CT Child Advocate Reports that "DCF Staff Are Stupid." Again.
Mort Zuckerman
lPick...@cdc.gov, Durlan...@yale.edu, Aa...@columbia.edu,
gary_w...@nymc.edu, scientifi...@ostp.gov,
pkru...@princeton.edu, Stanle...@fiu.edu,
margaret...@hhs.fds.gov, emcsw...@niaid.nih.gov,
afa...@niaid.nih.gov, Spin...@yahoogroups.com, kshe...@calea.org,
fit...@gmail.com, patrick.f...@usdoj.gov,
model...@sbcglobal.net, jdr...@nejm.org, let...@courant.com,
Jgerb...@cdc.gov, michae...@ct.gov, con...@po.state.ct.us,
executiv...@nytimes.com, managin...@nytimes.com, news-
ti...@nytimes.com, biz...@nytimes.com, for...@nytimes.com,
nati...@nytimes.com, dv...@cdc.gov, brigidc...@optonline.net,
tr...@hotmail.com, illino...@aol.com, jle...@courant.com,
tinaj...@yahoo.com, jhorn...@fff.org, thomas...@usdoj.gov,
thoma...@ct.gov, kur...@washpost.com, georg...@washpost.com,
p...@allegorypress.com, commissi...@po.state.ct.us,
brans...@comcast.net, vts...@comcast.net, o...@po.state.ct.us,
freet...@charter.net, scott....@po.state.ct.us,
govern...@po.state.ct.us, attorney...@ct.gov,
randall...@usdoj.gov, Robert....@yale.edu, editor@greenwich-
post.com, harol...@yale.edu, sedm...@nswbc.org, rrmcg...@aol.com,
fr...@nytimes.com, saint....@sbcglobal.net, rre...@berkeley.edu
Cc: fra...@ucia.gov, dr-ahma...@president.ir,
eugener...@washpost.com, bmi...@newstimes.com, tr...@hotmail.com,
rast...@aol.com, billc...@gmail.com, amcg...@rms-law.com,
rjmu...@aol.com, paulcrai...@yahoo.com,
criminal...@usdoj.gov, karla.d...@usdoj.gov,
christophe...@usdoj.gov, richar...@yale.edu,
harol...@yale.edu, james.p...@yale.edu, inq...@aldf.com,
ly...@idsociety.org, meganm...@theatlantic.com
Subject: CT Child Advocate Reports that "DCF Staff Are Stupid." Again.
Date: Apr 15, 2011 7:01 AM
ARTICLE BELOW ABOUT DCF's SUCCESSES:
==========================
Milstein identifies the inherent conflict in Blaming the Victims -
psychiatry and DCF. DCF wants to prosecute victims. And they can't
make any claims to the self-alleged courts about why they should
kidnap and "treat" the children (or parents) without doing so -
without Blaming the Victim.
DCF's entire operation - and psychiatry's too - is based on Blaming
the Victim. These is the reason for DCF's and psychiatry's historical
lack of success.
You don't fix people (or anything else) with a sledgehammer.
And the reason DCF is retarded is because they're trained by retarded
psychologists. None among them can think for themselves, and you
won't find one psychiatrist who can explain to you how any
psychotropic works. That is, they won't be able to tell you how their
"drugs" fix their "diseases."
Clue.
Every psychotropic (- except Lithium, which competes for Ca+ in
calmudulin, changing cell membrane potential and thereby inhibiting
apoptosis -) is nothing more than an anesthetic. THAT is the
mechanism of action.
Now, think: DCF kidnaps kids, traumatizes them out of their minds,
treats them like baggage, shuffling them around from home to home,
tells the kids their "parents are monsters and never loved them," and
then when the kids are completely destroyed, kicks them out into the
street when they're 18, ...
... as if they never lived. As if they were *never* a person or a
human. As if they had never existed.
And this is why DCF's Chief Ragaglia wanted to go in with the Rowland
gang to build a "national string of juvenile and adult prisons" called
TREA: Tomasso, Ragaglia, Ellef and Alibozek.
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINLESS_BUREAUCRATS.htm
SO RELIABLE is the outcome of DCF's handiwork, they were going to make
it a national enterprise of "juvey-next-to-adult-prisons," "IN ROCK
QUARRIES."
No joke.
And psychiatry is gonna help :)))
(You shall know them by their fruits.)
KMDickson
http:;//www.actionlyme.org
=====================================
Riverview children's hospital in Middletown would merge with another
state-run psychiatric center, the underutilized Connecticut Children's
Place in East Windsor, in the Department of Children and Families'
latest plan for the expensive and controversial Riverview facility.
Riverview has long been criticized for treatment costs that amount to
$585,000 a year per child, and is viewed by some advocates as a
holdover from the so-called institutional era.
But the state has found itself in a quandary every time the
legislature has called for it to be closed: Shut Riverview and lose
the facility that treats Connecticut's most troubled children.
DCF Commissioner Joette Katz, and her deputy, Janice Gruendel, said in
a report to the legislature Thursday that administratively merging
Riverview and the Connecticut Children's Place would cut costs over
time by using one medical director and one management staff to run
both places. The combined facility would be renamed. Inpatient
hospital units would be reduced from eight to six, and additional
services would be offered to children requiring a lower level of care.
[Sample Our Free Breaking News Alert And 3 P.M. News Newsletters]
State Child Advocate Jeanne Milstein said she generally supports DCF's
plan, but has concerns about the quality and depth of staff training.
"DCF has already invested significant resources over the past several
years to train and retrain staff, with limited sustainable, measurable
progress,'' Milstein said.
Her office "has expressed concerns that the vast majority of staff are
the same individuals that have struggled over the past decade to
implement specific programming options, and we continue to be
concerned with their capacity to implement and sustain strengths-
based, trauma informed, and family-centered care.''
She said DCF "must ensure that staff at the facilities, and across the
entire agency, are trained and accountable for the treatment, safety,
discharge and transition planning for these children before any
program expansion occurs.''
Gruendel said the Riverview/Children's plan calls for increased staff
training in dealing with traumatized children. She said the agency
already is steering away from practices that rely on physical
restraints.
But the report acknowledges that, "Both Riverview and Connecticut
Children's Place have experienced periods within the past five years
during which treatment and care have not been at acceptable levels,
and questions about the cost-effectiveness of each have been raised."
The merger would be part of a 10-step DCF plan that also includes
strengthening and supporting families of children who have severe
mental-health needs.
Gruendel said that "despite the complexity and great need of
youngsters served at Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth, many
were able to return to their families with supports.''
Katz, appointed DCF commissioner in January, said the actions outlined
in the report are an "important step in creating a more effective and
efficient department.''
KMDickson