Happy Foster Care Propaganda Month - SAMHSA & DoD Team Up for National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day - Suicide Prevention

In honor of Foster Care Propaganda Month, I have decided to celebrate with SAMHSA and the U.S. Department of Defense, TRICARE since they seem to be lost on this concept of Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

Have a great day!

Beverly Tran​What about the Medicaid fraud in child welfare?

Beverly Tran​How to end depression in children - Stop making them poor

Beverly Tran​A pretty shiny brochure should not be considered high quality mental health services

Beverly Tran​Fun Fact! Foster kids are uses as human lab rats with second generation antipsychotropics, and anything else they can bill to Medicaid.

Beverly Tran​Sometimes, kids do not feel well after being raped nightly in foster care but drugs are great at silencing the screams.

Beverly Tran​Fun Fact! Foster kids have no civil rights

Beverly Tran​Foster kids tend to get depressed when they know aging out means a life in human trafficking on the streets

Beverly Tran​Fun Fact! The majority of SAMHSA and Foster Care contractors are foreign corporations.

Beverly Tran​Fun Fact! Mental health programs for children of "The Poors" come from foreign think tanks.

Beverly Tran​Everything you ever wanted to know about suicide in foster care http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/searc...

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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:

The views, opinions, and content of this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of SAMHSA or HHS.  Resources listed in this document are not all-inclusive and inclusion in the list does not constitute an endorsement by SAMHSA or HHS.

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.

Introduction to Cross-System Data Sources in Child Welfare, Alcohol and Other Drug Services, and Courts by Beverly Tran on Scribd

GAO Most States Are Developing Statewide Information Systems, but the Reliability of Child Welfare Data Cou...

Religion Holds Up Kids As A Shield

I just love the counter argument when addressing hiring practices of religious organizations with public money are questioned. 

"If you do not believe, you will not be hired."

They hold up a baby as a transparency shield when asked to be held accountable. Weak.

I know many child welfare religious-based organizations that make the staff sign a religious pledge. This is one of the reasons why the imperialistic morality parade keeps banging their drums, purchased with taxpayer money.

If these groups do not respect separation of church and state, perhaps they can easily refuse to receive public funding and become privately funded.

I say any religious organization, mainly child placing agencies, receiving federal funding must be subject to federal audits and reviews. If there is no wrong, then transparency should not be an issue.

Faith-Based Organizations Protest Restrictions in Federal Legislation

A group of more than a hundred faith-based nonprofits is fighting the passage of a provision that would prohibit them from receiving federal money if they consider a job applicant's religion in the hiring process, the New York Times reports.

The groups sent a letter to Congress which argues that the provision — included in a bill to reauthorize the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — would dilute protections granted to the groups by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Constitution. Although many of the groups protesting the legislation do not receive money from the agency, they say the language of the provision is broad enough to affect other, unrelated sources of federal funding. World Vision USA, a Christian aid organization that is leading the protest, received more than $300 million in cash, goods, and services from federal sources last year, while the Salvation Army received almost $400 million from federal, state, and local governments.

The debate over federal support for programs run by nonprofits with religious affiliations dates back to the Clinton administration, when the issue was included in welfare reform legislation. Under "charitable choice," as the compromise forged by the Clinton administration was called, organizations are not allowed to discriminate against clients based on religion but are able to exercise their religious beliefs in hiring and other aspects of their operations. The Coalition Against Religious Discrimination, whose members include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Hindu American Foundation, and the NAACP, has been pushing Congress to eliminate charitable choice for years and does not believe the provision at the center of the controversy goes far enough.

That view does not sit well with the faith-based organizations petitioning Congress. "Those four lines in the legislation would be a seismic change in bedrock civil rights law for religious organizations," said World Vision USA chief legal counsel Steven McFarland. "The impact would be huge and severely affect our ability to help children and others in need."
Strom, Stephanie. “Religion-Based Groups Protest Restrictions in Bill.” New York Times 8/25/10.