to be a tiered respect of people according to how MUCH of this world they’ve changed.  We, ALL of us in the U.S., are to respect ourselves, and the founding principles of this country, which then allow us to respect at LEAST our neighbors.  

“Love worketh no ill towards his neighbor.”

Sometimes it’s simply in what one does NOT do, that love.

So, below are my unforgiveable (??) thoughts, in respect that a Senator has died, on seeing the extensive television recognition of this man, and hearing about what he had been doing while I was across the country, trying to stay afloat and keep the pilot light lit in my own life, spiritually and physically.

And I have to go about what’s left of this day, seeking funds sufficient for today and build something to tomorrow.

I saw a charming, Robert-Redford smile, and I thought about Chappaquiddick

about this man’s marriage to a woman 22 years his junior, a 38 year old divorced attorney single mother, and wondered things that were less respectful than appropriate.  I thought about the CFDA pie chart I know, where his two most passionate areas:  Education and Health — were THE largest and most impoverishing segments of the budget; and the effect of this incredible top-heavy Federal language transformation into a welfare state directing lives of the lowly.  

It did not help when I learned that this person was a prime author of the “No Child Left Behind” act and a real pusher of Head Start.  Trust the elite to prescribe for the poor every time.  It is also quite unfortunate that his death this week commemorates about 3 years fo the “death” of my relationship with my own daughters, and primarily because I REFUSED to accept that poverty resulting from violence should result in becoming a surrogate womb for childless narcissistic relatives convinced that, having not experienced what my daughters and I did, or accepted court rulings already made, that they, TOO, “knew what was best” for three females leaving family violence.  When I refused, I was punished by these people, and part of the punishment was declaring what I provided for our daughters, either was irrelevant and did not exist, and what they wished instead, was somehow superior.  

The punishment included the gradual deletion of the arts, the dumbing down of my children, the deletion of jobs in my profession (in the arts) because of the need to fight family!, and eventually the criminal removal of children (minors) from my household in order to, ostensibly, “rescue” them somehow, by totally removing all contact with a law abiding, working, intelligent, informed and independent mother. I have had cause and many years to reflect on the benefits and fallbacks of my own, and my ex-spouses public educations amid dysfuncitonal families, mine in a different way from his, and the values that differ.

This gives a totally different perspective on “No Child Left Behind,” when one realizes that the children of those promoting this policies (if such exist) do not always attend public schools, and if they did, they are not in lower-income neighborhoods.  To me, the mark of acceptability is, if it’s good enough for YOUR child, then I’ll listen.  

I’ll finish with this well-written summary:

MichaelMoore.com Commemoration


August 26th, 2009 2:25 am
Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77

 

‘Liberal Lion’ of the Senate Led Storied Political Family After Deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy

ABC News

Aug. 26, 2009 — Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.

The man known as the “liberal lion of the Senate” had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to.

“We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever,” the Kennedy family said in a statement. “He loved this country and devoted his life to serving it.”

Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother who was left to head the family’s political dynasty after his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated.

Kennedy championed health care reform, working wages and equal rights in his storied career. In August, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — by President Obama. His daughter, Kara Kennedy, accepted the award on his behalf.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, known as Ted or Teddy, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent a successful brain surgery soon after that. But his health continued to deteriorate, and Kennedy suffered a seizure while attending the luncheon following President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

For Kennedy, the ascension of Obama was an important step toward realizing his goal of health care reform.

At the Democratic National Convention in August 2008, the Massachusetts Democrat promised, “I pledge to you that I will be there next January on the floor of the United States Senate when we begin the great test.”

Sen. Kennedy made good on that pledge, but ultimately lost his battle with cancer.

Kennedy was first elected to the Senate in 1962, at the age of 30, and his tenure there would span four decades.

A hardworking, well-liked politician who became the standard-bearer of his brothers’ liberal causes, his career was clouded by allegations of personal immorality and accusations that his family’s clout helped him avoid the consequences of an accident that left a young woman dead.

But for the younger members of the Kennedy clan, from his own three children to those of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy — once seen as the youngest and least talented in a family of glamorous overachievers — was both a surrogate father and the center of the family.

And certainly it was Ted Kennedy who bore many of the tragedies of the family — the violent deaths of four of his siblings, his son’s battle with cancer, and the death of his nephew John F. Kennedy Jr. in a plane crash.

 

 

Kennedy, Youngest Kennedy Brother, Led Political Dynasty in Wake of Tragedy

Edward Moore Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass., on Feb. 22, 1932, the ninth and youngest child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.

His father, a third-generation Irish-American who became a multimillionaire businessman and served for a time as a U.S. ambassador to Britain, had risen high and was determined that his sons would rise higher still.

Overshadowed by his elder siblings, Teddy, as he was known to family and friends, grew up mostly in the New York City suburb of Bronxville, N.Y., and attended private boarding schools. He was expelled from Harvard during his freshman year after he asked a friend to take an exam for him.

After a two-year stint in the Army, Kennedy returned to earn degrees at Harvard and then the University of Virginia law school. He married Virginia Joan Bennett, known by her middle name, in 1958. The couple would have three children, Kara, Teddy Jr. and Patrick.

By the time he reached adulthood, tragedy had already claimed some of his siblings: eldest brother Joe Jr. was killed in World War II, sister Kathleen died in a plane crash, and another sister, Rosemary, who was mildly retarded, had to be institutionalized following a botched lobotomy.

But then the family hit its pinnacle in 1960, when John F. Kennedy became president.

His brother’s ascension created a political opportunity, and Joe Kennedy decided he should take over JFK’s Senate seat. Ted Kennedy was only 28 at the time — two years short of the required age — so a family friend was found to hold the temporary appointment.

In 1962, Ted Kennedy — backed by his family money and the enthusiasm his name generated among Massachusetts’ Catholics, was elected to the Senate.

 

The Only One Left

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. His brother Robert became the focus of the family’s — and much of the country’s — dreams.

Following the tragedy in Dallas, Robert and Ted Kennedy became closer than they had ever been as children.

“When I was working for Robert Kennedy, there was hardly a day in which the two of them didn’t physically get together, I would say at least three or four times,” said Frank Mankiewicz, who served as an aide to Robert Kennedy. “I mean, if, if Sen. Robert Kennedy wasn’t in his office, and nobody knew where he was, chances are he was seeing Ted about something.”

Five years later, while pursuing the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 against Lyndon Johnson, Sen. Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed. That left Ted as the only surviving Kennedy son.

“He seriously contemplated getting out of politics after Robert’s death,” said Kennedy biographer Adam Clymer. “He thought, you know, it might just be too much. He might be too obviously the next target and all of that. But he decided to stick it out and as he said on more than one occasion, pick up a fallen standard.”

Kennedy was seen by many as his brothers’ heir, and perhaps he could have won the White House had he stepped into the presidential race then. But he didn’t. And the very next year there occurred a tragedy that would forever block Ted Kennedy’s presidential ambitions.

In July 1969, following a party on Martha’s Vineyard, Kennedy drove off a bridge on the tiny Massachusetts island of Chappaquiddick. The car plunged into the water. Kennedy escaped, but his passenger did not.

Kennedy later said he dived into the water repeatedly in a vain attempt to save Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the “boiler room girls” who had worked on Bobby Kennedy’s campaign. But Kopechne, 28, drowned, still trapped in the car.

Questions arose about how Kennedy had known Kopechne — he denied any “private relationship,” and Kopechne’s parents also insisted there was no relationship — and why he failed to report the accident for about nine hours.

Kennedy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident. He received a two-month suspended sentence and lost his driver’s license for a year, but the political price was higher.

Kennedy was re-elected to the Senate in 1970, but the accident at Chappaquiddick effectively squashed his presidential hopes.

He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1979 against incumbent President Jimmy Carter.

Once when his daughter Kara, then 19, was passing out campaign leaflets, a man took one and said to her, “You know your father killed a young woman about your age, don’t you?”

 

 

Kennedy Curse: Political Power, Personal Tragedy

Sen. Ted Kennedy was not done confronting personal tragedy.

In 1973, 12-year-old Teddy Jr. was diagnosed with bone cancer, and he had to have a leg amputated. Kennedy’s marriage to Joan deteriorated. Some blamed her drinking, others cited his alleged womanizing. The couple divorced in 1981.

In contrast, Kennedy’s career in the Senate continued to flourish.

He supported teachers’ unions, women’s and abortion rights, and health care reform. He sponsored the Family and Medical Leave Act. And he was seen as a stalwart of the Democratic Party, delivering several rousing speeches at conventions.

Former Boston Glober reporter Tom Oliphant, who covered Kennedy’s career in Washington, observed, “It’s not all back slapping and, and personal relationships. I think one of the things that sets Kennedy’s politics apart is his, what I call his dirty little secret. He works like a dog.”

Political analyst Mark Shields said Kennedy’s “concerns were national concerns, but his forum for achieving his ends and changing policy, became the Senate. And he mastered it like nobody else I’ve ever seen.”

But another family incident exposed Kennedy’s vulnerabilities and held him up to public censure.

A nephew, William Kennedy Smith, was accused of raping a woman at the family’s estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The case generated lurid headlines around the world. Kennedy was at the estate at the time of the alleged attack and had been at the bar where Smith met his accuser.

Eyebrows were raised even further when a young woman who had been with Kennedy’s son Patrick that night revealed that she had seen the senator roaming around the house at night, wearing an oxford shirt but no trousers.

Smith was acquitted following a highly sensational trial, but the incident definitely left a dent in Kennedy’s armor. His alleged heavy drinking and womanizing were widely lampooned, and in October 1991 he thought it prudent to be low-key in his opposition to Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, who had been accused of sexually harassing a former subordinate.

Kennedy’s life, both professional and personal, took a turn for the better in 1992.

He married Victoria Reggie, a divorced attorney with two children from a previous marriage, Curran and Caroline. That year Kennedy also supported Bill Clinton, an open admirer of the Kennedy clan.

“Well, sometime during our courtship, I realized that I didn’t want to live the rest of my life without Vicky,” Kennedy said about his wife of nearly 30 years. “And since we have been together, it’s made my life a lot more fulfilling. I think more serene, kind of emotional stability.”

Elected in 1992, President Bill Clinton appointed Kennedy’s sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, ambassador to Ireland. And in 1994, Kennedy had the satisfaction of seeing his son Patrick elected to the House of Representatives from Rhode Island.

But tragedy returned that year.

In May 1994, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died of cancer. Kennedy had remained close to his sister-in-law, who once quit her job at a publisher’s after it came out with an unflattering biography of Ted.

 

 

Kennedy’s Battle With Cancer Lost

Kennedy had served as a surrogate father for many of his nephews and nieces, but he may have been closest to Jackie’s children, Caroline and John F. Kennedy Jr.

He was horrified when in July 1999, five years after Jackie’s death, John Jr. and his bride of two years, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, along with her sister Lauren Bessette, were killed when the small plane John was piloting crashed off the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard.

Sen. Kennedy led the family during the harrowing wait for information as Coast Guard crews searched for the missing plane.

When the bodies were retrieved from the ocean, Kennedy and his two sons went to identify the remains. The senator’s eulogy for his nephew who “had every gift but length of years” and “the wife who became his perfect soul mate” touched grief-stricken Americans.

It was an all-too-familiar sight for those who remember Ted Kennedy mourning the deaths of his brothers John and Robert, and helping the family bear up after the deaths of Robert’s sons David and Michael.

For decades, it was Ted Kennedy who carried the burden and led the way as the patriarch of a family seen as America’s answer to royalty.

 

With all due respect, we do not need any more royalty in this country.  We need to set our sites on something invisible, something written, but something of principle, that unites us.  Our leaders need to stick to that, and out of respect to OURSELVES ,we should demand that.


Only $118,310,126 (last year), in hopes of Healthy Marriages and Responsible Fathers

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Set this Press Release to the “SPIN” Cycle:

California Healthy Marriages Coalition Says GM Bankruptcy Could Create More
Than Financial Devastation for Families

SAN DIEGO, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The GM Bankruptcy is causing six
dealerships around California to be closed. These closures will create more
bad news for California's economy by increasing the already high unemployment
rate of 11 percent, and adding financial stress to the families involved in
these cutbacks. Statistics show that financial strain is one of the leading
causes of divorce and that divorce itself places additional strains on the
economy and on business. This is a distressing cycle for which California's
leading marriage-support organization offers some new reassurance.
{{Just "trust" our press release, statistics show.  Which, or should we say "whose", is
not mentioned..}}
 
Health and Human Services logo

{{And HOW did this premiere marriage-support organization (at least according to itself) race 
to the forefront of all California's marriage support organizations??  Clearly 
it must be on its own merits. . . . blood, sweat, tears, ingenuity (that's true), 
and entrepreneurship, standing on the shoulders of giants.  Seriously, the Dept. of Health
and Human Services IS indeed a giant, funding this group from the top down, and some of the
other coalitions under its w - i - d - e umbrella from the bottom up.)



Target Population: Married and Unmarried persons in California, ages 15 and older, of all racial, cultural and economic backgrounds
Federal Award Amount: $2,342,080/year
Program Name: California Healthy Marriages Coalition
Project Period: 9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011
. . . 

SOURCE California Healthy Marriages Coalition

 

Yes, alas, ’tis true. . ..  

 

recently, as well as, well,  not so recently, it seems clear from the various newspaper headlines that many marriages are not very healthy.  Also, the same could be said of divorces.     But, for those readers who, as either (U.S.) employees or employERS, actually pay taxes, I would like to reassure you that the U.S. Government is on it, it has a PLAN.  You may or may not be in on the plan, but I assure you it has many plan to fix the overall unhealthiness of both marriages, and the lack of safety attendant to divorce from, well, a spouse that doesn’t believe in divorce.  It would also like to assure you to trust the experts (its hired ones and delegated ones)  To analyze and fix the situation.  This IS, after all, what governments exist for right?  I seem to foggily remember something about the purpose of governments in the Declaration of Independence, and about the word “consent.”   It seems to me that somewhere along the line “We the People” got turned into a version of “You People,” and the posse of experts got called in to fix families.  What they actually ended up doing is breaking the legal system, by turning it into a behavioral health marketplace, clearly infringing on the niche of the faith institutions, for example, I heard that recently the Knights of Columbus, on behalf  of Catholics everywhere, have launched a(nother) fatherhood initiative, lest we somehow forget who’s the boss, called:  http://FathersForGood.org.  

 

Fathers for Good

 

Notice anything missing from the logo there?

 

(this time, WITH a Mom..)

And now again, this time with a little more style…

 

Now for all those little pieces of education that add up to $118, 310, 126 – – for 2008 — enjoy the panorama of organizations that are addressing this problem of, well, unhealthy marriages and irresponsible fathers.  (I have omitted “Abstinence Education,” because it would overload this post’s, well, capacity).

This wordpress page can only carry one year’s worth of links at a time.  Moreover these are alphabetical by Grant Recipient, nationwide, and not by state (although zip codes are listed).  The fun part is, they are “click-able,” meaning, you can click on an institution’s name and see what else it’s been up to, for how long and for how much.  Perhaps I might show a few more ways to search, but someone of basic intelligence (and motivated) can learn a lot simply by looking. Another trick you might try is searching its name on “usaspending.gov” and see what kind of cute bar charts and stats show up.  

Thus one can get an overview of almost any CFDA number BUT this one, 93.086, on a certain database.  

Is this inintentional?  If part of required Civic Literacy was understanding the federal grants system, if rather than whine, moan, or complain — or complain to elected representatives –MORE AVERAGE JOES & JANE DOES (the alive ones) started monitoring our home states, state by state and agency by agency, we might stop asking why states are running out of money for domestic violence shelters and general assistance, because the answer would be obvious.  Instead, we would ask intelligent, and pointed questions from the point of view, these are public funds, and (if government) you are public servants, and (if nonprofit) you’re tax exempt for a reason — how does this fulfil the reason, and who is evaluating, and by what standard? 

And then question the standards if they are unreasonable, inconsistent, or do not exist.

Alternately, we could chug along and say, “isn’t so and so handling this? Because I’m busy, and have my own life to handle.”


Sure they are.  That’s why inbetween talking about this, I can’t keep up with the healines, or follow up with the last ones before there are new ones.  That’s why protective orders protect, law enforcement enforces (consistently), child support is collected (consistently and without gender bias), and welfare helps people be better.  AND, (case in point) marriages are clearly getting healed — either that, or they can’t keep up with the new babies (despite Abstinence Education, which I omitted from this list, but is still going strong).

(OK, that’ll have to be another post — WOW, I just pulled 653 records under one code, 93.010 (community-based A.E.)

(not a searchable code in “usaspending.gov,” at least not readily…)

However, top 5 programs with the keyword “abstinence” in the PROJECT title:

93.010: Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) $128,610,003
 98.001: USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas $11,058,644
 93.279: Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs $9,561,182
 93.995: Adolescent Family Life_Demonstration Projects $8,064,374
 93.273: Alcohol Research Programs $6,222,97

AND as far as WHO is really interested in why people don’t abstain and trying to get them to:

Top 10 Recipients

 FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL (FHI) $3,593,286
 SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE $2,551,682
 PROGRAM FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH $2,233,162
 HERITAGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC $2,000,000
 BROWN UNIVERSITY $1,672,760
 POPULATION COUNCIL INC $1,613,000
 PATH $1,500,000
 NEUROBEHAVIORAL RESEARCH INC $1,466,239
 NEW HOPE CENTER INC $1,399,907
 CENTER FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY, INC. $1,399,300

Results 1 to 500 of 653 matches.  restricted to “NEW” only, I got 240 new grants:

(AFTER ALL THIS, WILL YOU BE ABLE TO “ABSTAIN” FROM LOOKING FURTHER INTO THESE?)

Here’s a quick partial look:

 

Fiscal Year Grantee Name State Award Title Budget Year CFDA Program Name Award Class Principal Investigator ($$)Sum of Actions

 

 

 

2009  Columbus Hospital  NJ  COMMUNITY BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  BERNADETTE VISSANI  $- 739,820 
2009  METRO ATLANTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST, INC  GA  COMMUNITY-BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  CINDY MILLER  $ 300,186 
2009  Saint Michael`s Medical Center, Inc  NJ  COMMUNITY BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  BERNADETTE VISSANI  $ 677,551 
2008  A WOMAN`S PLACE MINISTRIES, INC.  FL  ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  MICHAEL LAYTON  $ 600,000 
2008  A WOMENS CONCERN, INC.  MA  HEALTHY FUTURES ABSTINENCE EDUCATION INITIATIVE  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  ELIZABETH SNYDER  $ 600,000 
2008  ABSTINENCE & MARRIAGE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP  IL  COMMUNITY BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  SCOTT PHELPS  $ 512,500 
2008  ABSTINENCE EDUCATION CONSULTANTS,INC.  KS  COMMUNITY-BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  LOIS THEIS  $ 600,000 
2008  ABSTINENCE TIL MARRIAGE EDUCATION  OH  COMMUNITY BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  CATHERINE E WOOD  $ 600,000 
2008  AIDS RESOURCE CENTER OF WISCONSIN, INC  WI  COMMUNITY BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  SCOTT STOKES  $ 600,000 
2008  ALPHA CENTER  SD  COMMUNITY BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  KIMBERLY MARTINEZ  $ 600,000 
2008  ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES  TX  COMMUNITY BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  SHARI L CARROLL  $ 454,922 
2008  ARIZONA MEXICO BORDER HEALTH FOUNDATION  AZ  COMMUNITY BASED ABSTINENCE EDUCATION  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  ALBERT MORENO  $ 550,000 
2008  AWARE, INC.  WA  WASHINGTON STATE: COMMUNITY-BASED ABSTINENCE UNTIL MARRIAGE PROJECT  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  JAMES N GRENFELL  $ 499,849 
2008  About Our Kids, Inc.  MO  STRATEGIES FOR ABSTINENCE AND VIRTUE EDUCATION (SAVE)  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  ALICIA HUMES  $ 600,000 
2008  Abstinence the Better Choice, Inc.  OH  ABSTINENCE THE BETTER CHOICE  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  CHERYL BIDDLE  $ 600,000 
2008  Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Inc.  AZ  POWER FITNESS ABSTINENCE PROGRAM- TEACHING YOUTH AGES 12 THROUGH 18 THE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGI  Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE)   DISCRETIONARY  EVA GODDARD  $ 600,000 

 

 

 

and $427 mil (see above link “still going strong”) for another code 93.235, plain old “A.E.” Then I searched the word “abstinence” as a keyword in the project title, and got 

 

 

 

 

 In these venues, (once under the facuet of grants and publications  –  alittle easier to do while not being stalked, or in a court case onesself) talking (and publishing) about problems pays more than solving them, in fact, a LOT more.   This also provides an incentive to try to keep actual problem-solvers (like those who have observed and been hurt by the system, and been taking names and notes, too) OUT of the  talkfests, or decision making process, if they are heard.  And, more and more, out of being informed that the decisionmaking process is not where it should be — as to legal matters, in the courts, not the psychologists’ offices.  

Solving problems cuts off cash flow.  There’s  a clear disincentive.  Ask someone who’s life, or whose child’s life is at stake (and who has not got a history of perjury in the case file already) and SHE will tell you, safety first, shared parenting second.  Child’s right not to suffer abuse or be threatened (let alone the mother’s) or kidnapped supersedes person with history of threatening or abuse’s right to see the child. In re:  “healthy marriages,” her /their (if children) right not to be hurt or killed, or traumatized in fear of this happening, or expose her children to being abused, and deal with frequent exchanges with a former batterer (even if the children were not directly battered) supersedes 53 professionals’ need to reconsider this.  At what point are professionals to be forced to read these headlines that we read, and sometimes analyze, kind of like sitting through traffic court and watch graphic accident footage after one was caught speeding. 

I have been through this.  I have been IN a court case, same month, and domestic violence murder going on, same city, and one could not tell from the demeanor on the outside.  My case had a history of violence, injury, repeated disregard of laws, and treats to abduct (which in fact had just happened).  No matter, we are in la-la-land again. . . .   I had a PTSD incident in the courtroom.  No matter. . . .   

SO, my hope is that the general public will become generally acquainted with how this works, so that if one of THEIR friends is involved (and, of course this presumes that my readers are interested in justice, not perverting it) (which may or may not be wise) – – they can at least see where things went.  $$ wise.  This year.

 

Experts are being churned out at an alarming rate.  Grants go to this, too.  Grants sometimes drive the field of expertise, and very much so in this field of fatherhood and families.  I have looked, and can say this.  Have you?  Could you rebut that assertion with data from the top universities around the country, and colleges?  (Not unless several programs disappear fast….)

Do yourself and others a favor — become a LITTLE more expert in this today than you were yesterday.

And show someone else.  OK?

 

One philosophical question I have from time to time is how much of our adult lives (let alone growing up) are spent OUTside any government institutions to start with.  I mean, what part of our lives are NOT regulated, measured, examined and evaluated (at our own expense) to drive policiesi (without our informed consent, really) that will further tinker with the dynamics of eat, sleep, breed, marry, divorce, educate (let’s not omit that) and re-educate, regulate, and direct.   I have an unfortunate independent streak, and I tend to think there are often better ways to do things.  As a woman, I don’t think needlessly repetitive tasks are the natural inheritance of my gender biologically, and although sometimes there’s a comfort in them, there should be other ways to do one thing or another.  

 

Like better, or less wasteful.  The benefit is, getting more done. Take for example, deleting religion from public school systems (supposedly) and then trying to re-inject it after criminal behavior, or during the divorce/separation scenarios.  Take for example, a system that itself stresses and dismantles families, and then another (equally chaotic and burdensome to the general public) system to put them back together again.  Take for example, the talk about “separation of church and state” and then nationally calling upon “faith-based organizations” to, though they are largely tax-exempt, at public expense put them back together again. To WHOM are any of the organizations below accountable, and what demonstration of effectiveness are they showing, or are the “exempt” from that as well as (those that are) from taxes, too?

 

Anyhow, I give you a single “CFDA” (Category of Federal Domestic Assistance) called “Healthy Marriages Promoting Responsible Fatherhood.”  I guess it is assumed that mothers will be healthy without extra coaching and bribing.  Or, that if you get a responsible father (i.e., buy one, and this is explained through another grants systems as well, this IS indeed the premise in practice here – – one has to look at the child support system’s role in divorce).  . . .     or perhaps this acknowledges that for whatever reasons (let’s not mention any OTHER programs this same Of/By/For the people government might have had its hands in), there is a social crisis not just of “fatherlessness” but of “irresponsible fatherhood.”

 

I can vouch for the one I know — father of my children.  He’d rather fight than work any day, which process eventually put me out of work.  No matter, the government stepped in, through family court matters, enter mediation, exit civil rights, eventually exit my contact with my offspring (they did spring out of me, physically.  I pushed, they sprang. . ..  whatever… I was awake for the process and can verify:  I had two children a very long time ago).  And then out they go, to work their own way through life, lest Dad be humiliated by paying much of his child support arrears, which was partly what the battle was about to start with.  I felt that one of us should work, and offered the alternatives of (1) stop messing with me, so I could (since it doesn’t appear you want to) or (2) pay up.  Version (1) entailed requesting a restraining order renewal, or 2nd one, or  . . . . or . . . .   and version (2) required — and I pursued this through the assigned agency – – court-ordered child support should actually be collected before our daughters became adults.  However the MAIN conversation was not about what’s good for the children, but who gets to give orders — forever, basically.   I categorically disagreed with this philosophy as being anti-Constitutional and anti-civil rights and anti-reasonable.  My right to disagree was disagreed with, which makes the situation a GREAT pickings for the family law venue, it LOVES “high-conflict” situations — this draws federal moneys and justifies many professions.   

Anyhow, here they are:  the helpers, last year (2008):

While not all of these were birthed, or even nurtured, by California Healthy Marriages Coalition (“the coalition of coalitions model.”  Sounds kind of like the “war to end all wars,” I don’t know….), they were perhaps started as a gleam in SOMEONE”s eye, having been informed of what’s available from Big Brother, who, on behalf of us all, will make all those ouchies better, soon, soon . .     When we “consent” to taxes, it’s good to know what we have consented for them to be distributed to, well, do.   For example,  ///

CFDA Number = 93086 Fiscal Year = 2008 Recipient: ACTIVE RELATIONSHIPS CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 75205

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0037 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: AS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH  Recipient ZIP Code: 96799

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0054 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $450,000.00
Award Subtotal: $450,000.00

Recipient: AUBURN UNIVERSITY  Recipient ZIP Code: 36849

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0001 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $1,899,487.00
Award Subtotal: $1,899,487.00

Recipient: AVANCE – AUSTIN CHAPTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 78704

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0063 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $261,825.00
Award Subtotal: $261,825.00

Recipient: AVANCE – CORPUS CHRISTI CHAPTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 78415

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0071 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: AVANCE – HOUSTON CHAPTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 77092

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0084 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $236,851.00
Award Subtotal: $236,851.00

Recipient: AVANCE, INC. – EL PASO  Recipient ZIP Code: 79902

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0100 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: Alliance for North Texas Healthy & Effective Marriages  Recipient ZIP Code: 75246

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0072 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $903,425.00
Award Subtotal: $903,425.00

Recipient: Archuleta County Department of Human Services  Recipient ZIP Code: 81147

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0055 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $200,000.00
2008 90FR0055 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $200,000.00

Recipient: Arizona Youth Partnership  Recipient ZIP Code: 85741

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0136 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: BARAGA-HOUGHTON-KEWEENAW CHILD DEVELOPMENT BOARD, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 49931

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0018 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 45230

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0100 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0100 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION  Recipient ZIP Code: 20015

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0058 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $500,724.00
Award Subtotal: $500,724.00

Recipient: BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES  Recipient ZIP Code: 49501

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0057 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $500,000.00
2008 90FE0098 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $499,980.00
Award Subtotal: $999,980.00

Recipient: BETTER FAMILY LIFE, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 63108

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0023 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $1,097,000.00
Award Subtotal: $1,097,000.00

Recipient: BILL WILSON CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 95052

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0096 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $243,469.00
Award Subtotal: $243,469.00

Recipient: BOAT PEOPLE S.O.S. INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 22041

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0032 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $545,806.00
2008 90FR0038 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $795,806.00

Recipient: BOONEVILLE MUNICIPAL SEPERATE SCHOOL DISTRICT  Recipient ZIP Code: 38829

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0036 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $532,675.00
2008 90FE0036 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $532,675.00

Recipient: Brighter Beginnings  Recipient ZIP Code: 94601

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0099 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 90806

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0065 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $450,000.00
Award Subtotal: $450,000.00

Recipient: CATHOLIC CHARITIES  Recipient ZIP Code: 67214

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0112 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $530,368.00
Award Subtotal: $530,368.00

Recipient: CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 92705

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0080 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: CECIL COUNTY GOVERNMENT  Recipient ZIP Code: 21921

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0018 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: CENTER FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 53211

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0013 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $1,096,000.00
Award Subtotal: $1,096,000.00

Recipient: CENTERFORCE  Recipient ZIP Code: 94901

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0004 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $481,554.00
Award Subtotal: $481,554.00

Recipient: CHARACTER COUNTS IN MAINE  Recipient ZIP Code: 04116

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0122 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 85716

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0059 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE  Recipient ZIP Code: 03101

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0077 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $315,830.00
Award Subtotal: $315,830.00

Recipient: CHILD ABUSE COUNCIL, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 33609

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0052 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE COUNCIL  Recipient ZIP Code: 49503

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0038 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0038 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $1,016,258.00
Award Subtotal: $1,016,258.00

Recipient: CHILD DEVLOPMENT RESOURCES, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 23127

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0043 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $249,999.00
Award Subtotal: $249,999.00

Recipient: CHILD, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 78751

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0078 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $511,133.00
Award Subtotal: $511,133.00

Recipient: CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND SERVICE  Recipient ZIP Code: 02903

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0030 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: CHILDREN`S AID SOCIETY IN CLEARFIELD COUNTY  Recipient ZIP Code: 16830

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0118 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $226,000.00
Award Subtotal: $226,000.00

Recipient: CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 90005

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0076 2 ACF 1  09-25-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0076 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $500,000.00
2008 90FR0088 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $1,000,000.00
Award Subtotal: $1,500,000.00

Recipient: CHOANOKE AREA DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 27869

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0001 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $245,296.00
Award Subtotal: $245,296.00

Recipient: CHW DBA CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 90015

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0071 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: CIRCLE OF PARENTS  Recipient ZIP Code: 60611

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0098 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $1,000,000.00
2008 90FR0098 2 ACF 1  06-06-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $1,000,000.00

Recipient: CJH Educational Grant Services, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 27620

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0059 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: CO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES  Recipient ZIP Code: 80236

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0085 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $2,000,000.00
Award Subtotal: $2,000,000.00

Recipient: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY  Recipient ZIP Code: 80523

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0028 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $482,687.00
2008 90FE0028 2 ACF 1  03-18-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $482,687.00

Recipient: COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSN OF COOK COUNTY  Recipient ZIP Code: 60604

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0089 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $450,000.00
Award Subtotal: $450,000.00

Recipient: COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 18109

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0033 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $228,603.00
Award Subtotal: $228,603.00

Recipient: CONFEDERATED SALISH & KOOTENAI TRIBES  Recipient ZIP Code: 59855

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0007 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
2008 90FN0007 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $149,940.00
2008 90FR0006 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $465,494.00
Award Subtotal: $615,434.00

Recipient: CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF SILETZ  Recipient ZIP Code: 97380

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0009 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $149,918.00
2008 90FN0009 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $149,918.00

Recipient: COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 99508

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0066 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0066 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $418,832.00
Award Subtotal: $418,832.00

Recipient: CORNERSTONE OF HOPE CHURCH  Recipient ZIP Code: 46221

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0119 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $350,560.00
Award Subtotal: $350,560.00

Recipient: COUNCIL ON PREVENTION & EDUCATION SUBSTANCES, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 40204

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0007 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $259,532.00
2008 90FR0015 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $499,968.00
Award Subtotal: $759,500.00

Recipient: CRECIENDOS UNIDOS/GROWING TOGETHER  Recipient ZIP Code: 85006

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0010 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $275,000.00
Award Subtotal: $275,000.00

Recipient: CT ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES  Recipient ZIP Code: 06106

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0031 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $1,000,000.00
2008 90FR0031 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $1,000,000.00

Recipient: CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI  Recipient ZIP Code: 65211

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0130 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $499,775.00
Award Subtotal: $499,775.00

Recipient: CUYAHOGA COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS  Recipient ZIP Code: 44113

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0052 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $533,730.00
Award Subtotal: $533,730.00

Recipient: California Healthy Marriages Coalition  Recipient ZIP Code: 92024

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0104 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $2,400,000.00
Award Subtotal: $2,400,000.00

Recipient: Child Find of America, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 12561

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0020 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: Community Marriage Builders, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 47714

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0034 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $543,303.00
Award Subtotal: $543,303.00

Recipient: Comprehensive Youth Services of Fresno, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 93726

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0053 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
2008 90FR0053 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: DC DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES  Recipient ZIP Code: 20032

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0087 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $2,000,000.00
Award Subtotal: $2,000,000.00

Recipient: Denver Indian Family Resource Center  Recipient ZIP Code: 80226

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0081 2 ACF 1  09-26-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0081 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $198,280.00
Award Subtotal: $198,280.00

Recipient: Detroit Workforce Development Department  Recipient ZIP Code: 48202

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0073 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY  Recipient ZIP Code: 27858

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0017 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $525,161.00
Award Subtotal: $525,161.00

Recipient: EAST LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY UNION  Recipient ZIP Code: 90022

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0056 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $1,100,000.00
Award Subtotal: $1,100,000.00

Recipient: EL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN  Recipient ZIP Code: 79930

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0088 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: ELIZABETHS NEW LIFE CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 45405

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0035 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $1,859,692.00
Award Subtotal: $1,859,692.00

Recipient: Employment Opportunity & Training Center of Northeaster  Recipient ZIP Code: 18503

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0060 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $225,608.00
Award Subtotal: $225,608.00

Recipient: Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse  Recipient ZIP Code: 34981

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0025 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $242,822.00
Award Subtotal: $242,822.00

Recipient: FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICE, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 74120

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0007 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: FAMILY RESOURCES INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 33733

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0132 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $1,100,000.00
2008 90FE0132 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $1,100,000.00

Recipient: FIRST A M E CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 98122

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0032 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTHSOURCE  Recipient ZIP Code: 87108

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0061 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $300,000.00
Award Subtotal: $300,000.00

Recipient: FIRST THINGS FIRST  Recipient ZIP Code: 37405

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0031 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $1,099,953.00
Award Subtotal: $1,099,953.00

Recipient: FOREST COUNTY POTAWATOMI COMMUNITY  Recipient ZIP Code: 54520

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0006 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
2008 90FN0006 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $150,000.00
Award Subtotal: $150,000.00

Recipient: FOREST INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY  Recipient ZIP Code: 65807

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0110 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $940,669.00
Award Subtotal: $940,669.00

Recipient: FORTUNE SOCIETY, INC (THE)  Recipient ZIP Code: 10011

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0017 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: FOUNDATION FOR A GREAT MARRIAGE  Recipient ZIP Code: 54115

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0108 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $550,000.00
2008 90FE0124 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $1,100,000.00

Recipient: FOUNTAIN OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES  Recipient ZIP Code: 33027

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0073 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $438,383.00
Award Subtotal: $438,383.00

Recipient: FRIENDSHIP WEST BAPTIST CHURCH  Recipient ZIP Code: 75232

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0117 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $542,025.00
Award Subtotal: $542,025.00

Recipient: Family Guidance, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 15143

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0103 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $1,510,098.00
Award Subtotal: $1,510,098.00

Recipient: Family Service Center at Houston and Harris County  Recipient ZIP Code: 77006

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0082 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $477,539.00
Award Subtotal: $477,539.00

Recipient: Family Service, Inc  Recipient ZIP Code: 01840

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0087 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $227,000.00
Award Subtotal: $227,000.00

Recipient: Family Services of Westchester, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 10573

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0036 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $497,812.00
Award Subtotal: $497,812.00

Recipient: Fathers & Families Resources/Research Center  Recipient ZIP Code: 46208

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0048 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: Florida State University  Recipient ZIP Code: 32306

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0022 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $530,009.00
Award Subtotal: $530,009.00

Recipient: Future Foundation  Recipient ZIP Code: 30344

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0045 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $402,632.00
Award Subtotal: $402,632.00

Recipient: GA ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES  Recipient ZIP Code: 30303

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0064 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $225,000.00
Award Subtotal: $225,000.00

Recipient: GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 55104

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0068 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 78753

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0051 2 ACF 1  09-25-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0051 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $240,000.00
Award Subtotal: $240,000.00

Recipient: GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF PITTSBURGH  Recipient ZIP Code: 15202

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0063 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $225,000.00
Award Subtotal: $225,000.00

Recipient: GRANATO COUNSELING SERVICES  Recipient ZIP Code: 22182

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0006 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $548,932.00
Award Subtotal: $548,932.00

Recipient: GWINNETT CHILDRENS SHELTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 30515

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0104 2 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: HEALTHY FAMILIES COUNSELING & SUPPORT  Recipient ZIP Code: 64119

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0008 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: HEALTHY FAMILY INITIATIVES  Recipient ZIP Code: 77074

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0081 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $537,000.00
Award Subtotal: $537,000.00

Recipient: HEALTHY START, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 15208

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0103 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $900,000.00
Award Subtotal: $900,000.00

Recipient: HOOPA VALLEY BUSINESS COUNCIL, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT  Recipient ZIP Code: 95546

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0001 2 ACF 1  09-26-2008 $0.00
2008 90FN0001 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $146,750.00
Award Subtotal: $146,750.00

Recipient: Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Cou  Recipient ZIP Code: 20009

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0049 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: High Country Consulting LLC  Recipient ZIP Code: 82001

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0025 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $549,952.00
Award Subtotal: $549,952.00

Recipient: IOWA FAMILY POLICY CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 50327

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0126 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: Identity, Inc  Recipient ZIP Code: 20877

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0090 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program  Recipient ZIP Code: 92243

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0075 2 ACF 1  03-18-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0075 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $515,615.00
Award Subtotal: $515,615.00

Recipient: Indiana Department of Correction  Recipient ZIP Code: 46204

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0019 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $249,896.00
2008 90FR0101 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $400,000.00
Award Subtotal: $649,896.00

Recipient: Indiana Youth Institute  Recipient ZIP Code: 46204

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0086 2 ACF 1  09-26-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0086 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $999,000.00
Award Subtotal: $999,000.00

Recipient: JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY  Recipient ZIP Code: 72761

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0004 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $544,782.00
Award Subtotal: $544,782.00

Recipient: Jewish Family & Children`s Service of Sarasota-Manatee,  Recipient ZIP Code: 34237

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0068 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $494,943.00
Award Subtotal: $494,943.00

Recipient: Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 25064

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0012 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $497,514.00
Award Subtotal: $497,514.00

Recipient: Kentucky River Foothills Development Council, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 40475

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0125 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $490,680.00
Award Subtotal: $490,680.00

Recipient: LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 20007

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0072 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $250,000.00
2008 90FR0072 2 ACF 1  04-29-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: LAUGH YOUR WAY AMERICA  Recipient ZIP Code: 54481

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0005 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $274,933.00
Award Subtotal: $274,933.00

Recipient: LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 45206

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0005 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: LIVE THE LIFE MINISTRIES  Recipient ZIP Code: 32317

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0077 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $549,985.00
Award Subtotal: $549,985.00

Recipient: LONGVIEW WELNESS CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 75601

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0091 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $1,500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $1,500,000.00

Recipient: LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA  Recipient ZIP Code: 57105

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0097 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0097 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: MARRIAGE SAVERS OF CLARK COUNTY  Recipient ZIP Code: 45503

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0009 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $540,000.00
Award Subtotal: $540,000.00

Recipient: MD ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES  Recipient ZIP Code: 21201

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0091 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $899,991.00
2008 90FR0092 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $441,514.00
Award Subtotal: $1,341,505.00

Recipient: MODEL CITIES – EL PASO  Recipient ZIP Code: 79935

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0053 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $499,758.00
Award Subtotal: $499,758.00

Recipient: MOREHOUSE COLLEGE  Recipient ZIP Code: 30314

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0066 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $549,147.00
Award Subtotal: $549,147.00

Recipient: Madison Cty Com Health Centers, Inc  Recipient ZIP Code: 46015

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0039 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $546,983.00
Award Subtotal: $546,983.00

Recipient: Meier Clinics Foundation  Recipient ZIP Code: 60187

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0011 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $2,000,000.00
Award Subtotal: $2,000,000.00

Recipient: Metro United Methodist Urban Ministry  Recipient ZIP Code: 92116

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0016 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $268,349.00
Award Subtotal: $268,349.00

Recipient: Minnesota Council on Crime and Justice  Recipient ZIP Code: 55406

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0028 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $400,000.00
Award Subtotal: $400,000.00

Recipient: Montrose County Health and Human Services  Recipient ZIP Code: 81401

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0079 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $249,552.00
Award Subtotal: $249,552.00

Recipient: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARRIAGE ENHANCEMENT  Recipient ZIP Code: 85022

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0040 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE  Recipient ZIP Code: 20877

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FB0001 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $999,534.00
Award Subtotal: $999,534.00

Recipient: NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY  Recipient ZIP Code: 10017

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0090 2 ACF 1  06-06-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0090 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $495,285.00
Award Subtotal: $495,285.00

Recipient: NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF CONCERNED BLACK MEN, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 20006

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0047 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY REGENTS  Recipient ZIP Code: 88003

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0135 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $494,996.00
2008 90FR0057 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $218,336.00
Award Subtotal: $713,332.00

Recipient: NJ ST DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS  Recipient ZIP Code: 08625

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0026 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $394,248.00
Award Subtotal: $394,248.00

Recipient: NORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES  Recipient ZIP Code: 97213

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0079 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $1,100,000.00
Award Subtotal: $1,100,000.00

Recipient: NW Marriage Institute  Recipient ZIP Code: 98682

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0041 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $275,000.00
Award Subtotal: $275,000.00

Recipient: New York Youth At Risk, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 10038

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0093 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $225,000.00
Award Subtotal: $225,000.00

Recipient: Northwood-Apppold United Methodist Church  Recipient ZIP Code: 21218

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0062 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $400,000.00
Award Subtotal: $400,000.00

Recipient: Nueva Esperanza  Recipient ZIP Code: 19140

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0069 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES  Recipient ZIP Code: 48053

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0070 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $200,170.00
Award Subtotal: $200,170.00

Recipient: OAKLAND/LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY  Recipient ZIP Code: 48056

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0010 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $368,555.00
Award Subtotal: $368,555.00

Recipient: OH St Governor`s Office of Faith Based & Comm Initiativ  Recipient ZIP Code: 43215

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0109 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $544,140.00
Award Subtotal: $544,140.00

Recipient: OK ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES  Recipient ZIP Code: 73125

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0030 2 ACF 1  03-18-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0030 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $549,791.00
Award Subtotal: $549,791.00

Recipient: OPERATION KEEPSAKE  Recipient ZIP Code: 44087

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0021 2 ACF 1  03-18-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0021 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $459,419.00
Award Subtotal: $459,419.00

Recipient: OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIAL CENTER OF AMERICA, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 19122

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0016 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: Osborne Association, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 10455

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0050 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $448,856.00
2008 90FR0050 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0056 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $698,856.00

Recipient: PAIRS FOUNDATION  Recipient ZIP Code: 33332

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0029 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $990,000.00
Award Subtotal: $990,000.00

Recipient: PARENTS PLUS  Recipient ZIP Code: 54952

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0113 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $549,629.00
2008 90FE0113 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $549,629.00

Recipient: PEACE, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 13202

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0107 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $465,937.00
Award Subtotal: $465,937.00

Recipient: PEER ASSISTANCE SERVICES, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 80231

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0020 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $525,000.00
Award Subtotal: $525,000.00

Recipient: PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 90003

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0092 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: PITTSBURG PRESCHOOL COORDINATION COUNCIL, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 94565

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0012 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER OF STARK COUNTY  Recipient ZIP Code: 44708

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0055 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $535,075.00
Award Subtotal: $535,075.00

Recipient: PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF WESTMORELAND FAYETTE INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 15601

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0075 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
2008 90FR0075 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: PROJECT S.O.S., INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 32224

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0074 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $454,332.00
Award Subtotal: $454,332.00

Recipient: PUBLIC STRATEGIES INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 73116

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0026 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $1,000,000.00
2008 90FH0001 3 ACF 0  09-29-2008 $3,250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $4,250,000.00

Recipient Recipient: PUERTO RICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 10011

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0013 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $900,000.00
Award Subtotal: $900,000.00

Recipient: Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 63146

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0080 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: Professional Counseling Resources, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 19805

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0046 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: QUILEUTE INDIAN TRIBE  Recipient ZIP Code: 98350

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0002 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $150,000.00
2008 90FN0002 2 ACF 1  09-26-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $150,000.00

Recipient: RECAPTURING THE VISION, INTERNATIONAL, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 33157

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0043 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: RED CLIFF TRIBE  Recipient ZIP Code: 54814

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0003 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
2008 90FN0003 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $146,672.00
Award Subtotal: $146,672.00

Recipient: REGION II COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY  Recipient ZIP Code: 49204

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0078 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $203,854.00
Award Subtotal: $203,854.00

Recipient: REGION XIX EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 79925

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0042 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $900,000.00
Award Subtotal: $900,000.00

Recipient: RIDGE Project, Inc  Recipient ZIP Code: 43527

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0044 2 ACF 1  06-06-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0044 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $412,000.00
Award Subtotal: $412,000.00

Recipient: ROCKDALE HOSPITAL & HEALTH SYSTEM  Recipient ZIP Code: 30012

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0014 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $455,510.00
Award Subtotal: $455,510.00

Recipient: ROSALIE MANOR  Recipient ZIP Code: 53210

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0037 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: Read To Me International Foundation  Recipient ZIP Code: 96815

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0062 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: Relationship Research Foundation, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 92612

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0058 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: Resource, Inc  Recipient ZIP Code: 55404

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0022 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: Resources for Children`s Health  Recipient ZIP Code: 19102

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0040 2 ACF 2  09-26-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0040 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER  Recipient ZIP Code: 87102

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0067 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $549,961.00
Award Subtotal: $549,961.00

Recipient: SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTERS  Recipient ZIP Code: 97212

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0121 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $462,919.00
Award Subtotal: $462,919.00

Recipient: SOUTH PUGET INTERTRIBAL PLANNING AGENCY  Recipient ZIP Code: 98584

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0004 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $150,000.00
2008 90FN0004 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $150,000.00

Recipient: SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE  Recipient ZIP Code: 70813

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0027 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $249,548.00
Award Subtotal: $249,548.00

Recipient: SOUTHWEST KEY PROGRAMS, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 78704

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0034 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $460,000.00
Award Subtotal: $460,000.00

Recipient: ST MARY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY  Recipient ZIP Code: 70538

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0094 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $230,092.00
Award Subtotal: $230,092.00

Recipient: SUNY, STONY BROOK  Recipient ZIP Code: 11794

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0131 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0131 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $549,910.00
Award Subtotal: $549,910.00

Recipient: SUQUAMISH & KLALLAM HEALTH PLAN  Recipient ZIP Code: 98346

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0010 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $150,000.00
Award Subtotal: $150,000.00

Recipient: Sacramento Healthy Marriage Project  Recipient ZIP Code: 95821

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0015 2 ACF 1  09-26-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0015 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $549,256.00
Award Subtotal: $549,256.00

Recipient: Scholarship and Guidance Association  Recipient ZIP Code: 60603

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0042 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $483,333.00
2008 90FE0137 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $242,770.00
Award Subtotal: $726,103.00

Recipient: Shalom Task Force  Recipient ZIP Code: 10274

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0106 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $480,000.00
Award Subtotal: $480,000.00

Recipient: Shelby County Division of Corrections  Recipient ZIP Code: 38103

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0067 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0067 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $500,000.00
2008 90FR0095 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $485,000.00
Award Subtotal: $985,000.00

Recipient: South Coast Business Employment Corporation  Recipient ZIP Code: 97420

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0023 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $400,000.00
Award Subtotal: $400,000.00

Recipient: St. Louis Healthy Marriage Coalition  Recipient ZIP Code: 63103

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0133 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $1,099,882.00
2008 90FE0133 2 ACF 1  06-06-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $1,099,882.00

Recipient: TANANA CHIEFS CONFERENCE  Recipient ZIP Code: 99701

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0005 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $146,016.00
2008 90FN0005 2 ACF 1  09-14-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $146,016.00

Recipient: TEEN-AID, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 99207

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0102 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $495,000.00
Award Subtotal: $495,000.00

Recipient: TEXAS ARMS OF LOVE (dba, PEOPLE OF PRINCIPLE)  Recipient ZIP Code: 79761

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0102 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $425,000.00
Award Subtotal: $425,000.00

Recipient: TEXAS HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION  Recipient ZIP Code: 78711

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0019 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $900,000.00
Award Subtotal: $900,000.00

Recipient: TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS  Recipient ZIP Code: 78666

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0128 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $497,641.00
Award Subtotal: $497,641.00

Recipient: THE DIBBLE FUND FOR MARRIAGE EDUCATION  Recipient ZIP Code:

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0024 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: THE FAMILY HEALTH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 20706

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0084 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $500,000.00
Award Subtotal: $500,000.00

Recipient: THE HIVE CREATIVE GROUP  Recipient ZIP Code: 36303

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0093 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN, INC`  Recipient ZIP Code: 06105

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0045 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: THERAPY HELP, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 80220

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0123 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: TLINGIT & HAIDA TRIBES CENTRAL COUNCIL  Recipient ZIP Code: 99801

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FN0008 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $150,000.00
2008 90FN0008 2 ACF 1  09-26-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $150,000.00

Recipient: TRINITY HEALTH-ST JOSEPH MERCY-OAKLAND  Recipient ZIP Code: 48341

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0099 3 ACF 0  09-17-2008 $545,730.00
Award Subtotal: $545,730.00

Recipient: The Family Life Line, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 87124

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0115 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $495,000.00
Award Subtotal: $495,000.00

Recipient: The South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families  Recipient ZIP Code: 29204

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0021 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $499,456.00
Award Subtotal: $499,456.00

Recipient: Trinity Church, Inc  Recipient ZIP Code: 33168

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0060 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $550,000.00
Award Subtotal: $550,000.00

Recipient: UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 49201

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0138 2 ACF 0  02-11-2008 $1,099,461.00
Award Subtotal: $1,099,461.00

Recipient: UNIVERSITY BEHAVIORAL ASSOCIATES  Recipient ZIP Code: 10467

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0086 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $495,000.00
Award Subtotal: $495,000.00

Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES  Recipient ZIP Code: 72205

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0041 2 ACF 1  08-26-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0041 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA  Recipient ZIP Code: 32826

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0003 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $273,293.00
Award Subtotal: $273,293.00

Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION  Recipient ZIP Code: 40292

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0002 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $542,920.00
Award Subtotal: $542,920.00

Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL  Recipient ZIP Code: 27599

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0094 2 ACF 1  06-06-2008 $0.00
2008 90FE0094 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $530,482.00
Award Subtotal: $530,482.00

Recipient: UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 51342

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0082 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $225,000.00
Award Subtotal: $225,000.00

Recipient: UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY  Recipient ZIP Code: 84322

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0129 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $417,324.00
Award Subtotal: $417,324.00

Recipient: Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation  Recipient ZIP Code: 55408

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0033 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION  Recipient ZIP Code: 05401

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0029 2 ACF 1  07-31-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0029 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: VISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC  Recipient ZIP Code: 92084

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0024 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: WAIT Training  Recipient ZIP Code: 80111

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0051 3 ACF 0  09-26-2008 $1,010,330.00
Award Subtotal: $1,010,330.00

Recipient: WAYNE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY  Recipient ZIP Code: 48192

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0008 2 ACF 2  06-06-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0008 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

Recipient: WELD COUNTY RESOURCES DEPARTMENT  Recipient ZIP Code: 80632

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0134 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $974,358.00
Award Subtotal: $974,358.00

Recipient: WOMEN’S OPPORTUNITY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC.  Recipient ZIP Code: 59802

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0054 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $212,399.00
2008 90FR0054 2 ACF 1  06-06-2008 $0.00
Award Subtotal: $212,399.00

Recipient: WSOS COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 43420

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0011 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $249,492.00
Award Subtotal: $249,492.00

Recipient: YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION  Recipient ZIP Code: 04073

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0014 2 ACF 1  06-06-2008 $0.00
2008 90FR0014 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $245,333.00
Award Subtotal: $245,333.00

Recipient: YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, INC  Recipient ZIP Code: 87105

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0047 3 ACF 0  09-25-2008 $900,000.00
Award Subtotal: $900,000.00

Recipient: YWCA OF SAN ANTONIO  Recipient ZIP Code: 78205

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0127 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $529,585.00
Award Subtotal: $529,585.00

Recipient: YouthLaunch, Inc.  Recipient ZIP Code: 78731

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0069 3 ACF 0  09-14-2008 $243,315.00
Award Subtotal: $243,315.00

Recipient: enFAMILIA, Inc  Recipient ZIP Code: 33033

FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FR0039 3 ACF 0  09-22-2008 $250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $250,000.00

 

Total of all awards: $118,310,126.00

  FOR OUR NEXT “CLASS” WE WILL LEARN HOW TO EXAMINE ONE OR TWO OF THESE GRANT RECIPIENTS.   ///