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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Bill Medvecky's Letter to the Wichita Eagle
-----Original Message-----
From: wjm2644@aol.com
To: newsletters@wichitaeagle.com
Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 2:26 pm
Subject: STORY ON FOSTER PARENTS.
Sirs,
Since I cannot access my account which sends me newsletters each day, I write to you through this address,
The story you have up concerning the "Unsung heroes" of foster care, is a story that you seem to put out there about once a month concerning the Kansas foster care system.
I have to guess that you do not read the follow-up comments from your readers... This system is not only broken, it is corrupt and actually highly abusive to both the parents and children who come into contact with these businesses.
The CEO of Youthville, Shelley Duncan, earns over $200,000.00 a year. That's not a group interested in children, it's a business.
This group stops HUNDREDS of children who should, and could live with blood relatives, and yet they don't get that opportunity, because there's no money in placing children in relatives care. Federal Law DEMANDS they try to place the children with families FIRST. Yet they place these children in just 10% of the time with family? WHY?
The answer is quite simplke; If Youthville does that, who's going to pay Shelly's salary?
I don't know what the deal is between these vultures and the paper, but if you go back and do a poll of the responses from your readers, you will see that the sale is not being made. You cannot sell this turkey to the people who come into contact with them, and they keep trying to get you to understand that over and over again.
I have people ringing our phones off the hook BEGGING for help in their fight with Youthville and that corrupt D.A. you have, yet you seem to think these folks are as pure as the driven snow. Why?
Do the comments heap praise upon Youthville? Are they ALL just a pack of malcontents? Where are all the folks who think that everything in Kansas Foster care is just ducky?
THEY DON'T EXIST. If you come into contact with these people, your child is nothing more than a dollar sign. They are nothing more than job security for these ghouls.
I have a roll a dex full of people sitting in Kansas who are loosing their grandchildren, nieces and nephews and sons and daughters for nothing more than money. Want to speak to a few? How about ONE?
I ask you to go back into your own archives. Take a look at the comments on these stories and ask yourself how so many folks could be so wrong about this "Wonderful" group and the multi millions of dollars that put smiles on their faces while Kansas children pay the price, even unto death!
Thank you,
Bill Medvecky
wjm2644@aol.com
239-826-3831
From: wjm2644@aol.com
To: newsletters@wichitaeagle.com
Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 2:26 pm
Subject: STORY ON FOSTER PARENTS.
Sirs,
Since I cannot access my account which sends me newsletters each day, I write to you through this address,
The story you have up concerning the "Unsung heroes" of foster care, is a story that you seem to put out there about once a month concerning the Kansas foster care system.
I have to guess that you do not read the follow-up comments from your readers... This system is not only broken, it is corrupt and actually highly abusive to both the parents and children who come into contact with these businesses.
The CEO of Youthville, Shelley Duncan, earns over $200,000.00 a year. That's not a group interested in children, it's a business.
This group stops HUNDREDS of children who should, and could live with blood relatives, and yet they don't get that opportunity, because there's no money in placing children in relatives care. Federal Law DEMANDS they try to place the children with families FIRST. Yet they place these children in just 10% of the time with family? WHY?
The answer is quite simplke; If Youthville does that, who's going to pay Shelly's salary?
I don't know what the deal is between these vultures and the paper, but if you go back and do a poll of the responses from your readers, you will see that the sale is not being made. You cannot sell this turkey to the people who come into contact with them, and they keep trying to get you to understand that over and over again.
I have people ringing our phones off the hook BEGGING for help in their fight with Youthville and that corrupt D.A. you have, yet you seem to think these folks are as pure as the driven snow. Why?
Do the comments heap praise upon Youthville? Are they ALL just a pack of malcontents? Where are all the folks who think that everything in Kansas Foster care is just ducky?
THEY DON'T EXIST. If you come into contact with these people, your child is nothing more than a dollar sign. They are nothing more than job security for these ghouls.
I have a roll a dex full of people sitting in Kansas who are loosing their grandchildren, nieces and nephews and sons and daughters for nothing more than money. Want to speak to a few? How about ONE?
I ask you to go back into your own archives. Take a look at the comments on these stories and ask yourself how so many folks could be so wrong about this "Wonderful" group and the multi millions of dollars that put smiles on their faces while Kansas children pay the price, even unto death!
Thank you,
Bill Medvecky
wjm2644@aol.com
239-826-3831
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Kansas Joint Committee on Childrens Issues Wrote New HB 2513 Which Can Lock Up Runaways Even When They Are In Their Parents Home
JUST SAY NO! TO THIS OUTRAGEOUS BILL!!!
Just more government control over the children and more reasons to place children in custody of the state.
New CINC HB 2513 would lock up ANY juvenile runaways even if they are in their own home..or if the child refuses to stay at the court ordered designated residence and wants to stay with their other parent they will be considered a runaway and locked up...Hey the child might want to go visit grandma and grandpa and this could be considered a runaway...
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2010/2513.pdf
New CINC HB 2513 would lock up ANY juvenile runaways even if they are in their own home..or if the child refuses to stay at the court ordered designated residence and wants to stay with their other parent they will be considered a runaway and locked up...Hey the child might want to go visit grandma and grandpa and this could be considered a runaway...
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2010/2513.pdf
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Social Worker Speaks for Children and Families
Wichita, KS
Feb. 20, 2010
Below is the written text of a speech given on Saturday, Feb. 20th, 2010 at the Wichita Winter Rally Tea Party by a Kansas licensed therapist and Social Worker on behalf of children and families caught in the corrupt foster care system.
Good afternoon and welcome to the Tea Party!! My name is Deborah Wilson and I am a licensed therapist and school social worker here in Wichita. I am here today to speak on behalf of many children and families whose rights have been violated and continue to be violated.
I have been an advocate for a mother who lost custody of her 2 young boys one year ago because she reported suspected sexual, physical and emotional abuse of her boys. She is a protective parent; however, her rights and the rights of her children have been ignored and they remain in SRS custody on the basis of an illegal court order. I am learning of many more cases that are very similar to hers where the protective parent has lost their rights and their children were placed with their perpetrator or in SRS custody by a judge of the court through family or juvenile court.
Our work is for the purpose of giving those parents, grandparents and other caregivers a voice, and the avenue to have legal recourse so they can provide safety for their children.
Parents and children have lost their rights in this city, in this county and in this state. The organizations that have been put into place to protect our children are doing just the opposite. Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit, police officers, SRS, Youthville, Juvenile and Family court judges, case managers, District and assistant District Attorneys, and Guardian Ad Litems are misusing their power, even breaking laws all in the name of “THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN”!!! I know of many cases where EMCU and SRS have done minimal investigations, where they have not interviewed all parties, considered all evidence, have tampered with evidence, have deleted information that was relevant to a case and have NOT made sound decisions that keep children safe!!
We have pedophiles walking our streets, who have custody of their own children at the hands of judges in Sedgwick County. We have many children in this county who have been placed in SRS custody and parents are told it is “IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD”!! Removing children from their home should be a LAST RESORT MEASURE and only done in extreme cases of abuse or neglect!! I also know there is a breakdown among the systems and that the District Attorney’s office DOES try to influence SRS social workers when they have a Child In Need of Care Case. I know this because I used to work for SRS in Wichita! The DA’s office brings up every legal action ever taken against the parents and their family members – traffic violations, DUI’s and etc. and enters that into the case information when they file their petition to remove children from the home!! They look for everything that will make the parent look like an unfit parent, and then in the courtroom bring up that information and influence the direction that the case will go. Parents are ENTITLED to a 72 hour hearing after their children are removed from their custody. This ensures that children are not out of the home too long if the problem can be easily resolved. This does not always occur. In fact, the mother who lost custody of her 2 boys did not get a “72 hour hearing” for 2 months after the fact!!!
Once your children are placed in SRS custody, it is VERY difficult to get them out. SRS and the foster care provider, usually Youthville, start a case plan that lines out months of “interventions” which are court orders required to be completed by parents and children before they can be placed back in the home. Yes, there are cases where this needs to occur, however, there are many cases where it harms children to be placed in foster care, and to continue in foster care. Research shows that children are more likely to be abused in foster care than in their own homes!! Research also shows that 80% of the prison inmate population had been in foster care as a child.
The Constitution of the United States of America:
Article XIV.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Kansas Constitution states in article 15, item #6: Rights of women. The legislature shall provide for the protection of the rights of women, in acquiring and possessing property, real, personal and mixed, separate and apart from the husband; and shall also provide for their equal rights in the possession of their children.
Parent’s constitutional rights are being violated, and our children have NO RIGHTS!! It is up to us to protect our children and all children within our community.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill, Senate Bill 468, on Wednesday, February 17th that would make it more difficult for citizens to call for a grand jury investigation when they believe the law is not being followed. If the bill passes then it will go before the House Judiciary Committee, and if passed then it will go to the floor to be voted on.
Barbara Hollingsworth, reporter for The Topeka Capital-Journal wrote on February 17th:
“Currently, a citizen petition signed by 100 voters plus 2 percent of county residents who voted in the previous election for governor will prompt a grand jury to be summoned. Once established, those grand juries can investigate multiple cases. Under an amended version of the bill, citizens would need the signatures of 100 voters plus 5 percent of people who voted in the previous election”.
Please let your voice be heard and sign the petition to vote AGAINST this bill that would further limit our constitutional rights as citizens.
Thank you and may God Bless you.
Feb. 20, 2010
Below is the written text of a speech given on Saturday, Feb. 20th, 2010 at the Wichita Winter Rally Tea Party by a Kansas licensed therapist and Social Worker on behalf of children and families caught in the corrupt foster care system.
Good afternoon and welcome to the Tea Party!! My name is Deborah Wilson and I am a licensed therapist and school social worker here in Wichita. I am here today to speak on behalf of many children and families whose rights have been violated and continue to be violated.
I have been an advocate for a mother who lost custody of her 2 young boys one year ago because she reported suspected sexual, physical and emotional abuse of her boys. She is a protective parent; however, her rights and the rights of her children have been ignored and they remain in SRS custody on the basis of an illegal court order. I am learning of many more cases that are very similar to hers where the protective parent has lost their rights and their children were placed with their perpetrator or in SRS custody by a judge of the court through family or juvenile court.
Our work is for the purpose of giving those parents, grandparents and other caregivers a voice, and the avenue to have legal recourse so they can provide safety for their children.
Parents and children have lost their rights in this city, in this county and in this state. The organizations that have been put into place to protect our children are doing just the opposite. Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit, police officers, SRS, Youthville, Juvenile and Family court judges, case managers, District and assistant District Attorneys, and Guardian Ad Litems are misusing their power, even breaking laws all in the name of “THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN”!!! I know of many cases where EMCU and SRS have done minimal investigations, where they have not interviewed all parties, considered all evidence, have tampered with evidence, have deleted information that was relevant to a case and have NOT made sound decisions that keep children safe!!
We have pedophiles walking our streets, who have custody of their own children at the hands of judges in Sedgwick County. We have many children in this county who have been placed in SRS custody and parents are told it is “IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD”!! Removing children from their home should be a LAST RESORT MEASURE and only done in extreme cases of abuse or neglect!! I also know there is a breakdown among the systems and that the District Attorney’s office DOES try to influence SRS social workers when they have a Child In Need of Care Case. I know this because I used to work for SRS in Wichita! The DA’s office brings up every legal action ever taken against the parents and their family members – traffic violations, DUI’s and etc. and enters that into the case information when they file their petition to remove children from the home!! They look for everything that will make the parent look like an unfit parent, and then in the courtroom bring up that information and influence the direction that the case will go. Parents are ENTITLED to a 72 hour hearing after their children are removed from their custody. This ensures that children are not out of the home too long if the problem can be easily resolved. This does not always occur. In fact, the mother who lost custody of her 2 boys did not get a “72 hour hearing” for 2 months after the fact!!!
Once your children are placed in SRS custody, it is VERY difficult to get them out. SRS and the foster care provider, usually Youthville, start a case plan that lines out months of “interventions” which are court orders required to be completed by parents and children before they can be placed back in the home. Yes, there are cases where this needs to occur, however, there are many cases where it harms children to be placed in foster care, and to continue in foster care. Research shows that children are more likely to be abused in foster care than in their own homes!! Research also shows that 80% of the prison inmate population had been in foster care as a child.
The Constitution of the United States of America:
Article XIV.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Kansas Constitution states in article 15, item #6: Rights of women. The legislature shall provide for the protection of the rights of women, in acquiring and possessing property, real, personal and mixed, separate and apart from the husband; and shall also provide for their equal rights in the possession of their children.
Parent’s constitutional rights are being violated, and our children have NO RIGHTS!! It is up to us to protect our children and all children within our community.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill, Senate Bill 468, on Wednesday, February 17th that would make it more difficult for citizens to call for a grand jury investigation when they believe the law is not being followed. If the bill passes then it will go before the House Judiciary Committee, and if passed then it will go to the floor to be voted on.
Barbara Hollingsworth, reporter for The Topeka Capital-Journal wrote on February 17th:
“Currently, a citizen petition signed by 100 voters plus 2 percent of county residents who voted in the previous election for governor will prompt a grand jury to be summoned. Once established, those grand juries can investigate multiple cases. Under an amended version of the bill, citizens would need the signatures of 100 voters plus 5 percent of people who voted in the previous election”.
Please let your voice be heard and sign the petition to vote AGAINST this bill that would further limit our constitutional rights as citizens.
Thank you and may God Bless you.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Foster Care ~ Destruction Of Families
Unnecessary, overburdened
Although officials in Reno County claim to be mystified at the obscenely high rate at which children are torn from their families in the county, there is a clue to why it's happening right in your excellent story "Review of SRS status is ongoing," Jan. 17. Tearing "ungovernable" children from their families and parking them in an institution with other "ungovernable" children for a couple of weeks may have been "cutting edge" in the 19th century.
Now, it's widely recognized as barbaric.
It doesn't matter how kind the staff may be or how pretty the building, it's still an institution and it's still inherently harmful. And the foolishness of placing a bunch of children with behavior problems together right at the age when they are most vulnerable to peer pressure should be obvious. There are far better answers in such cases, such as wraparound programs, in which intensive help is brought right into the home - 24/7 if necessary - and it still costs less than institutionalizing children. When a rate of removal is as sky high as Reno County's, odds are a lot of children are being torn from everyone they know and love when family poverty is confused with "neglect." In other cases, families may have real problems, but the right kinds of help could keep them safely together rather than subjecting the children to the enormous inherent trauma of foster care. One major study of 15,000 typical cases found that children left in their own homes fared better in later life even than comparably maltreated children placed in foster care. Other studies have found abuse in at least one in three foster homes. The record of group homes and institutions is worse. And it's not just the children wrongfully removed who suffer. The more that SRS caseworkers are overloaded with children who don't need to be in foster care, the less time they have to find children in real danger - so more such cases are missed.The problem is even worse than the official figures show. Unlike every other state, Kansas simply refuses to count a child as removed if he is sent home before the first court hearing. Add in those children and there is a good chance Kansas as a whole is the child-removal capital of America - and Reno County is, of course, far worse than the average for Kansas.
None of this means no child ever should be taken from her or his parents. But it does mean that foster care is an extremely toxic intervention that should be used sparingly and in small doses. Unfortunately, Kansas in general and Reno County in particular have been prescribing mega-doses of foster care, and the county's children are suffering enormously for it. Kansas needs to learn from places that have rebuilt their systems to improve child safety by emphasizing family preservation.
RICHARD WEXLER
Executive DirectorReformAlexandria, Va.
Although officials in Reno County claim to be mystified at the obscenely high rate at which children are torn from their families in the county, there is a clue to why it's happening right in your excellent story "Review of SRS status is ongoing," Jan. 17. Tearing "ungovernable" children from their families and parking them in an institution with other "ungovernable" children for a couple of weeks may have been "cutting edge" in the 19th century.
Now, it's widely recognized as barbaric.
It doesn't matter how kind the staff may be or how pretty the building, it's still an institution and it's still inherently harmful. And the foolishness of placing a bunch of children with behavior problems together right at the age when they are most vulnerable to peer pressure should be obvious. There are far better answers in such cases, such as wraparound programs, in which intensive help is brought right into the home - 24/7 if necessary - and it still costs less than institutionalizing children. When a rate of removal is as sky high as Reno County's, odds are a lot of children are being torn from everyone they know and love when family poverty is confused with "neglect." In other cases, families may have real problems, but the right kinds of help could keep them safely together rather than subjecting the children to the enormous inherent trauma of foster care. One major study of 15,000 typical cases found that children left in their own homes fared better in later life even than comparably maltreated children placed in foster care. Other studies have found abuse in at least one in three foster homes. The record of group homes and institutions is worse. And it's not just the children wrongfully removed who suffer. The more that SRS caseworkers are overloaded with children who don't need to be in foster care, the less time they have to find children in real danger - so more such cases are missed.The problem is even worse than the official figures show. Unlike every other state, Kansas simply refuses to count a child as removed if he is sent home before the first court hearing. Add in those children and there is a good chance Kansas as a whole is the child-removal capital of America - and Reno County is, of course, far worse than the average for Kansas.
None of this means no child ever should be taken from her or his parents. But it does mean that foster care is an extremely toxic intervention that should be used sparingly and in small doses. Unfortunately, Kansas in general and Reno County in particular have been prescribing mega-doses of foster care, and the county's children are suffering enormously for it. Kansas needs to learn from places that have rebuilt their systems to improve child safety by emphasizing family preservation.
RICHARD WEXLER
Executive DirectorReformAlexandria, Va.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Promises Broken By Kansas SRS Secretary Don Jordan
December 1, 2009, Kansas SRS Secretary Don Jordan agreed that he would do his best to investigate allegations of children removed from their parents custody.
To think that the citizens pay Jordan's wages and he so arrogantly has refused to live up to his own word is not surprising. Jordan had the audacity to insinuate that parents are liars without even looking into the cases as if Social Workers and the State of Kansas could do no wrong even with the Legislative Post Audit findings of falsification of documents by Social Workers.
After all, Jordan stated that the Sedgwick County DA bullied Social Workers into falsifying records to remove children from their parents custody. Jordan had stated that his office had even gone to the efforts to "train" his Social Workers into not being bullied into writing things they don't believe to place children in the custody of the State.
Jordan, as the head over all Kansas Social Workers that are employed by the State, this would make Jordan a mandated reporter as well and his failure to act on this has made him an accessory to crimes against children and families in Kansas.
To think that the citizens pay Jordan's wages and he so arrogantly has refused to live up to his own word is not surprising. Jordan had the audacity to insinuate that parents are liars without even looking into the cases as if Social Workers and the State of Kansas could do no wrong even with the Legislative Post Audit findings of falsification of documents by Social Workers.
After all, Jordan stated that the Sedgwick County DA bullied Social Workers into falsifying records to remove children from their parents custody. Jordan had stated that his office had even gone to the efforts to "train" his Social Workers into not being bullied into writing things they don't believe to place children in the custody of the State.
Jordan, as the head over all Kansas Social Workers that are employed by the State, this would make Jordan a mandated reporter as well and his failure to act on this has made him an accessory to crimes against children and families in Kansas.
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