SAMHSA Liability Disclaimer Explains Child Welfare Fraud

I have a problem with this report.

Here is a basic list of why:

1. Weaknesses:  Whenever you list what the "Strengths" are, you always list the "weaknesses.  The purpose of this is to proceed to improve.  Guess they do not believe there is room for any.  They do include "Challenges", but challenges are obstacles or barriers, not weaknesses;
2. Missing Data: There is no mention of missing data.  Many states do not report properly regarding their child welfare systems.  In far too great of occurrences, there are problems with late reporting, false reporting, duplicate reporting, incomplete reporting, fraudulent reporting, much is just not reported.  The technical term for this coding is "99".  Guess there are no errors over here.  Even though it has been identified that, in most of the listed systems, not all states report, missing data still deals with the data that are submitted, or rather omitted because it is voluntary;
3. Biases: Certainly, if these child welfare systems maintained and imputed reported data which are reflective of the levels of abuse, neglect, torture and deaths within the child welfare system, then, and only then would these systems become credible.  Let us not be remiss in observing that these systems do not make any mention of litigation (i.e. civil and criminal) and the federal reported findings of severe failures of the federal and state grant management systems which have found multiple instances of fraud, waste and abuse.  As poverty is codified as abuse and neglect, it is non-existent in these data systems to report the lack of medical insurance, quality and affordable housing and poor community infrastructure as an identifiable category worth documenting and reporting.

This is nothing more than a public introduction to child welfare propaganda.  I want to see data maintained on:

Children who have been abused and neglected in foster care;

Children who have died in foster care;

Children who have been sexually abused in foster care;

Children who have been improperly placed in foster care.


The most entertaining part of this report was the disclaimer:

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If this is the case, then why did it put its name on the publication and pay for it?????  These are just some of the many questions I get a kick out of posing and watching the blood drain from the faces of administrators.  Duh.

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