Do's and Don'ts When Dealing with Children and Youth/Family Courts

Do not let Children and Youth Services into your home without a warrant or a court order. If CYS lies to get the judge to issue a warrant/order and you can prove it, that is a 4th and 14th Amendment rights violation which is a civil right violation under 1983 and conspiracy against rights covered under 1985. If CYS comes to your door and has no warrant/order and threatens to call police that is also illegal and unlawful and both lose immunity. This is coercion, threatening and intimidation tactics if CYS gains entry with help of police both can be sued. CYS does not have the legal right to conduct an investigation of alleged child abuse or neglect in a private home without your consent. DO NOT GIVE IT! In fact removing a child from your home or school without your consent is a "seizure" under federal law. If CYS cannot support a warrant/order or show a child is in imminent danger along with probable cause, CYS cannot enter your home. Remember, anonymous calls to CYS are NEVER probable cause under the warrant clause. Even if they have a name and number of caller they still cannot enter your home. Start a timeline journal from the first contact you have with them and any phone call meeting visit etc. After this contact write up what happened at the contact and send caseworker a copy. Demand to know why they are there, who filed a complaint, who made the phone call... Do not sign ANYTHING. Take what they want you to sign and tell them you will have an attorney review it. This also includes your children. Tell them not to sign anything. Court appointed attorneys are usually working with CYS and not for you. Not always but more than not if an atty is appointed to you he is working for them. When and if you are approached about having your children removed make an appt with your doctor and have the children go through a thorough exam so it is on record that they were healthy and wound free. Notify a relative or relatives that would be willing to take immediate kinship of the children. Don't go alone to CYS always take a friend or witness. You are allowed to have another person with you at all times. Do it!! Be polite but assertive when dealing with CYS employees. Educate yourself, know your rights and do not back down to their intimidation's. If you are treated rudely or threatened by your caseworker, report them. Chain of command is the caseworkers supervisor then the director then the county commissioners, then Dept of Welfare. Read any and all documents they give you carefully. Make changes to any and all mistakes and make sure they are corrected. Ask for a copy of the corrected paperwork and anything they have documented. Getting your records or file is your right but they will make it difficult to attain. You may have to have an atty file an order to get the file. Keep copies of everything you have and keep one set of documents off site safely. Keep a paper trail. Try and use email as much as possible for communication because you will have a record. Use an email tracker so you can see when the received and read it and if they shared it with others to read. If you must mail something do it certified signature required. Keep all records in order and secured. Do not permit conference calls unless everyone listening identifies themselves and write down who they are. Do not permit caseworkers to use cell phones during a visit with you or your children. If you are going to record a meeting/visit you must tell them that they are being recorded. You can post a warning at your front door so they are aware that you know your rights It is usually better to hire an atty that a friend or someone you trust has used or knows he will work for you. If searching online you can often read reviews about attys. their history and work ethic. Let their phone calls go to voicemail so you can be prepared and calm when returning the call. Never permit in chamber chat sessions during your court proceedings. Demand that everything occur in the open. I would also ask for any caseworker or CYS person giving testimony to agree to forgive immunity. That way if they lie they can be held accountable. Remember social workers and other government employees may be SUED for deprivation of civil rights under 42 U.S.C. 1983 if they are named in their "official and individual capacity." There is no Immunity if the caseworker took actions with malicious intent to cause deprivation of rights, or they violated established statutory or constitutional rights. A supervisor or director can be liable also if he told to, order to, set in motion of, acts by the social worker and or refused to terminate a series of acts by the social worker which they know would cause the violation of constitutional rights. Parents have the right to care for have custody of and nurture their children. It cannot be denied without violating fundamental principles of liberty and justice which are the base of all our civil and political institutions. It is a right protected by the 1st,5th, 9th and 14th amendments. CYS will often use steal children that are mentally or physically challenged, of poor families, in domestic violence or divorce situations. Children may have brain injury, autism or be obese to fall victim of government confiscation. 90% of these children did not need to be removed. They are removed to for profit and job security of those in Social services and family courts.

Why Your Child May be Taken by Children and Youth Services...Show 3 aired 3/22/2014

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/vc9722/2014/03/22/why-could-your-child-be-taken In this episode I talked about all the ways your child may be taken by children and youth services. Divorce-an angry spouse accuses you of harming or neglecting the child or abusing drugs or alcohol. Angry Neighbor-Because of noise or where you park your car they may call in and make false reports about what they have seen you do to or with your child. Truancy-Big issue in PA many kids are being taken and put in foster care because of not attending school. Illness-I have heard too many cases of late where a single mother fell ill and the child was taken and put into foster care instead of a relatives care. Or as we just experienced the Pellitiers who lost their daughter to the care of the state because her parents didn't agree with her medical care. You could also walk into a Dr office or emergency with a perfectly innocent fall of your child's or illness and CYS is there to snag your child before you have a chance to even guess what is going on. Next show will be on how far some caseworkers will go to save their jobs and ruin your life. Emotionally and financially. Tune in Monday 3/24/2014 at 12 noon

Pa Coalition for Family and Parent's Rights

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/vc9722/2014/03/21/pa-coalition-for-family-and-parents-rights My second broadcast. 37 listeners 34 downloads. Lining up guests and gathering more content for a longeer show. Thank you Michelle for calling in and sharing your views.

Radio Show debut today 3/20/2014

What a great way to start off Spring than with a radio show to support families fighting Children and Youth Services. Please tune in at blogtalkradio.com the show is Fighting CYS in PA. You can call into the show at 646-595-2137. Please join our PA Coalition for Family and Parent's Rights by calling 206-339-9456. Email us at info_pacoalition@gmx.com and visit our public facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/PaCoalition. If you have questions, need support or just want to share your experiences with this agency please contact us. We are a growing group and need liaisons in every county. Here is your chance to SPEAK OUT and ACT UP to change the way these agencies operate to take our children and hold them hostage in the system.

Berks County Ruling a Win Win for Parents Fighting CYS

http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/J-S42032-13m%20-%201015735071753373.pdf?cb=1 This court ruling passed March 6, 2014 changed the playing field for many parents and relatives with cases held up in the corrupt Human Services agencies. The ruling proves in it self the lengths that these people will go to in taking children away from their families. Read it copy it and hand it out to anyone you know in this battle. We need to get more wins against CYS and this opens that door.

Great News for Foster Parents

This rule change would have made it impossible for them to take our Sarah. When a child has no hope of reuniting with their birth parents or any kin ti is vital for them when placed in a foster home where they are loved and safe to be able to remain. In our case they took Sarah without a warrant, without a court order and without just cause. We had all excellent reviews and Sarah was flourishing in our care. Had this rule been in place they would have had to give proper notice and go thru due process. Instead they stormed our house and took her kicking and crying hysterically that she wanted to stay. http://www.khi.org/news/2014/mar/06/senate-committee-endorses-foster-parent-bill-right/

More views on the ABUSE in Children and Service Services.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkdALScS48&feature=share Very good to the point video Foster Child Bill of Rights National http://nfpaonline.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1105707 Nancy Shaeffer a crusader on the corruption and Abuse in these agencies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TcDTJlPWbE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFDEV9dYf8M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1zrQxbuvFo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6WuU5Fj06g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRezjPumCsA More http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaXINizSj7E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJjgOjq5uso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv42L1XkCBY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYu8v5ANEPw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arVPZHgTcmA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnNyA3v7U80 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9k-1Du74mg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CexYtuDIcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cab3YecjrPU This will really make you enraged!! http://www.porchlightproject.org/socw14.shtml All counties in PA numbers in kids taken race returned to family etc. As you can see it is overwhelming the proof of corruption and abuse.

Progress being made in our Fight for Justice Against Children and Youth Services

Jan 13th Ruling may open doors to take legal action http://citizensdemandingjustice.blogspot.com/2014/01/federal-court-in-ciavarella-kids-for.html#.UwIbRZseMiI We also have gotten the attention of reporter Louis Jasikoff of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Independent Gazette. Lou has taken on a task he soon realized is much bigger than first thought. The abuses being committed by the courts and Children and Youth Services is unbelievable and definitely criminal. http://wilkesbarrescrantonig.com/2014/01/27/custody-cash-plea-help-place-else-turn/ He has been interviewing victims and those who want to see change and prosecution come to those in this corrupt system that destroys children's lives and families. Here is a link to that radio show and you can listen and call in on Saturdays 7-8 am 94.3 FM (570) 815-7423 KidsRights@live.com CustodyForCash@live.com http://sanitycheckradioshow.com/portfolio-view/february-15-2014/ We have sent letters to the Department of Justice you can also by using this form letter and add what you want send to: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov SUBJECT; PROJECT SAFE CHILDHOOD In consideration of the mission statement of Project Safe Childhood, ‘a strategy also provides the first ever comprehensive threat assessment of the dangers facing children’ with the list of known internet exploitation. We ask, you to consider, the first ever demand by the public to include the threats to children within the programs of child protection and family law division of the Justice system. In the last several years, the increase in children placed within the system has shown the abundance of children vulnerable to exploitation by those given legal power to place a child into foster homes, foster care, adoption, and youth facilities. We have seen increase in the arrests of child welfare workers and specialists from child abuse charges, drug use, gang affiliations, parental rape with foster and adoption parents charged with murder and child abuse. We have seen the decline in morally upstanding legal representations and Judicial actions in family law courtrooms and have made a mockery of our legal system. Children are used as pawns in the court room by either party, either lawyer, Guardian Ad litem, Judges, Dependency courts ruled by Child welfare agencies without due process, and children suffering as a result. The federal standard of ‘best interest of the children’ is rarely upheld within the years of dissolution and custody hearings. Economically unsound, families are placed closer to the poverty line and children with lost future security in college careers. We are asking the department of Justice to remain firm in their effort to protect American children and consider vast changes in the way our government cares for abused children, adopts children and the programs that fund the state agencies. We are asking the Department of Justice to remain firm to their effort to protect American children from legal exploitation for financial gain. This is the civil rights call for this time in history. Studies have found a child is more likely to incur abuse in state care than in their homes. The case examples are numerous on the failure of the states and federal government to protect the rights and safety of the children which are legally removed from homes and held captive from caring relatives and extended families. Never before, has our nation seen the violence against children as great as those who are in the family law system. Never before, have families faced such great dangers when seeking to divorce. Children are killed, neglected and often held captive by the rulings of Judges, mediators, court appointed therapists, legal representation, guardian ad litem, and many with little training in the domestic conflicts arising within homes across America. Entire childhoods are spent with endless hearings on visitation and custody. Parents are held captive by legal compliance. We ask you, the leaders of the Project Safe childhood, and Attorney General Eric Holder, confirm this commitment to the American people, and announce, review and reform of the structure of federally funded child welfare and foster care nationwide. We call for the Department of Justice to stand with parents and children nationwide and announce a investigation, review and reform of the family law division of the justice system that is failing American values, families, and children. Stand with the families, strengthen American families, and in doing so, you will strengthen the nation. I have attached my case. Please review it and appreciate how the corruption in these agencies and our courts are destroying families and most importantly the security of our children. Respectfully, Vickie Correll-Rick 610-693-9722 Operation CPS reform and Family Law reform. Sent to John Stossel @ john.stossel@foxnews.com John Attached is a story about another out right misjustice, ignoring Constitutional Rights, Bill of Rights and abuse of children at the hands of Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services and KidsPeace. Please take the time to read it or have someone on your staff read it. These children are still stuck in this system and still being controlled by the same caseworker that overseen their abuse and holds them hostage. Thank you Contact me anytime for more information Vickie Correll-Rick 610-693-9722 Sent to Governor Tom Corbett @ Governor@pa.gov The Honorable Tom Corbett 301 5th Avenue, Room 240 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 February 16, 2014 Dear Governor Corbett, Many laws have been introduced as a result of the PA Task Force recommendations and some have reached the desk of our Governor for approval. The proposed laws seem to have a powerful impact, but they are missing the mark when it comes to protecting our children from abuse. The key to having a system that truly protects children is to address the failure of our justice system and agencies whose primary function is to provide protection for our children and families. The Department of Health and Human Services, Children and Youth Service agencies, those contracted to provide services to families and children, judges, lawyers, GAL’s, counselors, and custody evaluators are involved in corruption, fraud, racketeering, and crimes against families and children. Failure to address these serious issues, as well as a lack of accountability, provides no relief for the victims of this out-of-control system that has emotionally and financially devastated our families. Pennsylvania legal institutions such as the family courts and professional institutions such as the state bar and psychology boards, as well as the criminal justice institution have combined forces to form an enterprise that is unethical, illegal, and intolerable. We are a group of Pennsylvania citizens who are dedicated to improving and reforming the current system of family law and child protection. The Sandusky case, the Kids for Cash scandal, the arrest and conviction of judges, clergy, GAL’s and social workers should be a wake up call to those we trust to oversee and provide protection for Pennsylvania citizens through the actions of legislative committees. There is a complete failure of our State and Federal lawmakers to address the immoral and corrupt actions of government entities in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States of America. Our families and our children are being destroyed by the actions of the Department of Health and Human Services (the source of federal funding disbursements), Child Protection Service agencies and contracted service providers, and the court system that renders devastating decisions against our families and our children. As citizens of Pennsylvania we have a moral and legal duty to report child abuse. Reporting abusive acts perpetrated against our children has devastating and long-lasting consequences as we are forced to deal with corrupt and unethical agencies, forced to be evaluated by corrupt psychologists, forced to hand over our children as they scream in anguish, forced to accept a “friendship” with the perpetrator through reunification services, and then forced by court order to shut up about child abuse. The worst devastation for a reporting parent and the abused child occurs when we are forced, by court order, to hand our children over to the person who raped, sodomized, threatened, and intimidated them. If we object to these horrible consequences, the perpetrators are “awarded” custody of our children. The current system of child protection is a tragedy. The current system is destroying families. The current system is encouraging the abuse and exploitation of our children. Federal funding initiatives and prolonged litigation provide financial incentives for judges, lawyers, GAL’s, service providers, and custody evaluators. The system is flaunting control, ignoring the laws, and profiting financially as we lose our children, our families, our life savings, homes, and stability. The laws do not protect citizens from the endless intrusion of government entities wielding unlimited power with no accountability. We have contacted our State Representatives, Senators, Congressmen, and those appointed to committees to enact change. We have contacted the Attorney General, the Inspector General, and the Judicial Conduct Board. We have encountered a cycle of passing the buck without sincere measures to correct this ongoing crisis for families and children. These are the members of the executive branch of our government who claim to have no jurisdiction when complaints are filed: “The Attorney General, Auditor General, and State Treasurer, all of whom are elected to administer agencies independent of the Governor, are also executive-branch officials. The Lieutenant Governor, an elected official, and the appointed members of the Governor's cabinet constitute the rest of the executive branch of government. Cabinet members manage the operations of state government agencies and provide their expertise as advisers to the Governor. The executive branch of Pennsylvania government, consisting of both elected and appointed officials, is headed by the Governor, who holds the state's highest office. Citizens look to the Governor as a leader who will set the agenda for state government, see that current problems are dealt with effectively and that plans for the future are put into place.” We are asking you, Governor Corbett, to effectively challenge and investigate the ongoing crisis we are suffering at the hands of out-of-control government agencies and corrupt courts. We are willing to provide documented evidence of the failure to protect our children and the horrible outcomes of the family court system. We ask for your intervention and action to investigate and remedy the abuse of power by government agencies and the family court system. "When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." - Thomas Jefferson Respectively, Vickie Correll-Rick 610-693-9722 I have attached the case. Please read it and appreciate that their is documented proof of the abuse of the children and the abuse of power by these agencies. We are in the process of gathering what we need to file a class action suit. What we really need is a fearless lawyer. If you know of one contact me asap.

Fighting Children and Youth Services Handbook

Sharing this information as it may help you if you are caught in the family court battle.
http://somethingforthepeople.wordpress.com/human-trafficking/news/introduction-to-legalized-kidnapping-and-adoption/home/fight-cps-hand-book/
Some good information and answers to questions many have when facing the unfriendly corruption of this agency.

Spring Township Couples Battle with Berks CYS

http://www.bctv.org/special_reports/basic_needs/why-it-can-get-messy-when-the-county-takes-someone/article_a3ef766e-cc87-11e1-a48f-0019bb2963f4.html