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Subject: COURANT: DCF Failures- the National Study Results
Date: Jul 29, 2007 7:38 AM
REPORT BELOW
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What about all the parents who had their kids fraudulently removed due
to prosecutorial
misconduct?
We're still here waiting for our kids to be returned to us, and the
guilty prosecuted
under the law.
DCF has never prosecuted a case of deliberate false allegations, and
they don't
care if the allegations are false.
http://www.actionlyme.org/THE_REAL_DON_DICKSON.htm
With a documented history of domestic violence that many years long,
don't we
think it is believable that Donald Dickson told the DCF that I
intended to "drive
my congenitally infected Lyme kids into a lake" in order to not pay
child support?
Especially since he risked jail to lie to the Support Enforcement
Judge about his
income?
Do we all think I am a "Unibomber Chemist," or am I the chemist who
solved
the international crime of "Lyme disease" and LYMErix?
Is the AG going after these crooks?
http://www.actionlyme.org/BLUMENTHAL_ANTITRUST.htm
Do my kids have congenital Lyme disease?
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
Has Lyme affected my brain and nerves? Do I have damage to all the
nerves in my
neck due to chronic meningitis? Do I have the Lyme spirochete in my
spinal fluid?
Does Diane Dickson have congenital Ehrlichiosis, too?
http://www.actionlyme.org/JAMES_PHILLIPS_HOMEPAGE.htm
Since when does the testimony of a person who did not want to be sued
for malpractice
trump all these scientifically valid medical reports?
When DCF is operating under the principal of preserving their right to
brain damage
children by protecting a malpracting, perjuring, Yale "forensic
psychiatrist"
for the State of Corrupticut from a malpractice lawsuit. You can see
the testimony
of Karen Forschner. I have witnesses to this malpractice.
When is AAG Jessica Gauvin going to jail for her numerous crimes?
Including OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IN A FEDERAL RACKETEERING CASE
AGAINST YALE?
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
Where is the AMA on this Lyme Crime?
Why haven't they published a statement or investigated independently?
Why does the AG have to prove that the very same people who proved
Lyme is a permanent
brain infection are the ones who say this disease does not even exist?
http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_IS_A_PERMANENT_BRAIN_INFECTION.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/BIOMARKERS.htm
I will never let up until that insane woman AAG Gauvin is behind bars
for the rest
of her life.
NOT EVER.
Note the obvious false arrest:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GAUVIN_DEATH_PENALTY.htm
I reported her crimes to the US Department of Justice, so she tells
the Berlin police
I made death threats against her, when I was reporting what is on the
DOJ's
website for their penalties for COLOR OF LAW ABUSES, and this bitch
Gauvin *KNOWS*
IT.
LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE COPIED IN.
Take a look at her.
She must spend 3 hours in front of a mirror every morning, while I
have been doing
the DCF's job for them for years.
She's down in the New Haven "courthouse," I believe.
GO DOWN THERE and TAKE A LOOK AT HER.
Gauvin really *does* spend more time in front of a mirror than anyone
I have ever
known personally, and likely more than anyone in Hollywood. ***This is
some form
of mental illness.***
Let's call it MALICIOUS NARCISSISM.
If this is what the DCF floozies spend all their time on, how can they
be studying how to best care for ANYONE's children, even their
own?
DCF is not interested in the welfare of children but a way to prove
that they are,
is to punish these criminally insane DCF prosecutors and the moron
"judges"
who allow this nonsense and insane and diabolical abuse to go on.
But we have the sort of USDOJ we have where the asshole whose job it
was to do what
Blumenthal is doing now, was promoted to Torture Gonzales' Number Two,
after
he was promoted to CT's US Attorney's Office to protect Rowland from
the
DCF Rowlandgate crimes, where they wanted to build "a national string
of prisons
and juvenile detention centers," and it was going to be with the help
of the
"Social Workers" Union, since they trade and share all their illegal
family-destroying
techniques at their national union conferences.
Which Denise Dunbar attends.
Governor Rell has no problems with any of this because she is Arthur
Spada in a
skirt.
http://www.actionlyme.org/VIKING_INTERVIEWS.htm
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Study: Problems Follow Foster Care
MIT Professor Says Those Taken From Families Are At Risk For Lives Of
Crime, Unemployment,
Teen Pregnancies
By CHARLES PROCTOR | Courant Staff Writer
July 29, 2007
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A recent study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found
that children
who are placed in foster care at the discretion of caseworkers are
more likely to
have run-ins with the law and less likely to be employed than children
who remain
with their families.
Some are calling the study the first to empirically measure the long-
term impact
of foster care on a child's development. And the findings have lent
weight to
the arguments that state agencies - including the Connecticut
Department of Children
and Families - should devote more resources to treating and meeting
the needs of
families rather than resorting to foster care.
According to the study, children who end up in foster care are about
three times
more likely to become juvenile delinquents and adult criminals than
children who
are kept with their families. Girls placed in foster care are nearly
twice as likely
to eventually become teenage mothers.
Children placed in foster homes are also less likely to be employed
and earn less
than those who are kept in their homes, the study found.
Joseph Doyle, an assistant professor at MIT's Sloan School of
Management and
the study's author, said he examined 15,000 to 30,000 children in
Illinois who
were considered on the "margin of placement" in foster care. Such
children
have cases in which investigators could disagree about placing the
child in foster
care or leaving the child with the family, Doyle said.
The study's findings suggest that rather than pouring money into
foster care
systems, "we need money, we need caseworkers to go to families and
provide
them with services," Doyle said.
Connecticut DCF officials said the findings affirm their support for
keeping children
with their families whenever possible.
But critics of the agency have seized on the study to charge that DCF
is not doing
enough to serve parents and families. They said the agency is more
likely to pluck
children out of their homes and place them in foster care than to keep
them at home.
And even when DCF does treat the children and parents in the home, it
does not do
a thorough job of evaluating families' needs and monitoring parents to
make
sure that their child is safe, critics said.
Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child
Protection
Reform, a nonprofit advocacy group in Virginia, cited federal
statistics compiled
by his agency that suggest Connecticut removes children from homes at
a higher rate
than the national average.
According to an index that ranks states with the highest removal rates
in 2005,
Connecticut came in 24th, with 29.4 children removed for every 1,000
impoverished
children in the state. The national average was 24.1.
"The Connecticut mentality can be boiled down to one sentence," Wexler
said. "Take the child and run."
If children who might be better served with their families are instead
placed into
foster care, they can drain resources and attention from children who
need the out-of-home
treatment, Wexler said. The state should focus more money and staff on
serving children
and parents at home and reserve foster care for those who have an
urgent need of
it, such as children who face an imminent danger of abuse, he said.
"Connecticut has been constantly obsessed with thinking that the
answer to
every young person's problem is an institution," Wexler said.
Gary Kleeblatt, a DCF spokesman, said the agency has increased the
number of families
it serves with in-home care from about 2,800 in January 2002 to a
little less than
3,700 in April 2007. Over that same period, the number of families DCF
serves with
out-of-home care remained about the same, from about 5,960 in January
2002 to 5,840
in April 2007. However, it spiked to about 6,600 in 2004.
Kleeblatt said the agency has made progress toward providing better
family services
in the past couple years. The agency has ramped up the so-called "flex
funds"
it makes available to social workers, from about $5 million in 2004 to
$23 million
in 2006.
Workers can apply for and use the flex funds to help a family attend
special counseling
or parent-education sessions or even pay rent on a new apartment if
the worker deems
it could help the family, Kleeblatt said.
"The department fully understands that children are better off at
home, and
we try to provide as many services and support as possible," Kleeblatt
said.
"Certainly we have continued room to improve and grow, but there have
been
significant and concrete steps in that direction."
But although critics acknowledge that DCF has begun to increase its
investment in
in-home care and support, they also say that the agency still puts a
disproportionate
emphasis on foster care.
For instance, in the last fiscal year the agency spent $54 million on
in-home care
and about twice as much - about $108 million - on foster care. When
DCF does treat
children at home, some question whether the agency's family and parent
support
network is adequate.
The issue was brought into the spotlight in January 2006, when police
accused Hector
Camacho of Waterbury of killing his 2-month-old daughter, Amanda, by
fracturing
her skull.
State DCF caseworkers were aware of complaints regarding Amanda's
parents and
had previously removed five children in the care of Amanda's mother,
Nancy Torres,
because of concerns over physical abuse and neglect. But rather than
remove Amanda,
DCF workers ordered the parents to go to classes, which officials
suspect they rarely,
if ever, attended.
After Amanda's death, some questioned whether the girl's life could
have
been saved if she had been placed in foster care, and Gov. M. Jodi
Rell ordered
DCF to review all of its cases to make sure children in in-home care
were safe.
But family preservationists, including Wexler, said at the time that
the root problem
which led to Amanda's death was not that she was kept at home but that
DCF did
not do an adequate job of evaluating and meeting the needs of her
parents.
Some of those problems, critics contend, persist today. A report
issued by the DCF
court monitor's office four months ago found that out of a 73-case
sample, the
agency met all the medical and service needs of children and families
only half
the time.
Jeanne Milstein, the state child advocate, said the relatively low
success rate
was evidence of a communication breakdown between DCF, parents and
children.
"[The MIT study ] shows how important it is to intervene very early on
and
provide families who are at risk with intensive services and support
to help them
learn how to become better parents or help them deal with domestic
violence or whatever
issues they might be dealing with," Milstein said.
The DCF, Milstein said, "has a long way to go here."
Contact Charles Proctor at cwpr...@courant.com.
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