Meet Michigan's Corporate Parents of "The Poors" - "The Boys" of Spectrum Health - Happy Child Abuse Propaganda Month!

In another exciting adventure in Child Abuse Propaganda Month, we uncloak predictive modeling crap in the industry of trafficking tiny humans.

What better way to implement human asset management systems in the launch of corporate parental rights than with a press release of a new capital venture of predicting what you will be when you grow up.

Could AI take control of human birth?

This is strictly to maximize profits, of course, in the creative billing to Medicaid for child welfare research and design of socioeconomic policies, of which Michigan is ground zero in pilot testing.

This is the industry propaganda of the distractionary pro life narrative.

Infant mortality is just another method in the acquisition of goods for the corporate parent, where the Michigan legislative side is at full steam ahead. 

Keep in mind, when a mother has no access to health care, or quality living, or food, or education, infant mortality becomes geographically statistically significant, like in Detroit, where no one has yet to comment on what happens to those placentas or pre-term births.

A fetus is considered an organ, and you know what people do with organs, and other tissues, and RNA, and DNA.

AI data collection at birth is a great way of gerrymandering predicting a voting district, too, because you can always repackage and resell it for future political campaigns!

And I almost forgot, the venture capital part are those Social Impact Bonds in child welfare NGOs.

NOTE TO SELF: MAP OUT THESE MODELS

AI enters the delivery room

Silicon Valley has paired artificial intelligence with the everyday iPad to track blood loss experienced by mothers during delivery.

Of all the reasons to visit a hospital, childbirth may be the absolute best.

The goal is to have mom and baby return home as soon as possible, happy and healthy.

Unfortunately, even in the 21st century, this isn’t always the case. Risk is inherent in the birth process.

Would you be surprised to learn that maternal mortality rates in the U.S. are headed in the wrong direction? It’s true.

According to the CDC, the rate of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. has been worsening for some time, jumping from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to 18 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014.

To improve birth outcomes, hospitals have turned to 21st century innovations.

Precision measurement

In childbirth, there is always some blood loss on the part of the mother, not just during delivery but during postpartum recovery, too.

This can sometimes become a major concern, given that hemorrhaging is a leading cause of pregnancy-related death in the U.S.

Consequently, it’s vital to get detailed information about the volume of blood loss during vaginal deliveries and during C-sections, as it helps providers take quick and appropriate action when the moment demands.

Gauss Surgical, a Silicon Valley-based company, has developed technology to improve this process.

The company’s Gauss Triton system pairs artificial intelligence with a readily available iPad to give providers estimates of a mother’s blood loss.

The Triton app, downloaded directly to the iPad, can analyze visually and materially.

In instances of vaginal delivery, the Triton system can calculate for blood loss by weighing the blood-absorbent items that are used during delivery. The software effectively analyzes the weight of the used items and compares this to the pre-surgery weight of the items. With each hospital system using specific brands and sizes of sponges or swabs, it allows the software to make highly detailed assessments.

In C-section deliveries, the technology is all the more fascinating.

The doctor or nurse can point an iPad camera at the sponges or swabs used to clean blood and snap a photograph, allowing the system to scrutinize the image for hemoglobin and blood content.

The AI at work in this case is much like the AI used in facial recognition, only instead of analyzing faces, the system analyzes a blood-soaked swab or sponge.

Providers can immediately assess that data, helping them accurately monitor blood loss volume.

Altogether, the system is a tremendous upgrade from the approaches of yesteryear.

“Traditionally, we have weighed blood-soaked items to estimate how much blood has been lost,” said Carolyn Leja, CNM, director of women’s and infant services at Spectrum Health.

That approach had its obvious weaknesses, particularly in overestimating or underestimating blood loss. (It’s difficult, for example, to visually distinguish blood from other fluids on a sponge.)

The response to blood loss during delivery can depend on timing—how far along in the delivery process things have progressed if a problem arises. Where one response mandates medication as a method to slow delivery, another may require a blood transfusion.

More accuracy at the right time can lead to more precise responses, something the Gauss system helps providers achieve at critical moments.

By quickly identifying instances of hemorrhage, for example, the technology may reduce the need for blood transfusions and shorten a patient’s length of stay.

“The scanning technology helps assure that we are intervening at the right point,” Leja said. “This tells us within a few CCs how we are doing.”

Smarter AI

Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital has been using the Triton technology since December. The weight system is used in normal deliveries and the optical system is used in C-sections. It’s the first hospital in Michigan to use the new technology.

Spectrum Health Ventures is one of 10 investors in Gauss Surgical’s Triton artificial intelligence technology.

The larger plan is to incorporate the technology into all labor and delivery rooms.

“We worry about blood hemorrhages,” said David Colombo, MD, chief of Spectrum Health Maternal Fetal Medicine. “Young healthy people giving birth don’t consider risks, but we treat every case with potential risks in mind. When you talk about a patient hemorrhaging, well, this is the stuff we lose sleep over.”

As with many things involving today’s species of artificial intelligence, it is nothing short of remarkable.

Any technology that enhances the delivery process and improves patient care—particularly by perfecting data collection and reporting—is a useful addition to the health care environment.

“There are lots of steps we can take,” Leja said. “We just want to be prepared for every delivery.”

Learn more about Spectrum Health Ventures.

Now, meet your Traffickers of Tiny Humans of Spectrum Health, because it all started in child welfare because no one cares.

These are the purveyors of predictive modeling crap.

These are the faces behind infant mortality in Michigan, and they used Medicaid fraud in child welfare to build this artificial Behemoth of using children of "The Poors" for human subject research and design testing as lab rats, based upon the antiquities of chattel law, whereby, the re-engineering of parental rights in a spectacular transmogrification of chattel law for corporations.

This is the privatization model, replete with nifty new and improved terms for human trafficking.

Please, familiarize yourselves with the latest terminologies in the trafficking of tiny humans, or, more intuitively understood as modern day industry of the residuals of the peculiar institution.

These are the privateers who have raided the children's trusts, our most precious treasures.

These are the Corporate Parents of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).

Our Team

Roger Jansen

Roger Jansen, PhD

Chief Strategy Officer Spectrum Health

Roger Jansen, PhD, is senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Spectrum Health, a leading integrated health system based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has extensive clinical practice, executive management, strategic, business development, M&A and organizational development experience. Roger has led organizations through transformational change, fostered diverse growth and revenue strategies, and spearheaded innovation teams and strategic partnerships to achieve substantial and sustainable growth.

Prior to joining Spectrum Health in August 2011, Roger was CEO of ThinkWise Inc., an organizational development, consulting and technology company in Grand Rapids, Mich. Roger also led Leadership Capital Group, which provided strategic, executive management, mergers and acquisitions, organizational design and human capital planning and consulting efforts to Fortune 500 and family-owned companies internationally. Roger completed his PhD with training in clinical and neuropsychological assessment at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his undergraduate work in psychology and biology at Michigan State University.

Roger’s entrepreneurial experience includes forming two technology companies that remain based in West Michigan. Roger has received regional and national recognition as one of the Most Innovative Business Executives in the Midwest and as one of the Top 10 Chief Human Resource Officers in the country.

Scott McLean

Scott McLean is the executive director for Spectrum Health Ventures. His responsibilities include development of syndicate partners; investment review, due diligence, valuation and structuring; communication and coordination with the SHV advisory board; portfolio governance; and providing financial updates to Spectrum Health’s executive team. He also maintains relations with the portfolio’s investments and syndicate partners.

Scott has a diverse background in corporate finance and private equity investing along with substantial entrepreneurial experience having started and operated a number of companies. Most recently Scott was a partner in NH Learning Solutions, Livonia, Mich., one of the country’s largest providers of IT certification training. As COO, he led the company through substantial growth both organically and through a series of acquisitions, nearly doubling the size of the organization. As chief school administrator he restructured the consumer education division and developed significant new revenue streams in addition to putting the school on track for national accreditation. Prior to that, Scott was involved with investments in ThinkWise, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Revue Media, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Best Source Publishing, Grand Rapids, Mich. and Denver, Colo.; and Falding Capital Group, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Scott began his career as a Certified Public Accountant with Arthur Andersen following graduation from Michigan State University. Outside of SHV, Scott is a board member for NH Learning Solutions, ThinkWise, The Employers Association and West Michigan Works.

Scott Lancaster, MD, MBA

Clinical Director

Scott Lancaster, MD, MBA, is the clinical director and a general partner with Spectrum Health Ventures. He joined the team in June 2017.

In the current health care business and economic climate, successful organizations have to be cognizant of disruptive threats that place the core business at risk and act on both short-term and long-range investment opportunities to counteract these forces. In his position at SHV, Scott discovers and investigates such opportunities for Spectrum Health. With his years of clinical practice experience and business acumen, he helps the system identify potential strategic fits and also works extensively with clinical teams on due diligence.

Scott practiced radiology for 18 years in Grand Rapids and held various roles as an officer and director of Advanced Radiology Services, the leading radiology physician specialty group in West Michigan. He earned an MBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Scott received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his medical degree from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He completed his Residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Henry Ford Hospital and then completed his Fellowship in Musculoskeletal Imaging at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Lancaster is board certified by the American Board of Radiology.

Target Segments  <===Targeted Case Management - Medicaid

✓ Access Solutions

✓ Population & Health Analytics

✓ Genomics & Precision Medicine

✓ Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Computing

✓ Consumer Wellness & Behavioral Health

✓ Health-Related Products & Services

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Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 91 Individuals for Approximately $295 Million in False Billing 

U.S. Department of JusticeSeptember 07, 2011

Office of Public Affairs(202) 514-2007/TDD (202)514-1888

WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that a nationwide takedown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in eight cities has resulted in charges against 91 defendants, including doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $295 million in false billing.

Attorney General Holder and Secretary Sebelius were joined in the announcement by FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and HHS Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson.

As part of a coordinated action, 70 individuals were charged by Strike Force prosecutors in indictments unsealed yesterday and today in six cities alleging a variety of Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $263.6 million in false billings. As part of takedown operations last week, 18 additional defendants were charged in Detroit and one defendant was charged in Miami in cases unsealed on Sept. 1, 2011, for their alleged roles in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $29.4 million in fraudulent claims. Additionally, two individuals are scheduled to appear in court today on charges filed on Aug. 24, 2011, for their roles in a separate $2 million health care fraud scheme. This coordinated takedown involved the highest amount of false Medicare billings in a single takedown in Strike Force history.

The joint Department of Justice-HHS Medicare Fraud Strike Force is a multi-agency team of federal, state, and local investigators designed to combat Medicare fraud through the use of Medicare data analysis techniques and an increased focus on community policing. Over the course of the past week, approximately 400 law enforcement agents from the FBI, HHS-Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), multiple Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and other state and local law enforcement agencies participated in the takedown. In addition to making arrests, agents also executed 18 search warrants in connection with ongoing strike force investigations.

“The defendants charged in this takedown are accused of stealing precious taxpayer resources and defrauding Medicare – jeopardizing the integrity of our health care system and our nation’s most critical health care program for personal gain,” said Attorney General Holder. “Our highly coordinated, nationwide Strike Force operations are working aggressively to combat Medicare fraud and our anti-health care fraud efforts have never been more innovative, collaborative, aggressive – or effective. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners and partners across government to fight against health care fraud.”

“Today’s arrests are a powerful warning to those who would try to defraud taxpayers and Medicare beneficiaries,” said HHS Secretary Sebelius. “These arrests illustrate close cooperation between the Medicare program that identified these fraudsters and the law enforcement officials who acted swiftly to cut them off. And our efforts to stop criminals don’t end here because the Affordable Care Act gives us new tools to prevent Medicare fraud before it is committed – better protecting seniors and the integrity of the Medicare program for generations to come.”

The defendants charged are accused of various health care fraud-related crimes, including conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, health care fraud, violations of the anti-kickback statutes and money laundering. The charges are based on a variety of alleged fraud schemes involving various medical treatments and services such as home health care, physical and occupational therapy, mental health services, psychotherapy, and durable medical equipment (DME).

According to court documents, the defendants allegedly participated in schemes to submit claims to Medicare for treatments that were medically unnecessary and oftentimes never provided. In many cases, indictments and complaints allege that patient recruiters, Medicare beneficiaries and other co-conspirators were paid cash kickbacks in return for supplying beneficiary information to providers, so that the providers could submit fraudulent billing to Medicare for services that were medically unnecessary or never provided. Collectively, the doctors, nurses, medical professionals, health care company owners and others charged in the indictments and complaints are accused of conspiring to submit a total of approximately $295 million in fraudulent billing.

“The health care system is part of our nation’s infrastructure and we must do everything in our power to protect the integrity of Medicare and the system at large,” said FBI Executive Assistant Director Henry. “Working together as partners, we can stop criminals who seek to steal American taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars and we help ensure our nation’s health care system is there for those who need it.”

“As charged in these indictments, the defendants cover nearly the entire spectrum of health care providers, and perpetrated a variety of fraudulent schemes,” said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. “From Brooklyn to Miami to Los Angeles, the defendants allegedly treated the Medicare program like a personal piggy bank. Today’s Strike Force operations should serve as a wake-up call to would-be fraudsters nationwide. With Strike Force teams now in nine cities across the country, and employing sophisticated, data-driven law enforcement methods, we are determined to hold criminally responsible those who defraud Medicare.”

“The warning should be unambiguously clear by now,” said HHS Inspector General Levinson. “We will continue using the combined law enforcement might of Strike Forces around the country to combat health care fraud.”

In Miami, 45 defendants, including one doctor and one nurse, were charged today and yesterday for their participation in various fraud schemes involving a total of $159 million in false billings for home health care, mental health services, occupational and physical therapy, DME, and HIV infusion. Another defendant in Miami was charged on Sept. 1, 2011, for a $1 million Medicare fraud scheme. In one case, 24 defendants are charged for participating in a community mental health center fraud scheme involving more than $50 million in fraudulent billing. According to court documents, the defendants allegedly paid patient recruiters to refer ineligible beneficiaries to the mental health center. In some instances, beneficiaries who were residents of halfway houses were allegedly threatened with eviction if they did not agree to attend the mental health center.

This is done everyday in foster care.  If an original parent does "not agree to attend the mental health center", their parental rights shall be terminated.  The children in foster care have no choice.  They are automatically sent to mental health services, well, at least on paper they are.

Same fraud scheme.  Different age population.

In Houston, two individuals were charged today with fraud schemes involving $62 million in false billings for home health care and DME. According to an indictment, one defendant allegedly sold beneficiary information to 100 different Houston-area home health care agencies in exchange for illegal payments. The indictment alleges that the home agencies then used the beneficiary information to bill Medicare for services that were unnecessary or never provided.

Ten defendants were charged in Baton Rouge, La., for participating in schemes involving more than $24 million related to false claims for home health care and DME. According to one indictment, a doctor, nurse, and five other co-conspirators participated in a scheme to bill Medicare for more than $19 million in skilled nursing and other home health services that were medically unnecessary or never provided.

Six defendants, including two doctors, were charged in Los Angeles for their roles in schemes to defraud Medicare of more than $10.7 million. In Brooklyn, three defendants, including two doctors, were charged for a fraud scheme involving more than $3.4 million in false claims for medically unnecessary physical therapy. Two defendants, including a doctor, are making initial appearances today in U.S. federal court in Dallas after being charged for a scheme to defraud Medicare of approximately $2.1 million.

In Detroit, 18 defendants, including three doctors, were charged last week for schemes to defraud Medicare of more than $28 million. According to an indictment, 14 of the defendants participated in a home health care scheme that submitted more than $14 million in false claims to Medicare.

Finally, four defendants including one doctor, were charged in Chicago for their alleged roles in schemes to defraud Medicare of more than $4.4 million.

The Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations are part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention & Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), a joint initiative announced in May 2009 between the Department of Justice and HHS to focus their efforts to prevent and deter fraud and enforce current anti-fraud laws around the country.

Since their inception in March 2007, Strike Force operations in nine locations have charged more than 1,140 defendants who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for more than $2.9 billion. In addition, the HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.

The cases announced today are being prosecuted and investigated by Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams comprised of attorneys from the Fraud Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and from the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Southern District of Florida, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of Texas, the Central District of California, the Middle District of Louisiana; the Northern District of Illinois, and the Northern District of Texas; and agents from the FBI, HHS-OIG, and state Medicaid Fraud Control Units.

An indictment is merely a charge and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

To learn more about the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), go to: www.stopmedicarefraud.gov.

Statement of the Honorable John Conyers, Jr., for the Markup of H.R. 1854, the “Comprehensive Justice and Mental Health Act of 2015"

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

“H.R. 1854, the ‘Comprehensive Justice and Mental Health Act of 2015,’ reauthorizes funding for and updates the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004. 

“I support this bipartisan bill for several reasons. 

“To begin with, the legislation recognizes the fact that approximately 45% of federal inmates, 56% of state inmates, and 64% of jail inmates display symptoms of mental health conditions.   Of the approximate 11 million people who cycle through our Nation’s local jails annually, anywhere between 16% to 60% of this population have mental illness treatment needs. 

      

“In addition, studies indicate that mentally-ill prisoners tend to stay in jail longer than those without mental illnesses, return to jail more often, and cost local jurisdictions more money while incarcerated.

“The grants authorized by this legislation pertain to various aspects of the criminal justice spectrum, ranging from pre-booking to transitional programs addressing reentry after a prisoner has served his or her sentence.  These grants fund specialized law enforcement-based response programs, mental health courts and other court-based initiatives, jail-based programs, and programs for youth involved in the Juvenile Justice System. Another reason why I support H.R. 1854 is that it expands grants for veterans in the criminal justice system.  

“Specifically, the bill would authorize veterans treatment courts and related programs to help those who have served our Nation, but who are arrested and exhibit behavioral or mental health conditions, including substance addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, and mental health conditions manifesting from traumatic brain injuries.

“Veterans courts help facilitate the diversion of veterans out of the criminal justice system where they can be directed to more appropriate mental health treatment.

 “By funding these specialized programs, H.R. 1854 will enhance our criminal justice system’s ability to meaningfully address the unique mental health needs of our veterans.       

 “Our veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, substance addictions, and other mental health conditions deserve better than being warehoused in our jails and prisons.

“Finally, H.R. 1854 authorizes continued grant funding for the training of law enforcement and correctional personnel to identify and appropriately respond to the mentally ill. 

 “This saves lives and money.  It also supports our long-term goals of criminal justice reform by reducing the number of individuals in jails and prisons and by promoting better relations between law enforcement and the public.

“Law enforcement grant programs fund the development of curricula for police academies and crisis intervention team programs that significantly help to lower the cost of mental health crisis police responses. 

“And, grant programs for correctional officers recognize the crucial role officers play in identifying those inmates who are in need of mental health treatment and are at risk for abuse in a custodial setting.  Our correctional officers need the appropriate training and tools in order to respond to a mental health crisis, to provide for the safety of the mentally ill, and to deliver appropriate treatment and medications.   

 “Accordingly, I support H.R. 1854 and urge my colleagues to support this important legislation.”

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Detroit Free Press Reports The First Level Of What Goes On In Foster Care & Adoption - Medicaid Fraud In Child Welfare

This is a matter of legal parsimony, for what is about to unfold is a dark, nefarious world of Medicaid fraud in child welfare, or, what I prefer to call as the Trafficking of Tiny Humans.

This is what I first referred to as the Dark Period of Michigan.

It gets worse the younger the children who are under the aegis of the state.

Ask yourself, "Why do we even have a system that snatches tiny humans from their homes for profit?"

The system runs deep.

I wonder what Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is going to do, considering the fact that it would be a contemporaneously inherent conflict of interest for her to investigation that which is private, you know, like they tell you to go get an attorney when it comes to dealing with children.

These are state contracts with foreign entities so it is out of her jurisdiction.

That is why the State of Michigan allows these operations to profit from trafficking tiny humans, because there is too much money involved.

On a mission...

Rape. Sex trafficking. Is Detroit youth home endangering girls?

The Davenport Shelter on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit has put young girls in harm's way for years, drained police resources and created a public nuisance, records show. (Photo: Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press)

They're among metro Detroit's most vulnerable children: teenage girls who have been abused, neglected or suffer from mental health issues.

But the place that's supposed to protect them is putting many in harm's way, police and court records allege.

Rapes. Suicide attempts. Assaults. Sex trafficking.

This is what happens to many girls who wind up at 665 East Grand Boulevard, a youth shelter where one girl a month attempts suicide, nearly three a month get assaulted and one gets raped every other month after running away and ending up in dangerous situations, police records show.

Also troubling to some are the rules: The girls are free to leave throughout the day because it's a shelter, a short-term facility for 11- to 17-year-old girls; it is not a lock-down facility. Girls run away, every other day.

And the City of Detroit has had enough.

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In a  lawsuit unfolding in Wayne County Circuit Court, the City of Detroit has planted a bull's-eye on the Davenport Shelter, a decades-old facility for girls who are at risk because of emotional or mental health issues, or have been removed from their parents’ homes because of abuse or neglect. The 12-bed shelter offers individual and group counseling, as well as social and personal living skills training.

Davenport is also endangering vulnerable girls, draining police resources and creating a public nuisance, the city claims in its lawsuit, citing two years' worth of police data. Since 2017, records show,  the residential youth center has accounted for more than 500 911 calls, which is the highest number of emergency calls received from any location within the 7th Precinct.

Spectrum Human Services, which owns the shelter and is the named defendant in the lawsuit, claims the city's suit has no merit and is seeking to have it tossed. 

'She's not the same' 

According to police records, in less than two years, 315 girls went missing from the Davenport Shelter, a yellow-brick building that sits across the street from a burned-down structure; two girls wound up in the hands of sex traffickers in January, including a 15-year-old Warren girl who was raped and drugged before Detroit police and the FBI rescued her from a drug house.

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This burned-out structure on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit sits across the street from the Davenport Center, a youth center that's accused of putting troubled and neglected girls in harms way. (Photo: Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press)

The 15-year-old's family has been consumed by outrage, grief and pain ever since, saying the the girl never belonged at Davenport to begin with: She has mental health issues and previously ran away from another facility. What she needed, they said, was a more secure youth shelter.

"My dad said multiple times, 'Do not put her there. Find somewhere else. She can come home' " the girl's 18-year-old sister told the Free Press in an exclusive interview this week. "For them to place her in a facility that's not locked down — in lower east Detroit — was a terrible choice."

The 15-year-old had been at Davenport for only a day and a half before fleeing with a 16-year-old girl in an Uber one January night, her older sister said. She thought the Uber was bringing her home to Warren, her sister said. But instead, the older girl instructed the Uber driver to take them to a house that turned out to be full of drugs, guns and sex traffickers.

The girls were held at that house for two days, against their will.

"I'm so furious ... she was raped and drugged and they put a gun to her head threatening to go to Atlanta," the older sister said of the sex traffickers. "My dad was out until 4 a.m. searching the streets of Detroit. ... She was nowhere to be found."

The next day, the girl said she and her father put up missing child flyers all up and down East Grand Boulevard when a stranger approached them and said:

" 'Are you looking for someone from Davenport? This street is known for girls running. There are men and boys who wait outside in their cars for girls to come out.' "

On Jan. 16, the Detroit Police vice unit got a tip about the 15-year-old Warren girl who had fled Davenport.

The tip came from the girl's mother, who called police about a random text message she had received from someone demanding ransom for her daughter.

"If you don't give us $2,500, me and my men will kill her," the text message read, according to the victim's 18-year-old sister.

The call was a bluff, family and sources familiar with the case said. Someone had seen the missing posters on social media or the streets, and called the number demanding money.

 But the mother's call may have saved her daughter's life.

According to family, the 15-year-old girl was using Snapchat off and on while being held captive by the sex traffickers. The FBI and police tracked her phone down using cell-tower data and pinpointed her location, kicking down the door of the house where she and the other girl were being held.

When law enforcement showed up at the house, family said, men started jumping out the windows. Two men were arrested: an 18-year-old and a 21-year-old.

The 15-year-old girl ran out of the house and grabbed the hands of the police, who interrogated her for five hours before releasing her to family.

"Her legs were shaking. She was so pale," recalled her 18-year-old sister, who was waiting outside the police station.  "She didn't even have shoes on. ... As soon as she walked up, I ran up and I grabbed her and I was crying. I wouldn't let her go."

A sex crimes unit eventually brought the 15-year-old to the hospital, where she underwent a rape test and spoke privately in a room with her 18-year-old sister, whose account of events is based on that hospital room conversation.

"She's not the same," her sister said. "She didn't want to be touched. She wouldn't tell me what happened. She told me about the drugs in the house, the people in the house ... but she wouldn't talk about the rape. The police told us."

Detroit Police have said little about the incident since the girls were rescued. Detroit Police Chief James Craig made some brief comments about it at a news conference the day after the rescue.

"The missing young lady was abducted and she was sexually assaulted,"  Craig said in January following the girls' recovery. "The suspect was preparing for her and another female that was also missing from the same location. They were going to move them to Atlanta to continue this sex trafficking activity."

Craig added: "We may have saved lives."

The 15-year-old girl's grandfather is furious. He faults the state Child Protective Services for placing his granddaughter at a facility that, he maintains, was not equipped to protect her.

"They willfully and knowingly dropped her off at that place. She's a 15-year-old girl with mental health issues ... they knew that place has a reputation as a clearinghouse for child sex traffickers," the grandfather said.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, whose Division of Child Welfare Licensing oversees and licenses Davenport, could not comment on individual cases citing privacy issues.

 But the sex trafficking incident has triggered action.

The day after the girls were rescued, the Division of Child Welfare Licensing at DHHS  announced  "a special investigation of Davenport Shelter as a result of the information that surfaced on Jan. 17. The department will conduct an expeditious and thorough investigation."

The investigation is ongoing.

In a statement to the Free Press this week, the agency said: "MDHHS takes very seriously its duty to protect the safety and well-being of children and thoroughly investigates child safety issues at licensed facilities. Human trafficking of vulnerable children is a national problem that is of extreme concern to the department."

911 calls imply neglect, lawsuit alleges 

The city's main issue with Davenport is the large volume of 911 calls they generate: Police are called to the center every other day, records show,  which puts a huge strain on Detroit's short-staffed police force,  The majority of those calls are for missing persons — girls who leave the center and don't return when they're supposed to.

“Placing 24 troubled teenage girls in a facility not far from downtown Detroit, where they can come and go essentially as they please, is a recipe for disaster,” city attorneys Charles Raimi and Philip Hiltner argue in court records.  "The facility ... is unsafe for its residents, consumes scarce DPD resources and therefore interferes with public morals and public peace."

The city claims the center has been warned about excessive runaways and police calls, but that nothing has been done. Now, it has asked a judge to issue the center a 30-day deadline: Come up with a plan to clean things up, or face closure.

The Davenport Facility for abused, neglected and at-risk girls is facing a significant runaway problem, though it's not allowed to lock kids in under state law. (Photo: Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press)

According to dispatch records from Jan. 1 2017 - Nov. 30, 2018, 502 emergency calls were made on behalf of residents of the shelter. Over that 23-month time frame,  here's what the 911 calls were for:

• 315 missing persons 
• 12 rapes 
• 66 assaults
• 31 Suicide attempts
• 22 Ambulance calls

Spectrum Human Services says the problems that the city is complaining about are out of the center's control for two main reasons: State law prohibits Davenport from locking in girls, and, the law requires management to call  police when someone goes missing.

"By law, our staff is trained to immediately notify law enforcement when our youths’ safety is at issue. The needs and safety of every girl placed in the shelter is of utmost importance," attorney Gregory Bater said in a statement on behalf of Spectrum.

On Feb. 19, Spectrum filed an emergency motion in Wayne County Circuit Court, asking Judge Timothy Kenny to dismiss the case, claiming the city filed "an incomplete factual scenario, robbed of context, and peppered with irrelevant information."

Spectrum's lawyers lambasted the city for claiming that Spectrum is violating child protection laws because it doesn't lock residents in.

"The City is apparently unaware that Spectrum is not allowed to lock its residents in ... the city should be well aware of this prohibition," Spectrum lawyer, Cameron Getto, argued in court records, noting Davenport is a short-term, 30-day program that is "open and community based."

"Under Michigan law, 'open' programs cannot be locked against egress," Getto wrote.

As for the city's complaints about the excessive calls to police, Spectrum says it's only doing its job.

"When a child is determined to be 'AWOL,' Spectrum is required to 'immediately notify law enforcement,' " Getto wrote. "It is further required to 'Immediately file a missing person report with law enforcement.' "

Essentially, Getto argues, the problems that the city is complaining about are due to requirements and rules established by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees state-licensed child care facilities.

"It is the State of Michigan ... not Spectrum, that requires that the facility remain open and unlocked, and that law enforcement be immediately notified when a resident goes AWOL," Getto wrote, adding that Spectrum has been working with law enforcement over the last year to address these issues.

Spectrum, Getto wrote, also thought that its relationship with the city was moving forward in a productive and constructive manner.  But then came the lawsuit. 

'It still haunts me'

Several people with past ties to Davenport took to social media to vent about the center. One woman said the sexual abuse of teen runaways is a long-standing problem at Davenport, known formally as the Elizabeth Davenport shelter.

January's sex trafficking case has triggered an outcry from people identifying themselves as former Davenport residents and their families, who are venting about their experiences at the center and calling for change.

"This is not new. I was in the Elizabeth Davenport shelter when it was located on Woodward in Highland Park," the now-grown woman wrote on Facebook. " There would be men hanging around the building, waiting for girls to run. Some girls would run a few times a week, or stay on the run just long enough not to lose their bed. They would come back bragging about what they did and ate while out. Some of these men and boys had the girl participating in group sex and activities."

One woman, now 44 and a mother of four children, believes Davenport needs to shut down, calling it a "torture chamber" that subjected her to "pure hell" in 1990 when the state placed her there because of her abusive home life. She said she was molested by her stepfather, and that her mother didn't want her.

"I always told myself if I ever had children I would never do them the way my parents did me," the woman, who asked to be identified as Miss Daniels, told the Free Press this week, saying she lived in multiple homes from age 5 until 16.

"Davenport shelter was a place that I was in once I got older," said the woman, who is biracial and recalled physical and verbal abuse at the girl's home.

She stressed: " I never did anything but look for love. And I looked for love in the staff hoping to find a mother figure that I never had."

"I was an innocent child but one thing I can tell you is my children will never experience what I’ve been through," Miss Daniels said.  "Sometimes, it still haunts me."

Neither DHHS nor Spectrum, which owns and operates Davenport, could not comment on individual cases involving current or past residents citing privacy issues.

A hearing in the city's lawsuit against Davenport has been scheduled for March 6 in Wayne County Circuit Court.

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Randy Wimbley Covers Trafficking Tiny Humans In Detroit - But Will He Cover The Fox 2 Detroit Involvement?

Randy Wimbley, Fox 2 News Detroit, is covering a story on trafficking tiny humans.

I remember when Fox 2 News was the proud sponsors, handing out lovely crystal carved awards to St. Vincent Sarah Fisher Residential Center.

I wonder if Randy is going to tell that story.

Yes, it all started in Detroit.

Just ask Betsy DeVos.

Welcome to the Michigan Child Welfare System.

This is what I like to call the output of the system, where Michigan grooms these children who were Legally Kidnapped by Child Protective Services, the input.

The throughput is the part where these kids are drugged, raped, tortured, all billed to Medicaid.

There are four different ways of getting out of foster care:

1. Death;
2. Run away;
3. Adoption;
4. Age out.

Returning to the family is typically never an option as poverty is the crime of abuse and neglect, where the only way to access mental health treatment is through voluntary placement.

There are no civil rights in foster care and adoption and its story has never been told before, in the major news outlets.

This is Davenport, a Spectrum Health Services affiliate, of Bethany Christian Services.

Yes, That Is Correct, Michigan Prepares Youth For Human Trafficking

Please keep in mind, if these Foster Care agencies do not have acquisition models for the chattel of children, then how can they procure the state and federal contracts to continue to maximize revenues, and keep their doors open for the business of trafficking tiny humans?

The State of Michigan will come back with a Corrective Action Plan, that no one will follow up with because no one cares, because there is too much money involved in keep funding political campaigns.

Shelter runaways being pulled into human trafficking

(FOX 2) - The problems at Davenport Shelter began long before a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped after running away from the state licensed housing facility for troubled girls on Detroit’s east side. 

According to state records, The Department of Health and Human Services launched a number of special investigations into the shelter dating back to 2011.

Davenport has been flagged for a number of violations ranging from inadequate staffing, overcrowding, a lack of supervision that allowed residents to have sexual contact with one another and the alleged sexual assault of a girl who ran away from Davenport and had been missing for a week in March of 2018. 

FOX 2 went to Spectrum Child and Family Services in Westland, the company that operates the shelter, and were told to leave. Our calls and requests for an interview went unanswered.

“I'm very upset and it's totally heartbreaking just to see the story on the news and to know my baby girl is there and I can't do nothing about it right now,” said Iesha Riley who has a goddaughter placed at Davenport.

Riley’s 10-year-old goddaughter was placed at Davenport in September and has ran away several times.

According to state records, Davenport has been cited for not having enough staffers to keep girls from leaving the shelter.

Police say 2 girls were nearly taken to Georgia to be sold for sex after running away from Davenport in January. One of the teens says she was raped.

“I keep running it in my head that them girls had got rescued from being on they way shipped to Atlanta,” Riley said. “Anytime she walk out the door, she go to the left of walking out that door, it's a neighborhood. Big vacant houses. Any kind of predator could be right there.”

There are nine sex offenders living within a quarter mile of the shelter, according to the state’s sex offender registry. There are nearly a thousand within 5-miles.

“When I was over there, I've seen guys pulling up. Sitting in front of there in front of the door like they waiting on girls to come out,” Riley said.

The Department of Health and Human Services opened another investigation into Davenport after our reporting on the 2 runaways back in January and the confrontation with the staffer about the problems there. 

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Stealin' The Children, Land & Votes - The Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Detroit Land Bank Authority & Detroit Economic Club

Over the last few days, it seems I have some really interested .xyz individuals who have taken a statistically significant interest the following post:

Michigan Medicaid Fraud To Be Discussed In Appropriations

I decided to satisfy the lust of the .xyz individuals about this post by illuminating the original example of stealin' the children, land & votes because it all started in Detroit, where, in this instance, is the Detroit Economic Club and its network animus of co-conspirators.

Board of Directors for the Michigan Health Endowment Fund,

Chairperson

Tom Damschroder

 Tim Damschroder, of Ann Arbor, is a member of Bodman PLC, where he heads the Business Practice Group, advising clients in matters involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, general business, corporate governance, securities offerings, and tax. He served on the board of directors of the Washtenaw United Way, the Washtenaw County Red Cross, and on the advisory group of Ann Arbor Angels. Damschroder holds bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a degree from the University of Detroit School of Law. He represents the general public.

In 2013, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Damschroder to the newly created Michigan Health Endowment Fund Board. The Fund, which was created under Public Act 4 of 2013, will benefit the health and wellness of Michigan residents through programs focusing on children and seniors. Damschroder serves as treasurer of the Fund, which is expected to receive up to $1.56 billion in contributions over 18 years.Vice Chair

Lynne Alexander

 Lynn Alexander, of Bloomfield Hills, is senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Presbyterian Villages of Michigan. She also serves as president of Your Aging Well Advisor, a consulting and education firm for consumers over 50. Alexander has served on the Commission on Services to the Aging and as director of the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging. She also has experience with the White House Conference on Aging, the Help America Vote Act Advisory Council, and the Elder Abuse Reporting Protocol advisory group and maintains involvement in several community organizations. Alexander holds a bachelor’s in social work from Defiance College and earned a master’s degree in psychology from Lone Mountain College, which is now known as the University of San Francisco. She represents the interests of senior citizens.

It looks like Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.

Lynn Alexander Appointed to BCBS board overseeing $1.6B health fund

A law signed this year to modernize Blue Cross required it to contribute up to $1.6 billion to a foundation that will take on some of its charitable work. The money may be spent on infant mortality, wellness and fitness programs and other areas.

Alexander is vice president of public affairs for Presbyterian Villages of Michigan.

ASSET FORFEITURE THROUGH CORPORATE PARENTAL RIGHTS

Remember Marianne Udow, former Director of Michigan Department of Human Services, who went over to Blue Cross Blue Shied?

Michigan Health Endowment Fund Board Meeting Monday, July 21, 2014 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Treasurer

Keith Pretty

 Keith Pretty, of Midland, is president and CEO of Northwood University, a position he has held since 2006. He previously served as president and CEO of Walsh College of Accountancy and Business Administration. His previous experience includes work for the State of Michigan, Western Michigan University, Amoco Corporation, the Michigan Senate and the Michigan House of Representatives. Pretty holds a bachelor’s degree in education from Western Michigan University and a degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He represents the general public.

Pretty and the Detroit Economic Club

 Marco Rubio, one of the many Spokestokens for the DEC

Secretary

Susan Jandernoa
Grand Valley
Board of Trustees

 Susan Jandernoa, of West Olive, taught fourth, fifth, and sixth graders for 30 years at East Grand Rapids Public Schools before retiring in 2004. She is a member of the Children’s Leadership Council of Michigan, the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees, the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan, the YMCA Advisory Board, and is a local board president for Ele’s Place. Jandernoa holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Central Michigan University. She serves as the nominee of the Speaker of the House.

What we do ~ We steal Medicaid from Child Welfare, then use the funds for personal investments in land we stole from the Detroit in fake ass property tax & bogus mortgage forclosures, then snatch up the properties in the name of the tax exempt god from the fake ass Detroit Land Bank Authority, then mortgage a few times in federal grants, wiping them out in quiet titles, run the financial boon out the U.S. through children's trust funds, mostly the Ukraine, then funnel back to fund U.S. campaigns, to get chosen spokestokens elected by taking over the administrations of local & state governments, to get more crappy predictive modeling Social Impact Bond private state contracts in child welfare, where we never have to pay taxes because it is all done as a foreign takeover the U.S. in the name of the tax exempt god. 

https://www.42np.com/48/community

We support the development of Michigan as an outstanding state in which to live, learn, work, and raise a family, with a particular focus on West Michigan.  We do this by committing our leadership, talent, and financial resources, in particular to key initiatives and effective organizations seeking to collaboratively and positively enhance:

• Education
• Wellness and Healthcare
• Families and Quality of Life
• Individual Responsibility
• Jobs (see also Entrepreneurship)
• Public policy - particularly focused on the first five of these priorities

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Our community stealin' partners include

They invest in their own overseas business ventures with
Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2017/383/083/2017-383083625-0f8a92be-F.pdf

http://www.teachingworks.org/

http://www.wmpolicyforum.com/

https://businessleadersformichigan.com/

http://www.talent2025.org/

Rob Fowler

Rob Fowler, of Haslett, is president and CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan, a 10,000 member business trade association. He previously worked for the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Department of Commerce. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Small Business Association, the Michigan Health Insurance Access Advisory Council and the Haslett Board of Education. He represents the business community.

Rob Fowler
https://lansingrotary.org/stories/biography-for-rob-fowler

As president/CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM), Rob Fowler is a registered lobbyist representing small business before the Michigan Legislature. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Small Business Association and serves on the board of the newly created nonprofit organization MiQuest, whose mission is to make Michigan the State of Entrepreneurship. In October 2013, he was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to serve on the Board of the Michigan Health Endowment Fund and currently serves as board chair. SBAM, which was founded in 1969, serves more than 23,000 member companies from all of Michigan’s 83 counties. A leading voice for growing the state’s entrepreneurial community through a strategy known as “economic gardening,” SBAM helps Michigan’s small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy.

International symbol of stealin'

Fowler joined SBAM in 2000 and was vice president of the subsidiary corporation, Small Business Insurance Services, until July 2003, when he became president. Before moving to Michigan, he was the executive director of the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE) in Cleveland, Ohio from 1995 to 2000. A former lobbyist for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce for ten years, he served as executive director of the Indiana Small Business Council and was on the staff of the Indiana Lt. Governor for two years.

He is the former chair of the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement of Mid-Michigan and has served as chair of the Business Advisory Committee of the Michigan Hospital Association. A graduate of Ball State University with a degree in political science, Rob and his wife Lisa live in Haslett with their son Reid and daughter Emma.

Henry Veenstra

A source of stealin'

https://www.kalfound.org/About/WhatsNew/ViewArticle/tabid/190/ArticleId/156/KZCF-Family-Children-Services-partnership-will-help-kids-in-crisis.aspx

Henry Veenstra, of Zeeland, was the President of Spectrum Health Zeeland Community Hospital, a position he held for more than four decades. During his tenure, Veenstra directed all strategic planning, construction of a new facility, and the transition of Zeeland Community Hospital to membership in the Spectrum Health System. In addition to being a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he is a Life Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Hospital Association Foundation. Veenstra serves as the nominee of the Senate Majority Leader.

https://www.michiganbusiness.org/
https://www.miplace.org/

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Michigan Life Sciences Corridor

Michigan State University Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building.
University of Michigan Biomedical Science Building, a 2007 AIA honor award winner.
The Michigan Life Sciences Corridor (MLSC) is a $1 billion biotechnology initiative in the U.S. state of Michigan.
The MLSC invests in biotech research at four Michigan institutions: the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Michigan State University in East Lansing; Wayne State University in Detroit; and the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids.

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation administers the program. It began in 1999 with money from the state's settlement with the tobacco industry. When the program's funds distributions are completed in 2019, the goal is that the investments in high tech research will have notably expanded the state's economic base.
History
In 1998, the State of Michigan, along with 45 other states, reached the $8.5 billion Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, a settlement with the U.S. tobacco industry.[1] Former Governor John Engler created the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor in 1999 when he signed Public Act 120 of 1999.[2] The bill appropriated money from the state's settlement with the tobacco industry to fund biotech research at four of Michigan's largest research institutions.[3]
Under the management of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the MLSC allocated $1 billion over the course of 20 years, including $50 million in 1999 to fund research on aging.[4] The following year, the MLSC awarded $100 million to 63 Michigan universities.[5] In 2002, Governor Jennifer Granholm incorporated the MLSC into the Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor, adding funding for homeland security and alternative fuel research.[6]
In 2009, the University of Michigan added a 30-building, 174-acre (0.70 km2) North Campus Research Complex by acquiring the former Pfizer pharmaceutical corporation facility.[7]
A BioEnterprise Midwest Healthcare Venture report found that Michigan attracted $451.8 million in new biotechnology venture capital investments from 2005 to 2009.[8][9]

Alexis Wiley

Alexis Wiley, of Detroit, is Chief of Staff for Mayor Mike Duggan, where she oversees the implementation of the Mayor’s initiatives, legislative affairs and external communications. Prior to joining the administration, Wiley was a reporter and anchor at WJBK Fox 2 Detroit. Her Emmy award-winning work has appeared on local television stations across the country and cable networks such as Fox News and CNN. Wiley is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, a member of The Detroit Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and serves on the board of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. Wiley serves as the nominee of the House Minority Leader.

I still want to know about FOX2Detroit and their financial fundraising activities with St. Vincent Sarah Fisher Residential Facility.

http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=detroit+children%27s+fund#axzz67MjB8fwI

Michael Williams

Michael Williams, of Westland, is the president and CEO of Orchards Children’s Services, Michigan’s largest foster care and adoption agency. He has served in this capacity since 2003. Previously, he was president of Detroit-based Starr Vista Inc., and held various positions with Starr Commonwealth, in Albion. Williams is an adjunct professor at Albion College, and received the “Heroes” award from Michigan’s Children in 2007. He holds many professional memberships and is involved in several community organizations. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree from Albion College and a master’s degree in guidance and counseling from Eastern Michigan University. He represents the interests of minor children.

Michael Williams is dumb as dirt. I only say this as an original source, where I am more than willing to swear an oath in the court, under penalty of law, to this fact....wait a minute...I already did.

Cindy Estrada and her
international symbol of stealin'

Cindy Estrada is serving her third four-year term as a UAW Vice President and currently heads the Fiat Chrysler and Women’s Departments.

She earned a degree in education from the University of Michigan and had planned to become a teacher. After organizing with the United Farm Workers union on an internship she was drawn to union organizing instead.

Estrada worked as a UAW Region 1A temporary organizer successfully organizing a number of Parts suppliers.  She helped organize workers at Mexican Industries in southwest Detroit in 1995, resulting in one of the UAW’s largest victories among Spanish-speaking manufacturing workers.

Estrada’s organizing ability was recognized by then UAW President Stephen P. Yokich, who appointed Estrada to the UAW International’s organizing staff in 2000.

She was soon appointed to Coordinator of Michigan organizing and ran the Michigan Organizing Center.  In 2007 UAW Vice President Terry Thurman appointed her as the Administrative Assistant over the Organizing Department. After Terry Thurman’s retirement UAW President, Ron Gettlefinger appointed Estrada as the Director of the National Organizing Department.

She was first elected UAW Vice President in 2010 and assigned to direct the unions UAW Independents, Parts and Supplier/Competitive Shop Department; Public Sector and Health care servicing department and the UAW Women’s Department. While in that role she was the lead negotiator for over 17,000 UAW workers in the State of Michigan.

Estrada also led negotiations for the Michigan Coalition of State Employee Unions, providing historic agreements protecting health care and establishing vital programs addressing privatization and workplace democracy for over 35,000 state employees.

As director of UAW Independents, Parts and Suppliers/Competitive Shop Department Estrada proudly honored the reason Walter Reuther urged the departments establishment in 1968: to use the UAW’s parts worker density to establish minimum industry-wide compensation standards in IPS contracts. This resulted in breakthrough agreements in seating and other major auto component part industries.

Four years later, she became the first woman and first Latina to lead the union’s General Motors Department.

The long-time organizer and activist is involved with many labor and community organizations. Estrada is a proud member of UAW Local 174, having worked at Impressions in Taylor, MI. She is the mother of twin 15-year-old sons, stepmother to four and grandmother of six. She is the widow of the late UAW organizer and retired Administrative Assistant Frank White.

Cindy sold out. That broke my heart.

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