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Don’t know Who or What ~QIC-NRF ~ is? Looks like neither do the AHA, the NFI, the ABA Center on Children and the Law, and HHS/Children’s Bureau (at least as uploaded at UCBerkeley’s School of Social Welfare CalSWEC) who collaborated on IT, then reported IT as a WHO (2010). File under Fatherhood Engagement Absurdities — or at least, lots of anomalies — 2010
The title of this post I started Feb 15, 2017 Don’t know Who or What ~QIC-NRF ~ is? Looks like neither do the AHA, the NFI, the ABA Center on Children and the Law, and HHS/Children’s Bureau (at least as uploaded at UCBerkeley’s School of Social Welfare CalSWEC) who collaborated on IT, then reported IT as a WHO (2010). File under Fatherhood Engagement Absurdities — or at least, lots of anomalies — 2010. (case-sensitive shortlink ends in -5U6)
It was “on ice” for a few weeks (see yesterday’s post for an idea why) and having been pretty full of information and annotated images done early on (mid-Feb. 2017), I’m publishing it early March 2017. I added some material towards the end, but not much more. One entity that may get its own character assessment is the Buhl, Idaho (address) NYC Park Avenue (Legal Domicile) Intensive Family Preservation Services National Network, Inc.” whose website is NFPN.org and is selling “three tools to 50 Domestic and Foreign Agencies” (that’s from the FY2015 return found at Charities NYS.com) to train direct service workers, doing this tax-exempt. Interesting scenario -I’m uploading several miscellaneous images (most from Year 2002) and the link is to that whole tax return from 2002 showing “Name Change” on top-left, and a number of other very interesting items. Which would take a while to narrate (not on this post…., though!).
[This short section adds those images].
This image is from Charities NYS on what’s now called “Intensive Family Preservation National Network, Inc.” — at least in NY. So Far, I’ve not been able to find ANY registration for it in Idaho, either charitable (Idaho doesn’t require charities to register) or as a business entity (under either name). I’m not finished looking, but under a straight name search, no deal so far. //LGH
X in upper left corner is for “Name Change.” So it changed its name TO “National Family Preservation Services, Inc.” FROM something else. I notice the NYS filing (and this is a NY Legal domicile entity, despite its “Dairyland” (Idaho) address) reads as it does now: Intensive Family Preservation Services National Network, Inc. The NYS filing shows it started in 1992 (as I recall, adding the link here, with two images) as that name and no “dbas” (at least in NY) are listed. The tricky part is, originally (or at least around turn of the century) its revenues were more dominated by contributions with only (as on this 2002 Form 990) about $25K “Program Service Revenues (Part I, LIne 2, page 1). That just about equals the expenses later in the return. By 2015, the return is showing there have been no contributions except a single $40,000 (even) for the past 5 years (or so), and most revenue is from Program Service Revenues. The products they are selling seem to be proprietary software-based. Surprise, surprise. See “Raymond Kirk, Ph.D.” (or “Dr. Kirk” from NC, per website). SOMEONE is being paid royalties as part of the tax-exempt services under this 501©3.
Click to read (includes some of above images): NFPN “Safe Children Strong Families” (IDAHO) Form 990 2002 last 2 pp lists Bd of Dirs affiliations One is NJ Office of Child Support & Paternity) EIN#133715995_200212_990
From NYS Business Entities Search (screenprints, repeat the search if you’re curious!). The next link is to an IRS search showing (maybe make a note of it) that this IRS search database doesn’t necessarily display an entity’s LEGAL DOMICILE but possibly filing address. I don’t know (will try and find out, however). That’s interesting, because I don’t see it registered as a business OR charity in Idaho.
IRS ‘Exempt Orgs Select Check’ showing EIN#133715995 belongs to Intensive Family Preserv’n Svces Nat’l Network Inc in Buhl ID (I think legal domicile is NY though) (option Is Elegi 
If you can view this image (I didn’t provide a pdf link) on your device, notice lower right corner shows that IF we are talking about the same entity throughout, this one was first (at least in NY) named IFPSNN, Inc. not NFPN, Inc. (using their acronyms here just for the caption). Also start date, and absence of any “Registered Agent” or floor or suite# at the 695 Park Avenue NYC address (!!)
That was a “sneak preview” of another subject matter, only touched on again at the bottom of this post.
(End of update section adding NFPN images)
My previous attempt at this title gives a bit of a preview:
2010, report on the QIC-NRF (“CWS”) One-Day Social Worker Training Curriculum for Father Engagement, despite help from of the NFI, The AHA, and HHS and as uploaded at CalSWEC.Berkeley.EDU, holds Misleading, Internally Inconsistent and Inaccurate Info on Award 90CA1025 (which doesn’t exist)
THIS material (now, post) previously located at, introducing, and probably overlap in content with:
“Progressive Language Creep Section from 2012 “Reconceptualize This” post (reviewed and reformatted 2017)“[with short-link ending “-5SR, “]
- Under THAT post, I called THIS post “2017 Offspring #1”
Which, being a clean-up and update formerly concluding a January 22, 2012 post called:
ABA, APA, AFCC, AAML, . . and others: Reconceptualize This! [Some Ohio Councils, Commissions, and Headlines, Incl. Basic Links][Chosen to represent 2012 in my 2017 Retrospective, includes its own] with case-sensitive shortlink ending “-101” (all numbers).
Which ending section of 2012 post began like this:
NOW LET’S LOOK AT SOME OF THIS PROGRESSIVE LANGUAGE CREEP AS FACILITATED BY CERTAIN ASSOCIATIONS**…
[***Referring in that 2012 context to the ABA. the APA, the AFCC, of course, the AAML]
NOW that I’ve clarified (or perhaps further muddled?) the relationships between my own posts spanning a five year learning curve on projects (like this QIC-NRF) and involved entities (including but not limited to those named in the post title) I raised five years ago, as a volunteer public-interest investigative blogger for these efforts, …..
…. can we talk about how some other powerful, well-heeled and well-positioned longstanding entities including one big player from the public resource sector (US DHHS/CB), paying (tba — read my post!) one of the private entities almost $5 million over about the same number of years, managed to confuse a What for a Who (or hope we’d take that bait), and while doing so, got the grant name wrong too? I searched “QIC-NRF” again, and from two pages of results, chose to look at one on the first page posted at CalSWEC.Berkeley.edu and representing a 2010 report.
This is what raised (because the uploaded document– not produced but certainly promoted by CalSWEC at Berkeley School of Social Welfare — cited to a certain grant) more “anomalies” as there was no such grant. Looking closer, I then saw the “avoidance” language (and internal inconsistencies) in the opening pages, and decided to go explain why, especially at $1M/year grants from the public (administered by the Children’s Bureau of ACF of HHS), this was so inappropriate.
Showing Search results for QIC-NRF referring to this flyer
<==The attempt to portray the It as a Who even included — not for long, apparently — a one-page flyer advertising the website fatherhoodQIC.org (as displayed on website starting NWCCE.org. (<==see funders) which, at Hunter College (CUNY)‘s (<==Wiki – Read –it began as a “normal school” (training teachers) and all-women, until 1964. It’s also a public college ). Silberman School of Social Work, stands for “National Center for Child Welfare Excellence“) which flyer looks like this:
You can probably read, but if not, Click here to see flyer advertising fatherhoodqic.org
But once clicked on, leads instead to this:
And a wrong grant # substituted for the right one, obscuring that nearly ⅓ of grants to the entity whose name was omitted from the paragraph providing the (wrong) HHS grant# were TO the AHA and FOR the purpose of fatherhood engagement, per TAGGS.HHS.gov results.
It’s important, or I wouldn’t post it! However I will at least change the background-color of that section and use a smaller font. (A first attempt to keep it in place on the Progressive Language Creep post…)
Let's Get Honest! Absolutely Uncommon Analysis of Family & Conciliation Courts' Operations, Practices, & History 
So, You Want Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But No Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Publ. May 27, 2022].
with one comment
This is an opportunistic post. I exploited the opportunity to leverage another’s single, recent Tweet to make a few points and share some relevant information others that Tweet withheld. “You” in post title references who sent that quoted (and embed, with my responses) below.
I’ll repeat the title link and surrounding text below the “Foreword” added later:
Yeah, I talk Ohio HB 508, Ohio DVN (and with it, Ohio IPV Collaborative), OhioJudges.org (a bit),** JD Supra, LLC (in California) just because, UNLIKE NFVLCgwu, it published a few articles by Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP, KJK.com (an Ohio law firm with offices in Cleveland and in the state capital, Columbus) and because one of its just three family lawyers (with the most recent J.D. and Bar passage) actually did post a link to HB508 and even, briefly, explained a few things about it.
(**whatever I had to say about OhioJudges.org is on Twitter; I didn’t get to it this time around, and I do not have the full overview yet. IT was referenced in the Tweet I’m responding to, and would be good to develop an awareness of, especially if you live in Ohio (and I imagine other states have their versions, too).
It wasn’t too surprising that the Family Law part of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP had several references to High-Conflict and Parental Alienation. At least, on JD Supra®, the article published by one of the Family Law team provided the courtesy of a link to the bill from a government website (continued below Post, and related post titles)..
Post Title: “So, You Want Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But No Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Publ. May 27, 2022].” (short-link ends: -ez3) . . . .
Off-ramped “Foreword” — I had a LOT more to say, but moved it over to a related or “twin” post. About to publish both of them the same day, or at most one day apart. This one first…The other one delivers a bit of a bombshell, but at least helped answer some long-standing concerns I had about the situation in Columbus…
More Ohio, Ah, ‘Evolving Situations,’ Like Capital University Law School’s NCALP, I mean FYouthLaw (to end Aug. 2022) with its Ohio IPV Collaborative and Family Advocacy Clinic with Wexner-Epstein (Yes, THAT Epstein) Connections [Publ. May 28, 2022] (case-sensitive short-link ends “-eBE”)
The KJK.com article #1 of just 2 on JD Supra® platform:
JDSupra.com “Branding – Visibility – Intelligence – Guidance” ” Leverage Your Thought Leadership”
JD Supra, LLC Content Marketing (but began with focus on helping law practices develop their bran ds) is interesting and you probably should take notice, on its own. Just two co-founders… Aviva Cuyler (name found on BizFileOnline.SOS.ca.gov, i.e., the LLC-lookup) and Adrian Lurssen (LinkedIn) (The “u” in Lurssen should have an umlaut). JD Supra, LLC is impressive, though several delinquencies noted at the secretary of state. I won’t deal with those here. Aviva Cuyler’s school of law was in Connecticut, she passed the California Bar, but has since (about 2015/ this LLC only formed about 2007) become inactive (through non-payment of fees), most likely because with this business model, she doesn’t need to practice law!
(For a sample, search @JDSupra on Twitter and see just how many types of accounts / newsletters, reports, etc. are shown!)
Also in the collective “Oppose Ohio HB 508” mix I found getting some local Ohio media mentions, and in four comments submitted on the text of the bill itself) a unique, i.e., easily searchable surname “Nancy Fingerhood“[<~Facebook], a self-identified “NSPC” member and Tina Swithin One Mom’s Battle group member (Nov. 26, 2021, in “The Vindicator,” and Guest Opinion, April 15, 2022, in Cleveland.com). Fingerhood’s name surfaced while I was searching for the bill and “shared custody.” She seems associated, so far, with New Jersey, Colorado, possibly California, or at least with OMB in California, and now Ohio… I added to this already full topics list only because NFVLCgwu (whose Tweet I’m responding to) collaborates with, publishes supportive comments from NSPC (National Safe Parents Coalition) member (Ms. Swithin) and was even featured on a paid-for press release.
In other words, an NSPC/”OMB” connection in this context is relevant; see my posts February – April, 2022. otherwise I wouldn’t bother mentioning a single, though vocal, individual. To find them, either just search “FamilyCourtMatters.org NSPC” (Google, or whichever search engine you use) to browse those post titles, or, I’ll make it simple — because my April 4, 2022, post lists the others and includes a captioned images from its PR-Web announcement. Someone associated with non-entity “NSPC” sponsored the announcement, NFVLCgwu seconded it (see nearby image). Click on link to access the other post titles & links, in this color background. If you want to. One of those posts details the name-changing/shape-shifting California LLC and nonprofit (as though one container was emptied and the contents placed into another), as well as its profiting alongside and copying the business model of AFCC individuals using the term “High-Conflict” (Bill Eddy and others)… And charging Moms to sit through training, building that network, etc.
I also provide below an informal, by-recall, bulleted list of relevant OHIO factors I previously posted or at least noticed on this particular state. Among those, the fatherhood grants (not always under the expected CFDA program numbers, that is, federal grants program labeling, far exceeds those allocated to domestic violence program numbers. (CFDA.gov wording has changed, but the program numbers, I believe, are retained. “Category of Federal Domestic (meaning, USA, vs. international) Assistance), and large amounts were going to a single Ohio university.
Because the May 18 tweet tagged (and a later one, quoted) the Ohio DVN, I brought up the Ohio IPV Collaborative at Capital University Law School (a private university in the state capital, with an “ECLA” seminary on campus, ‘Trinity Lutheran.”). Ohio DVN is listed as a member of that “collaborative.” (ECLA: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, organized in 1988, more progressive than some other varieties, three (churches) merged to form this one; some others, probably, split off in response over (the usual volatile issues).. Its HQ is in Chicago).
The Ohio IPV Collaborative automatically raises the issue of public/private partnership with (as to both public and private entities) known father-focused groups, parts of the state government, and and almost slavish, obsequious, “star-struck” commitment to sponsor David Mandel’s “Safe & Together Institute” model, state-wide trainings, etc. I will link to some previous posts (on Ohio IPV, some of this), but may have more to say here — ALL of this plays into the proposed legislation, and should (naturally) have been mentioned (years ago) by those so vocal to oppose it, whether or not such opposition is appropriate. (From what I can tell, it probably is — but that’s not my point here..).
RE: NFVLCgwu
Remember, as pertains to domestic violence, abuse of former or current (female) partners and subsequent murder of their (or her) biological children in the context of “family courts” — as described on its website, “NFVLCgwu doesn’t even mention or say “family courts,” let alone “domestic violence,” but only “family violence.”
While we may like to assume there is a feminist drive and concern, this certainly isn’t embedded into the center’s purpose, as it was (at least in business entity name) with predecessor “Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (“DVLEAP“) under the same director, Joan Meier. Its website, so far, hasn’t posted a public copy of any tax return beyond 2019 (Fiscal Year Ending Dec: EIN# is 201076297.
DVLEAP Tax Returns show how NOT grass-roots it is, and how accurate in its financial filings: Here’s itsForm 990 FY2018from Candid.org: 3 employees, about $500K (½ million only) gross receipts, and its main activity — ALMOST self-supporting, not quite (per page 2 of return) is “DC LEAP,” i.e., such advocacy only in the DC metropolitan area. Its description of activities “nationwide” per the IRS instructions should be (but isn’t) broken down by expense and program type and, anyhow, is minimal. Two employees are Joan Meier (not paid much, as this is in addition to, presumably, her salary from George Washington Law School), and LeAnn DeReus. As I noticed with the public copy FY2019, there are internal discrepancies (in numbers) regarding Schedule G Fund-raising expenses which is the supporting detail for Summary, which just don’t reconcile (although not in exactly the same manner). $21,000 is claimed for “professional fund-raising fees” and the place where the individual or company which got this should be named, reads, “see Part IV Statement 1” — which is missing. It also claims $89K fund-raising “expenses” which isn’t born out on Schedule G, either. Oh well…
Despite so little to track, for a return due the prior April, it only filed by mid-November), does so almost invisibly at the very bottom of its website (in gray on black fine print), and the link to its “Annual financial audits” (which isn’t even the proper term: either produce Annual Reports, or Audited Financial Statements — or both…) is circular and leads back to the 990s. So, those audited financial statements since 2004 (or, the most recent) aren’t even available (at least through direct links) on-line, a situation it seems few people called them out on, as it was so years ago also. It’s probably time for an updated (quick) review of both the website and what (little) information, though still important to understand, of this nonprofit.
DVLEAP being also a member of the District of Columbia “Coalition Against Domestic Violence” (DCCADV.org) must “toe the line” of the federally-funded coalition, which in each state (or D.C.) also controls (basically) its members — and that standard we’ve already noticed incorporates tolerance and encouragement/welcoming of partnerships (informal or consulting or otherwise) with fatherhood-friendly, father-engagement professionals, across the board.
In this post I also raise surrounding points, and mention organizations and non-entities at law schools that continue to surface in my blog, regarding this strange state of Ohio. When you do this kind of writing for a dozen years or so, specific states have their unique characteristics, or catch my attention because of (usually) specific types of, well, corruption or centralization outrages. Ohio just keeps coming up…
I footnoted another blog post where Ohio domestic violence (or fatherhood-promotion) organizations or other features play a key role. I know there were several.
Another one, drawing down Federal SAMHSA funds, was so complicated, I felt I should issue a disclaimer “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” in its title, or close to its long, convoluted title… (AFCC member/s-involved… the field was parenting education)…I see it was posted Christmas Day: Dec. 25, 2018. In my personal life narrative, I’d relocated from California, and was in a good, safe place (and lease!) at the time. FYI, in general, I just don’t do holidays — any of them — any more.
This post “So, YouWant Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But You’ve Not Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Draft May 24, 2022].” (short-link ends: -ez3) also tests my research to production speed, sort of a personal challenge. These can backfire, but rarely without educating myself alongside sharing what I find. Without that side benefit, I might have quit years ago..
This is the May 18, 2022, Tweet:
(This and the next few quotes are in text format: further below I provide as “Embedded Tweet.” I can only embed my own Tweets, but as they’re replies, they’ll connect to the others).
“OhioDVN” I already knew, so I looked first (as I recall) at “OhioJudges.org”; learned a lot there, and said I said the next day, May 19, first:
Then (a “Quote re-Tweet,” i.e., replying via RT):
So you can see that basically, this post springs from two urges: (1) my desire to share links and look-up of the Bill in question and some (not-that-) peripheral** discoveries to add to other awareness of who and what is “Ohio” and is going on in Ohio in this context because it’s timely, interesting, and relevant, and (2) my irritation at how the individuals associated with the NFVLCgwu (non-entity), boasting and publicizing consistently their resources (Endowed Chair for Director at GWU Law School) and any media or academic citations as showing their importance to the field emphasize joining and following but neglect basic, common-courtesy links and points of reference to what, at any point in time, they are actually talking about.
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May 27, 2022 at 12:28 PM
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