Posts Tagged ‘fatherhood’
Thrusting Abstinence Education on an Unwary Public: the Bush Push Exposed.
BUT there’s a little satisfaction in making up ridiculous post titles. If you can’t stop it, mock it, take its pants down and show it in all the ridiculous posture it takes — apart from the hearings in the actual courtrooms… This marriage promotion movement needs to be disrobed.
Here’s a post I slapped together in September 2009. It’s not politically correct, I’m sure.
For a reminder:
The State of the (Marital) Unions in California gets a Governmental Boost (while social services of other kinds, get cut):
THIS FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE OF AVAILALBILITY OF FUNDS (2004) GOT SNAPPED UP BY AT LEAST ONE MAJOR RECIPIENT. RECOMMEND WE REVIEW.
ACF Programs Funding the Healthy Marriage Resource Center: (It tells you how many diff’t Program offices (or, subdivions if ACF if I have the term wrong) fund this.. There are several, including this one: CHild SUpport agency (“OCSE”)
OCSE also funds demonstration projects that seek to integrate supports for healthy marriages and family formation into the existing array of child support enforcement activities. Statutory Authority: Section 452(j) of the Social Security Act. {{For somen leaving violence, this is kind of like building the boat after the ship sank…}}
Recipient: California Healthy Marriages Coalition Address: 1045 PASSIFLORA AVE
LEUCADIA, CA 92024-2215Country Name: United States of America County Name: SAN DIEGO DHHS Region: 9 Type: Other Social Services Organization Class: Non-Profit Private Non-Government Organizations Award Actions
FY Award Number Budget Year
of SupportAward Code Agency Action Issue
DateAmount This
Action2010 90FE0104 4 02 ACF 03-10-2010 $ 0 2010 90FE0104 5 00 ACF 09-24-2010 $ 2,400,000 Fiscal Year 2010 Total: $ 2,400,000
You got to watch those ones that start small, then reproduce….This one did.
FY Award Number Budget Year
of SupportAward Code Agency Action Issue
DateAmount This
Action2005 90EJ0064 1 0 ACF 09-13-2005 $ 583,475 Fiscal Year 2005 Total: $ 583,475
Total of all awards:
$ 12,525,555
For a sample of what some of that Grant 90FE104 is going to, see this PDF (a typical Executive Summary);
In googling the term California Healthy Marriages Coalition, Priority area 1 (and this grant#) I find the oNLY references to it are at their site, and my blog. I find that unusual……
I searched this 60-page pdf for the word “domestic violence” (as is my “wont”) and found ONE occurrence only. Again, this is summarizing (and titled):
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA’S UNIONS: MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN THE GOLDEN STATE:
THE RESEARCH TEAM
Compiled by:
Sophia Gomez, Gomez Research
Developed and Edited by:
K. Jason Krafsky, California Healthy Marriages Coalition Dennis Stoica, California Healthy Marriages Coalition Patty Howell, California Healthy Marriages Coalition
Consultation by:
Dawn Wilson, Wilson Research Consulting
ABOUT CALIFORNIA HEALTHY MARRIAGES COALITION
The California Healthy Marriages Coalition (CHMC) is a pioneering non-profit organization that works throughout California to improve the well-being of children by strengthening the relationship of parents through Marriage Education and Relationship Skills classes.
In 2006, CHMC received a five-year, $11.9 Million grant from Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (HHS/ACF), the largest grant ever awarded by HHS/ACF in support of Healthy Marriages.
Through this funding, CHMC partners with a network of 23 faith- and community-based organizations (FBCOs) throughout California. Each of CHMC’s funded partner organizations is a coalition consisting of many other FBCOs through which they deliver Marriage Education and Relationship Skills classes, enabling CHMC to reach California’s diverse population by traversing the key demographic dimensions of geography, ethnic/cultural differences, and agency-type FBCOs.
As a result of these efforts, CHMC expects to see a decline in the marriage/divorce ratio, a reduction in child abuse, domestic violence, poverty, criminal behavior, and an improvement in physical, emotional, and mental health.
Funding for this project was provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Grant: 90FE0104. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
Little in this has changed — it’s expanded, and spread — like the flu….
For the heck of it, I looked up McManus (last name only) under the TAGGS database, and found 65 grants funded, many of them apparently to doctors, some in overlapping fields of study. I have no idea of the relationships, but just found this interesting. After all, we abstinent folk have to direct our excess creative (sic) energies somewhere, right?
I figure we must, at some level, be a society of dogs and masters, because it seems the USA can be divided up into Trainers, and Trainees, and whatever portion of the middle class (such as remains) that has found purpose and solvency and managed to keep their own kiddos and in-laws off the marriage savers healthy starts social improvement group radar. Get this:
Explore space, explore the seas, develop nanotechnology; what is there left (as market niche) but to market the training of the human psyche (and reporting on it, as well). Is there nothing that a click, a grant, and an curriculum cannot solve? This is also how the field of “fatherhood” or “violence against women” is also turning out. Get a grant and train the trainers, develop a software presence and run conferences.
EXCERPT FROM THEIR BIO (on the Marriage Savers site) shows they do indeed have some medical offspring in the family:
Media: Their work has attracted national media coverage,
(YEP, see that “hand in the till” article, above)….
most recently a profile of a Community Marriage Policy in suburban Portland Oregon on ABC World News with Charles Gibson on October 22, 2007. The Coral Ridge Hour broadcast an 11 minute segment about Marriage Savers on Father’s Day, 2005. The CBS Early Show broadcast a story June 2004 on Mike and Harriet mentoring their 50th couple. Focus on the Family interviewed them May 21, 2004. A Washington Post Magazine cover story Feb. 29, 2004 featured Mike and Harriet mentoring a Nigerian couple. They work has been reported on NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, and CBS “48 Hours”. He’s appeared on MS-NBC, Fox, BBC, CBC, Oprah, The O’Reilly Factor. TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and hundreds of local papers have reported on their work.
Family: Mike and Harriet have been married 42 years and have three married sons and six grandchildren. Their sons are all achievers. Adam McManus hosts a daily radio talk show 3 hours a day in San Antonio, TX. John McManus was the staff director of the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee which added drug benefits to Medicare; he now runs The McManus Group, providing consulting and lobbying for the American Medical Association, various drug companies and equipment manufacturers. Tim McManus is CEO of a hospital in Gulfport, MS.
Does kind of make the following list a little interesting, I think:
Fiscal Year | OPDIV | Grantee Name | City | State | Award Number | Award Title | CFDA Number | CFDA Program Name | Award Action Type | Principal Investigator | Sum of Actions |
2009 | IHS | SOUTH CENTRAL FOUNDATION | ANCHORAGE | AK | D279400023 | INJURY PREVENTION PART II | 93284 | Injury Prevention Program for American Indians and Alaskan Natives: Cooperative Agreements | OTHER REVISION | KELLY MCMANUS | $- 18 |
2009 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO | SAN FRANCISCO | CA | R01DA026065 | RESOLVING MICRORNA TARGETS | 93701 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support | NEW | MICHAEL T MCMANUS | $ 379,138 |
2009 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO | SAN FRANCISCO | CA | R01GM080783 | NEW FRONTIERS FOR SMALL RNA THERAPIES | 93859 | Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL T MCMANUS | $ 293,550 |
2009 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 368,737 |
2009 | SAMHSA | ROCKWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT R-6 | EUREKA | MO | SP015642 | ROCKWOOD R-VI SCHOOL DISTRICT | 93276 | Drug-Free Communities Support Program Grants | NEW | KENNETH D MCMANUS | $ 124,999 |
2008 | ACF | YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES, INC | SKOWHEGAN | ME | 90CY2239 | BASIC CENTER | 93623 | Basic Center Grant | NEW | LORA WILFORD MCMANUS | $ 15,476 |
2008 | CDC | HARVARD UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | BOSTON | MA | R36DD000365 | SOCIAL DETERMINANTS FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PARTICIPATION AND EFFICACY | 93061 | Innovations in Applied Public Health Research | NEW | BETH M MCMANUS | $ 29,157 |
2008 | FDA | VA ST DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH | RICHMOND | VA | R13FD003593 | VIRGINIA FOOD PROTECTION TASK FORCE CONFERENCE | 93103 | Food and Drug Administration_Research | NEW | CATHERINE MCMANUS | $ 5,000 |
2008 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO | SAN FRANCISCO | CA | R01GM080783 | NEW FRONTIERS FOR SMALL RNA THERAPIES | 93859 | Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL T MCMANUS | $ 293,075 |
2008 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 349,472 |
2007 | ACF | HELP – New Mexico, Inc. | ALBUQUERQUE | NM | 90EI0456 | NEW MEXICO PROJECT TO BUILD ASSETS FOR RISING OUT OF POVERTY | 93602 | Assets for Independence Demonstration Program | NEW | RITA GARCIA-MCMANUS | $ 1,000,000 |
2007 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO | SAN FRANCISCO | CA | R01GM080783 | NEW FRONTIERS FOR SMALL RNA THERAPIES | 93859 | Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Research | NEW | MICHAEL T MCMANUS | $ 292,125 |
2007 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO | SAN FRANCISCO | CA | R03DA022201 | THE EPIGENETICS OF SMALL RNAS IN THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN | 93279 | Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL T MCMANUS | $ 149,615 |
2007 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 337,679 |
2006 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 0 |
2006 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS | PATRICIA -. MCMANUS | $ 150,000 |
2006 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 750,000 |
2006 | HRSA | THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | PHILADELPHIA | PA | D58HP05138 | RESIDENCY TRAINING IN PRIMARY CARE | 93884 | Grants for Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICK R. MCMANUS MD | $ 125,619 |
2006 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO | SAN FRANCISCO | CA | R03DA022201 | THE EPIGENETICS OF SMALL RNAS IN THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN | 93279 | Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs | NEW | MICHAEL T MCMANUS | $ 153,583 |
2005 | ACF | WOMEN OF COLOR AIDS COUNCIL, INC | BOSTON | MA | 90IJ0181 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING (HOMELESS) | 93009 | Compassion Capital Fund | NEW | KAREN MCMANUS | $ 50,000 |
2005 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $- 10,667 |
2005 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 900,000 |
2005 | HRSA | THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | PHILADELPHIA | PA | D58HP05138 | RESIDENCY TRAINING IN PRIMARY CARE | 93884 | Grants for Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry | NEW | PATRICK R. MCMANUS | $ 150,184 |
2005 | IHS | SOUTH CENTRAL FOUNDATION | ANCHORAGE | AK | D279400023 | INJURY PREVENTION PART II | 93284 | Injury Prevention Program for American Indians and Alaskan Natives: Cooperative Agreements | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | KELLY MCMANUS | $ 15,000 |
2004 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 814,374 |
2004 | IHS | ANCHORAGE | AK | INJURY PREVENTION PART II | NONE | NEW | KELLY MCMANUS | ||||
2004 | NIH | SAN ANTONIO | TX | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 231,979 | |||
2004 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 41,450 |
2003 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 751,000 |
2003 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H78MC00020 | IMPROVING WOMENS HEALTH THROUGH SCREENING AND INTERVENTION FOR DEPRESSION DURING | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 175,000 |
2003 | IHS | SOUTH CENTRAL FOUNDATION | ANCHORAGE | AK | H1HB100037 | WELLNESS CAMP FOR ALASKA NATIVE CHILDREN | 93933 | Demonstration Projects for Indian Health | NEW | KELLY MCMANUS | $ 60,000 |
2003 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 237,241 |
2002 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 225,000 |
2002 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 675,000 |
2002 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H78MC00020 | IMPROVING WOMENS HEALTH THROUGH SCREENING AND INTERVENTION FOR DEPRESSION DURING | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 175,000 |
2002 | NIH | ANVIL INFORMATICS INC | BURLINGTON | MA | R43CA094429 | VERY HIGH DIMENSIONAL VISUAL MINING OF THE NCI DATASET | 93393 | Cancer Cause and Prevention Research | NEW | MICHAEL J MCMANUS | $ 99,225 |
2002 | NIH | ANVIL INFORMATICS INC | BURLINGTON | MA | R43CA096179 | CLUSTER COMPARISON METHODS & THE NCI EXPRESSION DATASET | 93395 | Cancer Treatment Research | NEW | MICHAEL J MCMANUS | $ 98,438 |
2002 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 214,392 |
2001 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H49MC00061 | ELIMINATING DESPARITIES | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NEW | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 900,000 |
2001 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H78MC00020 | IMPROVING WOMENS HEALTH THROUGH SCREENING AND INTERVENTION FOR DEPRESSION DURING | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NEW | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 175,000 |
2001 | NIH | SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | LA JOLLA | CA | R29CA075238 | TRANSFORMATION SPECIFIC SIGNALING MEDIATED BY VERBS | 93393 | Cancer Cause and Prevention Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL J MCMANUS | $ 133,700 |
2001 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 207,981 |
2001 | SAMHSA | WOMEN OF COLOR AIDS COUNCIL, INC | BOSTON | MA | SP08892 | PREVENTION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN & HISPANIC/LATINA WOMEN | 93230 | Consolidated Knowledge Development and Application (KD&A) Program | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | KAREN MCMANUS | $ 249,000 |
2000 | CDC | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | CCU518156 | COMMUNITY COALITION DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES | 93939 | HIV Prevention Activities_Non-Governmental Organization Based | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS, RN, PHD | $ 185,000 |
2000 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H96MC00042 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 65,900 |
2000 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H96MC00042 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 569,292 |
2000 | NIH | SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | LA JOLLA | CA | R29CA075238 | TRANSFORMATION SPECIFIC SIGNALING MEDIATED BY VERBS | 93393 | Cancer Cause and Prevention Research | CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION | MICHAEL J MCMANUS | $ 128,560 |
2000 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 161,445 |
2000 | SAMHSA | AL ST DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION | MONTGOMERY | AL | SM00115 | CRISIS COUNSELING – HURRICANE GEORGES | 93982 | Mental Health Disaster Assistance and Emergency Mental Health | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | MCMANUS, BRIAN H. | $ 2,093 |
2000 | SAMHSA | AL ST DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION | MONTGOMERY | AL | SMX060001-00 | PATH | 93150 | Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) | COMPETING CONTINUATION | BRIAN MCMANUS | $ 300,000 |
2000 | SAMHSA | WOMEN OF COLOR AIDS COUNCIL, INC | BOSTON | MA | SP08892 | PREVENTION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN & HISPANIC/LATINA WOMEN | 93230 | Consolidated Knowledge Development and Application (KD&A) Program | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MCMANUS, KAREN | $ 249,000 |
1999 | CDC | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | CCU518156 | COMMUNITY COALITION DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES | 93939 | HIV Prevention Activities_Non-Governmental Organization Based | NEW | PATRICIA MCMANUS, RN, PHD | $ 185,000 |
1999 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H96MC00042 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NEW | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 417,681 |
1999 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H96MC00042 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 807,920 |
1999 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | U93MC00029 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR – ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS) | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 34,014 |
1999 | NIH | MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER | ROCHESTER | MN | R29CA075238 | TRANSFORMATION SPECIFIC SIGNALING MEDIATED BY VERBS | 93393 | Cancer Cause and Prevention Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL J MCMANUS | $ 99,771 |
1999 | NIH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR AT SAN ANTONIO | SAN ANTONIO | TX | T32HL007446 | PATHOBIOLOGY OF OCCLUSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE | 93837 | Heart and Vascular Diseases Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | LINDA M MCMANUS | $ 173,857 |
1999 | SAMHSA | AL ST DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION | MONTGOMERY | AL | SM00115 | CRISIS COUNSELING – HURRICANE GEORGES | 93982 | Mental Health Disaster Assistance and Emergency Mental Health | NEW | MCMANUS, BRIAN H. | $ 44,927 |
1999 | SAMHSA | WOMEN OF COLOR AIDS COUNCIL, INC | BOSTON | MA | SP08892 | PREVENTION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN & HISPANIC/LATINA WOMEN | 93230 | Consolidated Knowledge Development and Application (KD&A) Program | NEW | MCMANUS, KAREN | $ 249,000 |
1998 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | 1H96MC0002801 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NEW | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 417,681 |
1998 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | 5U93MC0002902 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 819,420 |
1998 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H96MC00028 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NEW | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 417,681 |
1998 | HRSA | BLACK HEALTH COALITION OF WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE | WI | H96MC00042 | MILWAUKEE HEALTHY BEGINNINGS PROJECT | 93926 | Healthy Start Initiative | NEW | PATRICIA MCMANUS | $ 417,681 |
1998 | NIH | MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER | ROCHESTER | MN | R29CA075238 | TRANSFORMATION SPECIFIC SIGNALING MEDIATED BY VERBS | 93393 | Cancer Cause and Prevention Research | NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION | MICHAEL J MCMANUS | $ 95,934 |
A little more on Maggie (Gallagher):
“In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush’s push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families.
[…]
“But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president’s proposal. Her work under the contract, which ran from January through October 2002, included drafting a magazine article for the HHS official overseeing the initiative, writing brochures for the program and conducting a briefing for department officials.
From “SourceWatch” from the “Center for Media and Democracy.”
Maggie Gallagher is the president of the Washington DC-based Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, editor of MarriageDebate.com, a syndicated columnist, author, and frequent television commentator. She also serves as president of the National Organization for Marriage. [1] Her articles on marriage policy have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Weekly Standard. [1] She’s a former editor at the National Review, former columnist at New York Newsday and a founding senior editor at the Manhattan Institute‘s City Journal. [2]
Gallagher also receieved a $20,000 Justice Department grant for a writing a report titled “Can Government Strengthen Marriage?” that was published by the private, non-profit National Fatherhood Intiative. Wade Horn, the Health and Human Services Department’s assistant secretary for children and families who defended Gallagher’s contracts as “not unusual,” founded the National Fatherhood Initiative before entering government. [4]
INTERESTING “CO-INCIDENCE,” that. 1995, NFI, and then here’s Wade Horn from within government pushing through the initiative (not without some outside help).
These comments seem to contrast with statements that Gallager herself made in 1997, when she spoke at a conference organized by the Committee of Concerned Journalists at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. “The more a journalist views himself as a participant in the events and has a loyalty to sources, the less able he or she is to really consider himself a journalist,” she told the conference. “… [And as an opinion journalist, which is to say you are emotionally invested in the outcome of the events] it becomes [even more] important … to be open with the reader, to make it clear to the audience what your views are and what your biases are.”[6]
The National Organization for Marriage
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it.
Founded in 2007 in response to the growing need for an organized opposition to same-sex marriage in state legislatures, NOM serves as a national resource for marriage-related initiatives at the state and local level. For decades, pro-family organizations have educated the public about the importance of marriage and the family, but have lacked the organized, national presence needed to impact state and local politics in a coordinated and sustained fashion. NOM seeks to fill that void, organizing as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, giving it the flexibility to lobby and support marriage initiatives across the nation.
aggie Gallagher is President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and a co-author of The Case for Marriage. Comments for Maggie? Email
File under:
“The $21,000 that Maggie Forgot.”
Michael McManus, a marriage advocate whose syndicated column, “Ethics & Religion,” appears in 50 newspapers, was hired as a subcontractor by the Department of Health and Human Services to foster a Bush-approved marriage initiative. McManus championed the plan in his columns without disclosing to readers he was being paid to help it succeed.
Responding to the latest revelation, Dr. Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families {{Translation: “ACF” I believe}} at HHS, announced Thursday that HHS would institute a new policy that forbids the agency from hiring any outside expert or consultant who has any working affiliation with the media. “I needed to draw this bright line,” Horn tells Salon. “The policy is being implemented and we’re moving forward.”
Horn’s move came on the heels of Wednesday’s report in the Washington Post that HHS had paid syndicated columnist and marriage advocate Maggie Gallagher $21,000 to write brochures and essays and to brief government employees on the president’s marriage initiative. Gallagher later wrote in her column that she would have revealed the $21,000 payment to readers had she recalled receiving it.
I’d probably look up Grant #90EI0456, above (in purple).
Title | New Mexico Project to Build Assets for Rising Out of Poverty |
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Award Number | 90EI0456 |
Project Start/End | / |
Abstract | New Mexico Project to Build Assets for Rising Out of Poverty |
Thesaurus | Social Service; Social; Service; at risk; Assets; Independence; Demonstration; Community; Communities; AFI |
PI Name/Title | Rita Garcia-McManus NONE |
PI eMail | NONE |
Institution | |
Department | NONE |
Fiscal Year | 2007 |
ICD | {{RIGHT HERE IS WHERE ONE EXPECTS A LITTLE DESCRIPTION}} |
IRG | NONE |
(anything the ACF chooses to throw $1,000,000 at in the year 2007 might be worth a 2nd look).
A Brief History
The HELP – New Mexico, Inc. (HELP-NM) was created and incorporated as Home Education Livelihood Program, Inc. in 1965 by the interdenominational New Mexico Council of Churches and its successor, the New Mexico Conference of Churches and Church Women United. The founders included pastors, ranchers, farmworkers, housewives, businessmen, and government workers. The HELP-NM organization is governed by 18 Board of Directors representing sectors including public, business, low income, native American, parents, and other community members.
ver the past 42 years, HELP-New Mexico, Inc. (HELP-NM), has provided services to over 816,000 individuals and families including migrant families, self-employed farmers and ranchers, low-income families, abused and neglected children, senior citizens, people with disabilities, and disadvantaged youth. These services have included adult education, job training, early childhood development and education, youth development and care, self-help housing construction, rural health clinics, land development, job placement, literacy training, affordable housing, nutritious meals, and family counseling.
HELP – New Mexico
exists to create self-sufficiency and provide economic opportunities to strengthen families throughout New Mexico.
Initially organized as the “Bienvenidos (Welcome) Coalition”, in October 2007, HELP-NM, was awarded a grant from the Administration for Children and Families for a Compassion Capital Fund project. The goal is to support faith-based and community-based non-profit organizations in New Mexico in order to increase their capacity and their efforts to work with families and individuals in the providing community based social services. Target organizations provide social services to poor and low-income individuals and families, particularly families in poverty; prisoners re-entering the community; the children and families of prisoners; the homeless; elderly persons in need; families in transition from welfare to work; people in need of rehabilitation such as substance abuse; couples seeking information and support for forming and maintaining healthy marriages; and at risk youth. Included in HELP-NM CCF project are a wide range of vulnerable populations needing rehabilitation, including victims of domestic violence, the mentally ill, and victims of human trafficking. If you want to learn more about this program contact Gracie Gonzalez at 505-766-4921 or via e-mail atGracie@helpnm.com.
HELP-NM CCF includes a funding plan in which $250,000 of sub-awards are dispersed to applicant organizations, based upon developmental level of the organization. Training and workshops sessions are conducted statewide through the year. Consultants are then engaged to provide technical assistance to both sub-awardees and other eligible non-profit community organizations. For more information regarding the trainings & technical assistance please contact Gracie Gonzalez at 505-766-4921 or via e-mail atGracie@helpnm.com
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(This seems one of the better-explained sites, at least as to how the structure works).
A quick search of the TAGGS database shows that Help-Inc. 1995-2009 has received:
Total of all awards: | $ 33,415,378 |
(MOST of it is Head Start, which appears to be a going concern.)
$8million 2007-2009 per USASPENDING.GOV, probably not too accurate
WELL, the Garridos were married. How healthy was that? In fact, as far as I know (and even in separate cellblocks) they still are. Or course clearly, he wasn’t very “abstinent” before, or during marriage.
Perhaps if the funds weren’t being funneled to telling people how to keep it zipped, the authorities would’ve had the intent and resources to find out what Mr. Garrido was keeping captive in his own back yard.
Since that article was sprung, we’ve had (in the news) a Yale graduate student (female) found dead in the wall of her lab, a few days before marriage. She was going to get married. Sounded like a dangerous proposition from her perspective.
Maggie Gallagher is from Yale (’82).
And recently we’ve had a young (about 28) married woman, with three children, from Hamilton, Ohio, end up in more than one garbage bag, after the father (and suspect) thereafter apparently took his 3 young kids to the store to get garbage bags and bleach.
She was MARRIED. OK, dudes?
I too was married. You know what it wasn’t? Healthy. Partly because there are people on this earth who take some of these doctrines a little bit too much to heart, and get to expressing it with their hands, and weapons, too.
Anyhow, I just wanted to give a little flavor of the origins of a few initiatives. In the pocketbook plus a gleam in the eye of the Bush Administration and others who worked HHS during this time.
Jaycee Dugard wasn’t married, how could she be? Who would conduct the ceremony? Her married kidnapper raper? But I heard her traumatized kids were still clean, relatively healthy and I haven’t read anything yet about academically backward. She was a single mother. According to statistics, her kids should be worse off. They WERE, but it was at the hands of a firmly married (from prison, initially) couple. So, personally, I think that I could tell where someone to shove this dogma that is being shoved off on the rest of us.
During my own marriage I had enough being shoved, ordered, slapped around, characterized and “trained” to last the nine lives of a circus cat. Quite frankly, enough is enough. Theoretically, I”m still in favor of both abstinence and marriage, however when PUSH comes to SHOVE, I’m MORE in favor of the Bill of Rights.
Part of Garrido’s credibility was that he had a woman, I’m guessing. This was a factor in the attacks on me as a single mother for maintaining the concept that as a single mother WITHOUT an attacker, I was indeed better off (and our children) that way, than before, and that the removal of the violent person from our household was sufficient for now, thank you. it was made abundantly clear, from some West Coast liberals, that a woman being beaten in the home was preferable to us having to worry about a woman without a man, any quality man, in the home, when children were involved. This overly “rigid” world view, quite frankly well, _____s. And isn’t a great value to communicate to the next generation; gender matters more than character.
And look at the characters that were promoting it!
They were bribed to get the thing off the ground!
Analyze This: Wichita Woes — What happened after 911? (1st time, 2nd time).
I rest my case on “certifiably insane protection orders”. . . .
This article is a quiz (answers below). Do this:
A. Put events in order.
B. What piece of the puzzle doesn’t “fit” and which pieces are missing?
C. Keeping this within Kansas, bring this case history to Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau, recently found sponsoring (yet another) Fatherhood act of some sort in Kansas and ask for commentary. Request permission to record, and share on youtube with the rest of us, why a man like this needed to be within cutting/shooting range of his 21 month old daughter. (Because if he didn’t get this, someone was going to pay, bad?). And how the (decade-plus) of prior fatherhood initiatives may or may not have contributed to this young man’s sense that after punching XXX officers and threatening to slit the throat of his wife, for calling for help, society still owed him something…
D. Rewrite the headline, more appropriately reflecting the crucial issues in the case.
And then Alternately
E-1. Pray to the tooth fairy that this isn’t you or anyone you know and/or recite after me:
E-2. “it spiraled out of control. We had no idea. It spiraled out of control. The real social crisis of our time is fatherlessness, not lawlessness. It wasn’t his fault. It wasn’t her fault. It wasn’t anyone’s fault. Nevertheless, the Feds + faith-based + local agencies will fix this situation. We WILL eradicate violence against women and murder by men if we JUST try harder, train more professionals, and dump some dollars in that direction. We WILL, right??”
The children are our future. Now, Where’s that Valium?
Suspect in deputy’s shooting had violent past
. . . (and they married WHY???)
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BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
The 27-year-old man accused this week of ambushing a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy had a history of violence against his ex-wife — and against officers.
{{For why the word “had” is used, see 2nd article, below}}
In 2005, Richard Lyons’ ex-wife, Jenifer, accused him of holding a hunting knife to her throat and threatening to kill her after she called 911, an affidavit filed in Sedgwick County District Court said.
Lyons pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and served several months in the county jail followed by about 16 months in a state prison.
He was released on parole on March 2, 2007. His sentence and parole supervision ended on April 11, 2008, records show.
In March 2005, four Wichita police officers responded to a report of a disturbance with a knife at his ex-wife’s home in the 900 block of South Waverly, in southeast Wichita.
Lyons had arrived and “demanded she give him their infant daughter,” the affidavit said.
She reported that they argued and that after she called 911, Lyons held a 4- to 6-inch knife blade to her throat and threatened her. The knife reportedly came from a sheath attached to his pants.
“Jenifer said she hung up the phone because she was in fear for her life and believed Richard would carry out his threat,” said the document, used to bring the felony aggravated assault charge against Lyons.
On the 911 call, a male voice could be heard saying, “I will cut you,” the affidavit said.
When he went to get a diaper bag in another part of the house, his ex-wife grabbed her two children and fled, the affidavit said.
At the home, officers found signs of a disturbance, and when they tried to arrest Lyons, he punched two officers, the document said.
Although prosecutors also initially charged him with two counts of misdemeanor battery against an officer, those two charges were dismissed after he agreed to plead guilty to the more serious charge of aggravated assault, records show.
His ex-wife obtained a protection-from-abuse order against Lyons.
In April 2005, about a month after the incident involving his ex-wife, court records show Lyons was living at the house where he is accused of shooting Deputy Brian Etheridge this week — first with a rifle and then with the deputy’s own gun.
Etheridge was responding to a 911 call from the South Rock Road residence, reporting a theft — a report authorities now think was concocted.
In Lyons’ 2005 divorce case, court records say he was working for Colortime in El Dorado at the time. The court at one point required him to pay $234 a month in child support.
At another point in 2005, Lyons temporarily lost visitation with his 1 1/2-year-old daughter because of the incident involving his ex-wife.
On Tuesday, a man who said he was Lyons’ father declined to comment.
Lyons’ ex-wife could not be reached.
In September 2003, about two years before the knife incident, Lyons was convicted of misdemeanor battery against an officer.
In the years before that, he had been convicted of felony criminal threat and misdemeanor domestic battery and criminal damage to property, records show.
As a juvenile, he had misdemeanor convictions dating to 1995, when he was 12, for criminal damage to property.
Wichita school district records show that Lyons withdrew from Metro Boulevard Alternative High School in July 2002.
Contributing: Hurst Laviana of The Eagle Reach Tim Potter at 316-268-6684 or tpotter@wichitaeagle.com.
QUIZ ANSWERS (mine) BELOW: (I interspersed A & B as dialogue)
Events, apparent order (quite different from article, which jumps around considerably)
- 1995 Juvenile Richard Lyons, age 12, has misdemeanor convictions for criminal damage to property, ergo he was born about 1983.
- July 2002, Lyons withdraws from alternative high school (age, about 19)
- Between age of majority (2001?) and 2003, he has convictions for felony criminal threat AND misdemeanor domestic battery, meaning, probably against a WIFE or GIRLFRIEND. This is called “domestic violence,” folks. SEE 1994 VAWA Act.
- ??? somewhere in there he gets married to Jenifer Lyons.
- Sept. 2003, misdemeanor Battery against an officer.
- Somewhere in 2003 Jenifer gives birth to his child. (Note: Physical assaults sometimes begin with pregnancy. Mine did).
- Somewhere between then and 2005, they get divorced. (Given the assaults, probably understandable. What’s not quite understandable is why they got married, unless the pregnancy PLUS her lack of other options to survive (i.e., HER family of origin support), PLUS no doubt some of this federal pushing of marriage on everyone…?? Who knows. Maybe they wanted to. Maybe HER household (how old was she?) was a place she needed to get out of.
- By 2005, he has a child support order in place and is actually, it appears working. Apparently they’ve entered the family court system somehow, I’d guess. The man is all of 22 years old, so this is a good thing and possibly a change for him?
- THIS IS TAKING LONGER THAN I PLANNED.
- OBVIOUSLY they had “visitation” (unsupervised, obviously). Note: He assaults women AND officers, felony-style, and threatenes (someone — seee above). He destroys property and punches policemen. NEVERTHELESS, an infant needs her Daddy. Daddies can be nurturers too. If we try hard enough, perhaps all of us (through funds, and social support and of course parenting classes) can transform this young man into a real nurturer before he kills someone for telling he can’t combine nurturing infants with wife assault.
Now in March 2005, things start getting, well, interesting:
- “In 2005, Richard Lyons’ ex-wife, Jenifer, accused him of holding a hunting knife to her throat and threatening to kill her after she called 911, an affidavit filed in Sedgwick County District Court said“
- HEre’s the account, I rearranged some sentences. Apparently by now there are 2 children (both his? Maybe not?)
- Lyons had arrived (EXCHANGE OF THE KIDS RIGHT? Here’s a CLASSIC CASE involving DV, and no help with the exchange. Yes, I’d imagine this was in family law system already, totally oblivious (per se!) to the potential danger of the situation, despite lethality assessments and DV literature dating back to at least 1985 (Barbara J. HART), 1989 (Family Visitation Centers started in Duluth Minnesota), 1994 (Violence Against Women Act) and all kinds of other literature. THis hadn’t reaached the “heartland” yet, I guess. ) and “demanded she give him their infant daughter,” the affidavit said. ((OMISSION – was there a custody/visitation in order or not? if so, was it clear and specific, as many states require (but don’t practice) cases involving DV be, to avoid incidents like this? If it WAS clear and specific, was his demand in compliance with or NOT in compliance with that order? As they say, and we see, this isn’t typically a guy that plays by the rules, not even the rules for graduating from high school, or refraining from damaing others’ propery. We’ll, he’s about graduate from punching officers to putting a knife to his wife’s throat. I wonder if this was the first time….)
- She reported that they argued {{POSSIBLY OVER WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS HIS TIME TO SEE HIS DAUGHTER?}} and that after she called 911, {{POSSIBLY THE ARGUMENT CONTAINED SOME THREAT OR PHYSICAL ELEMENTS?}} Lyons held a 4- to 6-inch knife blade to her throat and threatened her. The knife reportedly came from a sheath attached to his pants. {{May I speculate that perhaps Mrs. Lyons was aware that Mr. Lyons sometimes carried knives, and this may have contributed to her decision to call 911, even if the argument was only “verbal” in nature?}}
- On the 911 call, a male voice could be heard saying, “I will cut you,” the affidavit said. (I’m going to assume this is “evidence” and it was his, not a responding officer’s. I will further assume that this was a criminal prosecution, because someone actually got ahold of that 911 call. GIVEN the history, was this a creditable threat? It appears to the reader that her report was accurate in this part. Contrary to the “false allegations” stigma associated with women reporting violence (or threats of it), ” because they want to get custody,” this report seems to have some merit.
- “Jenifer said she hung up the phone because she was in fear for her life and believed Richard would carry out his threat,” said the document, used to bring the felony aggravated assault charge against Lyons. {AS FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS SHOW, YES HE WAS CAPABLE OF AND WILLING TO COMMIT MURDER WHEN HE FELT WRONGED OR WAS ANGRY OR ?? SO HERE, SHE DROPS THE “911” METHOD OF SELF PRESERVATION AND, if I may add, protecting her children, WITH HER KIDS OPTS FOR THE “FLEE” METHOD. Amazingly, a charge was actually filed. For why, possibly, read on.
- When he went to get a diaper bag in another part of the house, his ex-wife grabbed her two children and fled, the affidavit said. {{I have done this flee while he’s in the other part of the house routine, often enough}}
- HERE COME THE RESPONDING OFFICERS: In March 2005, four Wichita police officers responded to a report of a disturbance with a knife at his ex-wife’s home in the 900 block of South Waverly, in southeast Wichita. {{Officers KNOW domestic violence wih a weapon can be lethal. They didn’t send one custody evaluator, one parenting educator, one mediator, and one guardian ad litem, they sent FOUR officers, and I BET they were armed… Yet women are left to face this, sometimes weekly, without adequate protection.}}
- At the home, officers found signs of a disturbance, and when they tried to arrest Lyons, he punched two officers, the document said.
Not one but 2 officers. Tell them to thank Wade Horn, George Bush (Jr.), former President Clinton, present President Obama, (well, adjust for the year), and others for those punches to the face. Father-engagement. Healthy Families. . .. You’re in it. . . . . . . Were these male and female officers, I wonder, and which ones got punched. But in an incident, it could easily be any of them.
Moving on in our sequencing:
5. Prosecutors initially charged him with two counts of misdemeanor battery against an officer.
6. he agreed to plead guilty to the more serious charge of aggravated assault. (good move, as they saw evidence, and he was already heard on tape threatening to cut her.)
7. The lesser charges (above) were dismissed. Is this called a “plea-bargain?
8. His ex-wife obtained a protection-from-abuse order against Lyons. (((WHEN?? see last post on police reporting of incidents). Now? Or had she earlier? Criminal, or civil?)
NOW — figure out this timeline if you can:
9. Lyons pleaded guilty to aggravated assault (See 6, above. WHEN? WHAT MONTH 2005?) and
10. served several months in the county jail followed by about 16 months in a state prison.
March 2007 is 24 months from March 2005 (date of assault). Ergo “about 16 months” plus “several months” possibly does NOT add up to 24. How many people do this kind of mental math when reading leading bleeding headlines?
March 2005 (arguing, resulting in 911 call, threatening to slit wife’s throat in retaliation for calling 911, with 2 kids, one of them a toddler girl, in the home, Mom + 2 flee for safety, 4 police come, 2 of whom are punched) – March 2007 is most definitely 24.
The question is, what is “several” months? Is it 8, or 9 (8 + 16 = 24, right?) WHEN did he plea-bargain? After punching officers and threatening to kill wife was he then RELEASED in this foul mood? If he threatened to slit her throat and assaulted people who tried to help in March 2005, what kind of response might we expect after being sentenced, if he was released on bail?
11. He was released on parole on March 2, 2007.
12. His sentence and parole supervision ended on April 11, 2008, records show.
What this section of reporting does is to reassure that his crime (of — see above) was indeed punished properly. Or was it?
13. In April 2005, about a month after the incident involving his ex-wife, court records show Lyons was living at the house where he is accused of shooting Deputy Brian Etheridge this week — first with a rifle and then with the deputy’s own gun.
Omittting the obvious — after arrest (i’m going to hazard a guess that the 2 punched officers or their colleagues eventually handcufffed the guy) he was free on bail or own recognizance until arraignment and incarceration
YES, you read it right, finally. Threaten to slit her throat, punch TWO responding officers, and get out scot free, for a few months. This is an interesting sentence (I don’t operate under press deadlines, but still . . . . . the sentence bridges four years of time: 2005 & 2009!) Well, not quite scot free. He was punished with not seeing his daughter, “temporarily.” Wonder what time frame THAT word spans.
14. At another point in 2005, {{Can we get a hint which month?}} Lyons temporarily lost visitation with his 1 1/2-year-old daughter because of the incident involving his ex-wife.
When I filed for a DV restraining order with kickout, and we had the guns, knives and assaults thing, but not on officers — we got ALMOST 7 days with no visitation, as I recall. Perhaps at the most 14, as he had to find a place to live.
Now here is about the slain officer:
- Sheriff: Deputy was ambushed
- Suspect in deputy’s shooting had violent past
- Marriage came as a surprise to Johansson
- Deputy was quiet, funny, passionate about his work
- Opinion Line (Sept. 30)
- Robbers strike as police look for killer
- Deputy’s funeral set for Friday
- Sedgwick County Commission remembers slain deputy
- Opinion Line Extra (Sept. 30)
- Wichita man arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty
Sheriff was Ambushed
WICHITA – Richard Lyons set the trap shortly before noon on Monday by calling 911 to report a theft at his house.
He then hid in the shadows of a tree and brush in the backyard of a house in the 3600 block of South Rock Road with a high-powered rifle, authorities said Tuesday. He waited for a law enforcement officer to show up.
That happened to be Sedgwick County sheriff’s Deputy Brian Etheridge.
“It does appear to have been an ambush situation,” Sheriff Bob Hinshaw said Tuesday of the shooting death of Etheridge, 26, the first Sedgwick County deputy to die in the line of duty in 12 years.
Lyons, 27, was shot to death a few hours later in a field not far from the house in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers.
“It’s scary,” Hinshaw said. “It could have been any law enforcement officer… this was just a call to 911 to get any officer to respond.”
Investigators spent Monday night and Tuesday collecting shell casings and other evidence, Hinshaw said, piecing together a chain of events from what was left behind.
Based on that evidence, Hinshaw offered this account:
Lyons called 911 at 11:42 a.m. Etheridge was dispatched to the address just east of McConnell Air Force Base and radioed his arrival at 11:51 a.m.
When no one answered his knock on the front door, he asked dispatchers for contact information for the caller. He then walked around to the backyard of the house and saw no one.
Lyons was hiding in the shadows on the bright, sunny day, and opened fire with a .30-30 rifle — a weapon commonly used by deer hunters — when Etheridge turned his back as he was either approaching the back door or returning to the front of the house, Hinshaw said.
The bullet hit Etheridge in the back, penetrating his body armor and knocking him down. Lyons approached the fallen deputy and tried to fire his rifle again, but it malfunctioned.
He took Etheridge’s gun and shot him in the leg before disappearing.
Etheridge radioed for help, and scores of law enforcement officers from throughout the metropolitan area converged on the scene.
The wounded deputy was alert and communicating with the first officers on the scene, Hinshaw said, but their priority at that time was his medical care — not gathering information about the suspect.
Escorted by patrol cars, an ambulance raced Etheridge to Wesley Medical Center, where he underwent surgery.
Authorities established a one-mile perimeter around the house and urged residents inside that area to leave if possible.
Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams said authorities had information indicating Lyons was likely inside the house, so that address remained the focus of their attention even as law enforcement officers combed outlying areas within the perimeter.
Tear gas was deployed twice into the house in attempt to flush the suspect out, Williams said, and SWAT team members were preparing to blast open the front door at about 5:15 p.m. when authorities were notified that the suspect had been spotted hiding near a tree row in a nearby field.
Agents from the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were patrolling a field in a Humvee when one of the officers spotted Lyons’ leg as he lay on the ground.
They stopped the Humvee, and Lyons stood up and fired at the vehicle with the deputy’s handgun. He then began running, firing several more shots as the ATF agents and KHP officers ran after him.
The law enforcement officers returned fire, striking Lyons “multiple times,” Hinshaw said.
Lyons was taken to Wesley Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m.
Investigators hope to talk to neighbors and relatives of Lyons, Hinshaw said, but he doesn’t expect every question raised by the shooting to be answered.
“We may never know what the motive is,” he said.
Results of the investigation, including the use of force, will be presented to the District Attorney’s Office for review.
Flags at Wichita City Hall and other city buildings have been lowered to half staff in honor of Etheridge. They will remain at half staff through Friday, the day of Etheridge’s funeral.
“We’re just really shocked and saddened by what has happened,” Mayor Carl Brewer said. “It has affected all of our law enforcement agencies.”
Brewer said the city is providing counselors for police officers who were involved in the shoot-out and others who may be shaken by the violence.
“Every time they make a stop or enter a house, they don’t know what’s going to happen,” he said. “This demonstrated just how much risk there is.”
Reach Stan Finger at 316-268-6437 or sfinger@wichitaeagle.com.
FIRST 911 — from a woman — consequence, she’s threatened and has to flee for her life, BUT her ex-husband IS jailed — for about 2 years, or less.
SECOND 911 — from the formerly jailed young man (27 yrs old is young) — his ambush. SOMEONE was going to pay. Was Etheridge (the officer killed) a responding officer in the former arrest, or just anyone in uniform would do? Was he upset at what had happened in prison?
Was this suicide by cop? Sounds like possibly, to me.
WOULD IT HAVE PLAYED OUT DIFFERENTLY IF THE COUPLE HAD STAYED TOGETHER, OR WOULD SHE BE A STATISTIC, NOT THE OFFICER?
ANYONE WANT TO DO A PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK-UP ON THIS ONE (PLACE BESIDE THE WORK-UPS ON PHILLIP GARRIDO, AND HIS WIFE?) WAS IT UNEMPLOYMENT MADE HIM DO IT? WAS IT THE CHILD SUPPORRT ORDER? WAS IT ACTUALLY TAKING CONSEQUENCES FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY? WAS IT HIS LACK OF A FATHER IN THE YOUTHFUL HOME (FATHER CONTACTED DECLINED TO COMMENT). DID HE NOT HAVE A PLACE IN SOCIETY, WAS THAT IT? WAS HE ON MEDS? was he FORMERLY ON MEDS AND NOW OFF MEDS?
WOULD’IT HAVE BEEN BETTER TO, AT ABOUT $20K/PRISONER/YEAR (??) KEEP HIM IN LONGER, OR INDEFINITELY?
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I SAID EARLIER ABOUT “COLLATERAL DAMAGES” OF DV (OR SIMILAR PHRASE) IN YESTERDAY’S POST?
I do have one comment, here: Something sounds narcissistic in the mix. This person was supposedly a hell-raiser from an early age, but didn’t get help. Possib ly being a father was a shot at sanity, but I think that the child support order was probably NOT a good idea for such a person. It would’ve been better for all to let her do welfare. She’d probably get off it quicker without the threats to her life than with them.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCES IN KANSAS:
http://www.ksag.org/page/domestic-violence (Attorney General Site):
Domestic Violence
The new Domestic Violence Unit within the Kansas Attorney General’s Office seeks to keep our families safe, stop domestic abuse and end the cycle of violence that threatens our communities.
Online Resources:
- Kansas Elements and Standards of Batterer Intervention Programs in Kansas (NEW)
- Cycle of Violence (printable flier): Learn to recognize the phases and symptoms of domestic violence.
- Warning signs of an abusive relationship
- Common characteristics of battered persons and abusers
(Be sure to catch this “get inside their head” speculation (many didn’t apply to my case, i know): date:
Source: The Battered Woman by Lenore Walker, Harper & Roe, 1979. (I’m comforted to know that the Attorney General has the latest psychological profile of batterers and their victims — only 30 years old…..)
- Believes all the myths about battering relationships {{NO one questioned me, and I hadn’t heard these…}}
- A traditionalist about the home, strongly believes in family unity and the prescribed sex role stereotype {{The alternative being, punishment….}} {{BY THE WAY, this now describes the Health and Human Services Dept., in general, on this matter….}}
- Accepts responsibility for the batterer’s actions {{SAYS WHO?}}
Resources for Law Enforcement
Child Exchange and Visitation Center Program – (CEVC)
This program provides supervised child exchange or supervised child visitation to children and families at risk because of circumstances relating to neglect; substance abuse; emotional, physical, or sexual abuse; domestic or family violence; etc. The state portion of funding can be used to fund the local match required for receipt of federal child exchange and visitation center grants.
Mighta been helpful for Jenifer Lyons . . . . .
The Essential Elements and Standards of
Batterer Intervention Programs in Kansas
The Essential Elements and Standards of Batterer Intervention Programs were developed over
seven years through the hard work of many professionals who are dedicated to ending
domestic violence in Kansas. The Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
convened the initial work group and wishes to thank the following organizations for their work
during this process:
Developed and/or Reviewed by representatives from the following:
Alternatives to Battering, Topeka
Correctional Counseling of Kansas, Wichita {{MAYBE Mr. Lyons got this and didn’t take kindly to it?”}}{{Or, the problem was, he DIDN’t get it?}}
Family Crisis Center, Great Bend
Governor’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board
Halley Counseling, P.A., Girard
Johnson County Office of Court Services
The Family Peace Initiative, Girard
Kansas District Judges’ Association
Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall
Kansas Attorney General Steve Six
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
Kansas County and District Attorney Association
Kansas Department of Corrections
The Mental Health Consortium
Office of Judicial Administration
Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Center, Hutchinson
Wyandotte Mental Health Center
Family Crisis Center, GreatIn 2007, The Governor’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board (GDVFRB), chaired by
former Attorney General Robert Stephen appointed a subcommittee to review and update the
Essential Elements and Standards of Batterer Intervention Programs. The GDVFRB adopted
these as best practice standards in providing batterer intervention programming in Kansas, and
recommended that the Office of Attorney General implement a training and certification program
for providers of batterers intervention programs.
Attorney General Steve Six readily accepted the recommendation to train and certify batterer
intervention providers in Kansas using the Essential Elements and Standards of Batterer
Intervention Programs in Kansas.
For More information about this initiative, contact the
Director of Victim Services in the office of
Kansas Attorney General
Steve N. Six
120 S.W. 10th Avenue
Topeka KS 66612-1597
785/368-8445
“FATHERHOOD IN KANSAS (google, results 124,000)
ACCESS VISITATION IN KANSAS:
Child Custody, Support and Visitation Rights – Kansas Bar …
Visitation, often called “access” is the right of the parent who does not …. Child support and visitation are considered by statute in Kansas to be two …
http://www.ksbar.org/public/public…/child_custody.shtml – Cached – Similar –
Crisis Resource Center of SE Kansas –
Child Exchange and Visitation Center. 669 South 69 Hwy. … Wichita Childrens Home Child Access. 810 North Holyoke …
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/…/access_visitation…/ks.html – Cached – Similar –
Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson website … Funding Source, The Federal State Access &Visitation grant program is a formula grant program to states and …
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Overland Park Visitation Attorney | Leawood KS Parenting Plans …
Visitation & Parenting Plans. Kansas Visitation Lawyer … custody or non- residential custody, your children have the right of access to both parents. …
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You will have access, at our Download Site, to the legal forms you need to modify custody-visitation in Kansas.
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Following an emotional breakup, many moms allow or deny visitation by whim, {{OR WHEN HE THREATENS TO SLIT ONE’s THROAT< CASE IN POINT}}leaving the dads without regular access to their children. …
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YES, THERE WAS A DIRE LACK OF SERVICES FOR MR. LYONS…
The ACES study — Bridging apparent Skipped Synapses in Family Court thinking….
Happy Labor Day post. I give you one study I refer to often on this blog, that dates back to 1998, and one (more) inane/insane custody discussion from Australia, case dating 1999-2003, and topic, joint legal custody and visitation with a young girl and the father who crushed her baby brother’s skull with his bare hands, baby being 3 weeks old and in his father’s arms at the time. The court is less concerned with that behavior than the mother’s “phobia” (odd label, eh?) about that behavior. Nothing much new for Family Law Arena — this is its speciality, in fact, stigmatizing parents that actually seek to protect their kids from trauma, abuse, and possible (in that case) death.
ACES (below): Bridging the Gap between Childhood Trauma and . . . . .Negative consequences later in life.
Or should I call this bridging the gap between theory and reality? Which results in the ever-widening “Chasm,” the Court public Credibility Gap.
So, how does one talk with mad engineer at the helm of a runaway train with one’s kids on it? How get one’s kids safely OFF the train? because in this venue, it doesn’t seem possible. If they spend the duration of their childhood on this train, perhaps this will become their new “normal” and then another generation of trainsters and railway-hoppers will grow up, have kids, and provide new cargo for this Trip to Nowhere (except the trips to the bank for the railroad and its employees). Like the formerly renowned rail system in the U.S., it took a lot of subsidy to keep the thing operational.
There are basically two types of conversations going through the courts:
1. IN open court — in open, and
2. Behind closed doors — in private.
The heart of the matter is in the 2nd arena. Best interests of the child is static, sound-fluff and media-bytes. It’s not reality, and I don’t any longer believe that any one who makes a living in this arena seriously, seriously believes in this paradigm — or if they do, their eyes are simply closed, because the cat is out of the bag.
I believe the language the speak, as any good employee or business person truly does, is that of who is paying their bills. One reason I know this is that I actually experienced leaving an abusive marriage, and how vital a part finances was in getting free. I also watched systematic economic abuse (mismangement, comandeering of access to basic funds/cash flow/steady jobs that would make this possible, and so forth), which restricted and delayed the exit.
Which would you be more accountable to as a secretary whose family’s food and rent (lifestyle) depends on your pleasing that employer? Up to your own personal level of moral/social tolerance (and ability to choose), a disgruntled customer in the waiting room or on the phone? Or your employer? . . . . Well, what about judges and other professionals, some of whose salary (US$) is well over $100,000 and lifestyles and associates to match? Along with judgeships go political influence and possibly later activity — it’s a career path. It took a lot of convincing in California (and publicity) for these judges to give up (statewide) their almost $20 million in SUPPLEMENTAL pay, but not until one of their own, an attorney in Los Angeles, was firmly intimidated and jailed for reporting financial corruption (Richard Fine case), which was his actual job to do in this city, as I understood it. He was put in punitive solitary conffinement, moreover, and I heard, disbarred, for actually bucking this system.
However, these articles ARE about “best interests of the child” and whose head is where in being unable to figure that out in a given case involving infanticide! Or other horrors to any growing child, or the parent of any such child.
I am going to start grading the Family Law systems in my country, and in any country that imitates policies that I give an “F” in my country:
1998 THIS study is also old, and underestimated. Probably because of its common sense, like the 1989 and 1992 ones I quoted earlier, from NOMAS, talking about why the HECK have we got to continue exposing each new generation of children to more and more parents who batter, and then posing STUPID questions like, why is the next generation ending up in jail, or beating THEIR women, or taking the assaults, either.
WHY is business as usual, THAT’s why. A case came to light today where an Australian court (dealing with similar issues down under) is ordering psychiatric evaluation for the mother of a two-year old because the two-year-old’s father, quickly knocking up another woman, had just crushed to death the newborn (3 weeks old) infant with his bare hands, in response to the baby’s crying. The man is in jail, and the court is trying to tell the mother that she needs to have her head examined for wanting to make sure this doesn’t happen to the one that came out of HER womb. No, I am not kidding!
FAMILY LAW – Children – parenting orders – contact in prison – father incarcerated for killing child of another relationship – specific phobic anxiety of the primary carer and compromised capacity to care for the child – no significant contact ordered.
At what point do we get to have the COURT’s “head” – and values — examined? ???
O & C [2005] FMCAfam 200 (29 April 2005)
Last Updated: 6 June 2005
FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT OF AUSTRALIA
REASONS FOR JUDGMENTIntroduction – the proceedings
1. This matter comes before me as the final hearing of the competing applications of the various parties concerning B M C born 9 March 1999. Final parenting orders were made in relation to B on 20 February 2002 whereby B lived with the mother and the father had regular contact. However, on 11 March 2003, the father killed his newborn child of another relationship, Z, and the father is now incarcerated until approximately February 2006.
Yes you read that right. Infanticide: 3 years. 3 hots and a cot. Wonder if he’ll get out on parole early, like Garrido did, in time for a repeat performance. Sounds like it didn’t affect his entitlement much, being incarcerated for baby-killing; he still wants to assert his shared parenting responsibilities and rights. Where’s KING SOLOMON (of the Bible) when you need him? Where’s the anti-abortion pro-lifers when you need them? This mother, of child “B” is a pro-lifer. She doesn’t want HER kid to suffer the same fate. For expressing and acting on this protective, motherly sentiment, she may be sentenced to a lifetime — or at least for the duration of B’s childhood — of having her “head examined” over this “phobia.”
“Phobia” being, I guess, being afraid of something the Court isn’t afraid of, probably because it’s not the Court’s offspring involved or at risk.
2. The proceedings were initiated by the mother filing an application on 1 July 2003 in which she sought that previous parenting orders made by this court on 20 February 2002 be suspended and that she have sole responsibility for making decisions about the long term and day to day care, welfare and development of B. Effectively, she sought that there be no contact between B and the father.
3. On 21 November 2003 a Form 3 response was filed and served on behalf of the father {{BEING AS HE WAS INCARCERATED??}}. Relevantly, the father sought joint responsibility for long term decisions affecting B and contact in prison
RELEVANT: What the jailed Dad wants.
IRRELEVANT: what the killed 3-week old baby wanted before his Daddy crushed his skull together: probably either some cuddling, a diaper change, some milk, or to be held differently. Or his Mama.
IRRELEVANT: What the mother wants, safety for HER kid, and her concerns taken seriously.
YES, this WAS 2006, “DOWN UNDER,” and a term well-earned from what I can see of this decision, at least.
As to his paternal grandparents: Well, their son was an adult at the time, but still, they raised this guy. PERHAPS this should be considered “relevant” in allowing unsupervised contact of child “B” with them. (Not mentioned are her parents. . . . or mother of the deceased newborn. )
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I give you one more reason (not including Phillip Garrido, Jaycee Dugard, and any woman who opts to marry a convicted kidnapper and raper) to take domestic violence seriously: The children:
What is the ACE Study?
The ACE Study is an ongoing collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and Kaiser Permanente. Led by Co-principal Investigators Robert F. Anda, MD,
MS, and Vincent J. Felitti, MD, the ACE Study is perhaps the largest scientific research study
of its kind, analyzing the relationship between multiple categories of childhood trauma
(ACEs), and health and behavioral outcomes later in life.What’s an ACE?
Growing up experiencing any of the following conditions in the household prior to age 18:
- Recurrent physical abuse
- Recurrent emotional abuse
- Contact sexual abuse
- An alcohol and/or drug abuser in the
household
- An incarcerated household member
- Someone who is chronically depressed,
mentally ill, institutionalized, or suicidal
- Mother is treated violently
- One or no parents
- Emotional or physical neglect
Origins and Essence of the Study (2003)
ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND STRESS: PAYING THE PIPER (2004?)
The findings of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, an ongoing collaboration between Co-Principal
Investigators Vincent J. Felitti, MD, of Kaiser Permanente, and Robert F. Anda, MD, MS, of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Because the two links above are in multi-column format, I can’t copy and paste. I exhort you to take a look at some of this.
Please note that “one or no parents” was NOT on the top of the list, as it is on current “fatherhood.gov” policy, or HHS/ACF grants prioritization in the Designer Family mode it appears to be stuck in.
Women, including women like me, whose children have been exposed to from 1 to all of the factors above, are after removing their children FROM such factors, having the courts force them back in through shared parenting considerations. IN this case the theoretical ideal is held over the head, and clubbing protective parents, of the practical reality that Batterers do NOT make Good parents until they thoroughly address the battering behavior, and what drives it. Moreover, men have graduated with flying colors from programs allegedly adjusting their attitudes, and gone right out to murder that bitch who forced them to sit through it (McAlpin is one case that comes to mind, Bay Area, 2005. Within just a few days, her body was discovered in a trunk).
Again, the issue becomes who gets to rig the test and give the grades? I give any policy that lacks common sense — protect the kids! — and ignores the golden rule and “F.”
Golden Rule in Family Law: Do unto OTHERS as you would have them do unto YOU (i.e., if it were YOUR kid, whose father just killed a newborn, would you as a judge order the woman who was alarmed at said murder to have her head examined, and the child ordered into contact with the parents of the killer, OR would you yourself be alarmed, and rule accordingly?)
If it’s not good enough for YOUR kid, it’s not good enough for HER kid. That’s the golden rule in the courtroom, I say.
This of course presumes that a judge cares about his or her own kids, which may be a presumption indeed; some judges have been convicted of collecting child pornography and making some of it (Thompson, NJ), another of sexual harassment of female employees (Fed. District judge in Texas).
Who’s Your Daddy? Er, your Mommy? er. . . . Let the Courts Order…
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This NYT article from Dec. 13th is overdue for posting. A story of how important motherhood really IS and what lengths a mother (whether financial, or surrogate — neither with any biological relationship) will go to protect their own.
Sounds like, here, both the people who PAID for the babies (they were twins) and the surrogate mother (no biological relationship) were happily married. And it would seem in both cases, employed…Surrogacy is a job…
Anyway, I presented some “teaser” information. Check out the article (multiple links and graphics), and just ask yourself, what are the responsible fatherhood folk going to do with THIS one?
Building a Baby, With Few Ground Rules
Uncertain Laws on Surrogacy Can Leave Custody at Issue.
[[So far, so good . . . . Everything is worked out. Looks like the courts, the police, and the parental education folk will have to go look somewhere else, as well as supervised visitation supervisors….]]
Well, that’s not my main post this afternoon…. Interesting reading, though. I poke fun at Designer Families from the Top-Down perspective. But you ain’t seen nothin’ yet . . . .
Written by Let's Get Honest|She Looks It Up
January 28, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Posted in Context of Custody Switch, Designer Families, Split Personality Court Orders, Vocabulary Lessons, Where's Mom?
Tagged with Designer Families, fatherhood, Motherhood, social commentary, Surrogacy, U.S. Govt $$ hard @ work..