Proposal for Restructuring, Reorganization & Accountability & Oversight of CPS/DCF/DSS/CYF - Currently Ongoing & Still Editing, not all is included as of current proposal.
Written by: Keri Kilgore
A¹ - CPS Agent Employee Education, Training Oversight & Accountability
CPS child Removal is Often Determined By Individual Case Workers, Who Have Sole Discretion, With Zero Initial Oversight or Review Process and No Need For Any Superior Or Supervisory Case Review Before Determining The Removal Of A Child From Their Family & Home And Ultimately No Checks or Accountability Before Changing A Families Life Forever.
Case Workers Far Too Often Are Hired For These Positions With Little To No College Or Formal Education. Far too Often, They Either Have Zero Former Work Experience & Equipped With Limited To No Credentials To Hold The Position And Are Trained ‘In House’ When Hired By DCF.
They Are Underwhelming Qualified When Hired For The Position Of Case Worker Tasked With The Determining Whether Or Not To Remove A Child From Their Home & Family.
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︎ Current CPS Employee Training ︎)
Currently the CPS/DCF Handbook and Training is largely based upon deceptive and manipulative practices and on occasion case agents receive financial incentives to remove children from homes.
It is known that CPS/DCF use manilpulative and deceptive practices in order to trick honest well meaning parents into unwittingly entering to an agreement with DCF/CPS by either not understanding they have the right to refuse certain demands made by CPS, that ultimately lead honest well meaning families into false admissions or into a compliance plan they wouldnt knowingly and honestly accept otherwise. These plans are often unnecessary and include paying large sums of money that is not disclosed to the parents at the time of agreement. Parents are often told by case workers something that sounds like it must be completed or agreed upon when in fact its 100% voluntary until the parent is seen or"evaluated" by a predeterminded DCF/CPS Physician whos financially incentivized to recommend all parents who are evaluated into a treatment plan of some sort. When a case worker refers you for evaluation you 100% have the right to refuse evaluation althoughthe case worker omits this fact and actually infers the opposite is true. However, when a well meaning honest parent agrees to go, then Once you are evaluated then you MUST complete rigorous treatment plan of action that includes a myraid of unreasonable weekly fees sometimes multiple times a week. It includes limited notice before having an hour to show up at a facility. It includes psychiatric evaluations you must pass with limited Physician choices or alternatives.
• Case agents are known for pretending to help parents by pretending to be on the parental side, and telling the parents no need for concern and that they will fight above and beyond to keep family together but instead are knowingly and actually actively engaged in doing the exact very opposite building, fabricating and according to CPS agent training manuals they are encouraged to do so.
• This typically Happens As The Investigation Begins or After The Initial Contact With The Family, Which Typically & Sadly Is Almost Always A Result Of The Case Workers Personal Bias & Predetermined Beliefs & Prejudices.
• Additionally families are labeled or flagged for religious biases, educational instructors biases, and healthcare workers predetermined understanding of how they feel a family should live or be which often is a simple matter of different lifestyles, not supported as something someone should be allowed to make a report to DCF/CPS.
• Many Agents Appear To Disassociate and Families Describe Agents Appear To Operate Often With Zero Empathy and Emotion and Robotic In Nature.
The use of these divisive and deceptive tactics and practices come directly from CPS employees handbook and encourages manipulation and deception in order to catch families in situations or even in some cases create situations under false pretenses that ultimately lead families to the path of child removal. The employees are in some occasions offered financial incentives to remove children from the families home.
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Trauma To Children
This Ongoing Epidemic In Our Country Is Heartbreaking & So Many Times Is Used Unnecessarily Causing So Much Trauma To The Children. Parents Who Have Family Who Can Take The Children In Temporarily Are The Lucky Families. Most of The Time Children Are Placed With Individuals & Families Who They Do Not Know, leaving Them Traumatized & In Fear, Which Often Is More Harmful Then What The Alleged Circumstances For The Original Removal Were. Many times Children never get told or explained to what is happening leaving them lost and confused and many former foster children have expressed their want and attempt to hurt or kill oneself. Many experienced abuse at the hands of foster parents.
Not To Mention, The Many Reports of Abuse, Human & Sexual Trafficking, Sexual Abuse & Even Missing Children Reported Every Day Throughout The Nation Within CPS Custody.
If You Have Not Taken The Time To Do Research On This Topic I highly Encourage You To Do So. Please Learn And Know your Rights, As This Literally Can Happen To Anyone. Often, Compliance By Innocent Parents Who Only Want To Be Helpful Because They Know They Have Nothing To Hide And Want To Cooperate, Strangely End Up With Their Rights Violated The Most And Horrifically End Up With The Removal Of Children For No Reason With Thousands Of Dollars In Legal Fees. Being Blindsided Is A Common Reoccurring Theme In Cases Around The Country.
CPS should have to be held to the highest standards of government. To remove children from the custody of their parents should require proof beyond a reasonable doubt but should require 3 forms of tangible evidence, & for purposes herein shall be known as the tri-primal evidentiary submission evidence. The evidence in all its forms should require authentication and then be provided to the court for a judge to sign off on before a removal of children can begin. Forms of evidence can come in the form of witness statements or reports, audio, video, doctor referral, child testimony, and/or prior history can be submitted as proof. Individual Statements are not the same as Witness Statements or Reports. An Individual Statement would be considered to be the reporting of concerns for minor children and/or suspicion of neglect or abuse that are alleged to CPS and can not be used as a tri-primal evidentiary submission. An example of an individual statement would be any social media submission where someone reports on a post someone else has made, or if any 2nd and 3rd hand accounts of behavior inside the home in question. However, Witness Statements or Witness Reports are first hand witnesses to behavior within a home that has resulted in a concern for minor children based upon 1st hand direct knowledge of abuse or neglect inside a home based upon personal interaction within the household. Witness accounts can be used as testimony received by the courts in a tri-primal evidentiary submission and are subject to laws of perjury and individuals are subject to prosecution if it is found that the witness is lying and is found to have filed a witness report or statement falsely.
Any Teacher, Physician, Law Enforcement or other industry Professional submits a concern or it shall be filed under a document titled ‘Professional Advisement Form’ and the same rules regarding whether it is filed as an individual report or a witness statement/ report apply to the professional.