Clueless In Michigan: More Trafficking Tiny Humans Lawsuits - Will St. Vincent Sarah & Bethany Christian Move To Enjoin To Nancy Edmunds' Court?

If St. Vincent and Bethany Christian can sue Michigan over new gay adoption rules, well, by golly, Michigan can sue St. Vincent and Bethany Christian, and all the other Foster Care & Adoption Agencies for Trafficking Tiny Humans.

It is only logical considering the fact that they are the ones who are trafficking tiny humans.

I wonder if the Michigan GiGi Interlopers, DHHS Robert Gordon and Garlin Gilchrist, will show up, or at least publicly admit that child trafficking is foster care and adoption.

Oh, wait.

I forgot.

Nancy Edmunds is supposed to decide if Michigan is all better when it comes to its child welfare system.

Perhaps, St. Vincent and Bethany Christian can enjoin in the Dwayne B. v. Granholm (now Gretchen Whitmore) action.

Probably not.

Trafficking tiny humans through foster care and adoption is how St. Vincent and Bethany Christian maximizes their revenues.

As for the LBQRSTUV adoption issue, it is just a legal property ownership argument under the law of chattels.

Welcome to Foster Care & Adoption in Michigan, oops, I mean, human trafficking.

Happy Child Abuse Propaganda Month!

Adoption agency sues state over new gay adoption rules

Michigan DHHS Director Robert Gordon,
& Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist - Clueless in Michigan

An adoptive mother, a former foster child, and a Michigan faith-based adoption agency are challenging a recent state settlement that bans state contracts with foster and adoption agencies that refuse to work with gay couples.

St. Vincent Catholic Charities, former foster child Shamber Flore, and Melissa Buck, a mother of five special needs kids adopted through St. Vincent, filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging the new rules violated the group’s First Amendment rights. The agency is represented by religious liberty group, Becket Law.

The lawsuit is filed against Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon, Children's Services Agency Director Herman McCall, Attorney General Dana Nessel, the federal Health and Human Services department and its secretary, Alex Azar.

The lawsuit asks the court to issue an injunction on the settlement's provisions that would require the state to stop contracting with agencies that, because of their religious beliefs, refuse to work with same-sex couples.

Nessel's office declined to comment until officials had a chance to review the lawsuit. 

In a Monday statement announcing the lawsuit, Buck, of Holt, said her family still relies on the support of St. Vincent “in every step of our journey together as a family" and could have problems should the family look to adopt siblings of their adopted children through St. Vincent in the future.

“We are hopeful that the courts will step in, do the right thing and allow faith-based agencies to continue to help vulnerable families like mine,” Buck said.

In March, Nessel reached a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and two gay couples who had sued the state when they were rejected by agencies with religious objections to same-sex couples. The agencies were St. Vincent Catholic Charities and Bethany Christian Services.

The settlement required the state Department of Health and Human Services to maintain non-discriminatory provisions in foster care and adoption agency contracts by ending state contracts with agencies if they discriminate against same-sex couples.

Because the settlement was between the state attorney general's department and the ACLU, St. Vincent as an intervenor in the lawsuit had no option but to file a separate action, said Nick Reaves, a lawyer for Becket.

Without the state contract, St. Vincent would be forced to close its doors and the settlement could have a similar effect on "any other organization that shares their religious beliefs," Reaves said. He added that he is not aware of any contracts being dropped so far in light of the March settlement.

“Faith-based agencies like St. Vincent consistently do the best work because of their faith, and we need more agencies like them helping children — not fewer,” Becket President Mark Rienzi said in a statement.

Catholic agencies make up a small portion of the 58 private agencies that contract with the state for adoption and foster care services, proving "there really isn't any access problem" for gay couples seeking an agency through which they can adopt, Reaves said.

For example, in Ingham County, 17 other adoption agencies besides St. Vincent are available to parents seeking to adopt, he said.

Agencies already can refer couples to different adoption agencies for various reasons, including geography, wait lists or a family's search for a specific type of child.

Further, a same-sex couple still can adopt a child within St. Vincent after receiving a home study and becoming a certified pre-adoptive home through a different agency, St. Vincent said in its lawsuit.

Nessel’s office maintained a 2015 law passed by the Republican-led Legislature only protected faith-based agencies that declined to provide services based on religion when it came to “private action.” The protection did not carry over into state-contracted services, she argued.

Such a conclusion is in "serious tension" with previous interpretations of the law and the language of the law itself, Reaves said.

Republican former Attorney General Bill Schuette had defended the state against the ACLU lawsuit when it was filed in 2017. But even before taking office Jan. 1, Nessel had signaled she would not continue to support Schuette's position on the lawsuit.

As of mid-February, St. Vincent and Bethany were responsible for nearly 10% of the more than 13,000 children under state supervision.

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Michigan Tells The Court It Has The "Right To Lie" In Child Welfare

Falsification of documents in the Michigan Child Welfare System has been going on since the enactment Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act of 1974 but the Adoption and Safe Families Act, in 1997 opened the flood gates for Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

Compounded with the secrecy, lack of regulation, stripping of civil rights, non-existence due process and the inherent contemporaneous conflicts of interests embedded deeply in CAPTA and ASFA in dealing with the States Attorney General, the Medicaid Fraud Control Units, the exclusive civil penalties of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the sequestering of federal authority of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the fact that authorization of billing is a judicial determination that has only been challenged by me, nothing is going to ever be done.

But, alas, I have omitted the best parts of why Michigan, which was the first state to create its model of human trafficking.

It re-animated the Michigan Children's Institute, a former, and actual, brick and mortar building in less than 18 months of CAPTA to "capture" lost revenue from the oil embargo moments of the mid-1970s,

Then, Michigan went on to breathe life back into its brick and mortar of MCI to
give birth to a theoretical, institutional model of child trafficking, and it was all billable to Medicaid, with everyone who participated receiving a beautifully woven cloak of immunity.

Yes, this immunity means anyone in the child welfare system has the "Right To Lie" even though it subsequently ruled that it did not, but, heck, who is going to enforce the ruling when I just pointed out the deficiencies in the rules of construction with both CAPTA and ASFA, in all three branches.

Besides, this lawsuit which is still before Judge Edmonds, has never, not one, nope, ever mentioned Michigan Children's Institute or Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare, but I have and you can either read it in the preserved court record or click the links, below.

History of the Michigan Children's Institute

Michigan Office of Children's Ombudsman

The Lansing State Journal pulled its top statements from the hearing transcripts.

Now, I pull mine and Nick Lyon is probably not doing very well, right about now.

Herman McCall is probably not feeling well, either.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon:

As you know, improving our child welfare system to better protect children and to meet the benchmarks was a top priority for my predecessor, Maura Corrigan. I'm here today to reiterate what an important priority this is for me, and also is a top priority for my boss. What our Children's Services Agency does is a critically important part of the MDHHS mission; to provide opportunities, services, and programs, to promote a healthy, safe and stable environment for residents to be self sufficient. 

Here's what DHHS told a federal judge about falsification allegations (annotated)

LANSING - Monitors appointed by a federal judge and Oversight Committee chairmen in the Legislature have said they will investigate allegations — first reported by the State Journal — that state child welfare supervisors manipulated employee caseload data to make Michigan appear in compliance with a court order.

The State Journal's reports documented allegations from current and former state workers in Ingham, Barry, Marquette, Monroe, Muskegon, St. Clair and Wayne counties. Workers said supervisors are under intense pressure to get out from under the terms of a decade-old federal lawsuit filed by a New York advocacy group over a string of child deaths.

The Michigan Department of Health & Human Services gave its first substantive answers to the allegations on June 8, during a previously scheduled hearing on the federal lawsuit.

Federal Transcript of June 8 2017 Hearing on Michigan Child Welfare System by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Michigan Child Welfare Administration: Same Day, Same Administrators

I bet this just sucks, well, I mean with what I am about to say about preserving incestuous institutions of child welfare administration of Michigan.

The DHHS Director, Nick Lyons is not in the best mental condition to even be executing orders in transfer of powers to the new Children's Services Agency Director, Dr. Herman McCall, formerly Juvenile Justice Program Director from this failure of an ethical creature Steve Yager (this is strictly a personal assessment in his professional capacity, in supposition to his willfully nefarious actions, just for his own personal pleasure of covering up federal fraud...or he is really just a dumb ass.  Either way, I am justified in both positions.)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with McCall's background in running juvenile justice programs, allow me to take you on a stroll back down memory lane.

Michigan Juvenile Justice Programs Need To Be Investigated, Again

Michigan Moves To Close Kiddie Jails

Michigan Audit Finds State May Face Federal Sanctions in Child Welfare Programs

So, as rumor has it, Michigan has a policy where the emails of a former administrator are wiped from the server and hidden from any access through FOIA.

This means that, unless someone is willing to hand over their first born child in the form of outrageous FOIA charges to secure the emails, all evidence of fraudulent activities are shredded into the black hole of Michigan secretive recordkeeping in child welfare.

And, as another rumor has it, Michigan is about to launch its new model to warehouse its child welfare population, or, as they are going to spin it, foster care reforms are going to take on the model of group homes.

That is correct.  Foster care in Michigan is about to be transformed into mini-plantations, where children, who are removed from homes, mainly for being poor, are going to be placed in privatized group homes, where there is little, if any, enforceable oversight because the Bureau of Child and Adult Licensing has been stripped of any of its oversight powers due to issues of immunizing the state.

If my term of mini-plantations comes across as alleging chicanery in state administrative operations, then, how about applying the term micro-residential institutions?

Think of it like this:

Michigan is about to re-interpret what is called "home-based/community-based services" under Medicaid to generate more creative layers of service billing which does nothing to promote the viability of families in need, but it does maximize revenue for these contractual micro-residential institutions which will have no incentive of ameliorating the situations which brought children into care, in the first place, or rather a continuance of human trafficking.

This would lead to a justification of shuttering these out dated juvenile justice facilities, which would not be a bad thing, if only there existed some form of oversight in the secret operations of child welfare in Michigan.

Until which time, Michigan will carry on with its horrific treatment of children in child welfare and remain under federal monitoring through its incestuous preservation of child welfare administration through recycling its experts in covering up fraud.

Same day, same administrators.

Press Release of New Michigan Children's Services Director Herman McCall by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Michigan Juvenile Justice Programs Need To Be Investigated, Again

To begin, the closing of Maxey may have been "traumatic" for some kids, but I am going to put some money on the fact that this was the only decent place these kids had found to survive.

Child welfare in Michigan is horrific which includes juvenile justice.

Michigan Youth Behind Bars MCCD Report 2014

Speaking now as an original source, Maxey was used in the funnel system of human trafficking of child welfare when it had a strong partnership with St. Vincent Sarah Fisher.  Foster children, whose cases were or could have been under investigation by the state, were typically shipped off to this contained environment to be double-jacketed and excluded from the federal audit sample pools.

DOJ Memorandum of Understanding With Michigan Maxey Training School

Double jacket is the term used to describe the simultaneous as foster care and juvenile justice.

If and when the real Michigan policymakers, not the pathetic leadership of state elected officials, come to terms that the more it exacerbates child poverty, the more children will find it "traumatic" to leave a prison.

Prison, or Maxey, was the only avenue left for youth who have been severely medically, educationally and environmentally neglected by Michigan's unraveling of its social safety net.

Michigan economic policy experiments have only resulted in a direct correlation between child poverty and kids being "traumatized" for being released from the only family and home they have ever known, but then again, it was a high end revenue maximization scheme.

Herman McCall's testimony was only for the purposes of begging for his job as Juvenile Justice Director for the state because he steers contracts for privatization.

Martin Howrylak sounds like someone dropped some serious money in his re-election campaign.

If there is going to be criminal justice reform, it must include children and another investigation of Michigan by the DOJ.

DHHS official: Maxey closure ‘traumatic’ for some kids

LANSING - One youth ended up in jail and another went AWOL after the controversial closure of the state’s W.J. Maxey Boys Training School, a state official said in Capitol testimony Tuesday while sparring with one lawmaker about how traumatic the closure was for kids.

Herman McCall, director of juvenile justice programs for the state Department of Health & Human Services, confirmed to a legislative panel on Tuesday that one former Maxey inmate was jailed on a weapons charge and another failed to return to his new program after a weekend outing.

McCall said both youths were transferred from Maxey — a secure, state-run juvenile justice facility — to a Job Corps program after the Legislature shuttered Maxey in the budget year that began Oct. 1.

Critics of the closure — including state employee unions, judges and mental health advocates — had predicted negative consequences of closing Maxey, which they said had become a facility of last resort for some of the most troubled youth in the state. Proponents said the closure would save the state money — lawmakers trimmed $7.5 million from the budget — and that private providers could handle the youth.

DHHS stopped sending new kids to Maxey when the closure was first discussed in the spring, McCall told the state House subcommittee overseeing spending on human services programs. Of the 48 youth at Maxey when the closure was finalized, 18 went to the state’s other two juvenile justice facilities - which are now full, McCall said) - 16 went to private agencies, eight went home to relatives, three entered supervised independent living programs, two went to Job Corps and one was transferred to a county-run program, McCall said.

The first transfer happened in June and the last on Sept. 30, he said. He noted that the last boy to be transferred, recommended for mental health services, was rejected by three providers before he was ultimately accepted by a private facility. He noted private agencies wouldn’t be able to reject kids under contract changes that were mandated in the same legislation that closed Maxey.

McCall said those transfers were “another traumatic event” for the youth. Some kids regressed in their treatment, he said.

But state Rep. Rob VerHeulen, R-Walker, challenged that assertion.

“You don’t know whether they perceive themselves as better or worse,” VerHeulen told McCall after getting the DHHS official to concede he hadn’t spoken to the youth personally.

“There is no indication every child’s life is worse than it was,” McCall answered, “but I do acknowledge the transfer was a traumatic event.”

McCall said the department planned to monitor the progress of the former Maxey youth for two years.

State Rep. Martin Howrylak, R-Troy, has introduced a bill to reopen Maxey, saying the closure won’t save as much money as supporters claim because there are hidden costs throughout the state budget.

On Tuesday, McCall told lawmakers it’ll take between six and 16 years for the state to pay off about $397 million in remaining bond debt, some of which helped fund renovations at Maxey. Earlier this summer, Howrylak pegged Maxey’s share of the debt at $20 million.

Michigan DHS Investigation of Maxey Boys Training School 2013

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