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Thursday, September 16, 2010

CASA In Nevada Is Not Trained To Report Child Welfare Fraud

You'd think that Nevada would use some of the $467,665 in Adoption Bonus Money to help out with this.

Purchase a gift card to help out foster kids

Thanks to locally owned San Rafael Coffee Company joining forces with CASA of Carson City, you can now have a great cup of joe, some pastries and live entertainment Friday and help local children placed in foster care.

CASA is all out of gift cards to assist in purchasing needed items for the extras, such as school, performance and sports supplies that are so important in the kids' lives to “fit in.”

 Legally Kidnapped has presented me with a curious issue.  How is it CASA is running a fundraiser for the necessary needs of the child who is under the auspices of the State of Nevada when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has already appropriated funding to care for the needs of the children in foster care?  


The last time I checked, this was called administrative incompetence.  According to IRS Charitable Codes, if a non-profit receives funds during a grant participation period, it must be reported.


For example: A non-profit gets a grant to rent a building.  The monthly rent is $500.00, which was approved in the granting of the funds.  Now, the non-profit subleases a portion of the space for $400.00.  Is this money reported and reimbursed or is it used to subsidize other unreported activities.


A child is removed for not being provided the necessary needs (i.e. medical insurance, homelessness).  Almost 84% of the children in Nevada foster care were placed due to this very fact.  Now, CASA announces that these children are still in a state of need though it receives federal funding, and even more under Medicaid Targeted Case Management?


CASA workers are not trained in detecting and reporting fraud in child welfare yet should be.  I will be designing a training course.


It is time people ask what is really being done with all this money.  It is time for fiscal accountability and transparency.

,Child Welfare Financing Nevada 2010                                                                   

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