Another Classic Michigan Model Of Stealin' - StoneCrest

https://www.stonecrestcenter.com/

Why stop at Stonecrest?

Stonecrest is a classic, textbook example of a Corporate Shape Shifter.

Why not ask the privateers who issue "Marques of Quality Care"?



As seen here, in LARA, this operation would always slap a new sign on front of the building all the time.

http://jasonfoundation.com/
https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2018/621/714/2018-621714715-10853fd6-9.pdf

I used to talk to the administration of all the shell, foreign corporations that used to set up shop at that revolving  psychiatric institution which is known in dealing with youth.
CS  34976            The Jason Foundation, Inc.

Mailing Address: The Jason Foundation, Inc.
18 Volunteer Dr.
Hendersonville, TN 37075
Phone: (615)264-2323
Email: info@jasonfoundation.com
Website: www.jasonfoundation.com

ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

Entity Type: Corporation State Established: TN Date Created: 10/01/1997
501(c)(3): Yes EIN: 62-1714715
Purpose Statement: PROVIDE EDUCATION AND AWARENESS PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT IN THE AID OF YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION.

FILING STATUS

Solicitation Registration Status Charitable Trust Registration Status
Registered - Expiration Date: 7/31/2020 Exempt

FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Data is taken from the organization's IRS return or, if no return
was filed, from its solicitation registration or financial statements.

Period Ending 12/31/2018
 
Total Revenue    $1,442,068.00
Total Expenses    $1,339,493.00
Revenue Less Expenses $102,575.00
Reports Filed    990/CPA Audit
 
Total Assets    $3,470,240.00
Net Assets    $3,298,092.00
 

Expense breakdown
                          % of Total
Expenses
      Charitable Programs
           Program Services $1,189,655.00 89.00 %
     
      Supporting Services      
           Mgt & General* $118,363.00 9.00 %
           Fundraising* $31,475.00 2.00 %
      Total Supporting Services $149,838.00 11.19 %    
=====================================================================

https://accreditnet2.urac.org//uracportal/Directory/CompanyView/2678

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:iwo4h.2.1

Approved US Government Supplier
This information appears* to relate to
URAC Approved Supplier For
US Government Supplier 
Ref
4LWF8 (CAGE code)
This is a unique identifier, and can also be accessed using the url https://opencorporates.com/identifiers/cage/4LWF8

Source US Federal Central Contractor Registration, http://www.acquisition.gov/
RELATED DATA
Company Addresses
COMPANY ADDRESS
1220 L ST NW STE 400, WASHINGTON, DC, 200054013

https://www.urac.org/



Interestingly enough, it seems URAC just activated its CAGE#.

I also like the fact that its Purpose of Registration is for All Award$.

Your registration was activated on Oct 07, 2019. It expires on Oct 06, 2020 which is one year after you submitted it for processing.
================================================================

ID Number: 801868371  
Summary for:  BCA OF DETROIT, LLC           
The name of the FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY:   BCA OF DETROIT, LLC
   
Entity type:   FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Identification Number: 801868371 Old ID Number: B94531

Date of Qualification in Michigan:   09/11/2008

Organized under the laws of: the state of Delaware
Purpose:

Term: Perpetual
           
The name and address of the Resident Agent:
Resident Agent Name: THE CORPORATION COMPANY <=== a foreign agent not registered under FARA because everyone is stealin' the children, land and votes in Michigan and attorneys have immunity...but not for much longer.
Street Address: 40600 ANN ARBOR RD E STE 201
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: PLYMOUTH State: MI Zip Code: 48170
Registered Office Mailing address:
P.O. Box or Street Address:
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: State: Zip Code:

When a youth would file one of those Recipient Rights Complaints, it was always tossed.

I know.

I used to talk to them.

Then I would file a grievance with Michigan, strictly for documentational purposes, only, because all they did was toss, or send me a gratuitous phone call, or dismissive missive, letting me know everything was status quo.

See, there are no civil rights in child welfare because it is all privatized under foreign corporate shape shifters who like to use LLCs because it is easy to dissolve, or bankrupt, or sell, gift, trust or something, right after you get the state grants. contracts and the fake ass Medicaid cost reimbursements because, more than likely, they took out some mortgages, DLA Small Business loan, TARP, then quiet titled, then mortgaged again, or some stealin' like that.

Let me check right quickly.

Yippers. 

I told you so.

Wayne County Treasury Property Tax Results <===Hot mess

01 01211831.01 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT A & H PHRMACY SERVICES INC
01 01211831.02 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT BERGEN BRUNSWIG DRUG COMPANY / LEASED TO:SCCI HOSPITAL OF DETROIT
01 01211831.10 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT ST. JOHN HOSPITAL
01 01211832.00 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT SARATOGA GENERAL HOSPITAL
01 01211832.01 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT UNIVERSAL HOSPITAL SVCS INC / SCCI HOSPITAL
01 01211834.01 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT SARATOGA MGMT INC
01 01211834.10 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT SKYTEL CORPORATION / PROPERTY TAX DEPT <=== Hey, what the hell is that?

"Hey kids, do not put your lips on that!"

01 21028489. 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT BCA REAL ESTATE HOLDING LLC
01 21028489-90 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT BCA REAL ESTATE HOLDING LLC
01 21991831.01 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT A & H PHARMACY SERVICES INC
01 21991831.02 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT BERGEN BRUNSWIG DRUG COMPANY / PMB 308,LEASED TO:SCCI HOSPITAL OF DETROIT
01 21991831.03 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT ZEVEX INC
01 21991831.04 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT ABRAMSON, SAMUEL M MD PC / A/K/A ST JOHN GRATIOT CENTER
01 21991831.05 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT SARATOGA URGENT CARE PC
01 21991831.10 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT ST JOHN HOSPITAL
01 21991831.15 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT TRIUMPH HEALTH CARE,TRIUMPH HOSPITAL OF DETROIT
01 21991832.00 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT SARATOGA GENERAL HOSPITAL
01 21991832.01 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT UNIVERSAL HOSPITAL SERVICES INC
01 21991833.10 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION / DBA: COMPUTER SCIENCES <====Dyncorp
01 21991834.01 15000 GRATIOT DETROIT SARATOGA MGMT INC

All they ever want is to turn a profit.

How is it one can turn a profit when engaging in the healing of a child?

Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare, of course.

Oh, there are so many fraudulent billing scams that go on in child welfare.

I used to let them take me in their offices and show me everything, including voicing their grievances that Michigan will not do a damn thing for these children.

Many of the staff should not even be in the field of human services, ever, seriously, there should be some form of ethics involved when it comes to hiring practices in human resources... when it comes to human asset management for foreign, privatized, entities.

Remember, there are no civil rights in child welfare because it is privatized, where the foreign entity comes up with its own, self-reporting, of all the wonderful things they do for kids.

Luay Haddad & The Academic Journalism Secret Society Sucks

You can run fake ass studies.

You can run human lab rat experiments.

You can run kiddy kickback ops for your buddies who like to Praise the Lord alot.

Heck, you can even help run a fake ass mortgage program in Detroit to profit off human trafficking, funded by Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.

Just ask Bill Clinton.

As for LARA and the Corporate Shape Shifters, well, only Bill *Smooches* Schuette can tell that tale because Mike Cox was always up to something else.

You know what, what the heck, let's bring back the entire crew!

Janet Olszewski
Marianne Udow
Steve Yager
Verlie Ruffin
Jennifer Granholm
John Engler
Pete Hoekstra
Bill Johnson
Mary Rossman
Bruce Hoffman
Teri Tekai, <===DoD and of course, the Greatest State Attorney General in the world, because he restructured the office to be the most powerful Office of Attorney General in the United States, so bow down when you say, Frank Kelly, because I do.

Please note that these are just the first names that popped up after suffering from an episode of Post Traumatic Fraud Disorder.

State didn't investigate psych patient deaths after release from Detroit hospital

Lawmakers call for more review of post-release deaths

Notification of Death Report
LANSING (WXYZ) — Since 2017, at least four patients have died within two days of being released from StoneCrest Hospital, a private inpatient psychiatric facility in Detroit. Despite being notified of each of the deaths, state officials never investigated.

Officials with LARA, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, say they’re not legally required to follow up on deaths like these, nor are they empowered to by statute. Today, in response to an investigation by 7 Action News, two state senators are calling for changes to ensure that post-release deaths are investigated.

RELATED: A Detroit psychiatric hospital released him Thursday, he took his life Friday

At 162 beds, StoneCrest is one of the largest private psychiatric facilities in the state. 7 Action News first investigated the hospital earlier this year, after one of its patients, Joe Sadlak, admitted to murder only two days after he was discharged.

He had been treated at StoneCrest for less than a week.

“You put my son on four different kinds of medication and knew his drug history,” said Pamela Rowley, Joe’s mother, “and you let him go.”

In Michigan, when a psychiatric patient dies within two days of being released from a hospital, the state requires the hospital to report it. Those reports come to the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.

In September 2017, StoneCrest reported that a patient came to its hospital after stating he “was not happy in his life and wanted to die.” After treatment, he was released and died shortly thereafter. StoneCrest reported the death to the state, listing the cause as “not known.”

Less than a month later, another patient came to Stonecrest after saying he wanted to “jump off a bridge.” Within 2 days of release, he was found dead in his bathtub with his throat cut. State officials from LARA didn’t investigate.

A third death would be reported the following July. A woman came to Stonecrest with a history of suicidal behavior. She was treated, released and—the next day—found dead in a river. The cause of death was listed as “unknown.” Again, state officials didn’t investigate.

Then, this past June, a 29-year-old Detroit man came to Stonecrest after displaying severe psychotic behavior. He was deemed well enough to be released, but took his life the next day.

“Did your office ask any questions about that?” asked Channel 7’s Ross Jones.

“Again, we’ve been doing our statutory requirement,” said Larry Horvath, the Director of the Bureau of Community and Health System at LARA

“Did you ask any questions about that?” Jones asked again.

“We required the report to be filled out,” Horvath said.

“And that’s it,” Jones replied.

“Yes,” Horvath said.

Officials asked no questions, according to a spokesman, because “LARA is not by law or rule required to follow up on these reported deaths,” nor—they say— does the law give them the express authority to. State watchdogs are empowered to investigate only deaths that occur in restraints, Horvath said.

The death reports are reviewed during regular inspections, but no investigations are launched. Horvath said he hopes hospitals use the reports to guide their treatment.

"If they're starting to notice a pattern with a cause of death that occurs have discharge, hopefully they're starting to work with their medical directors, their nursing staff, their social workers to put corrections in place to address it," he said.

“It’s inexcusable,” said Mark Reinstein, President and CEO of the Mental Health Association in Michigan. “To hide behind, ‘It’s not our legal responsibility.’ Well then whose is it?”

By law, LARA is required to report all psychiatric deaths reported to them to the state legislature. But they haven’t been, 7 Action News has learned, for at least the last three years. In August, prompted by our reporting, the state submitted reports for 2016, 2017 and 2018, though they did not include post-release deaths.

Following our questions, LARA changed the reporting requirements for post-release deaths—no longer requiring that deaths occurring within 48 hours of discharge be reported. Spokesman Jason Moon said changing the policy aligns LARA with state law, which doesn’t require notification of post-release deaths.

The decision stunned multiple mental health advocates, including Andrea Rizor, the Director of Advocacy for Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services,.

“It looks like they don’t want to know if it’s a suspicious death or not,” she said. "It doesn't make sense."

This week, in response to 7 Action News' findings, the Democratic leader in the state senate is calling for changes.

“Stories like these are deeply concerning, and as a state we should be doing all that we can to help stop these preventable deaths,” said Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich (D-Flint). “The department should have the ability to identify concerning patterns, and if it requires a legislative fix to make sure they are empowered to do so, we will write the bill.”

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Michigan Foster Care Cover Up Death Squad Busted Again: From Ricky Holland To Omarion Humphrey - Not A Got Damn Thing Has Changed - Just Ask Nancy Edmunds

Ricky Holland

Word in the chatterverse has it that the autopsy says that he did not drown.

Michigan has always had a clean up squad in child welfare.

He should never have been there.

Ricky Holland should never have died, either.

Go get that piece of shit Steve Yager, now.

Go get Orlene Hawks.

Go get that entire Office of Children's Ombudsman.

Go get that Michigan Children's Institute.

Go get The Madame Maura Corrigan (said in a high British accent).

I command thee.

Foster agency connected to autistic boy who drowned agrees to close

BURTON, MI -

Omarion Humphrey

 The foster care agency connected to the disappearance and drowning of a severely autistic boy has closed under an agreement with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Alternatives Services for Children and Families voluntarily surrendered its license and closed on Monday, July 1, 2016, according to an agreement with MDHHS Executive Director Steve Yager.

A state investigation into 9-year-old Omarion Humphrey's death recommended the license surrender. Investigators found that Alternative Services for Children and Families' license should be revoked because of licensing violations at multiple foster homes, MDHHS Spokesman Bob Wheaton said.

Humphrey was visiting Lake Callis in Davison Township with his foster family on July 4, 2015, when he disappeared. Six days later, following a massive search, his body was found in the lake. He apparently drowned.

Body in lake believed to be missing autistic boy, police said.

DAVISON TWP, MI - A body found today in Lake Callis is believed to be that of missing 9-year-old boy with autism, Omarion Humphrey, police said. Rescue crews have found a child's body in the water in Lake Callis in Davison Township....

Last year, the state verified that the 95 children under Alternative Services for Children and Families were safe and began transferring those cases to other private agencies and to MDHHS foster care workers.

Alternative Services for Children and Families still had about 40 children under its care as of June, but all cases were transferred by July 1, Wheaton said.

"Protecting vulnerable children is our top priority," Yager said. "We kept that in mind in recommending revocation of the license and in handling the closing. We took numerous steps to make sure that all children and foster families received appropriate services during this transition."

Revocation of a foster care agency license is rare and occurs when there are serious licensing violations that make closure necessary to protect children, the state said. Alternatives worked collaboratively with the department in reaching an agreement to surrender its license, according to a statement.

The Flint Journal-MLive.com could not reach a representative for Alternatives for Children and Families for comment.

An August report from the MDHHS initially recommended the license revocation saying Alternatives for Children and Families had placed a child, presumably Omarion, in a foster home that had several previous infractions, many for lack of supervision.

Agency that placed autistic boy who drowned should lose license, state says

The state says the foster agency that placed 9-year-old Omarion Humphrey, the severely autistic boy who went missing and drowned in a Davison Township park, should lose its license.

The special investigation report, carried out in response to Omarion's disappearance and death, didn't identify Omarion's foster home or refer to Omarion by name. It refers to a "Foster Child A" who went missing.

The report also refers to a Foster Parent A who did not receive training on autism. The same Foster Parent A, according to the report, took in a child on the same day court documents show Omarion was removed from his biological home in Oakland County.

Missing autistic boy pulled from home squalor just months ago, court says

Investigators said Omarion was sleeping on the floor in a trash-ridden home without adult supervision, wore dirty clothes that didn't fit and had poor hygiene, the court documents say.

"Per the rule, Foster Parent A should have been provided training that related to Foster Child A's needs," the August report said. "At the very least, Foster Parent A should have been trained on how to handle issues dealing with Foster Child A's communication skills, physical safety and self-care."

In an Oakland County court hearing last July, a representative of Alternatives testified that Omarion's foster mother was licensed to foster special needs children, but did not have formal training for managing children with autism.

The foster mother used Internet research to educate herself on caring for autistic children, the Alternatives representative said.

Omarion and 10 of his siblings were removed from their biological parents' home and placed in foster care in 2015. Investigators said Omarion was sleeping on the floor in a trash-ridden home without adult supervision, wore dirty clothes that didn't fit and had poor hygiene, the court documents say.

A lawsuit that Omarion's estate has filed against Alternatives and foster mother Lulu Richardson is pending in Genesee Circuit Court.

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ENCRYPTION WORKING GROUP RELEASES YEAR-END REPORT

The report contains key observations and opportunities for progress

Washington, D.C. –Members of the bipartisan encryption working group – established in March 2016 by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) – today released a year-end report laying out key observations and next steps.

For nearly a year, the Encryption Working Group has held numerous meetings with a variety of federal, state, and local government entities, former government officials, private industry and trade associations, civil society organizations, consultants and legal experts, academia, and cryptographers. These meetings have produced critical information, culminating in a year-end report that lays out four key observations and identifies several areas for future discussion next Congress.

The report concludes:

“Encryption is inexorably tied to our national interests. It is a safeguard for our personal secrets and economic prosperity. It helps to prevent crime and protect national security. The widespread use of encryption technologies also complicates the missions of the law enforcement and intelligence communities. As described in this report, those complications cannot be ignored. This is the reality of modern society. We must strive to find common ground in our collective responsibility: to prevent crime, protect national security, and provide the best possible conditions for peace and prosperity.

“That is why this can no longer be an isolated or binary debate. There is no ‘us versus them,’ or ‘pro-encryption versus law enforcement.’ This conversation implicates everyone and everything that depends on connected technologies—including our law enforcement and intelligence communities. This is a complex challenge that will take time, patience, and cooperation to resolve.  The potential consequences of inaction—or overreaction—are too important to allow historical or ideological perspectives to stand in the way of progress.”

Below are key observations of the report.

1.      Any measure that weakens encryption works against the national interest.

2.      Encryption technology is a global technology that is widely and increasingly available around the world.

3.      The variety of stakeholders, technologies, and other factors create different and divergent challenges with respect to encryption and the “going dark” phenomenon, and therefore there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the encryption challenge.

4.      Congress should foster cooperation between the law enforcement community and technology companies.

Based on these observations, the report has identified several areas for future discussion by the committees next Congress, such as exploring opportunities to help law enforcement agencies navigate the process of accessing information from private companies; examining options to improve law enforcement’s ability to leverage metadata; reviewing the circumstances, resources and legal framework necessary to help law enforcement agencies exploit existing flaws in digital products; considering the implications of alternative legal strategies such as compelling individual consumers to decrypt their devices, and the role of encryption in fostering greater data security and privacy.

The members of the working group issuing the report are House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), and Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Bill Johnson (R-OH), and Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY).

House Judiciary & Energy and Commerce Committees Encryption Working Group Year-End Report December 20, 2016... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Nominate Debbie Williams For The Michigan Child Welfare Advocate Of The Year

Each year, in Michigan, this little group of sanctimonious arbitrators, armed with their lust of being bestowed community recognition of their self-imposed adjudicative powers of stripping the rights of due process from "the poors"m the Foster Care Review Board has a nomination process.

Foster Care Review Board Program

Child Welfare Awards  

Each year the Foster Care Review Board provides a forum for recognition of the excellent work that is performed by child welfare professionals who work diligently to overcome systemic barriers and go above and beyond policy, court rule, and statutory standards to help ensure the safety, well being, and timely permanency for children and families served by our foster care system.  

TRANSLATION TO REALITY:  Each year the Foster Care Review Board makes no recommendations to the Michigan Attorney General's Office for suspected violations of law and policy, nor does it make recommendations of civil rights violations or fraud within its child welfare system.

The annual awards are presented to those on the “front lines” who have displayed a commitment to excellence and integrity in serving the needs of our states most vulnerable children and families.  One nominee from each of the following categories – jurist (judge or referee), foster care caseworker, lawyer-guardian ad litem (LGAL), foster parent(s), and parent attorney – will be recognized for their exemplary service to abused or neglected children in the Michigan foster care system.  All other nominees will receive a congratulatory letter from the Foster Care Review Board, informing them of their nomination and thanking them for their service.  

TRANSLATION TO REALITY:  The annual awards exclude anyone who has fought on the front lines against the nefarious indolence of administrative buffoons like Steve Yager and Bill Johnson.

Finalists are chosen by a panel of Foster Care Review Board members and award winners are chosen by a panel of child welfare professionals and advocates, including award winners from the past year.  Award recipients are recognized at the FCRB annual training conference in early November. 

So, please, if you know of someone who is doing outstanding work in any of these categories, take the time to submit a nomination. This will not only recognize their efforts, but will help to highlight to the public the important and often excellent work that is performed within our state child welfare system.

TRANSLATION TO REALITY:  In this nomination process, there are, but of course, limited categories, from which to choose.

Let us examine these categories.

Nominations for the Child Welfare Awards are accepted each year from June through mid-September.  Criteria descriptions, deadlines, and forms are available at the links below:

• Jurist of the Year:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Jurist2016
• Foster Care Worker of the Year:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FCWorker2016
• LGAL of the Year:   https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LGAL2016
• Foster Parent of the Year:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FosterPar2016   
• Parent Attorney of the Year:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ParentAttny2016

TRANSLATION TO REALITY:  Notice that there is no category for community advocate, family member, or even a foster child.

There is no option to nominate anyone who has made substantial efforts to end fraud, waste and abuse of Medicaid funding and the horrors of privatization.

There is not even an option for a birth parent who has successfully advocated for their own child.

Why, one may ask.  Well, it would be quite an awkward situation to acknowledge the child welfare system has flaws due to the fact the state is still under federal monitoring.

So, it is at this point I ask for everyone who cares about providing equal justice to the poor, or just to give a voice to a child who is in the foster care system screaming, silently, writhing in seering physical and emotional pain, to give recognition to the work of an individual who has dedicated her life to illuminating the injustices of foster care.

Therefore, it is with the greatest of pleasure that I nominate Debbie Williams, for her work with Families and Children's Justice.

Debbie Williams travels the country, building coalitions for the purpose of forcing "the elected ones" to understand that the time has come to open public discussions on how we treat the poor and their children who cannot afford access to justice.

To nominate Debbie Williams for the Michigan Foster Care Review Board Child Welfare Advocate of the Year, please contact:

Kathy Lohr

Administrative Assistant, Foster Care Review Board

Lohrk@courts.mi.gov

313-972-3288

Remember, there are no civil rights in child welfare.  So, when Kathy tells you there is no category to nominate a community child welfare advocate, remember, ask her why, then let me know what she says.

Oh, and make sure you tell Jim Novell that Beverly Tran is still on a mission...

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Pam Lajiness, A Michigan Unsung Hero Against Child Welfare Fraud Dies

Pam Lajiness - Life Story Digital Video

As part of my my mission to end Medicaid fraud in child welfare, I have come to recognize that I am the only person who can document the work of those tirelessly dedicated individuals who shall no longer be forever excluded from the annals of history.

Pam Lajiness is an individual who shall now be honored.

Pam was a long time investigator of the former Michigan Department of Human Services, Office of Childrens and Adults Licensing (OCAL) of whom I am proud to call my mentor into the absolutely pathetic investigative licensing process in Michigan child welfare agency licensing.

I met her through my friend and strongest advocate for Faded Families, Darlene King.

Places like Catholic Charities,  Bethany Christian Services and Wayne County Juvenile Detention should not be in operation.  The list of facilities that should never have human contact is quite extensive in Michigan, but still allowed to operate under the premise of "too big to fail" and the lack of alternatives.

It was Pam who motivated and directed me to unveil the horrors of Michigan's child welfare system of what I call the Dark Ages of Michigan.

I began to look at contracts and enforcement.  It was a quick exercise as many of the child placing agencies did not possess either.

There were many cases where children should never have been in care, but what makes matters worse is that I would attend cases in the Court of Appeals where I would be in possession of first hand information of the hellish conditions set for adoption in Michigan law.

I watched Assistant Daniel Beaton lie through his fucking teeth, in a court of law, contrary to Pam's report findings, as these reports have no weight in a court of law, to keep the secret Medicaid revenue-maximization schemes of the Michigan Children's Institute.

It was human trafficking.

Pam Lajiness and Darlene King empowered me to put together the first and only comprehensive history of the Michigan Children's Institute.

First Amended Petition of Quo Warranto by Beverly Tran

Thank you, Pam.  I will stay true to my mission and keep your legacy alive.

BTW,  Steve Yager is still a piece of shit.   <====  #DOJ

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Michigan denies grandparent guardianship on disjointed law

In a 22-page unanimous decision, the Michigan Supreme Court issued an opinion on a grandmother, Lori Scribner, who attempted to adopt her grandchildren.

The issue stands that the grandmother did not put in her application for guardianship in a timely manner according to current child welfare law.

There is a specific window of time in a child custody proceeding which affords children to be placed with relatives.  Typically, there is no legal representation for family members and they will be denied or discredited on lack of legal knowledge in procedure.

Scribner only petitioned for guardianship after the omnipotent Superintendent of the Michigan Children's Institute denied her petition for adoption.

The adoption petition was denied on the grounds that the Michigan Superintendent can, at will, override federal standards and fictitiously generate a "best interests of the child" evidentiary standard which became the only authority to rely upon for the opinion.

After having her grandchildren in her care in Florida, Michigan removed the children, again and placed the back with the foster parents, not on "best interests of the child" but on the basis that MCI Superintendent guardianship has never been rescinded.

All is not yet lost, the issue on whether or not the children should have been assigned to MCI after Scribner stated her formal intentions to care for her children is to be sent back to the Appellant Court.

Michigan Supreme Court Opinion Denying Grandparents Guardianship

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Michigan legal guardian abuses kids

Does this mean a foster child who reports abuse would have to have the Superintendent of Michigan Children's Institute present unless there is a court order?

Would the State be charged with abuse and neglect?

 House Bill 5411: Mandate court order for CPS child interview without parent
Introduced by Rep. Joseph Graves (R) on March 12, 2014, to prohibit a state child protective services investigator from interviewing a child outside the presence of a parent or guardian unless the agency gets a court order permitting this. 
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=163821
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Rapes in prisons, foster care and residential facilities go unreported

UPDATE: Give Jeff Sessions a chance.

The same thing happens in foster care, residential institutions and juvenile delinquent facilities. The only difference between the youth and adults who are under the authority of the state is the States do not keep numbers of the sexual abuses of youth.

There are no published reports of child rapes in state care, to put it harshly.

Older male youth on male youth and older female youth on female youth are the taboos that these child welfare institutions refuse to speak upon.

There is even the gag orders of HIPPA which prevents these statistics from being reported.  There is even the omission of SACWIS reporting elements of sexual abuses in child welfare.

Sshhhh.  If you do not talk about it, it will go away when the kids age out.

 One can only hope the Justice Department will take these life events much more seriously. As it stands, the only legal recourse is through CRIPA.  If a youth is under the auspices of a state, does it mean a state will file charges against itself, or mainly its contractual privatized agencies?

In Michigan, the legal guardian of children who are wards of the state is Bill Johnson, Superintendent of Michigan Children's Institute.  When a child is raped in his care, does the state file neglect charges on the legal guardian?

Nope.

The Children's Right federal settlement agreement never even took the time to mention Michigan Children's Institute's role in protecting children in its care.

Perhaps there needs to be a Violence Against Children In State Care Act which holds the States financially responsible..if someone comes up with a way to even report the incidents.

Oh well.  Just script the kid with higher doses of psychotropic medication.  They will stop crying.

Guarded Optimism

Last week, the Justice Department convened hearings under the Prison Rape Elimination Act to examine the prevalence of rape and sexual abuse in the nation’s prisons and juvenile detention centers. As we’ve reported, the department has found alarming rates of abuse by staff on youngsters in custody. In a 2013 survey of more than 8,700 juveniles housed in 326 facilities across the country, 8 percent said they experienced sex abuse at the hands of the staff supervising them. Twenty percent of those who said they were victimized by staff said it happened on more than 10 occasions. But perhaps the most surprising finding: Nine out of 10 victims were males abused by female staffers.

The prison rape elimination legislation first passed in 2003, but it then took the Justice Department nearly 10 years to study the issue and release rules for prisons and juvenile detention centers to implement. Beginning late last year, auditors contracted by the federal government started inspecting these facilities to make sure that staff members are being trained on how to prevent sexual abuse and that there are effective means to monitor it.

American University law professor Brenda Smith has devoted much of her research to studying the problem, and she and her work helped shape the legislation that addresses it. We talked to her about the difficulty of getting the bill passed, the resistance from the corrections industry, and the psychological damage suffered by young boys who are abused by the women overseeing them. This is an edited transcript of our conversation.

People who have worked in this field know that sexual abuse in prisons has been a problem for decades. Why did it take so long to get Congress and the Justice Department to act?

I think gender has a lot to do with it. When legislation was first proposed by Rep. John Conyers in 1998, it was part of the Violence Against Women Act, and it had to get stripped out so the rest of the bill could pass.

But then, in 2001, Human Rights Watch released a report that really focused on inmate on inmate, male-on-male rape. And I think that because men could identify with sort of the vulnerability of being sexually victimized in custody, you got a lot of traction all of a sudden.

And I also think that there were some other groups that came together that were concerned about it. You had the human rights organizations; you had an organization called Stop Prisoner Rape, now Just Detention International, which was comprised of mainly male survivors. Then you had some conservative groups, like the Catholic Church, the Hudson Institute, basically what they were concerned about was the spread of homosexuality.

I also think that there was concern about — well, frankly, there’s just no other way to say it because it’s actually in the statute — the racial dynamics of sexual victimization in custody: That white men were going to be sexually victimized by black men. So the underpinnings of the legislation were not really that wholesome.

But it was this group of very powerful co-sponsors, Ted Kennedy and Jeff Sessions in the Senate and Frank Wolf and Bobby Scott in the House. And so for some reason it just kind of took off like a bullet. And people like me and others who had been doing this work for a long time thought this legislation was going nowhere. Then the next thing we knew it had passed unanimously with unprecedented funding.

There’s a rising female population among the staffs in juvenile settings. What accounts for that? What challenges does that present?

It’s not that men aren’t qualified; it’s that they often can’t meet the requirements, which require a certain degree of education, no past criminal record, and passing a drug test. Women are more likely to be able to do that.

In New York, Rikers Island is majority female staff, 75 percent of them are African American. And that’s very common in cities.

One of the things that people are still trying to understand is what the harm can be to a boy who has experience of abuse with an older woman in these facilities. What’s the current body of scholarship on female-on-male abuse?

The short of it is that anytime a wrong has happened, you need somebody to acknowledge that something wrong has happened. Just the fact that people can’t wrap their head around the fact that this was something that happened to you that should not have happened to you, that it’s not okay.

One of the biggest harms is that these guys are victims, but they don’t even get a chance to name their victimhood because there is such a huge culture of masculinity, it would be like, why are you complaining about that?

If nobody even recognizes that that’s a problem then there’s not going to be any services, or any education, or any intervention to address it. And because people don’t understand that, then what happens is it deepens the harm.

And as far as the long-term consequences?

Anger, violent behavior, depression, the same thing that happens to all victims, post-traumatic stress, hostility and aggression toward women, all of that is in the literature. Many of them were reared by women, who maybe didn’t protect them, so it solidifies this perception that women are not there for them.

And talk about the consequences for women who actually have been caught violating young boys. How often are you seeing prosecutions? How often are you seeing penalties levied against female abusers of boys?

Well, we’ve been studying this, and this whole problem of sanctions has been there from the beginning. We’ve found about 300 cases total of female-on-male abuse – cases that were reported in the media between 1990 and 2013. About 30 of the cases were related to juveniles. And if I remember correctly, of those 30, there were only seven or nine actual convictions.

But what we’re looking at is how the media characterized what happened, were they characterized as relationships? And did that characterization have an impact on the prosecution or the sanction? I think that’s a huge problem, because the likelihood of there being a sanction is really related to the importance that society places on harm to that victim.

For the most part these women pleaded guilty to things that wouldn’t lead you to believe that this person had any kind of sexual relationship with a youth, so they didn’t even have to register as a sex offender. And more often than not there is nothing about their behavior that would’ve led somebody else in a custodial setting not to hire them again.

And these are just the rare cases where there was some visibility in the media. When you talk about what happens at the facility level, and there’s no coverage, the consequences consist of a termination or a resignation. And what happens is people resign and when they resign, you don’t have to say anything. That means they can easily be hired somewhere else.

Do you see any commonalities among facilities where this seems to be particularly problematic, where there is a particularly high incidence rate?

Overcrowding. And this is true with both juvenile and adult facilities. Overcrowding means there’s an inability to supervise and a scarcity of resources, so you’re going to cut corners somewhere.

Culture is also a huge issue. What is the culture of your facility? First of all, there is the culture of corrections, and then there is the culture of the different shifts that people are on. And it really is an ‘okay, you cover me, I’ll cover you kind of situation.’ And the things that can go on that people feel are acceptable are really, really, really astonishing

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