Review Board: Uncertainty, high turnover in child welfare
In Nebraska’s child welfare system, caseworkers for kids change too often. It’s getting harder to tell if children are safe in the foster homes they’re being placed in. And there are fewer places for them to go. Those are among the conclusions in the latest report by the Foster Care Review Board.
"If the people working directly with the kids – the boots on the ground – are shifting too much .. it is not going to work." Shifting agents in cases during critical moments has been vital to the outcome in many cases. FREQUENTLY shifting agents in cases has also been vital to the outcome in many cases. This is a strategic maneuver by management and has been used for decades. This news article has drawn clear evidence that the documention of shifting agents in cases has nearly doubled since 2008. That this article and these Senators appear unconcerned to this management style is no accident. It is a popular delegation style in our legislators of today, searching for solutions without acknowledging the breadth of the problem.
ReplyDeleteLet us go on...
The trend of frequently shifting agents in cases is met with:
1) Missing specific information in foster family placement, info such as drug and alcohol use in those foster families;
2) It used to be that the information given to fosters about the children they were receiving was full of lies; now what they’re doing is "telling you that this child has no behaviors". I presume you cannot sue an agency for lying if they are not providing ANY information whatsoever. Clever maneuver.
3) Probably the most disturbing is that all of these trends can now be seen in the new private sector case management under contract.
This news article would have you believe that progress is being met, or even sought, simply by the fact that Senators are reviewing the 2008 implemented child welfare reform. But these are dances around the fire entertainment meant to ward off the boogy man, an illusion well worth remembering.
It is appalling that our culture sees a justifiable reason to take a child from their birth parents b/c fosters are available. Career fosters often divorce and remarry, why isn’t a birth parent given this opportunity? Our society has been nurtured and cultivated by government to accept the rights of fosters and adopters OVER birth parents, and this faulty reasoning is well engrained today.
How did we get there?
Well, how much does government pay? To fosters? Adopters? And all the supportive staff to make adoption flourish, ie. a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) SS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more “evaluators”, junk psychologists, residential facilities, contracted case management, and on and on and on…
How well does it pay? Are their pensions sufficient? Do they know or care that parents spend generations of family assets trying to regain custody of their children, and still cannot prevail against a corrupt SS judiciary?
When the statistics of prevailing parties in SS cases is revealed, how does the public judge the overall success, and therefore judgement, of Social Services? How can the SS system be wrong when their stats prove them the victor in case after case?
Does anyone really understand the power of indoctrination thru the use of steady income? Once a person becomes party to work that pays them well, their own internal defense mechanisms will tell them they are doing well, as in good, and that is how beliefs that one's activities are self defined as GOOD. It baffles many falsely accused parent how child confiscation industries continue to justify their actions. It will bewilder history how it continued.