The Final Report for Michigan Child and Family Services Review March 2010 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families
Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children’s Bureau is out.
One of my fans called during the process of the review to inform me that things were not going very well. I was informed that the documents and data provided by the state were received, but "not viewed as being credible".
It seems there are specific state civil servants who have been "tagged" with pet names by the federal reviewers such as, "The Fixer" and "The Eliminator".
Out of respect, I will not provide their names in this venue.
I called Michigan Department of Human Services to ask the outcome of the review.
The chipper little starlet on the other end of the phone told me, [sic] "We passed the audit!"
During my years of being An Original Source™, I have never been exposed to such terminology when it comes to external reviews and audits. One can not "pass" nor "fail" that which has no pre-existing criteria, (i.e. disincentives or incentives).
"Passing" and "failing" are not generally acceptable accounting terms or principles but they do become useful when generating propaganda.
This is not school; this is life. Reviews and audits are performed to see if a social system is functioning as designed to benefit society. If it is identified that there are areas that need improving, that is a very good indicator that something is dysfunctional, giving cause to raise eyebrows.
Michigan, is trying and I will give credit where credit is due. State administrators are the ones who are trying to keep the "status-quo-a-flow" (business as usual). What that means is there are folks up in Lansing who are at the cusp of retirement. There are career civil servants who know what they are doing is not compliant with federal requirements and challenges the ethical philosophies of humanity, but they are not about to give up their pension to admit to using cases of white out on submissions to federal reviews. These are the same civil servants who would rather resign and retire rather than end the pervasive fraud in child welfare.
The categories that should be identified as relevant are the "Strengths" and "Area Needing Improvement". The significance of frequency the category of "Area Needing Improvement" signals red flags for further scrutiny.
HINT: MCI
Due to term limits and election cycles, Lansing is about to get a new group of leadership. Unfortunately, it will be these tenured administrators who will be educating the newly elected on "what goes on in Lansing, stays in Lansing" because it is more beneficial to get scolded by the feds than get taken over by the feds.
The end goal of Michigan Children and Family Services is to not get caught until everyone retires.
HHS Children and Family Services Review Final Report for Michigan 2010
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