I think that at some level, this country (USA) has to be collectively held responsible for just “going with the flow” in this field, including tolerating Presidents that rule by Executive Order, giving tax perks (tax-exempt status) to religious institutions which historically (along with plenty of others) abuse boys and girls — with impunity for too long — and continue to fund departments such as the Health and Human Services, which — while it dispenses valuable medical research, Medicaid, etc. — is entirely out of control.
Feedback from the post recommended the bottom section be moved to the top. This 12/8/2011 revision does so. Often the idea that inspires a post gets gradually removed to the bottom, as the front matter (including further explorations of the matter) grows, pushing the punch line further and further down the page.
Let’s look at a Massachusetts report detailing “The Money Behind the Madness” which is not so emotionally disturbing one misses it’s common sense, and that is where I’d like to end this post on a fine December day.
Thanks (anonymously) the friend who forwarded this. I’m marking this section RED, which in the context of Traffic Lights (cf. “trafficking”) stands for, STOP!
See, there are the conservatives (Eagle Forum), and family preservationists — and they report on CPS stripping married couples of their kids, but are hard of hearing when it comes to an individual mother needing to flee an abusive husband or father — because they are father-oriented by virtue of religious inclinations. (Not to mention the existence of plentiful fatherhood incentives as well).
Then there are people like me, who thought they were normal citizens with some sort of rights, only found differently when their case went from protection against abuse to fight for custody. Into the family law system. In this phase of life, being a “conservative” will not help one much — because conservatives aren’t much into, say, divorce. You’re on your own there, baby…
Adoption Bonuses — Why Not Support the Biological Parents Instead?
After this article (including my comments during it) material below checks out some of the groups and funding. Please note that funding continues even if audits show noncompliance; and who knows, really, where the difference between a monthly simple support of a family, to the (more than double the size) payments to the foster care contractor to find foster care parents to house the same kids.
Moreover, we KNOW — it’s not speculation, it’s pretty obvious by now — that SOME (and what %, only good accountability — which we don’t have — would tell) — that there is massive trafficking of children in compromised situations (foster care, or institutions like Boys’ Town, Nebraska) into sex slavery, to high-ranking officials, who can then be blackmailed with the photographs. This also relates naturally to money, drugs, murder, banking (The Franklin Credit Union in this case) and politics. Documentation by a U.S. Senator (John DeCamp) and subsequent court transcripts (cited) and a million-dollar award to one of the victims of trafficking from age 3 through 17 (Paul Bonacci) show that this extended to the White House parties after parties. Other testimony of a young woman who reported, mentions George H.W. Bush.
This is not “sex, drugs and rock and roll” — it’s access to vulnerable kids, incentives to get them away from their parents, sex– with minors, including torture of some of them, drugs, money, blackmail – – – and politics. Who can handle even thinking about this, or emotionally deal with the logical conclusion — that when these hearings came up, the Congress decided NOT to clean its own house; the legislators involved were not removed from office or named, and no attempt was sought by the judge involved to name them either?
Because knowing, from ethical persons, will result in seeking activism — or guilt, or numbing of the conscience to continue life AS IF it were normal, and business if all is well. In an attempt to restructure one’s life somehow to make more time for civic activism.
So, that’s apparently legislative, and judicial leadership in this country. Merry Christmas. That, plus the other financial corruptions in the family court (systemic).
The Per-Capita Bounty on Breaking Up Families**
**Not to be confused with alternate bonuses for attempting to reconcile families which either did not exist, or have already voluntarily broken up, sometimes around abuse or desertion issues. THOSE profits are for the family law practitioners and the various corporations involved, and also have separate federal financing streams. Let me repeat: If you are married but on the radar somehow as abusive, or if you are in particularly a single black woman raising children — it’s fair game. Someone may find an excuse to call CPS and violate all due process rights. After this article, I posted (again) on the black couple with children from Pennsylvania who ran afoul of a new “Child Safety Team” with an agenda to promote awareness of Shaken Baby Syndrome. I found the grants on TAGGS as well. A father was incarcerated wrongfully for a year (shortly after the program was up and running), they medical authorities apparently didn’t know about Rickets among African-Americans, and positive (defense) testimony by a doctor on the same team was suppressed; “experts” used this case to BECOME experts, and when the Dad went in jail — the other children were grabbed by foster care.
SOMEHOW, they managed to sue back, and get some help in doing so. But those stories are further down in the post. I also identified how HHS is helping some coordinated (multistate) adoption centers AND a resource center to create awareness of what a great field this is, to be in.
If growing children cannot bond with their own parents, they WILL find someone else to bond with, another peer group, or another powerful individual — if they are not literally kidnapped by powerful individuals and use in unspeakable ways. Those peer groups are not likely to respect the biological bond between parent and child, and its defensive nurturing qualities. This population is likely to be raised by a government willing to warehouse and label them, drug them (and some recent evidence, testing drugs on foster care kids), and other behavioral science “demonstration” projects funded by the public, and force them to become an ever-consuming (of services, trainings, products, etc.) population.
And for what purpose, what REAL purpose ? to satisfy the IMF somehow? or global billionaires with time on their hands and worlds to revise?The more authoritarian and repressive a society becomes, the more it is simply asking for anarchy — and it will get this. It is about greed, and sale of human beings for greed’s and merchandising’s sake.
In the Bible, “Babylon” is railed and prophesied against in Jeremiah (Ch. 51) Isaiah (21) and Revelations (14, 18). Babylon being the nation that carried Israel away captive and the prophets declared that it had deceived the world (made it drunk, made the nations mad) and vengeance will come:
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
7Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
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Rev. 18 in particular details the greed, merchandising, profits from transporting goods, and in vivid terms pictures their responses when they realize from afar that Babylon is burning. Then it squarely lames the blood of “all that were slain” upon this.
Apart from characterizing the city as a woman (very thinly disguised cultural hatred of women and their sexuality), it seems to me the analogy of drunkenness applies. One of the quotes on this post literally says, “has the nation gone mad?” Long ago, pre-internet, pre-all this — the same sentiment comes out. Notice the contrast between the Merchants — but habitation of “foul spirits” (birds also signifies spirits). I cannot think of anything much more foul than and industry which sells children, with funds collected from the community at large, while promising to help them. And which, when these children then report how they were handled, jails them (happened in the Franklin Coverup), or when it’s well-known that children are both disappearing and/or dying in foster care, the system simply seeks for more clients. The system also currently (custody matters) jails mothers for protesting abuse, or for intervening by fleeing — rather than by the officially sanctioned method, which is having someone ordered into a program, like batterers intervention, treatment for sexual addictions, or other reportedly effective programs which get state adn federal funding.
(*I found another one yesterday, a continuation of one already found allegedly cheating, demanding payments in cash, in 1999, their charitable report is of doing over $6 million of business in Sacramento — California’s capital; the CEO earns $172,000 to oversee this, and psychiatric services of over $200K to one of the Board Directors. It is the largest single contractor for these things. I will report on it, too.).
MERCHANDISING, described . .. .
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1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
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The merchants are waxed rich. . . .. not all the inhabitants. I’m posting a chunk of this (short chapter) for effect — and notice, it’s those that have investments, that own ships, that tule nations, that have goods to sell — that are benefitting; not those who made the ships, or the goods This is the Corporate & Government sectors. The final verse notes that in her (sic) are all the slain of the earth.
There’s a truth to this — for what other reasons to nations go to war, or do people kill each other, besides individually, men may kill for jealousy or feeling betrayed. But usually, it’s for greed. The language is yes, pre-occupied with “fornication” and rejoicing in the destruction of a city (built by men, not women) characterized as female.
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 12The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. 15The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
{Industries, including the entertainment industry, that supported the merchants and kings…}}
23And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
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There’s some truth to this. In 2011, we are watching a globally-designed (by the great men of the earth) monetary system based on strong-arm collection from wage-earners (income tax, child support enforcement also) and with jails and police force to back up the intimidation, shuddering and crumbling — it has expanded beyond the weight it can bear, and never was to hot on accountability either — which helped increase the wealth of some of the “great men of the earth.”
And yes, this is getting people of all ages killed, including people that spoke out against the injustice and what would happen if it didnt’ stop (cf. prophets) and those who simply lived ethcial lives within their means, without devising ways to get rich illegally (tax evasion) or massively rich (multiple income streams), believing in stead in the merits and honesty of working — a job, or a profession — to produce a product or honest service. And they are losing their houses, and sometimes, offspring, while helping bail out banks. The people who helped create the larger and larger income gap do not LIVE in the neighborhoods they helped design, with each other, for others. In far off places (institutions, Institutes, at conferences, in on-line webinars, and on Congressional and other committees) — they design and plan yet more ways to control the population, either social science, behavioral change programs, or basically the threat of prison for noncompliance, and (let me just say it, OK?), abstinence programs – and no indication the leaders of our country pushing this are even faithful to their own wives ,whichever wife it may be at the time. Marriage promotion programs, fatherhood promotion, and one-stop-justice centers — all a public expense with corporate injections.
And I have seen so many out of compliance corporations in the past year, I cannot count. California Healthy Marriage Coalition, I admit, really got under my skin when I saw the two or three corporate suspensions, a Unification church staff member, that Bill Coffin & Dennis Stoica (and others) worked together to get more grants after what proof of any benefit from the first rounds?
So yes, at a certain level, I can see the truth in the angry prophecies of a future day of accountability from The Lord. Some of this is simply about ethics.
I mean no offence to the many good foster care families that I’ll assume (?) are out there, and not making news headlines. Still, the system you are part of, and taking payment from, has its priorities backwards. It’s simply true of institutions — unlike families, which seem to have a certain natural limit (barring polygamy) — they seek to perpetuate and expand, infinitely, and when the society allows this, they do.
From “Massachusetts New” Political — May 5, 2000 (per url)
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore
Massachusetts News
Child “protection” is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it.
The money goes to tens of thousands of a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) DSS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more “evaluators”, junk psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive parents, MSPCC, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc. This newspaper is not big enough to list all of the people in this state who have a job, draw a paycheck, or make their profits off the kids in DSS custody.
In this article I explain the financial infrastructure that provides the motivation for DSS to take people’s children – and not give them back.
In 1974 Walter Mondale promoted the Child Abuse and Prevention Act which began feeding massive amounts of federal funding to states to set up programs to combat child abuse and neglect. From that came Child “Protective” Services, as we know it today. After the bill passed, Mondale himself expressed concerns that it could be misused. He worried that it could lead states to create a “business” in dealing with children.
Then in 1997 President Clinton passed the “Adoption and Safe Families Act.” The public relations campaign promoted it as a way to help abused and neglected children who languished in foster care for years, often being shuffled among dozens of foster homes, never having a real home and family. In a press release from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services dated November 24, 1999, it refers to “President Clinton’s initiative to double by 2002 the number of children in foster care who are adopted or otherwise permanently placed.”
Fiscal Appropriations for “Promoting Safe and Stable Families” for FY2011 was $565,000,000, Appropriations, $468,000,000.
It all sounded so heartwarming. We, the American public, are so easily led. We love to buy stereotypes; we just eat them up, no questions asked. But, my mother, bless her heart, taught me from the time I was young to “consider the source.” In the stereotype that we’ve been sold about kids in foster care, we picture a forlorn, hollow-eyed child, thin and pale, looking up at us beseechingly through a dirt streaked face. Unconsciously, we pull up old pictures from Life magazine of children in Appalachia in the 1930s. We think of orphans and children abandoned by parents who look like Manson family members. We play a nostalgic movie in our heads of the little fellow shyly walking across an emerald green, manicured lawn to meet Ward and June Cleaver, his new adoptive parents, who lead him into their lovely suburban home. We imagine the little tyke’s eyes growing as big as saucers as the Cleavers show him his very own room, full of toys and sports gear. And we just feel so gosh darn good about ourselves.
In other words, what sells it to the public is a good, warm, fuzzy feeling about helping strangers. Open the pocketbooks…..
Now it’s time to wake up to the reality of the adoption business.
Very few children who are being used to supply the adoption market are hollow-eyed tykes from Appalachia. Very few are crack babies from the projects. [Oh… you thought those were the children they were saving? Think again]. When you are marketing a product you have to provide a desirable product that sells. In the adoption business that would be nice kids with reasonably good genetics who clean up good.
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With the implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, President Clinton tried to make himself look like a humanitarian who is responsible for saving the abused and neglected children. The drive of this initiative is to offer cash “bonuses” to states for every child they have adopted out of foster care, with the goal of doubling their adoptions by 2002, and sustaining that for each subsequent year. They actually call them “adoption incentive bonuses,” to promote the adoption of children.
“A Whole New Industry — A Sweet Marketing Scheme”:
Where to Find the Children
A whole new industry was put into motion. A sweet marketing scheme that even Bill Gates could envy. Now, if you have a basket of apples, and people start giving you $100 per apple, what are you going to do? Make sure that you have an unlimited supply of apples, right?
The United States Department of Health & Human Services administers Child Protective Services. To accompany the ASF Act, the President requested, by executive memorandum, an initiative entitled Adoption 2002, to be implemented and managed by Health & Human Services. The initiative not only gives the cash adoption bonuses to the states, it also provides cash adoption subsidies to adoptive parents until the children turn eighteen.
If Clinton had run this through the normal legislative processes, and gotten a public vote — would it have passed? I bet lots of parents who lost children properly to the system ALREADY — would’ve voted NO!
Everybody makes money. If anyone really believes that these people are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, then I’ve got some bad news for you. The fact that this program is run by HHS, ordered from the very top, explains why the citizens who are victims of DSS get no response from their legislators. It explains why no one in the Administration cares about the abuse and fatalities of children in the “care” of DSS, and no one wants to hear about the broken arms, verbal abuse, or rapes. They are just business casualties. It explains why the legislators I’ve talked to for the past three years look at me with pity. Because I’m preaching to the already damned.
The legislators have forgotten who funds their paychecks and who they need to account to, as has the Governor. Because it isn’t the President. It’s us.
The author, Nev Moore, then contrasts the help, support (to “preserve families”) and perks foster parents get, as opposed to a welfare mother, who gets less, and is subjected to far more invasion in the process:
What an interesting government policy when compared to the welfare program that the same child’s mother may have been on before losing her children, and in which she may not own anything, must prove that she has no money in the bank; no boats, real estate, stocks or bonds; and cannot even own a car that is safe to drive worth over $1000. This is all so she can collect $539 per month for herself and two children. The foster parent who gets her children gets $820 plus. We spit on the mother on welfare as a parasite who is bleeding the taxpayers, yet we hold the foster and adoptive parents [who are bleeding ten times as much from the taxpayers] up as saints. The adoptive and foster parents aren’t subjected to psychological evaluations, ink blot tests, MMPI’s, drug & alcohol evaluations, or urine screens as the parents are.
Adoption subsidies may be negotiated on a case by case basis. [Anyone ever tried to “negotiate” with the Welfare Department?] There are many e-mail lists and books published to teach adoptive parents how to negotiate to maximize their subsidies. As one pro writes on an e-mail list: “We receive a subsidy for our kids of $1,900 per month plus another $500 from the State of Florida. We are trying to adopt three more teens and we will get subsidies for them, too. It sure helps out with the bills.”
I can’t help but wonder why we don’t give this same level of support to the children’s parents in the first place?
The writer points out, correctly:
So, if the natural parents were given the incredible incentives and services listed above that are provided to the adoptive parents, wouldn’t it stand to reason that the causes for removing children in the first place would be eliminated? How many less children would enter foster care in the first place? The child protective budget would be reduced from $12 billion to around $4 billion. Granted, tens of thousands of social workers, administrators, lawyers, juvenile court personnel, therapists, and foster parents would be out of business, but we would have safe, healthy, intact families, which are the foundation of any society.
Thank God for writers like this, who in the article recommends boycotting a US stamp which sports a National Adoption Month, and concludes:
“I know that I’m feeling pretty smug and superior about being part of such a socially advanced and compassionate society. How about you?”
“Remember that children in foster care serve many public purposes — not good ones — but they do. They are being USED, and it’s hardly surprising. Children are big bucks — they can be trafficked to serve legislator’s (and others’) perverse passions, and in the process enabling very profitable blackmail of the same. They can be apparently disposed of easier after use than children with involved biological parents and relatives. They can be used to bill the public for unnecessary pharmaceuticals more easily than kids in the home can be, although from what I read, there’s too much of that going on. How many unknown deaths or adverse reactions result from over-dosing kids in foster care? When inappropriately photographed as minors (sometimes without their knowledge), this pornography has a market, too.
Are there good foster, and really bad parents? Obviously. But just as obviously, the system is ripe for abuse. And it’s SYSTEMS we have to watch out for as citizens — or lose it all. Is this country about material prosperity — absent due process? — or about liberty, which will allow individuals to band together freely and seek their mutual prosperity and safety?
When daily survival keeps the average and poor too busy to monitor those with multiple streams of income and time to lobby and devise favorable legislation for favorite projects (or simply by pass the legal process, as too many Presidents have done) — then we are going to compartmentalize the best of humanity away. I see this as an institutional matter — and as such, more people need to stop letting others direct the institutions that direct their lives, and manipulate different segments of society to fight each other.
Justice doesn’t happen without some accountability, whether one believes in a just highest power (God) — or justice underlying the principles by which the universe operates — it seems to me that mass abuse of the young (and using adults as breeding stock) would be its own prophecy of a system and society that cannot survive, that is going to implode, explode, be taken over — or all three.
This article is 11 years old, and I don’t think I could’ve said it much better.
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Trouble with TAGGS.hhs.gov — the free HHS Database for the Public:
The only database available to the public (for free) to really track its grants system — is obviously inaccurate, hard to manipulate even by people familiar with database use (let alone others).
HHS/ACF recently (Oct 2011) announced over $119 million of grant awards — without providing the grant# in the announcement, and (when this was later looked up, by me) it turns out the last names of all principal investigators of said grants — were omitted from the database, having been replaced by first names only! I.e., a grant overseen by a John Smith would read in the printout “John John,” as I showed earlier.
Moreover, TAGGS.HHS.GOV allows search by grantee identifiers such as EIN# and DUNS# — but many grants lack DUNS. The most obvious searchable numeric identifier of any grantee — is not available to search on in the Taggs database under “Advanced Search.”
CFDA# Selections
The website drop-down-type menu showing which of the multitude of program identifiers (CFDA#s) available to track — for those curious about what’s being done within a state, or inter-state — is narrow, long, one can key in a CFDA#, but not search by CFDA title. For example — in this post, I’m talking about Adoption and Foster Care.
To look up which grant programs (CFDA#s) are involved I would have to either already know them, or scroll down the entire list looking for clues.
The list has two columns — it could have been made searchable by either column, or key-sensitive by either column (i.e., if I typed in “healthy marriage” or “Adoption” — the cursor forwards to the first occurrence of it).
The “Award Search Menu” has a list of all these, and one can select them all — but not copy them all, which seems offensive to common sense! Try it yourself (see link). They are not all visible at once, even. The menu which allows one to search by CFDA numbers (select by year and state) requires one to somehow know which numbers first — and no visual reference for them on the page. Why not?
Here’s a recent grant announcment from “Grants.gov”:
If I go about 4 different places, the CFDA# it falls under will show up:
| Funding Opportunity Title: |
Infant Adoption Awareness Training Grants |
| Funding Opportunity Number (FON): |
HHS-2011-ACF-ACYF-CG-0170 |
| Program Office: |
Administration on Children, Youth and Families |
| Funding Type: |
Discretionary |
| Funding Category: |
Cooperative Agreement |
| Announcement Type: |
Modification |
| CFDA#: |
93.254 |
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| Post Date: |
06/02/2011 |
| Application Due Date: |
06/27/2011 |
Then, I could search CFDA 93254 by state, region, or locality — but would not get a numeric identifier of the grantee in the results!
In searching AWARD/CFDA# (and not selecting state or year), I come up with a chart showing this total:
The results are displayed by individual award#s and zip codes — but not States! — are shown. So, if one has a photographic awareness of all 50 states by zip code, one might recognize where the awards went. Awards to a few key groups show up in different zip codes; here are some of them:
(1) Adoption Exchange Assoc. (MD)
Total Actions (under grantee) $ 39,674,027
Showing: 1 – 18 of 18 Award Actions (1995 – 2011)
Total:
Includes programtitles such as:
but also:
(2) Harmony Adoptions of Tennessee, Inc.
Total awards (this grantee) 2007-2011: $ 5,434,761
(From the TN Corporations Search Site):
| Control # |
Entity Type |
Name |
Name Type |
Name Status |
Entity Filing Date |
Entity Status |
| 000365453 |
NCORP |
HARMONY ADOPTIONS OF TENNESSEE, INC. |
Entity |
Active |
02/05/1999 |
Active |
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Website claims they were founded in 1996
Founded in 1996, Harmony Adoptions is a licensed, non-profit adoption agency offering programs nationally recognized for their clinical design, implementation and exceptional outcomes. We are highly trained and passionate about our work and we make a difference in the lives of children and families. Our greatest joy is when a child comes home to their forever family. Our work continues as we support them all along the journey.
They also receive “Healthy Marriage Healthy Family” grants — that doesn’t refer to the biological family (see last article on this post), but adoptive:
The Healthy Marriage, Healthy Family (HMHF) program is a federally-funded program through the Children’s Bureau and was launched in 2006. HMHF was developed in hopes that, by stabilizing the relationship between caregivers, the entire household will stabilize which would result in fewer disrupted placements. By utilizing the existing statewide ASAP (Adoption Support and Preservation) program, HMHF is able to reach, train, and support resource (foster) families and adoptive families across the entire state of Tennessee.
In the TAGG grant (incidentally) the title of this program is mis-spelled for this grantee
NCCSdataweb shows they do have an EIN# Purpose indicates a focus on orphans:
“TO ARRANGE FOR THE PLACEMENT OF ORPHAN CHILDREN LIVING IN THE US AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES WITH ADOPTIVE PARENTS AND TO PROVIDE COUNSELING AND SUPPORT” but the Infant Adoption Awareness Training is focused on pregnant women — not orphans.
| 621772291 |
Harmony Adoptions of Tennessee Inc |
5,546,738 |
700,199 |
2010 |
The words “Awareness (one series), “Healthy” and “Marriage” were misspelled. I wonder if there were similar errors or switching of #s in the amount$ columns…. The misspelling was not corrected for years of grants recordings….four years, to be exact…..
The Exec Director of “Harmony” (earns about $88K) also shows up (former?)University of Tennessee Legal Clinic Director:
Pamela L. Wolf – LCSW, MSW Founder and Executive Director of Harmony
Pam’s focus is the provision of quality services to children and families. As an instructor at the University of Tennessee Legal Clinic, Pam worked to identify comprehensive solutions for homeless families. Pam developed ‘The Parent Refuge’, a program designed to support single mothers. Following the adoption of her daughter, Pam founded Harmony Adoptions. Harmony provides comprehensive adoption services to adoptive families, birth families, adoptees and the community at large. Pam provides leadership for the Infant Adoption. Training Initiative (IATI) and is active with Harmony’s Adoption Support and Preservation (ASAP) program. Both programs tap into Pam’s passion for promoting comprehensive adoption services with her enthusiasm for education
Another director of Harmony in TN notes her background:
Pam Frye – Adoption Services Director for Harmony
She Received her MS in Educational Psychology, Community Counseling from the University of Tennessee. Pam comes to Harmony from the Helen Ross McNabb Center, where she spent 15 years counseling children and their families. Pam has a special interest in the needs of both rural and urban children. She and husband Kevin adopted their daughter from China. Pam’s work at Harmony combines her passions – meeting the needs of children, counseling, and parental education.
Among other things, the Helen Ross McNabb Center partners with TN Dept. of DCFS to help place children in Foster Care…
Helen Ross McNabb Center Foster Care and Adoption Program is a therapeutic foster care program operated in conjunction with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services.
These children have been removed from their homes (and if they do not have appropriate relatives in their own family) are placed in protective custody of the state due to abuse, neglect, unruliness or delinquency. The program recruits and trains caring, structured foster homes to help these children who enter custody with a multitude of problems and needs. . . .A Helen Ross McNabb foster care specialist is a trained case manager with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in the children and families field. The specialist will help the foster family with behavioral interventions if the children exhibit any behavioral issues
The site — which is named Infant Adoption Training Initiative (pretty clearly after the grant series) features three of the recipients from TAGGS, and is copyrighted by them:
Copyright © 2005-2007 Spaulding for Children, Harmony & Arizona’s Children Association.
All rights reserved. Privacy & Terms of Use / ADA Statement
In fact, the initiative is pretty well described as simply a grant program from HHS, and 5 recipients are listed:
What is the Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program?
The Infant Adoption Training Initiative is funded by a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Our Understanding Infant Adoption training program is designed to help health care professionals serving pregnant women and teens discuss adoption as an option with patients and clients who are not sure that they want to parent the child.
(3) Latino Family Institute (CA, Los Angeles area)
Total awards (grantee) since 2000 = $9,947,145
The first two awards show recruitment:
They incorporated in California 1996 (same year as welfare reform, before Harmony — above):
| Entity Number |
Date Filed |
Status |
Entity Name |
Agent for Service of Process |
| C1967025 |
04/18/1996 |
ACTIVE |
LATINO FAMILY INSTITUTE, INC. |
MARIA L. QUINTANILLA |
Their charitable status is also current, although there are no returns (state or federal) showing past the year 2007 in California for this amount: EIN#
| Fiscal Begin: |
01-JAN-09 |
| Fiscal End: |
31-DEC-09 |
| Total Assets: |
$1,344,706.00 |
| Gross Annual Revenue: |
$2,388,114.00 |
| RRF Received: |
18-NOV-10 |
| Returned Date: |
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| 990 Attached: |
Y |
| Status: |
Accepted |
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Their programs include Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Care, Infant Adoption Awareness Training (above), Abandoned Infants Assistance, etc.:
Latino Family Institute is an Adoption, Foster Care, and Family Support agency dedicated to improving social welfare conditions leading to increased family functioning. We enrich society’s foundation by advocating for and implementing culturally effective interventions that elevate the collective well-being of our families.
Vision Statement:
The Latino Family Institute seeks to advance social welfare conditions facing Spanish dominant families. Our vision for every child to have love and permanency in their family of origin. We aspire to preserve the integrity of Latin American cultures among adoptive families and to promote kinship adoptions as a preferred alternative to family integration. We envision a social environment that is sensitive to the complex needs of children in Foster Care and one that is active in reducing the vulnerabilities of such delicate families.
Want more specifics? Read this
2009 Los Angeles County audit of the institute’s compliance with its contract with the county, which also shows some $$ figures, for reference. The Institute Contracts with the Department of Family and Children’s Services to
recruit, train and supervise foster care parents. Based on age, the institute received between $1,589 & $1,865 per month, per child of which parents were then paid between $624 & $790 per month (2007-2008), approximately $352K that year. There’s the profit margin, now who is supporting the Institute, and what are its financials (multiply nationwide – this is the practice, do we know how often?) $1,589 – $624 = the profit (overhead) is $965. “Latino Family Social Workers did not make 3 out of the 5 required visits within the timeframe.”
The ACF report — Children’s Bureau Express — was glowing:
A number of programs have received Adoption Opportunities grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau to carry out demonstration projects designed to improve outcomes for children adopted from foster care. One highly successful program highlighted here illustrates how these grants can be used to find permanent families for specific groups of children, in this case—Latino children in Los Angeles.
In 2000, the Latino Family Institute (LFI) received a 3-year grant from the Children’s Bureau to place 40 Latino children with families. By the end of the project period, the results spoke for themselves: 69 Latino children had been placed in adoptive homes, and 198 prospective Latino families had been recruited. In addition, the awareness of the need for adoptive homes had been heightened in the Latino community, and more than 200 child welfare professionals had received training on using culturally responsive approaches to recruitment and placement.
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Since the end of funding, LFI has continued to provide adoption services and was able to expand programs after receiving additional Federal grants. In 2005, LFI opened a new office following the award of the Abandoned Infants Assistance grant targeting families impacted by substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. In 2007, LFI finalized 76 adoptions. Currently, LFI conducts the Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program {{also an HHS-supported project}} in California and Puerto Rico.
This sounds wonderful. I am wondering how much HHS funding this particular (different) institute gets also from the HHS:
(the group is new to me, but it appears to draw on a number of existing grant programs already):
NLFFI LOCALLY
At the community level, the Institute provides culturally competent curriculum, social and educational services with programs designed to:
- Influence men to become strong Fathers and responsible men
- Assist men is healing and preventing the issue of Domestic Violence
- Strengthen and preserve families
- Address the Issue of Community and Gang Violence
- Promote Rites of passage and Youth Mentoring
- Address the issue of Teen Pregnancy prevention
- Provide culturally competent health and mental health services
In this context, what chance would a Latina mother, if compromised in any other way already, ever have in a custody situation?
About President Obama’s Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative
The White House Initiative on Fatherhood & Mentoring Initiative recognizes that engaged and involved fathers have an incredibly positive effect on the lives of their children. The Initiative is a national call to action to address fatherlessness in America and includes the following steps:
• The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the Office of Public Engagement will host community forums on fatherhood and personal responsibility around the country, in concert with local groups.
• Organizations and Individuals who sign up for the Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative will receive e-newsletters featuring articles, tips and resources from prominent leaders in the fatherhood and family fields and information about model programs.
• Organizations supporting the Initiative will work to have an impact on responsible fatherhood, from local forums with the National Parent Teachers Association to community trainings by the National Fatherhood Leaders Group (NFLG). Partners from the National PTA to the head of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities have signed up to advance the President’s Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative in communities around the country.
Will post separately on this one, I am rather disturbed, and want to find out of MY government is funding it also. . . . ..
In addition there is another nonprofit in Maryland serving the region to coordinate information and efforts to adopt:
http://www.adoptionsupport.org/about/index.php
(In MD a page full of corporations (incl. Forfeited, Suspended & Dissolved names) shows how popular the “Adoptions” field indeed is ….) (EIN# 52-2100734, it does exist; year 2009 reporting $766K contributions & grants plus $716K program services — not bad (the previous year, the program services far exceeded the grants). This, too, is incorporated as of 1998:
This too (per my EIN TAGGS search) got HHS support, starting in the year 2000. As of 2001, faith-based groups (see my last post!) could apply, too, in fact no doubt encouraged to….
WHAT A SHAME THERE ARE NOT MORE HHS GRANTS OR PRO BONO GROUPS TO SUPPORT PROTECTION OF SINGLE MOTHERS FROM INAPPROPRIATELY LOSING THEIR CHILDREN TO ABUSIVE PARTNERS, OR TO THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. THE CHILD SUPPORT SYSTEM HAS VIRTUALLY FUNDED AN ATTACK ON THE STATUS OF SINGLE MOTHERS LEAVING ABUSE, AND IT IS MANAGED BY THE SAME ENTITY, HHS.. . ..
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GRANTS INCENTIVIZE — SO THEY AND THE NONPROFITS GETTING THEM SHOULD BE MONITORED BY THE PUBLIC — BECAUSE THERE IS A PERVERSE INCENTIVE NOT TO MONITOR TOO OFTEN.
This 8,400 word grant began with the following section. What’s above here is (per my style) lengthy intro, combining my lookups with a statement of position. What’s BELOW is what inspired the post.
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Grants and Programs Incentivize Action & Attract Traffic. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Their original purposes can be great — but once set up, the infrastructure is going to want customers. Consider the father that apparenty spent a year in jail apart from his family, innocently, and the WHY wouldn’t have been unearthed unless they’d filed a lawsuit — as I blogged last October, in Courthouse Forum News: Franklin County (PA) OCYF gets sued in Federal Court by Pennsylvania Couple.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) – Parents say they lost custody of their children, were identified as child abusers and the father was jailed for more than a year because doctors and state officials falsely attributed their 4-month-old daughter’s childhood stroke and congenital rickets to child abuse.
Jamel Billups and Jacqueline Rosario, who are black, sued the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Franklin County and its Office of Children, Youth and Families and a long list of individuals, in Federal Court.
The parents say that when their daughter, L.B., suffered a stroke and showed signs of rickets on Oct. 19, 2009, the Child Safety team at Penn State Hershey Medical Centerfalsely blamed her condition on child abuse, and the state then seized her and her 2-year-old brother, T.R., and sent them to foster homes.
About the context:
The parents say the Franklin County Office of Children, Youth and Families “has a policy of relying upon doctors affiliated with the American Academy Pediatrics, whose opinions are tainted by a burden shifting medical presumption that the cause of any intracranial injury in a child under the age of one year is caused by abuse unless the parents provide an accidental explanation, to perform the medical investigation into whether injuries suspected to have been caused by child abuse were, in fact, caused by child abuse.”
They claim that agents of the Office of Children, Youth and Families, defendants Tammie Lay and Dawn M. Watson, “failed to conduct their own independent non-presumption tainted investigation” and “relied exclusively upon the conclusion of defendant Penn State’s Child Safety Team and defendants [Drs. Mark S.] Dias, [Kathryn R.] Crowell and [Arabinda K.] Choudhary that L.B.’s intracranial hemorrhages were caused by abuse on the afternoon of October 19, 2009 and rib fractures were caused by abuse 4 to 8 weeks prior to her hospitalization without conducting any independent medical review or confirmation of their own.”
It is horrible that this child suffered injuries. However, there’s another kind of parent education program which might have been appropriate also:
They say that despite medical knowledge that Vitamin D deficiency can lead to rickets and weak bones in African Americans, Penn State’s Child Safety Team failed to require that L.B.’s blood be tested for abnormal clotting factors or that the child’s or mother’s blood be tested for vitamin D deficiency.
Another Doctor, Charles Pragnell — from outside the US — writes consistently on the problem with medical malpractice in presuming abuse, when it may or may not have been:
How children are suffering harm by those with a duty to protect them.
By Charles Pragnell
The abuse of children is a horrendous and unacceptable crime in any society and it is correct that when such acts occur, immediate protection is available for the children and appropriate action is taken in regard to the offenders.
However, what is also unacceptable is the high level of false accusation of child abuse which also has abusive effects on children and the families who are falsely accused.
According to statistical evidence in 1992 and 1997, over two-thirds of reports of child abuse in the U.K. have NO substantive basis i.e. False and wrongful accusations. [Dept of Health Statistics]. Similar proportions of false accusations were evident during the same time period in the United States of America and in Australia. There is evidence that false accusations of child abuse are occurring for mistaken, mischievous, and malicious reasons.
The current unproven medical theory which is resulting in many hundreds of families being wrongly accused of child abuse is Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy [MSBP], which is causing immense disruption, distress, and harm to children throughout the U.K. In these cases, physicians and social workers allege that parents (usually mothers) have fabricated or induced an illness in their child, yet on examination of such cases it can be found that the children have and are suffering serious illnesses. Groups which seem to have been particularly targeted for such accusations are families with children with Autism, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] or Cystic Fibrosis. In other cases children have suffered adverse reactions to vaccines, or from medically prescribed drugs which have not been clinically tested on children by manufacturers prior to widespread distribution, or from birth injuries.
[[In other words, parents — esp. mothers — properly seeking medical care for their children, sometimes single, sometimes married — are told “it’s all in your head — you are the sick party, you have “Munchhausen’s by proxy” (search my blog)]].
Pragnell’s article seems to cover some factors relevant in the Franklin County Case…
Prosser’s research indicated that the major faults in child protection investigations are :-
- The social workers perceived that abuse had occurred and the accused as guilty from the beginning of the investigation;
- Thereafter the investigators only sought confirmatory evidence of their assumptions and disregarded evidence which would have cast doubt on the allegations;
- Poor recording of evidence;
- Inappropriate interpretations by investigators of statements or actions;
- Idiosyncratic behaviour and interpretation of policies by investigators;
- Investigators focusing on a single piece of evidence and ignoring contrasting sets of evidence;
- Confusion over what constitutes a medical indicator of abuse and a “natural” condition [apparent in MSBP cases];
- High status doctors (consultant) having substantial influence over other investigators. [apparent in MSBP cases];
- Experts deviating from their areas of expertise [apparent in MSBP cases
Prosser identified three major areas of significant concern –
- “The imbalance of power within the investigating agencies;
- The abandonment of professional codes of conduct and practice by some investigators; and
- The failure of the system to adequately acknowledge or compensate the wrongly accused family for the trauma and losses suffered. This latter point is reflected in the statements of some child protection professionals who openly proclaim, “Who cares if nine innocents suffer, as long as we get the guilty one!”.
Finally, Prosser declares, “It is clear that the problem of false accusations remains endemic in both countries”. (U.K. and the U.S.A.).
When it comes to the case in Pennsylvania — I’ll bet the authorities had not expected to be questioned or challenged by a lawsuit! But we can see the suit mentions the over-reliance on the “American Academy of Pediatrics” (AAP). Well – the AAP just happened to be part of the cooperative agreement with Mark S. Dias’ (P.I.) project here! (See below): This is a financial and professional relationship.
(These quotes are from the Courthouse News Article, cont’d)
. . . About the Child Safety Team member’s expert testimony:
The parents add that Dr. Crowell, a member of the Penn State Child Safety Team, “qualified as an expert in child abuse for the first time in her life at the dependency hearing for L.B. and T.R on December 18, 2009. Defendant Crowell was qualified as an expert in child abuse for the second time in her life at Jamel’s preliminary criminal hearing on December 28, 2009. Dr. Crowell acknowledged under oath at Jamel’s criminal trial that she misrepresented medical evidence critical to L.B.’s case when she testified at Jamel’s preliminary hearing.”
She was a doctor, obviously — but was she an expert in identifying child abuse?
Thirty paragraphs later, the parents say that Dr. Crowell “testified falsely that L.B. had ‘an extensive screening’ for ‘coagulation problems’ and ‘an extensive screening for bleeding disorders’ that were ‘normal’ and that L.B.’s ‘metabolic workup was normal.’”
(LGH) Reminder: The Child Safety Team had only been started a few months earlier. Within one month of them being assembled, they had a black father in jail and two kids in foster care, erroneously. The bail was set too high for this man to get out of jail. How many times do we hear of people being quickly sprung from jail after domestic violence? (or sent to diversionary programs instead of jail). See my Toms River article for an example of this, when the woman victim was an employee of the DYFS herself…. But in this case, they kept the father.
This next part, if true, is disgraceful. A medical doctor testifying FOR the family suffered restrictions that ones from the prosecution did not. First, they point out that some doctors (for the prosecution) had liability insurance; while one wishing to testify FOR the family, did not:
The parents say that Crowell was also “paid by, and enjoyed the liability insurance, of Penn State” and was never their daughter’s treating physician.
(I looked up the HHS award for this, principal investigator Mark S. Dias. This nonprofit hospital is a major grants recipient; most of the awards seem for technical clinical research…)
Showing: 1 – 9 of 9 Award Actions
Recipient: MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER
Recipient ZIP Code: 17033-2360
The anticipated program enrollment was 300,000; it is an intervention program and as described, participants were voluntary:
This study is enrolling participants by invitation only.
| Sponsor: |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Collaborators: |
Pennsylvania Department of Health
American Academy of Pediatrics |
| Information provided by: |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: |
NCT00727116 |
Purpose
This project is designed to evaluate a statewide, hospital-based parent education program to prevent abusive head trauma (AHT) in Pennsylvania, and investigate the additional effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of “booster” sessions of parent education delivered to parents at primary care provider offices in central Pennsylvania.
Specific Aims:
- Assess the effectiveness of an established statewide program of hospital-based postnatal parent education about violent infant shaking, provided at a single consistent point in time between the infant’s birth and hospital discharge, in reducing the incidence of AHT.
- Identify while [[I believe they mean “which“]] component(s) are the most important mediators of the intervention’s effectiveness; determine whether the intervention effect is more directly related to changes in perpetrator or caregiver behavior; and determine the effectiveness of the intervention among various socioeconomic groups.
- Determine the cost effectiveness of the hospital-based program.
- Establish the feasibility, additional costs, and effectiveness of a combined program of repeated exposure delivered both post-natally in the hospital and during follow up 2-, 4- and 6-month outpatient health maintenance visits with the pediatric care provider.
| Condition |
Intervention |
Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury
Child Abuse |
Behavioral: PA Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program: State-wide
Behavioral: PA Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program Booster: Central PA |
| Study Type: |
Interventional |
| Study Design: |
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention |
| Official Title: |
Pennsylvania Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program |
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Incidence of abusive head trauma in infants [ Time Frame: 3 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
| Estimated Enrollment: |
300000 |
| Study Start Date: |
January 2008 |
This sounds like an excellent program, and obviously knowledge about the danger of shaking babies in anger is vital. But in application — something happened, which resulted in an innocently jailed father, and children wrongfully in foster care, for a year!
Detailed Description:
Upon the birth of the child, all parents (mothers, and whenever possible, fathers or father figures) will be asked to read written materials and view an 8-minute video on the dangers of violent infant shaking. Parents will be asked to voluntarily sign a commitment statement affirming their receipt and understanding of the materials; these commitment statements will be sent to the Principal Investigator. A random subset of parent participants will be asked to voluntarily answer a short questionnaire about their impressions of the materials. In addition, 31 counties in central Pennsylvania will be randomly divided into two groups. In 15 counties, the hospital-based intervention will remain as described above. In the other 16 counties, all primary care providers having offices in those counties will be asked to provide all parents of newborns at the 2-, 4-, and 6-month immunization visits.
Investigators
| Principal Investigator: |
Mark Dias, MD, FAAP |
Penn State University Hershey Medical Center |
More Information
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Did the additional state incentives for foster care parents play a role above as well? Jail Dad, Mother separated from children, kids in foster care.
I focus more on the family court system (which is abusive to families, and the public through violations of due process, and more), moreso than “child abuse,” foster care, or adoption per se. However, this system sometimes ends up with kids in foster care because one parent kills the other (one in jail, the other deceased) for a variety of reasons. Then headlines also show cases of children escaping from brutalization in foster care, or dying in there. Both happen.
And there seems there is no longer any question that children have been trafficked for sex abuse and used as entertainment by high-profile politicians, in numbers unknown — as the Franklin Coverup (Nebraska, Larry King, John DeCamp reporting, victim Paul Bonacci testifying, an investigator’s plane shot down in mid air (killing him and his son) as he returned with photos from an interview, involvement of Nebraska Boys’ Town, etc.). No one normal can continue life “as normal” and retain an awareness of these activities, in our country; for sheer emotional survival, we back-burner it, and then believe that somehow CPS and other agencies will take care of the dirty business. Yet in the subsequent investigation, the now grown Paul Bonacci was awarded $1 million for damages, yet not asked to identify the Congressional leaders involved!
This article is too disturbing, and not “casual conversation.” As the point of THIS post is to expose the incentives for putting children needlessly into foster care and up for adoption — and to show an article neatly summarizing it from the year 2000 — let me just post the opening paragraph of the 2005 Article, detailing what is a curious lack of investigation by the highest investigatory powers in the US, or among them (not including Homeland Security, post 2001). This is the summary of the matter — and please keep it in mind when one becomes aware of the immense foster care industry: As this is talking about destinations of vulnerable kids and how they really cannot get out on their own, safely, once in this ring. As posted on TomFlocco.com (this was shared with me, I didn’t look it up):
The Justice Department, acting through the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Omaha, emerges from the record of the Franklin investigations not so much as a party to the cover-up, but as its coordinator. Rigging grand juries, harassment of witnesses, incitement to perjury and tampering with evidence -federal personnel were seen to apply all of those techniques in the Franklin case. (John W. DeCamp, Esq., The Franklin Cover-up, Second Edition, January 2005)
Bless the Beasts and the Children
Photographer for White House child sex ring arrested after Thompson suicide
by Tom Flocco
WASHINGTON—March 13, 2005—TomFlocco.com—Photographer Russell E. “Rusty” Nelson was recently arrested two days after journalist Hunter Thompson reportedly committed suicide four weeks ago on February 10, according to two phone interviews with attorney John DeCamp last week.
Nelson was allegedly employed by a former Republican Party activist to take pictures of current or retired U.S. House-Senate members and other prominent government officials engaging in sexual criminality by receiving or committing sodomy and other sex acts on children during the Reagan-Bush 41 administrations.
In other words, most likely for blackmail purposes…. Now this photographer was arrested after the journalist committed suicide:
Hunter Thompson’s death and the news blackout of Rusty Nelson’s simultaneous arrest raise questions that someone may be attempting to limit Nelson’s freedom or threaten him, since according to testimony, both men had allegedly witnessed homosexual prostitution and pedophile criminal acts in a suppressed but far-reaching child sex-ring probe closely linked to Senate and House members–but also former President George H. W. Bush. [In U.S. District Court testimony, Rusty Nelson told Judge Warren Urbom he took 20,000 to 30,000 pictures, 2-5-1999, p.52]
Pedophile victim Paul Bonacci–kidnapped and forced into sex slavery between the ages of 6 and 17–told U.S. District Court Judge Warren Urbom in sworn testimony [pp.105, 124-126] on February 5, 1999: “Where were the parties?…down in Washington, DC…and that was for sex…There was sex between adult men and other adult men but most of it had to do with young boys and young girls with the older folks…specifically for sex with minors…Also in Washington, DC, there were parties after a party…there were a lot of parties where there would be senators and congressmen who had nothing to do with the sexual stuff. But there were some senators and congressmen who stayed for the [pedophile sex] parties afterwards…on a lot of the trips he took us on he had us, I mean, I met some people that I don’t feel comfortable telling their name because I don’t want to — …Q: Are you scared?…Yes…”
DeCamp, a former Nebraska state senator and decorated Vietnam War vet, told TomFlocco.com “there are tons of pictures still left; law enforcement is currently looking for them,” adding, “you can also assume there are senators and congressmen implicated; otherwise this would not be such a big issue.” But no federal official has stepped forward to protect Rusty Nelson’s life, as Congress would be reluctant to hold hearings or force a federal prosecutor to probe its own members for sex acts with children–still punishable by law.
I’m saying this because society keeps thinking someone else is going to protect both children and adults (women specifically) from abuse. While my case has no foster care, adoption efforts, or child abuse allegations in it — the principles remain. How many times do people have to reach out for help, only to find out most entities (including individual families & relatives!) — have their own priorities, and when one gets down to it, will sacrifice up to a point, but are not willing to literally sacrifice their comfort, and — most important — their myth that this country, where they live (sometimes quite nicely) is fundamentally just and good. And that their TAXES are paid in order to delegate life’s tough problems to others, who are handling it pretty well.
Nope.
This is why I came to the conclusion (after years of this) that the best defence is a good offence; that although independence, self-sufficiency, and the ability to physically defend onesself are resented by systems that profit and exist on constant streams of the needy, SEEKING THIS STATE is always better – for all! — than seeking protection.
The Tom Flocco article (2005) states clearly testimony from the abused children, trafficked in one case through foster parents in Nebraska, connections to George Bush Senior and intentional use of these photos to get favorable legislation passed in Congress. If there was opposition, Larry King could blackmail the opposing side. The situation is entirely sick:
..If they wanted to get something passed through the legislature, he would put some people that were against it in a compromising position. By using us boys and girls…Judge Urbom: Was this by your being the sexual partner of that person?…Yes…Judge Urbom: …Any estimates of how often you participated as the sexual partner of one of these persons that he wanted to get some kind of control over?…There were times when it would be four or five in a night…on probably a couple thousand times…sometimes dozens of times with the same person…” [U.S. District Court testimony, 2-5-1999, pp. 146-151]
Curiously, Paul Bonacci told investigators that the sex ring was based out of Offutt U.S. Air Force Base near Omaha, having been taken there to be abused since he was three years old in 1970. At Offutt, Paul said he was “trained” by tortures, heavy drugging and sexual degradation. [Offutt AFB played a major role immediately following the 9/11 attacks as George W. Bush made the base his post-attack headquarters for a short period.]
(There is testimony from young women also on the article).
Perhaps keep this in mind when you are writing a Congressperson asking for help regarding child abuse. WHY such a huge industry? When a child wefare worker “Walters” reported, credibly — the report was ignored, as below:
Presidential indiscretions–or criminal acts?
According to a Nebraska state police report, Nebraska Foster Care Review Board letter to the Attorney General, Nebraska Senate’s Franklin committee investigative report, and a 50-page report by Omaha’s Boys Town welfare case officer Mrs. Julie Walters,
by my count, that’s 4 sources!
pedophile victims Nelly and Kimberly Webb detailed a massive child sex, homosexual and pornography operation run out of Nebraska by Larry King–but with close ties directly to the Congress and the White House. . . .
(paragraphs later, not easy reading):
In spite of four polygraph tests administered by a Nebraska state trooper who said he was convinced Nelly was telling the truth, in December, 1990, a Washington country, Nebraska judge [David Quist, I believe] ignored Julie Walter’s 50-page report, numerous debriefings of the girls by foster care officials and youth workers stating the sisters told the truth–specifically about George Bush Sr., and dismissed all charges against their foster parents Jarrett and Barbara Webb, who Nelly and Kimberly said had allowed them to be abused.
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Did you ever wonder where all these abusive parents came from? Who raised them? Since Child Abuse is obviously a heinous crime, why are there so many participants? What is it about human nature that we collectively don’t understand about ourselves, such that there’s still a booming industry in Child Protection?
Why would a state Senator and her husband have to die while exposing this industry in Georgia? This is the conclusion several people have come to who were close to the Schaefers, although the Georgia Bureau of Investigation quickly labeled it a murder/suicide. (see HERE, among other places).
I am simply coloring this section GREEN, regarding the Schaefer’s CPS expository work (with its links underlined) in green, to distinguish from what follows, after which we can end this difficult post – for a holiday season. Perhaps state by state individuals can do their own work — but it must be shared, as obviously children are being flown OUT of state for trafficking purposes too. In the long run, this also becomes a FINANCIAL issue, as also the Franklin Coverup was — as in Franklin Credit Union. Larry King did time for embezzlement, not child abuse. It seems the two go together, and if major child traffickers are caught for money crimes, not child trafficking crimes — but it stops them — perhaps that’s a message on which direction to investigate. Quite honestly, I don’t think most of us can handle the vicarious trauma even of consciousness of how far down is the ugliness (within America, ruling circles). But, what is the cost of living unconscious lives? Or our delayed bill when what we can’t face now, comes back stronger, later, and right next door?
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Regardless of how the couple may have died, former Senator Nancy Schaefer lived the last couple of years of her life dedicated to helping children and families who were victimized by the very government agencies that were supposed to be helping them.
Mrs. Schaefer had found during the last few years that:
– Georgia housed children in a foster home with a known pedophile who molested the children.
– Habersham County failed to remove six children from a home where they were being abused and tortured.
– Georgia turned two girls over to a California father who had a pornographic video business.
A report that she produced on these remarkable cases can be found at the fight CPS web site:
http://fightcps.com/pdf/TheCorruptBusinessOfChildProtectiveServices.pdf
Nancy Schaefer was interviewed extensively by talk show host Alex Jones about corruption in Child Protection Services nationally. A multi-part series of her interview and an Eagle Forum presentation can be found on You Tube here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nancy+schaefer&search_type=&aq=f
More details on the video she was working on can be found on the Alex Jones Channel of You Tube at:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=WILLIAM+FAIN&aq=f
In addition, former Senator Schaefer led opposition to HB582 and SB304. These two bills, introduced by her fellow Republicans, would have likely increased child sex trafficking if passed during the 2009 or 2010 sessions. These bills would have made it legal for teenagers to participate in certain illicit acts. The bills would have effectively removed the legal authority that police have to pick up teenagers and get them into protective custody so that they can no longer be pimped for those acts.
PV Pop-Quiz: Who were the idiotic State Reps sponsoring HB 582 (analysis of HB 582 here by Sue Ella Deadwyler) in the 2009-2010 Legislative Session, and who were the idiotic State Senators sponsoring SB 304 (op-ed here on SB 304)? Inquiring minds should find out for themselves
The age of consent in Georgia is 16.
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I think that at some level, this country (USA) has to be collectively held responsible for just “going with the flow” in this field, including tolerating Presidents that rule by Executive Order, giving tax perks (tax-exempt status) to religious institutions which historically (along with plenty of others) abuse boys and girls — with impunity for too long — and continue to fund departments such as the Health and Human Services, which — while it dispenses valuable medical research, Medicaid, etc. — is entirely out of control.
Feedback from the post recommended the bottom section be moved to the top. This 12/8/2011 revision does so. Often the idea that inspires a post gets gradually removed to the bottom, as the front matter (including further explorations of the matter) grows, pushing the punch line further and further down the page.
Let’s look at a Massachusetts report detailing “The Money Behind the Madness” which is not so emotionally disturbing one misses it’s common sense, and that is where I’d like to end this post on a fine December day.
Thanks (anonymously) the friend who forwarded this. I’m marking this section RED, which in the context of Traffic Lights (cf. “trafficking”) stands for, STOP!
See, there are the conservatives (Eagle Forum), and family preservationists — and they report on CPS stripping married couples of their kids, but are hard of hearing when it comes to an individual mother needing to flee an abusive husband or father — because they are father-oriented by virtue of religious inclinations. (Not to mention the existence of plentiful fatherhood incentives as well).
Then there are people like me, who thought they were normal citizens with some sort of rights, only found differently when their case went from protection against abuse to fight for custody. Into the family law system. In this phase of life, being a “conservative” will not help one much — because conservatives aren’t much into, say, divorce. You’re on your own there, baby…
Adoption Bonuses — Why Not Support the Biological Parents Instead?
After this article (including my comments during it) material below checks out some of the groups and funding. Please note that funding continues even if audits show noncompliance; and who knows, really, where the difference between a monthly simple support of a family, to the (more than double the size) payments to the foster care contractor to find foster care parents to house the same kids.
Moreover, we KNOW — it’s not speculation, it’s pretty obvious by now — that SOME (and what %, only good accountability — which we don’t have — would tell) — that there is massive trafficking of children in compromised situations (foster care, or institutions like Boys’ Town, Nebraska) into sex slavery, to high-ranking officials, who can then be blackmailed with the photographs. This also relates naturally to money, drugs, murder, banking (The Franklin Credit Union in this case) and politics. Documentation by a U.S. Senator (John DeCamp) and subsequent court transcripts (cited) and a million-dollar award to one of the victims of trafficking from age 3 through 17 (Paul Bonacci) show that this extended to the White House parties after parties. Other testimony of a young woman who reported, mentions George H.W. Bush.
This is not “sex, drugs and rock and roll” — it’s access to vulnerable kids, incentives to get them away from their parents, sex– with minors, including torture of some of them, drugs, money, blackmail – – – and politics. Who can handle even thinking about this, or emotionally deal with the logical conclusion — that when these hearings came up, the Congress decided NOT to clean its own house; the legislators involved were not removed from office or named, and no attempt was sought by the judge involved to name them either?
Because knowing, from ethical persons, will result in seeking activism — or guilt, or numbing of the conscience to continue life AS IF it were normal, and business if all is well. In an attempt to restructure one’s life somehow to make more time for civic activism.
So, that’s apparently legislative, and judicial leadership in this country. Merry Christmas. That, plus the other financial corruptions in the family court (systemic).
The Per-Capita Bounty on Breaking Up Families**
**Not to be confused with alternate bonuses for attempting to reconcile families which either did not exist, or have already voluntarily broken up, sometimes around abuse or desertion issues. THOSE profits are for the family law practitioners and the various corporations involved, and also have separate federal financing streams. Let me repeat: If you are married but on the radar somehow as abusive, or if you are in particularly a single black woman raising children — it’s fair game. Someone may find an excuse to call CPS and violate all due process rights. After this article, I posted (again) on the black couple with children from Pennsylvania who ran afoul of a new “Child Safety Team” with an agenda to promote awareness of Shaken Baby Syndrome. I found the grants on TAGGS as well. A father was incarcerated wrongfully for a year (shortly after the program was up and running), they medical authorities apparently didn’t know about Rickets among African-Americans, and positive (defense) testimony by a doctor on the same team was suppressed; “experts” used this case to BECOME experts, and when the Dad went in jail — the other children were grabbed by foster care.
SOMEHOW, they managed to sue back, and get some help in doing so. But those stories are further down in the post. I also identified how HHS is helping some coordinated (multistate) adoption centers AND a resource center to create awareness of what a great field this is, to be in.
If growing children cannot bond with their own parents, they WILL find someone else to bond with, another peer group, or another powerful individual — if they are not literally kidnapped by powerful individuals and use in unspeakable ways. Those peer groups are not likely to respect the biological bond between parent and child, and its defensive nurturing qualities. This population is likely to be raised by a government willing to warehouse and label them, drug them (and some recent evidence, testing drugs on foster care kids), and other behavioral science “demonstration” projects funded by the public, and force them to become an ever-consuming (of services, trainings, products, etc.) population.
And for what purpose, what REAL purpose ? to satisfy the IMF somehow? or global billionaires with time on their hands and worlds to revise?The more authoritarian and repressive a society becomes, the more it is simply asking for anarchy — and it will get this. It is about greed, and sale of human beings for greed’s and merchandising’s sake.
In the Bible, “Babylon” is railed and prophesied against in Jeremiah (Ch. 51) Isaiah (21) and Revelations (14, 18). Babylon being the nation that carried Israel away captive and the prophets declared that it had deceived the world (made it drunk, made the nations mad) and vengeance will come:
Rev. 18 in particular details the greed, merchandising, profits from transporting goods, and in vivid terms pictures their responses when they realize from afar that Babylon is burning. Then it squarely lames the blood of “all that were slain” upon this.
Apart from characterizing the city as a woman (very thinly disguised cultural hatred of women and their sexuality), it seems to me the analogy of drunkenness applies. One of the quotes on this post literally says, “has the nation gone mad?” Long ago, pre-internet, pre-all this — the same sentiment comes out. Notice the contrast between the Merchants — but habitation of “foul spirits” (birds also signifies spirits). I cannot think of anything much more foul than and industry which sells children, with funds collected from the community at large, while promising to help them. And which, when these children then report how they were handled, jails them (happened in the Franklin Coverup), or when it’s well-known that children are both disappearing and/or dying in foster care, the system simply seeks for more clients. The system also currently (custody matters) jails mothers for protesting abuse, or for intervening by fleeing — rather than by the officially sanctioned method, which is having someone ordered into a program, like batterers intervention, treatment for sexual addictions, or other reportedly effective programs which get state adn federal funding.
(*I found another one yesterday, a continuation of one already found allegedly cheating, demanding payments in cash, in 1999, their charitable report is of doing over $6 million of business in Sacramento — California’s capital; the CEO earns $172,000 to oversee this, and psychiatric services of over $200K to one of the Board Directors. It is the largest single contractor for these things. I will report on it, too.).
MERCHANDISING, described . .. .
The merchants are waxed rich. . . .. not all the inhabitants. I’m posting a chunk of this (short chapter) for effect — and notice, it’s those that have investments, that own ships, that tule nations, that have goods to sell — that are benefitting; not those who made the ships, or the goods This is the Corporate & Government sectors. The final verse notes that in her (sic) are all the slain of the earth.
There’s a truth to this — for what other reasons to nations go to war, or do people kill each other, besides individually, men may kill for jealousy or feeling betrayed. But usually, it’s for greed. The language is yes, pre-occupied with “fornication” and rejoicing in the destruction of a city (built by men, not women) characterized as female.
There’s some truth to this. In 2011, we are watching a globally-designed (by the great men of the earth) monetary system based on strong-arm collection from wage-earners (income tax, child support enforcement also) and with jails and police force to back up the intimidation, shuddering and crumbling — it has expanded beyond the weight it can bear, and never was to hot on accountability either — which helped increase the wealth of some of the “great men of the earth.”
And yes, this is getting people of all ages killed, including people that spoke out against the injustice and what would happen if it didnt’ stop (cf. prophets) and those who simply lived ethcial lives within their means, without devising ways to get rich illegally (tax evasion) or massively rich (multiple income streams), believing in stead in the merits and honesty of working — a job, or a profession — to produce a product or honest service. And they are losing their houses, and sometimes, offspring, while helping bail out banks. The people who helped create the larger and larger income gap do not LIVE in the neighborhoods they helped design, with each other, for others. In far off places (institutions, Institutes, at conferences, in on-line webinars, and on Congressional and other committees) — they design and plan yet more ways to control the population, either social science, behavioral change programs, or basically the threat of prison for noncompliance, and (let me just say it, OK?), abstinence programs – and no indication the leaders of our country pushing this are even faithful to their own wives ,whichever wife it may be at the time. Marriage promotion programs, fatherhood promotion, and one-stop-justice centers — all a public expense with corporate injections.
And I have seen so many out of compliance corporations in the past year, I cannot count. California Healthy Marriage Coalition, I admit, really got under my skin when I saw the two or three corporate suspensions, a Unification church staff member, that Bill Coffin & Dennis Stoica (and others) worked together to get more grants after what proof of any benefit from the first rounds?
So yes, at a certain level, I can see the truth in the angry prophecies of a future day of accountability from The Lord. Some of this is simply about ethics.
I mean no offence to the many good foster care families that I’ll assume (?) are out there, and not making news headlines. Still, the system you are part of, and taking payment from, has its priorities backwards. It’s simply true of institutions — unlike families, which seem to have a certain natural limit (barring polygamy) — they seek to perpetuate and expand, infinitely, and when the society allows this, they do.
From “Massachusetts New” Political — May 5, 2000 (per url)
Fiscal Appropriations for “Promoting Safe and Stable Families” for FY2011 was $565,000,000, Appropriations, $468,000,000.
In other words, what sells it to the public is a good, warm, fuzzy feeling about helping strangers. Open the pocketbooks…..
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“A Whole New Industry — A Sweet Marketing Scheme”:
If Clinton had run this through the normal legislative processes, and gotten a public vote — would it have passed? I bet lots of parents who lost children properly to the system ALREADY — would’ve voted NO!
The writer points out, correctly:
Thank God for writers like this, who in the article recommends boycotting a US stamp which sports a National Adoption Month, and concludes:
“I know that I’m feeling pretty smug and superior about being part of such a socially advanced and compassionate society. How about you?”
“Remember that children in foster care serve many public purposes — not good ones — but they do. They are being USED, and it’s hardly surprising. Children are big bucks — they can be trafficked to serve legislator’s (and others’) perverse passions, and in the process enabling very profitable blackmail of the same. They can be apparently disposed of easier after use than children with involved biological parents and relatives. They can be used to bill the public for unnecessary pharmaceuticals more easily than kids in the home can be, although from what I read, there’s too much of that going on. How many unknown deaths or adverse reactions result from over-dosing kids in foster care? When inappropriately photographed as minors (sometimes without their knowledge), this pornography has a market, too.
Are there good foster, and really bad parents? Obviously. But just as obviously, the system is ripe for abuse. And it’s SYSTEMS we have to watch out for as citizens — or lose it all. Is this country about material prosperity — absent due process? — or about liberty, which will allow individuals to band together freely and seek their mutual prosperity and safety?
When daily survival keeps the average and poor too busy to monitor those with multiple streams of income and time to lobby and devise favorable legislation for favorite projects (or simply by pass the legal process, as too many Presidents have done) — then we are going to compartmentalize the best of humanity away. I see this as an institutional matter — and as such, more people need to stop letting others direct the institutions that direct their lives, and manipulate different segments of society to fight each other.
Justice doesn’t happen without some accountability, whether one believes in a just highest power (God) — or justice underlying the principles by which the universe operates — it seems to me that mass abuse of the young (and using adults as breeding stock) would be its own prophecy of a system and society that cannot survive, that is going to implode, explode, be taken over — or all three.
This article is 11 years old, and I don’t think I could’ve said it much better.
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Trouble with TAGGS.hhs.gov — the free HHS Database for the Public:
The only database available to the public (for free) to really track its grants system — is obviously inaccurate, hard to manipulate even by people familiar with database use (let alone others).
HHS/ACF recently (Oct 2011) announced over $119 million of grant awards — without providing the grant# in the announcement, and (when this was later looked up, by me) it turns out the last names of all principal investigators of said grants — were omitted from the database, having been replaced by first names only! I.e., a grant overseen by a John Smith would read in the printout “John John,” as I showed earlier.
Moreover, TAGGS.HHS.GOV allows search by grantee identifiers such as EIN# and DUNS# — but many grants lack DUNS. The most obvious searchable numeric identifier of any grantee — is not available to search on in the Taggs database under “Advanced Search.”
CFDA# Selections
The website drop-down-type menu showing which of the multitude of program identifiers (CFDA#s) available to track — for those curious about what’s being done within a state, or inter-state — is narrow, long, one can key in a CFDA#, but not search by CFDA title. For example — in this post, I’m talking about Adoption and Foster Care.
To look up which grant programs (CFDA#s) are involved I would have to either already know them, or scroll down the entire list looking for clues.
The list has two columns — it could have been made searchable by either column, or key-sensitive by either column (i.e., if I typed in “healthy marriage” or “Adoption” — the cursor forwards to the first occurrence of it).
The “Award Search Menu” has a list of all these, and one can select them all — but not copy them all, which seems offensive to common sense! Try it yourself (see link). They are not all visible at once, even. The menu which allows one to search by CFDA numbers (select by year and state) requires one to somehow know which numbers first — and no visual reference for them on the page. Why not?
Here’s a recent grant announcment from “Grants.gov”:
If I go about 4 different places, the CFDA# it falls under will show up:
Then, I could search CFDA 93254 by state, region, or locality — but would not get a numeric identifier of the grantee in the results!
In searching AWARD/CFDA# (and not selecting state or year), I come up with a chart showing this total:
The results are displayed by individual award#s and zip codes — but not States! — are shown. So, if one has a photographic awareness of all 50 states by zip code, one might recognize where the awards went. Awards to a few key groups show up in different zip codes; here are some of them:
(1) Adoption Exchange Assoc. (MD)
Total Actions (under grantee) $ 39,674,027
BALTIMORE, MD 21236-5917
Showing: 1 – 18 of 18 Award Actions (1995 – 2011)
Includes programtitles such as:
(2) Harmony Adoptions of Tennessee, Inc.
Total awards (this grantee) 2007-2011: $ 5,434,761
(From the TN Corporations Search Site):
Website claims they were founded in 1996
In the TAGG grant (incidentally) the title of this program is mis-spelled for this grantee
NCCSdataweb shows they do have an EIN# Purpose indicates a focus on orphans:
“TO ARRANGE FOR THE PLACEMENT OF ORPHAN CHILDREN LIVING IN THE US AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES WITH ADOPTIVE PARENTS AND TO PROVIDE COUNSELING AND SUPPORT” but the Infant Adoption Awareness Training is focused on pregnant women — not orphans.
MARYVILLE, TN 37801-5413
The words “Awareness (one series), “Healthy” and “Marriage” were misspelled. I wonder if there were similar errors or switching of #s in the amount$ columns…. The misspelling was not corrected for years of grants recordings….four years, to be exact…..
The Exec Director of “Harmony” (earns about $88K) also shows up (former?)University of Tennessee Legal Clinic Director:
Another director of Harmony in TN notes her background:
Among other things, the Helen Ross McNabb Center partners with TN Dept. of DCFS to help place children in Foster Care…
Foster Care Services
Helen Ross McNabb Center Foster Care and Adoption Program is a therapeutic foster care program operated in conjunction with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services.
These children have been removed from their homes (and if they do not have appropriate relatives in their own family) are placed in protective custody of the state due to abuse, neglect, unruliness or delinquency. The program recruits and trains caring, structured foster homes to help these children who enter custody with a multitude of problems and needs. . . .A Helen Ross McNabb foster care specialist is a trained case manager with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in the children and families field. The specialist will help the foster family with behavioral interventions if the children exhibit any behavioral issues
The site — which is named Infant Adoption Training Initiative (pretty clearly after the grant series) features three of the recipients from TAGGS, and is copyrighted by them:
Copyright © 2005-2007 Spaulding for Children, Harmony & Arizona’s Children Association.
All rights reserved. Privacy & Terms of Use / ADA Statement
In fact, the initiative is pretty well described as simply a grant program from HHS, and 5 recipients are listed:
(3) Latino Family Institute (CA, Los Angeles area)
Total awards (grantee) since 2000 = $9,947,145
WEST COVINA, CA 91790-2724
The first two awards show recruitment:
They incorporated in California 1996 (same year as welfare reform, before Harmony — above):
Their charitable status is also current, although there are no returns (state or federal) showing past the year 2007 in California for this amount: EIN#
Their programs include Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Care, Infant Adoption Awareness Training (above), Abandoned Infants Assistance, etc.:
Latino Family Institute is an Adoption, Foster Care, and Family Support agency dedicated to improving social welfare conditions leading to increased family functioning. We enrich society’s foundation by advocating for and implementing culturally effective interventions that elevate the collective well-being of our families.
Vision Statement:
The Latino Family Institute seeks to advance social welfare conditions facing Spanish dominant families. Our vision for every child to have love and permanency in their family of origin. We aspire to preserve the integrity of Latin American cultures among adoptive families and to promote kinship adoptions as a preferred alternative to family integration. We envision a social environment that is sensitive to the complex needs of children in Foster Care and one that is active in reducing the vulnerabilities of such delicate families.
In addition there is another nonprofit in Maryland serving the region to coordinate information and efforts to adopt:
http://www.adoptionsupport.org/about/index.php
(In MD a page full of corporations (incl. Forfeited, Suspended & Dissolved names) shows how popular the “Adoptions” field indeed is ….) (EIN# 52-2100734, it does exist; year 2009 reporting $766K contributions & grants plus $716K program services — not bad (the previous year, the program services far exceeded the grants). This, too, is incorporated as of 1998:
This too (per my EIN TAGGS search) got HHS support, starting in the year 2000. As of 2001, faith-based groups (see my last post!) could apply, too, in fact no doubt encouraged to….
SILVER SPRING, MD 20904 (very busy address appears to be right opposite huge hospital? and many other businesses at same street address)
WHAT A SHAME THERE ARE NOT MORE HHS GRANTS OR PRO BONO GROUPS TO SUPPORT PROTECTION OF SINGLE MOTHERS FROM INAPPROPRIATELY LOSING THEIR CHILDREN TO ABUSIVE PARTNERS, OR TO THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. THE CHILD SUPPORT SYSTEM HAS VIRTUALLY FUNDED AN ATTACK ON THE STATUS OF SINGLE MOTHERS LEAVING ABUSE, AND IT IS MANAGED BY THE SAME ENTITY, HHS.. . ..
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GRANTS INCENTIVIZE — SO THEY AND THE NONPROFITS GETTING THEM SHOULD BE MONITORED BY THE PUBLIC — BECAUSE THERE IS A PERVERSE INCENTIVE NOT TO MONITOR TOO OFTEN.
This 8,400 word grant began with the following section. What’s above here is (per my style) lengthy intro, combining my lookups with a statement of position. What’s BELOW is what inspired the post.
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Grants and Programs Incentivize Action & Attract Traffic. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Their original purposes can be great — but once set up, the infrastructure is going to want customers. Consider the father that apparenty spent a year in jail apart from his family, innocently, and the WHY wouldn’t have been unearthed unless they’d filed a lawsuit — as I blogged last October, in Courthouse Forum News: Franklin County (PA) OCYF gets sued in Federal Court by Pennsylvania Couple.
About the context:
It is horrible that this child suffered injuries. However, there’s another kind of parent education program which might have been appropriate also:
Another Doctor, Charles Pragnell — from outside the US — writes consistently on the problem with medical malpractice in presuming abuse, when it may or may not have been:
The current unproven medical theory which is resulting in many hundreds of families being wrongly accused of child abuse is Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy [MSBP], which is causing immense disruption, distress, and harm to children throughout the U.K. In these cases, physicians and social workers allege that parents (usually mothers) have fabricated or induced an illness in their child, yet on examination of such cases it can be found that the children have and are suffering serious illnesses. Groups which seem to have been particularly targeted for such accusations are families with children with Autism, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] or Cystic Fibrosis. In other cases children have suffered adverse reactions to vaccines, or from medically prescribed drugs which have not been clinically tested on children by manufacturers prior to widespread distribution, or from birth injuries.
[[In other words, parents — esp. mothers — properly seeking medical care for their children, sometimes single, sometimes married — are told “it’s all in your head — you are the sick party, you have “Munchhausen’s by proxy” (search my blog)]].
Pragnell’s article seems to cover some factors relevant in the Franklin County Case…
Finally, Prosser declares, “It is clear that the problem of false accusations remains endemic in both countries”. (U.K. and the U.S.A.).
When it comes to the case in Pennsylvania — I’ll bet the authorities had not expected to be questioned or challenged by a lawsuit! But we can see the suit mentions the over-reliance on the “American Academy of Pediatrics” (AAP). Well – the AAP just happened to be part of the cooperative agreement with Mark S. Dias’ (P.I.) project here! (See below): This is a financial and professional relationship.
(These quotes are from the Courthouse News Article, cont’d)
. . . About the Child Safety Team member’s expert testimony:
She was a doctor, obviously — but was she an expert in identifying child abuse?
(LGH) Reminder: The Child Safety Team had only been started a few months earlier. Within one month of them being assembled, they had a black father in jail and two kids in foster care, erroneously. The bail was set too high for this man to get out of jail. How many times do we hear of people being quickly sprung from jail after domestic violence? (or sent to diversionary programs instead of jail). See my Toms River article for an example of this, when the woman victim was an employee of the DYFS herself…. But in this case, they kept the father.
This next part, if true, is disgraceful. A medical doctor testifying FOR the family suffered restrictions that ones from the prosecution did not. First, they point out that some doctors (for the prosecution) had liability insurance; while one wishing to testify FOR the family, did not:
(I looked up the HHS award for this, principal investigator Mark S. Dias. This nonprofit hospital is a major grants recipient; most of the awards seem for technical clinical research…)
Showing: 1 – 9 of 9 Award Actions
Recipient: MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER
Recipient ZIP Code: 17033-2360
The anticipated program enrollment was 300,000; it is an intervention program and as described, participants were voluntary:
This project is designed to evaluate a statewide, hospital-based parent education program to prevent abusive head trauma (AHT) in Pennsylvania, and investigate the additional effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of “booster” sessions of parent education delivered to parents at primary care provider offices in central Pennsylvania.
Specific Aims:
Traumatic Brain Injury
Child Abuse
Behavioral: PA Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program Booster: Central PA
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
This sounds like an excellent program, and obviously knowledge about the danger of shaking babies in anger is vital. But in application — something happened, which resulted in an innocently jailed father, and children wrongfully in foster care, for a year!
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Did the additional state incentives for foster care parents play a role above as well? Jail Dad, Mother separated from children, kids in foster care.
I focus more on the family court system (which is abusive to families, and the public through violations of due process, and more), moreso than “child abuse,” foster care, or adoption per se. However, this system sometimes ends up with kids in foster care because one parent kills the other (one in jail, the other deceased) for a variety of reasons. Then headlines also show cases of children escaping from brutalization in foster care, or dying in there. Both happen.
And there seems there is no longer any question that children have been trafficked for sex abuse and used as entertainment by high-profile politicians, in numbers unknown — as the Franklin Coverup (Nebraska, Larry King, John DeCamp reporting, victim Paul Bonacci testifying, an investigator’s plane shot down in mid air (killing him and his son) as he returned with photos from an interview, involvement of Nebraska Boys’ Town, etc.). No one normal can continue life “as normal” and retain an awareness of these activities, in our country; for sheer emotional survival, we back-burner it, and then believe that somehow CPS and other agencies will take care of the dirty business. Yet in the subsequent investigation, the now grown Paul Bonacci was awarded $1 million for damages, yet not asked to identify the Congressional leaders involved!
This article is too disturbing, and not “casual conversation.” As the point of THIS post is to expose the incentives for putting children needlessly into foster care and up for adoption — and to show an article neatly summarizing it from the year 2000 — let me just post the opening paragraph of the 2005 Article, detailing what is a curious lack of investigation by the highest investigatory powers in the US, or among them (not including Homeland Security, post 2001). This is the summary of the matter — and please keep it in mind when one becomes aware of the immense foster care industry: As this is talking about destinations of vulnerable kids and how they really cannot get out on their own, safely, once in this ring. As posted on TomFlocco.com (this was shared with me, I didn’t look it up):
In other words, most likely for blackmail purposes…. Now this photographer was arrested after the journalist committed suicide:
I’m saying this because society keeps thinking someone else is going to protect both children and adults (women specifically) from abuse. While my case has no foster care, adoption efforts, or child abuse allegations in it — the principles remain. How many times do people have to reach out for help, only to find out most entities (including individual families & relatives!) — have their own priorities, and when one gets down to it, will sacrifice up to a point, but are not willing to literally sacrifice their comfort, and — most important — their myth that this country, where they live (sometimes quite nicely) is fundamentally just and good. And that their TAXES are paid in order to delegate life’s tough problems to others, who are handling it pretty well.
Nope.
This is why I came to the conclusion (after years of this) that the best defence is a good offence; that although independence, self-sufficiency, and the ability to physically defend onesself are resented by systems that profit and exist on constant streams of the needy, SEEKING THIS STATE is always better – for all! — than seeking protection.
The Tom Flocco article (2005) states clearly testimony from the abused children, trafficked in one case through foster parents in Nebraska, connections to George Bush Senior and intentional use of these photos to get favorable legislation passed in Congress. If there was opposition, Larry King could blackmail the opposing side. The situation is entirely sick:
(There is testimony from young women also on the article).
Perhaps keep this in mind when you are writing a Congressperson asking for help regarding child abuse. WHY such a huge industry? When a child wefare worker “Walters” reported, credibly — the report was ignored, as below:
by my count, that’s 4 sources!
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Did you ever wonder where all these abusive parents came from? Who raised them? Since Child Abuse is obviously a heinous crime, why are there so many participants? What is it about human nature that we collectively don’t understand about ourselves, such that there’s still a booming industry in Child Protection?
Why would a state Senator and her husband have to die while exposing this industry in Georgia? This is the conclusion several people have come to who were close to the Schaefers, although the Georgia Bureau of Investigation quickly labeled it a murder/suicide. (see HERE, among other places).
I am simply coloring this section GREEN, regarding the Schaefer’s CPS expository work (with its links underlined) in green, to distinguish from what follows, after which we can end this difficult post – for a holiday season. Perhaps state by state individuals can do their own work — but it must be shared, as obviously children are being flown OUT of state for trafficking purposes too. In the long run, this also becomes a FINANCIAL issue, as also the Franklin Coverup was — as in Franklin Credit Union. Larry King did time for embezzlement, not child abuse. It seems the two go together, and if major child traffickers are caught for money crimes, not child trafficking crimes — but it stops them — perhaps that’s a message on which direction to investigate. Quite honestly, I don’t think most of us can handle the vicarious trauma even of consciousness of how far down is the ugliness (within America, ruling circles). But, what is the cost of living unconscious lives? Or our delayed bill when what we can’t face now, comes back stronger, later, and right next door?
The age of consent in Georgia is 16.
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Written by Let's Get Honest|She Looks It Up
December 4, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Posted in Business Enterprise, Cast, Script, Characters, Scenery, Stage Directions, Child Support, Designer Families, Organizations, Foundations, Associations NGO Hybrids, Where's Mom?
Tagged with adoption incentives, Adoption Industry, Bonacci, Bush-GWB, Bush-Senior, Child Protection Industry, DeCamp, Due process, foster care industry, Franklin Coverup, HHS-TAGGS grants database, Infant Adoption Training Awareness, Investigative Reporters, Motherhood, social commentary, U.S. Govt $$ hard @ work..