Our Corrupt Family Courts. It's ALL About the Money!

The repercussions of a Family Court System that is corrupt to the very core. It’s the judges who benefit from larger pensions from the federal incentivized funds the states recieve from the feds, the vastly disproportionate monies paid the family court attorneys, DFS system employees who push families apart and MOST importantly the federal and state legislators who know and see the problem but chose to avert their eyes.
Gentle people this is not a second amendment issue, it is a direct result of a family court system which operates outside of the bounds of the US Constitution.

For those of you who are of the “unintended consequences” ilk I say this.
The federal government budget provides for the payment of roughly $1,000,000,000 to each state every year for incentivized payments matching garnished wages.
The states enact statutes which make the Judiciary immune to the Open Records Act, so that the public can not easily get to the the end recipient of these funds.
The family court judges operate in an immune vacuume and in some states appointed for life. The state DFS are funded by these federal payments.
The federal government legislators, at the bequeath, of the Bar Association lobbyists, do not push through a Family Law ACT which would limit attorney fees in family court matters, similar to what they do for disability and bankruptcy matters.
Who is really holding the gun here?

Parent Alienation Awareness Conference in Erie

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Kinship Care

Kinship Caregiver Navigator Program Introduced 

PPC has been working closely with state Representatives Kathy Watson and Eddie Day Pashinski to create legislation establishing the Kinship Caregiver Navigator Program and we’re proud to announce House Bill 2133 was introduced this week. 

The program will be a vital resource to kinship caregivers because for the first time ever, there will be a one-stop shop for them to find information about state and federal resources available to them, along with a 24-hour hotline they can call for assistance. The bill also provides for training for Kinship Caregiver Navigators. 

PPC joined Representative Pashinski, Representative Watson and other state officials and advocates at a press conference to unveil the bill on Monday, and the creation of the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Caucus and emergency guardianship legislation also were announced. 

Tell Us Your Story   

Two grandmothers who are caring for their grandchildren told stories about the challenges they face as caregivers, one following the tragic loss of a child to opioid addiction and another struggling to find what resources are available to her and her granddaughter.
If you are a kinship caregiver or know a grandparent or other close family relative raising children outside of the foster care system who would benefit from this new program, we would like to hear your story. Email Ashleigh Brunsink at ABrunsink@papartnerships.org.

We expect the bill to see movement when the House returns to session on April 9th, and we’ll keep you posted in future updates. 

Farming Out Our Children to Strangers/Reading Eagle

Anyone know these boys? Another place to farm out children to strangers. Guess this explains why Judy Schwank ignores the corruption (Kids for Cash) in Children and Youth Services and our family courts. She may be part of the child trafficking network

http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/old-main-in-topton-refurbished-to-continue-mission

 

Find an Attorney-File a Complaint Against an Attorney

https://www.padisciplinaryboard.org/for-the-public/find-attorney

https://www.padisciplinaryboard.org/for-the-public/file-complaint

Has Child Protective Services Gone Too Far?

A debate sparked by the free-range parenting movement has drawn attention to the threats and intrusions poor, minority families have long endured. 

https://www.thenation.com/article/has-child-protective-services-gone-too-far/

By Michelle GoldbergTwitter

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/has-child-protective-services-gone-too-far/ 

A Broken System: Family Court in the United States

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B5L77QX/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

300,000 babies Stolen by CYS-Happens Right Here in PA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049647/BBC-documentary-exposes-50-year-scandal-baby-trafficking-Catholic-church-Spain.html

State Submits Goals to Improve Child Welfare. We are Failing!

State Submits Goals for Improving Child Welfare System

In 2017, Pennsylvania participated in the most recent round of the federal Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR), a collaborative effort with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) that helps states identify strengths and challenges within child welfare systems.

A random sample of 65 cases were selected and reviewed across seven counties (Butler, Centre, Lehigh, Lycoming, Mercer, Northampton and Philadelphia). In addition, interviews were conducted with 17 different stakeholder groups. 

Overall, Pennsylvania was found not to be in substantial conformity with the seven safety, permanency and well-being outcomes, which review things like a caseworker’s timeliness in goal planning, the appropriateness of a child’s permanency goal or an agency’s efforts to find family connections for foster care placements. Pennsylvania also only achieved substantial conformity on five of the seven systemic factors, which includes things like workforce turnover and caseworker training. 

Strengths for Pennsylvania included a commitment to continuous quality improvement, a willingness to share data with stakeholders, efforts to ensure siblings are placed together in foster care and increased use of relatives and kin as placement options.  

As required, Pennsylvania then developed a Program Improvement Plan (PIP) to address areas in need of improvement and identified four key areas: 

• Workforce, or attaining and maintaining skilled and responsive child welfare professionals.
• Engagement, or developing and maintaining trust-based working relationships with children and their families and increasing family participation in planning and support efforts.
• Assessment, or gathering and sharing information so that the team working with the family has a common big picture understanding of the strengths, challenges, needs, and underlying issues of the child and family.
• Planning/monitoring, or continuous analysis and evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of the plan and modifying accordingly.
  

Once the PIP is approved by ACF, the state then has two years to implement the goals stated within. 

Time is Running Out Family Court -Ducote Law Pittsburgh