WAR CRIMES: Michigan Office Of Children's Ombudsman - Why Trafficking Of Tiny Humans Calculates A Foster Care Death As A Statistical Error - Happy National Foster Parents Month

FUN FACT! DEATH IN FOSTER CARE IS CALLED A STATISTICAL ERROR!

The Office of Children's Ombudsman is a poorly constructed cover up operation that is powerless, to the point that their reports are not allowed to be entered into a court of record, they do not refer anything for suspected, alleged, violations of law or policy, and absolutely will not refer to the State Attorney General for Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

These people allowed the murderers of Ricky Holland to adopt his siblings, during a murder investigation, and not a damn thing has been done.

Look at Calysta Springer.

I know these kids.

"The Elected Ones" did nothing.

The State Attorney General did nothing.

The Governor did nothing.

DOJ did nothing.

FBI did nothing.

HHS OIG did nothing.

There are many children who were not fortunate enough to die.

There were two who survived.

Well, there was one who died, and lived, then died again, then lived, then died again, then lived...

So, I embarked on my mission.

The Office of Children's Ombudsman used to have a category called "Valid-Not-Open" meaning, a complain of a child being tortured and trafficked in foster care is valid, but due to budget constraints and personal self-interests, there will be no investigation.

If there were investigations, there would be found billions upon billions in Medicaid fraud in child welfare, and as we all know, the system is too big to fail, for it is nothing but the residuals of the peculiar institution, maximizing revenue for foreign corporations, in the name of the tax exempt god.

These people make you pray as your child is being drugged as a lab rat and being raped, nightly.

Where is Maura Corrigan?

'Huge concern': 206 child deaths not reported to watchdog

LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — Eighteen months after Target 8 exposed a gap

 in Michigan’s child death reporting system, a state audit is demanding a fix.

A report released Tuesday by Michigan’s Auditor General found Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services failed to notify a watchdog promptly of 206 child deaths from 2014 through 2017.

That watchdog, the Office of Children’s Ombudsman, is an independent agency mandated by state law to review the deaths of children who have had recent contact with Michigan’s foster care, child welfare or child protection system. The goal is to identify if Children's Protective Services caseworkers failed to follow policy or could have done things differently to better protect the child. 

But the ombudsman can’t conduct those reviews if MDHHS fails to notify the watchdog of qualifying deaths.

"It’s certainly a huge concern that these child death alerts were missed because it’s important that we’re the oversight for (CPS within MDHHS)," said Lisa McCormick, the recently appointed head off the Office of Children’s Ombudsman.

McCormick stressed the OCO ultimately did receive and review all of the unreported death cases.

"There were 206 cases that we went back and reviewed, but the important thing to note is that we did review them, and that MDHHS came to the table and they worked with us to make sure we were getting all the cases," she said.

In recent years, on average, the ombudsman received 267 child death alerts annually.

The 206 missed alerts comprised 20% of the total death cases reported over a four-year period.

The audit also urged the ombudsman to find ways to independently identify child deaths that require OCO reviews.

"The auditors made a valid point, which is why we have auditors to improve our procedures, to tell us this is a deficit, this is a hole that’s missing, let’s address it and move forward," McCormick said.

Michigan Auditor General Hild Death Notification Report April 2019 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Michigan Samaritas Prepares For Profiting From Trafficking Of Tiny Humans From The Border

In the spirit of fushcia...

Michigan foster organization readies for border kids taken from families

(WJBK) - Heartbreaking audio obtained by the Associated Press reveals children crying at the border after being ripped from the arms of their parents.

Welcome to foster care and adoption.

Their parents detained under the Trump Administration’s zero tolerance policy for illegal immigration. Outrage is growing - as both Democrats and some Republicans work to stop the separation of families.

The only thing the Trump Administration did was to enforce U.S. Child Welfare Law.

Over the last six weeks - more than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents and are now being held at detention centers at the southern border.

At least they are provided some form of food and shelter, unlike foster care.

"It is very scary," said Lena Wilson. "And the fact that we're not sure what due process is being done, it's pretty scary right now."

Again, welcome to foster care.

Lena Wilson the vice president of Child and Family at Samaritas, Michigan's largest private foster organization, recently agreed to help find homes for 60 children being held at the border.

Let us take a moment and look at Samaritas.

In 2016, the net assets of Samaritas were $41,242,622.

They own $94,755,003.

They have $21,602,020 in publicly traded securities.

Why?

2016 IRS Tax Returns of Samaritas by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Wilson says this is new territory.

No, it is not.

Verlie Ruffin, former Ombudsman for the Michigan Office of Children Ombudsman came from Lutheran Social Services, the non-profit of the non-profit of Samaritas.

This is its mission statement:

Serving people as an expression of the love of Christ

That is scary considering they are about to face.

I shall assume "an expression of the love of Christ" means the trafficking of tiny humans based upon the residuals of the peculiar institution.

Will U.S. Senate Probe Non-Profit Child Welfare Orgs, Too?

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: Will U.S. Senate Probe Non-Profit Child Welfare Orgs, Too? http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2015/06/will-us-senate-probe-non-profit-child.html#ixzz5IwDVl0CV
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"It wouldn't be often in the United States that you would see a large congregate facility for children in which you see them housed now," she said. "In fact there is federal legislation that talked about the best place for children is with their families.

ROFLMAO!!!

"We're not sure how this is going to work. There is so many things at play that are not usually in play.

That is because you never had your dirty laundry thrown on the front lawn before.

When the parents have an English barrier and the child has an English barrier, the real concern is making sure that we can communicate with them. Making sure we have interpreters and making sure the parents know where their kids are and that they don't get lost."

Children can be removed from parents and taken into custody for not being able to speak English.  They call it child neglect.

That is the biggest fear right now - undocumented parents are working through the criminal system while their kids are being placed in foster care.

Welcome to the U.S. Child Welfare System.

Some children are so young they aren't able to reveal basic information about themselves or their parents. The big question now is who is keeping track of these children?

Like that ever mattered, before.

"For those that I guess we can locate the parents and figure a safe way to make sure they are reunited perhaps," said Wilson. "If not, they would remain here so their legal jurisdiction would be in question."

According to U.S. Law, there is this thing called "concurrent planning" where they fast track Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) for adoption from the 90 dispositional cycle.

Oh, you do not know what TPR is?  It is chattel law for property seizure when you hail from the population of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).  For a better understanding, just look at lis pendens,  or rather the quiet title actions the Detroit Land Bank Authority is using the snatch properties.  Same thing.  You have defaulted on your legal standing through eminent domain laws.

So, each time the media or one of the "Elected Ones" tells you there is not law, they should be looked upon as being unqualified to hold office, because there is law.

CAPTA.

Wilson says they expect the displaced children to arrive in Metro Detroit by the end of the summer.

They will first be housed at the Wellspring facility in Farmington Hills and eventually foster care.

Wellspring is another one of those Lutheran Social Services for trafficking tiny humans.

The Samaritas organization is quickly working to get more foster parents, mentors and interpreters to make sure support is in place for the kids likely traumatized by being taken from their parents.

$$$$

"No matter how nice a congregate facility is, it is still a congregate facility," Wilson said. "It is a very sterile environment, there is not a lot of structure caring hugging a child needs from parent.

I prefer to call it warehousing.  You cannot touch the tiny humans because it is illegal.  Now, think about living in a deprivation system like this and what eventually happens with tiny humans longing for human touch of compassion, a recipe for child trafficking.

"There are a lot of things that can happen and a lot of long range impacts for this. And that is what's scary."

There is no law dictating children must be separated from their parents who have been caught crossing into the country illegally. However, there are laws against entering the US illegally.

I just told you about Child Welfare Law, so let me tell you about the other law that allows the separation of children from families. CAPTA.

Anti Immigration Poster by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Michigan Audit of Children's Ombudsman Politically Problematic.

The Michigan Auditor General released its findings on the investigative operations of the Office of Children's Ombudsman.  The general tone of the report was that the Ombudsman's investigations were partially effective due to the lack of technological access to the Department of Human Services databases and files.

Due to the fact that the Auditor General has locked all reports since I started publishing them for general accessibility, I have been reduced, for lack of resources, to posting a personally created, direct link to the final report.  Here it is.

There are other reasons why the Ombudsman investigations into abuses of children under the auspices of the state are, in my words, perfunctory.  It is because of:

(1) a lack of necessary resources and staff; and,

(2) a status quo culture.

A lack of necessary resources and staff:
The office has about 13 investigators to take on the entire State of Michigan child welfare system, far more than 39,000 children and youth.  That equates to a responsibility of investigation of about 3,000 children per staff.   The child welfare system includes cps, foster care, its child placing agencies, adoption services, juvenile justice, and mental/medical health, and education.

Typically, on any given day, there is only one person to man the phones for intake.  Within a few minutes of the conversation with the concernedly distraught person, the "screener" can determine if there is a violation by, and I quote directly from a House Hearing a few years back when a representative from the office testified that she screened by, "thinking fast on my feet".

"Think fast on her feet" caused one kid to be murdered and a few others to be raped and tortured.

Out of about 1,000 calls a year, there are less than 10% that are investigated.  Out of that number, many are designated into the category of "Valid, not open".  This means that violations of law and policy were found but the office will not act upon it.

Acting upon a valid violation would mean that there is mandate for referral to the counties prosecutor or Attorney General for further investigation and prosecution but the office does not have the authoritative resources for this because the Ombudsman, Verlie Ruffin, takes the helm as the perfunctory prissy lil missy who has successfully made sure that the public and elected officials have no idea of who she is or what she does or what she has been doing throughout her tenure.

I am not one for scurrilous attacks, I just present the facts.  Not one single referral has been made the counties prosecutors or Attorney General for violations of law or policy.  See reference statute below:

Per the Children's Ombudsman Act 204 of 1994, MCL 722.927 §7(4) in relevant part:

If the ombudsman finds in the course of an investigation that an individual's action is in violation of state or federal criminal law, the ombudsman shall immediately report that fact to the county prosecutor or the attorney general.  If the complaint is against a child placing agency the ombudsman shall refer the matter to the department for further action with respect to licensing.

Michigan Peremptory Mandamus Petition by Beverly Tran

A status quo culture:

The Office of Children's Ombudsman, under the failed leadership of Verlie Ruffin, has powers beyond getting hair and nails done once a week.  The ombudsman has the blessing of Michigan's greatest Attorney General Frank Kelley, to investigate the Michigan Children's Institute (MCI).  Not only has the ombudsman denied authority to investigate MCI, to date, it has never done so.

Attorney General Opinion of Authority for Office of Children's Ombudsman to Investigate Decisions of Michig... by Beverly Tran

It is my opinion, therefore in answer to your second question, that the Children's Ombudsman Act gives children's ombudsman the authority to investigate adoption decisions of the Michigan Children's Institute and to obtain adoption records of the Michigan Children's Institute.

Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley, 1996 

The reason I mention MCI is not because the Auditor General has never, ever audited this secret operation which warehouses the guardianship for more than 7,000 children of the state under the legal authority of one, omnipotent Superintendent, Bill Johnson, it has never been investigated for the deaths, abuses and neglects of children who were subject to a class action settlement agreement.  Not one time during the course of the entire lawsuit was MCI ever mentioned.

The status quo of OCO is to remain inconspicuous and do nothing to change operations.  The more people know about the duties of the office, the more work must be done but in a culture of administrative stagnation in child welfare, the longer the administrative keystone cops can ride out a paycheck until they can safely retire, the greater the job security.

To prove my point that the Director, Verlie Ruffin has not done shit for the office, here is the direct link to the site.  http://www.michigan.gov/oco

• The site has not been updated, revamped, edited since it was originally built.  
• There are no social networks.  
• There are no community networks.  
• There is no history of the office.
• There is no referral policy for public or private agencies to give out its contact information. 
• There is no appeal process when denied, in that quick on your feet telephone interview.  
• There is no legislative action to ask for more funding and resources. 
• There is no initiative to even privately subcontract.  
• There is no complaint process against an investigation.  
• There are no press releases on current statewide activities.  
• There are no public speaking engagements.  
• There are no guest appearances.  
• There is no annual agenda of priorities.  
• There is not even a logical explanation why only a selected few are granted a limited investigation.  
• There is no reason why there are no referrals for criminal activities to the counties prosecutors or attorney general.  
• There is not even a picture of Verlie Ruffin, the Ombudsman.  
• Hell, the ombudsman is not even gender neutral considering the ombudsman is a woman.   
• There are no community partnerships.  
• There are no public awareness campaigns.  
• There is no recordkeeping for suicides in foster care.
• There is no recordkeeping for sexual assaults in foster care.
• There is no recordkeeping for drug ovedoses in foster care (prescription or street)
• Five will get you ten there is no letter of appointment of the Governor, with advice and consent of the Senate, on file with the office of the Great Seal of the State Department.

I want to see a public database of the number of referrals, and other more detailed variables of investigative findings.  It can be done on an excel spreadsheet by some interns without compromising confidential information.  I even know where to find funding for these initiatives.

I want an audit of MCI and a separate division for investigations of complaints.

I know for a fact that DHS has refused to respond to investigative inquiries of the office since 2005.  It is now 2013 and Ruffin has not done a damn thing to ensure her staff has full access to the databases and files of DHS.  She knew about it and made sure to sweep the problem under the rug, just like she did over at Luthern Family Services.

All in all, the investigative staff of the OCO are wonderful people who engage in grueling work under pressure, in a politically constrained environment with limited resources.  The ombudsman is lazy and refuses to participate in change.  She lets people get away with murder and condones the filing of millions in false claims by these contracted child placing agencies.  She covers up for her cronies like Steve Yager and Bill Johnson.

She needs to resign, yesterday.  Bitch needs to go, now.  I dare someone to challenge me on this.


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Will Snyder Stop Medicaid Fraud In Michigan?

Hey Rick, 


Congrats on the election but I send my condolences to you, in advance, for the inherited mess of DHS for which you are about to receive.  This wonkette is here for you.


Here is a list of administrators you need to immediately boot:

Bill Johnson, Michigan Children's Institute Superintendent


Bruce Hoffman, Michigan Children's Institute Assistant Superintendent


Mary Rossman, Michigan Children's Institute Assistant.... who knows her title.


Shut down Michigan Children's Institute (Supreme Court has been playing the hiding game on this one.)


Kate Hanley,  Her title keeps changing on the micro-org charts, she is adoption czar

and, last, on my top ten list of the status quo keepers of Michigan's Dark Secret...

Verlie Ruffin,  Ombudsman of Michigan's Children

Deal averts request for fed control of Mich. child welfare system

Catherine Jun / The Detroit News

  Detroit — A child advocacy group backed away from plans to seek a federal takeover of Michigan's child welfare system after a federal judge said she received assurances from Gov.-elect Rick Snyder that his incoming administration will make fixing the Department of Human Services a top priority.

Children's Rights, a New York-based agency, had announced earlier today that it planned to file a motion of contempt Wednesday in federal court in Detroit and ask the judge to appoint a receiver for Human Services, the agency that oversees foster care and adoption. The agency cited a progress report publicized today that showed the state was failing to comply with court-mandated reforms.

Instead, after a meeting in chambers this afternoon with U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Edmunds, attorneys for Children's Rights agreed to meet again with DHS officials in late January — after Snyder takes office — to devise a plan to get reforms on track.

"We have every confidence that they see how urgent this is," said Sara Bartosz, senior staff attorney for Children's Rights. She added, though, that she has not ruled out seeking federal intervention in the future, if necessary. "That option is out there if the system doesn't improve."

This is the latest development in the department's court-ordered overhaul of its foster care system. The department has been under court watch since the settlement of a lawsuit in July 2008 filed by the New York group, which alleged the state's system was endangering the lives of children.

Before the scheduled 2 p.m. court hearing, the New York agency had issued a statement saying it planned to seek receivership for the department, citing a court-appointed monitor's report that showed the department failed to adequately reduce high caseloads for caseworkers as well as recruit and retain enough foster homes.

The 200-page report, covering Oct. 1, 2009, to March 31, 2010, charges that DHS failed to: Ensure that new caseworkers were adequately trained before they became responsible for children and families.

Ensure that adequate staff was assigned to conduct timely and thorough child abuse and neglect investigations.

Recruit, retain and license enough foster homes and those of relative care providers.

Court-appointed monitor Kevin Ryan, of the New Jersey-based Public Catalyst Group, submitted the report to Judge Edmunds at the hearing.

According to the report, Ryan also found data-keeping and mathematical errors in state records, including how the state counts the number of children in its care. The state delayed the recording of adoption finalizations in some cases by as much as 225 days.

"Child welfare managers and staff across Michigan, in both the private and public sector, are working very hard, but their best efforts are often undone by poor planning and a lack of adequate coordination," the report stated.

This is the third update since the settlement, and comes 1½ years after reforms began. The settlement contained a five-year plan the state agreed to enact.

This is the final report before Rick Snyder takes over as governor next month. It's possible that new management will be tapped at DHS.

Anticipating the court hearing, the Michigan Department of Human Services issued a news release this morning highlighting what it says are improvements within the department.

More children have been adopted from foster care, are receiving better mental health services and have better outcomes overall, DHS Director Ismael Ahmed said in a written statement.

"DHS, in partnership with private agencies and the courts, have made significant strides in the past two years to ensure we're doing our part to help children find safe, loving and stable homes," Ahmed said.

In fact, 3,030 children were adopted from foster care in 2009, more than in any other year, he said.

Other accomplishments include reducing the number of children in foster care and expanding a program that provides in-home services and support to families with children who have serious emotional problems.

The previous report issued in March showed the state was missing significant targets, like sufficiently reducing the number of children aging out of foster care and documenting adequate responses to allegations of abuse or neglect of foster children.

At the time, the human services department was placed on a 30-day watch to get reforms on track.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20101207/METRO/12070385/Deal-averts-request-for-fed-control-of-Mich.-child-welfare-system#ixzz17T4XMO3Z

Isn't It Better?

This is a comment I posted on the Detroit News article: Lax home-school laws put kids at risk

Michigan must understand that it must begin to distance itself from its current child welfare system, for it has proven to the public that it is fully dysfunctional.

Instead of perpetuating a mindset of injecting more power and authority in a system that is devoid of any regulation, itself, let's look at alternative solutions:

In order to even begin to open discussion to address the issues with homeschooling, the state must stand up and admit that these anomalies of the most extreme and horrific situations of malice to children happen under the auspices of the state.

Even though the Office of Children's Ombudsman advocates for children, it possess relatively little authority to effectuate any advocacy for children.

Not all complaints filed with the Office of Children's Ombudsman are accepted as they must make it past the intake officer, one singular individual makes "on her feet" decisions whether to accept a complaint.

Next, if, by chance, a complaint makes it to the decision process whether or not to initiate investigation, the Ombudsman can, with arbitrary and capricious decision making powers, deem the complaint "Valid-Not-Opened". This means there were violations substantiated, but the Ombudsman will not take any action.

Then, when the Ombudsman finds violations of federal and/or state law during the course of an investigation, the Ombudsman, being mandated by law is suppose to refer to the counties prosecutor or the Attorney General.

Not one referral has ever been made in the history of the state.

Assumptions can only be made that if, referrals were made to the Attorney General, as he is the proper venue in dealing with Wayne County as the Attorney General prosecutes all child welfare juvenile cases, the Attorney General would have to animate its Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to proceed with the investigations of violations, prosecution and recoveries of Medicaid fraud.

The Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit does not and will not touch Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare. The largest component of funding in child welfare is what is called Targeted Case Management, a Medicaid funded activity. It should also be noted that Michigan is the only state that does not separate its Medicaid expenditures when reporting the amounts spent on children and those amounts on adults.

Another area of Medicaid in child welfare with service providers. It is impossible to validate whether the services were actually provided to children in foster care, adoption, or juvenile justice or if the services were provided by phantom organizations.

With the few examples that have been provided, it is quite evident that the policy recommendations of the Office of Children's Ombudsman should be scrutinized.

Home Schooling Regulation Alternatives

Cyber Schools: The factory school model has been in decay, as evident in the career opportunities in the state. The focus needs to be in technology .

Michigan has already demonstrated its ability to accept innovation in its educational system. This can be seen in the surge of online schools. If a child is not able, for whatever reason, to attend a traditional classroom setting, the child may then be enrolled in the school district in its cyber school program.

The child can then be provided computers, equipment and internet access, all at the expense of the school. The child can then be provided in-home services through visits with mentors, teachers, case managers, and any other professional that can assist the child with their learning objective.

This type of schooling opens multiple federal funding opportunities that can provide resources to encourage the successful progress of the child's education without the intrusive and dysfunctional operations of child protective services.

The child, enrolled in the cyber school, can then be included in the school district student counts, allowing an increase in funding. That increase in funding is coupled with the fact that schools do not have to maintain physical buildings and fixed costs of operations.

Simply put, it is cheaper to buy a child a computer than to maintain a building.

The child's grades and progress is then monitored and recorded.

The child then possesses a tool to go forth in his or her future.

Is it not better to give a man a fishing pole and teach him how to fish?

Is it not better to give the Department of Education the opportunity to protect the future of our children, because before you are a man, you are a child.