firstfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Childrens-Policy-History.pdf

Aug 17 2021

Vivianna Graham, a mother, a teacher, and the wife of firefighter:

This has to stop, this is the same accusing dr for us and I’m so saddened for this family. Watching the video is heartbreaking and gives me chills as it’s a trigger of what happened to us and I can’t imagine it happening twice. 😞 They have no right to take this baby and using the police to do their dirty work is how they intimidate people.

Sally Smith is the devil in my eyes and this is pure revenge for this family speaking out.

‘It’s happening all across the country’: Are parents being wrongfully accused of child abuse?
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/its-happening-all-across-the-country-are-parents-being-wrongfully-accused-of-child-abuse

Critics of that decision have pointed out that Sally Smith, the pediatrician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, who examined Amen’Ra, has been investigated in the past for being too quick to diagnose child abuse.
https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/torn-apart/sally-smith/

Sally Smith, like almost all Child Abuse Pediatricians, are PAID by CP$ with contract. Significant conflict of interest. It is called medical child kidnapping. Bill Crouch, Secretary of Health and Human Resources of West Virginia: “The federal government has always paid us ONLY IF we pull children from their homes.”

Doctors weren’t just treating the toddler, they were quietly building a case against her mom
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctors-weren-t-just-treating-toddler-they-were-quietly-building-n1064801

It’s all over the country, not just one pediatrician.

NBC’s Mike Hixenbaugh has done a great job.
https://www.nbcnews.com/donoharm

University of Wisconsin child abuse doctor leaves a trail of accusations of bullying from colleagues, parents
https://madison365.com/university-of-wisconsin-child-abuse-doctor-leaves-a-trail-of-accusations-of-bullying-from-colleagues-parents/
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Seattle: Doctor removed from expert role in diagnosing child abuse amid questions about her credibility
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctor-removed-expert-role-diagnosing-child-abuse-amid-questions-about-n1261901

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/story-behind-nbc-news-do-no-harm-podcast-investigating-system-n1248368

Wisconsin ER doctor
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctors-wisconsin-hospital-call-changes-amid-backlash-over-child-abuse-n1131151

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/er-doctor-was-charged-abusing-his-baby-15-medical-experts-n1123756

Molly McGrath Tierney, former Director for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services: “’Foster Care Industry’ – an industry where children become a commodity that profits doctors, lawyers, judges, social workers, advocates, and other organizations, an industry that can only exist by taking other people’s children, an industry that damages the very children it purports to be helping.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/08/12/american-idol-syesha-mercado-newborn-baby-taken-authorities/8118764002

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9894369/American-Idols-Syesha-Mercado-loses-custody-newborn-five-months-son-taken-away-CPS.html

In May 2020 POTUS 45 made a statement in a press conference update on c0^1D that the ingestion of a disinfectant may work as a treatment and cure.

He was quickly scoffed by MSM as claiming that people should drink bleach.

What we did not know was that third world 🌎 countries (a likely racist term these days) like Ecuador 🇪🇨 had commenced treating with chorine dioxide with great success. (Also known as MMS-Miracle Mineral Solution)

This awesome video on will show you the history and research 🔬 on this miracle healing ❤️‍🩹 substance that has been hidden from us.

Here is an excerpt:

Here is the guidebook for treatment.

theuniversalantidote.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Universal-Antidote-Interactive-Reference-Guidebook.pdf

We know that the science and treatment protocol for this 🦠 with ivermectin and hydroychloriquine was with held. Here is one more.

Welcome to the world 🌎 of big pharma and the WHO. Real cures are withheld to serve the interest of the profiteers. $$$$. 💰💰💰

You can find Frontier Pharmaceuticals here.

Here is his patent:

Andreas Kalcker’s website is here. For protocols on the correct use of chlorine dioxide. ClO2.

Here is the beginners protocol from the website, verbatim:

AS AMATEUR OR BEGINNER

Here is Kalcker’s recommendation for the 🦠 treatment.

There is another informational video here on ClO2 and usage.

And purchases for ClO2 and DMSO here.

I am not a doctor.

Educate yourselves.

I am a cancer survivor and I want to know more about real solutions.

This has been suppressed for a reason.

The media scorched 🥵 POTUS 45 without ANY investigation.

Think for yourselves.

And he said “drink bleach”….

Aug 7 2021 – Connie Reguli

This article was in the Nashville Tennesean on August 5 2021. When I tried to share it FB deleted it automatically. So the only way to preserve it is to share it here.

I want to say that after 20 years of watching this incompetent bloated ineffective super-fail agency, I am not surprised that this finally made its way to the news. Every year DCS comes in and asks for another 50 million in tax payer dollars 💵 saying their workers need more money. However, no one in the Tenn General Assembly has the nerve to ask DCS for a report on the activities and productivity of the workers.

Every time I am in court in a DCS case there are six people on the DCS payroll there. Every family meeting is six to ten employees. They are the most incompetent and ineffective bureaucrats in Tennessee.

Read this 👇👇👇👇

Many employees at the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services feel overworked, emotionally drained and siloed in communications, according to results from a March survey evaluating the morale among agency workers.

The results, not previously disclosed to the public, reflect a “horrific” work environment, said Sen. Heidi Campbell, D-Nashville, during a Thursday news conference. Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, said she requested the survey results following several workers’ complaints to her of a “toxic” workplace.https://8e78b5ef2f29999bcaa26eaef56e9a52.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

The survey was conducted among 14 regions, documents show. A total of 1,990 employees completed the survey, representing 60% of the department’s entire staff, according to the survey results released Thursday by Democratic lawmakers.Employees were asked to reflect on their stress level, emotional exhaustion, workplace safety and other areas of assessment.https://8e78b5ef2f29999bcaa26eaef56e9a52.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

Among hundreds of detailed comments, many complained about an overflowing caseload coupled with underappreciation from the agency’s top leadership. 

“The executive team of DCS is cultivating a toxic culture that’s driving away talents,” Campbell said. 

Overnight stays:‘Emergency situations’: 27 children in state custody forced to sleep at state office building

For subscribers:Foster care nightmare: ‘We must do better,’ says Department of Children’s Services commissioner

All credits to the Tennesean newspaper.

Kids in state custody forced to sleep on floors in state office building

BY: ANITA WADHWANI – AUGUST 2, 2021 5:01 AM

 In grainy still photos cropped from video obtained by the Tennessee Lookout, children in state custody sleep on the floor of a state office building. One teen sleeps on the bare floor while another lies on an air mattress with no blanket. The children were in the custody of the Department of Children’s Services

A teenage girl in a pink hoodie and jeans slept restlessly in a downtown Nashville office, with no pillow, sheet, blanket, mattress or pad separating her from the carpeted floor.

Another teen slept directly on the floor, too, huddled under a single blanket. A few feet away, two elementary-school-age kids slept head to toe on a single twin mattress. Three other teens were also asleep in the room, where piles of kids’ clothing, a crib, and toys lined the walls along with trash and at least one bunched up dirty diaper.

A total of seven kids in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services were forced to spend the night in office space at the Davy Crockett Tower in downtown Nashville on July 16 — a Friday night — in an instance captured on video and obtained by the Tennessee Lookout.

Children are typically taken into custody to ensure their safety and well-being after DCS investigates allegations of abuse or neglect. Kids come into custody experiencing trauma from abuse, trauma from being taken from familiar surroundings and often a sense of powerlessness and fear over their future.

Taking kids to sleep with strangers in an office without providing essential comforts represents a failure by the state agency to live up to its most basic duties, according to a longtime DCS caseworker, who requested anonymity out of fear drawing attention to the department’s treatment of children result in firing.

“Being unable to find a placement was an ongoing problem before the pandemic,” the caseworker said. “It’s gotten much worse. The number of kids sleeping in offices has never been this bad.”

Click play and then fullscreen to view larger video.

The caseworker said that DCS has failed to provide enough back-up for kids taken into custody — foster parents, or temporary and more appropriate spaces, — as the pandemic impacted the ongoing willingness of foster parents to take in children. When kids have to stay in offices, caseworkers have to stay with them, too, finding their own child care arrangements and adding to the burden of an already stressful job, the caseworker said.

Jennifer Donnals, a spokeswoman for the department, said Friday that it was “not a violation of policy for children to stay in DCS offices during the nighttime hours until an appropriate placement is found.”  In these instances, “dedicated staff provide a safe environment until an appropriate placement is found,” she said.

“The reality is that children frequently come in to care late in the evening, and it can take several hours to find them appropriate placements in foster homes or treatment facilities, especially when working with sibling groups or teenagers. . . We have accommodations in our offices to help provide comfort to children in these temporary situations, including blankets, cots and air mattresses, food, toys and other supplies.”

 Jennifer Donnals, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, said it is “not a violation of policy for children to stay in DCS offices during the nighttime hours until an appropriate placement is found,” but did not address how frequently kids taken into custody are sleeping in state offices.

In her response, Donnals did not address other questions, including how frequently kids taken into custody are sleeping in state offices.

A space for children in Nashville awaiting placements in foster care closed for renovation in July, Donnals said. The Davidson County DCS Resource Linkage Office reopened Sunday, aided by donations from the Byard Family Legacy Fund, a charity founded by Tennessee Titans player Kevin Byard.

During renovations, “children were brought to the Davy Crockett office space more often,” Donnals said.

The department did not answer questions about whether DCS chief Jennifer Nichols and other agency leaders were aware that kids are sleeping in state office buildings.

And Donnals did not address the circumstances of the girl in the pink hoodie seen on video sleeping directly on the floor, who lacked the comfort items she described, including a blanket, cot, or air mattress, visible in screen shots shared with the department last week.

There are roughly 9,000 kids in state custody at any given time who need a foster family, a spot in a residential treatment facility or placement with family or friends of family.

The agency, like its counterparts in other states, has often had a bumpy history of providing adequate care to kids on its watch. In 2,000, the state entered what would become 17 years of court-ordered oversight of its treatment of kids coming into custody due to “systemic failure to protect Tennessee’s most vulnerable children and to provide them with legally required services.”

The lawsuit was prompted by kids being placed in unsuitable spaces after being taken into custody. Court oversight ended in 2017.

You can find my form “Class action wrongful removal and retention” at: https://form.jotform.com/72023535097151

I wish I had known to DOCUMENT AND RECORD EVERYTHING when i had to deal with government agencies. I thought I could trust the people that worked for the state and I was really naive. Now I know, and though documenting and recording any involvement with government agents is a must, I am going to share a few helpful hints for parents who have to deal with the Department of Health and Human Services DIVISION of Families and Children Child Protection Services workers.

Your House:

• Make sure your house and yard are safe for children. 
•  This means locking knives, guns, and poisonous cleaning supplies and other chemicals where children cannot get to them. 
• Vaccinate your animals. You may need to build a fence to keep large animals away from small children.
• Get ready for “the white glove test”. This means making sure that your house is safe and clean. Clean ceiling fans, the top of the refrigerator, behind the toilet, and any other place that you can think of that you may have forgot the last time you cleaned. 
• Do not forget to pay your utilities. The person that inspects your home will make sure that you have cold and hot running water and electricity. 
• Prove that you can financially care for your children. Keep, clothes, hygienic items, and food. Be ready to prove income to support your children consistently.
• Laws pertaining to discipline vary across the states. Be familiar with the laws in your state. Take parenting classes if you need to. There is no shame in learning to be a better parent. 
• Let the worker know how much you care for your children and that you can emotionally care for your children. 

Transportation:

• Think about how important transportation is to you and your children.
• If you own a vehicle, make sure it is clean and maintained.
• Make sure the insurance is up to date. 
• If you do not own a vehicle, think about other ways that you can safely get your children to a doctor or school and other events. Are there buses, taxis, or other rideshares in your area that can safely transport you and your children?
• If there is an emergency, do you know what number to call for an ambulance or the police?

Preparing for the Court:

• Make a home office space somewhere in your home where you can safely keep important documents.
• Get folders, a file cabinet, or boxes to store all of your paperwork in your safe office space. 
• Invest in a scanner/printer and other office supplies so you can stay organized and keep your originals in order. Scan these into GOOGLE DRIVE or another online source so that if you file complaints, they are easy to forward to the complaint investigator.
• \Mark your calenders. Calenders are a good way to keep up with important dates and times.
• Keep a Journal of important events with details of times, dates, places, people, phone numbers, addresses, offices, anything related to your case that may be important. (Sometimes we don’t think it is important but it really is so keep track of EVERYTHING.)
• Make a couple of copies of your documents. Only share copies of your documents and evidence. Do not give your original documents away. I keep my originals in a separate file cabinet so that I do not get them mixed up with the copies and give the wrong one or too many away. Make sure you keep your original documents safe and don’t give them away. I keep one file cabinet for the originals and another file cabinet for the copies that I can easily grab to share with lawyers, legislators, or court clerks.
• Create a “Timeline of Events” for your case. This is a good way to take what is on your calender and in your journal, along with your other documents that are stacked up in your file cabinets and make it all make sense. On a page or two highlight events; courtdates, meetings, important phone calls, visitations, shared parenting meetings, community family team meetings, child planning conferences, mediation meetings, or notifications. Things that happen that are key to what is going on in your case.  Keep all of the evidence of these events in your file cabinet or box in case you need them and just highlight in a few words or sentences what that big stack of paperwork is all about and in what order it all happened. 
• Save and make copies of text messages and emails.  
• Get copies of case files, court transcripts, and even previous court documents that may exist (child support, child custody, etc). These can be obtained from the court clerk . (There is usually a fee to obtain files.)
• Obtain any new case files that may be filed in between court dates. Sometimes these are filed right before court so you need to get files before and after each court date.
• Identification; driver’s license or other state id.
• Photos you can copy that are dated and show evidence of things in a clear fashion; like if your child comes to visitation with a huge bruise on his arm, take a picture close up of the bruise and further away so the bruise can be identified as belonging to him.  You will need at least three copies of each photo if you intend on submitting it to the court.
• Recorded phone calls need to be transcripted by a court-approved transcriptionist if you want to introduce them as evidence.
• Your Local District Court Rules.  Every district court (or collection of counties court) has their own rules to abide by which you will need to abide by. It is also helpful because most of the rules have outlines of education and requirements of attorneys to be able to practice as a court-appointed attorney in that county.
• Previous client-attorney files of past attorneys, whether court-appointed or private. You can usually email them and request that they give it to you.
• Prepare for what you will say in court. 

Advocate:

• Prepare a three minute, five minute, fifteen minute, and thirty minute speech. We never know how much time we will be given to speak so it is important to think ahead and make words count. 
• Learn to advocate for yourself and your children. Talk to lawyers and social workers to find out what they expect and require from you. 
• Hire a lawyer. I interview lawyers before I pay them. I want to know that they do not have any conflicts and that they are on my side and understand that I expect them to fight with me for my family. You will hear that there are lawyers out there that just take your money and do nothing for you and that can be very true and very sad. There are also lawyers out there that will fight for you and your family. Make sure that the lawyer you hire is up to date with current laws and policies that may affect your outcomes. One such policy is the Family First Preventative Services Act of 2018. This act allows states to be paid for kinship placements though not all states have implemented this law yet, it is still law. There may be new laws in your state that legislators have passed that lawyers may not know about. Recently Arkansas passed laws that require fathers and other family members to be represented in child custody and child protection cases. 
• Ask your lawyer to record hearings.
• Hire your own court reporter. Court reporters can record and document proceedings for you.
• If they require you to talk to their doctor, psychologist or to take a drug test from one of the courts testers, do that, and also hire your own doctor or psychologist that can make evaluations and testify in court. You can also go to various places for drug tests. Go to the one you are court ordered to go to, and if the result is a false positive, go straight to the next reputable tester and test again. 25% to 50% of those tests give false positives. Sometimes an over the counter medication or prescription can also make a drug test look dirty.
• Make use of notaries and certified mail to document evidence and communications. It may be necessary to sign power of attorney over to a grandparent or other family member. Notaries can sometimes be cheaper than lawyers for this. 
• Keep your Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites clean. Judges, employers and other people with authority look social media posts. 

Find Case Laws and Learn what is happening. Judges, lawyers, and child protection workers do this every day. You are just plugged into their routine so learn what the process is and how to communicate with them. Some federal acts that may be relevant to your case include; the UCCJEA, VAWA, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, Indian Child Welfare Act, and Family First Act.

See form “CPS Family Intake”

If you are involved with child protective services and you want to have advocay support, please fill out this form.

We will be able to include you in group forums, advocate support, education, and other resources.

For each state we need:

Family Forward State page 

State Name:  

State Capitol:

Governor: 

Phone number: 

Party: 

State agency:

Head of state agency and phone number 

Find you legislators link 

State Senate link

State House of a representatives link

General Assembly or Cabinet link 

Congressional delegation:

US Senators amd party 

State statutes 

Court rules 

Juvenile / family rules 

Agency policy. 

Administration rules / regulations . 

Connie Reguli

USAToday reports. Kids are better at home than in fostercare.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-02-foster-study_N.htm?fbclid=IwAR2s_kckMu8cJ59xaRC5ka70JU408ZoSM7G5lEN10AkShS2s0OuQJWPf04Y

FAMILY INFLUENCE

Children who stay in troubled families fare better than those put into foster care. Those who:

 Were arrested at least once:
• Stayed with family: 14%
• Went to foster care: 44%

Became teen mothers:
• Stayed with family: 33%
• Went to foster care: 56%

Held a job at least 3 months:
• Stayed with family: 33%
• Went to foster care: 20%

Source: Study by Joseph Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Study: Troubled homes better than foster care.

By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they stay with their families than if they go into foster care, according to a pioneering study.

The findings intensify a vigorous debate in child welfare: whether children are better served with their families or away from them. 

RELATED: Record numbers of foster kids leave program as adults

Kids who stayed with their families were less likely to become juvenile delinquents or teen mothers and more likely to hold jobs as young adults, says the study by Joseph Doyle, an economics professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management who studies social policy. 

“The size of the effects surprised me, because all the children come from tough families,” Doyle says. The National Science Foundation funded the study.

Doyle says his research, which tracked at least 15,000 kids from 1990 to 2002, is the largest study to look at the effects of foster care. He studied kids in Illinois because of a database there that links abuse investigations to other government records.

To avoid results attributable to family background, he screened out extreme cases of abuse or neglect and studied kids whose cases could have gone either way. 

Studies, including those by Mark Courtney while at the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall Center for Children, show that the 500,000 children in U.S. foster care are more likely than other kids to drop out of school, commit crimes, abuse drugs and become teen parents.

His research has shown that this holds true even when foster kids are compared with other disadvantaged youth.

MORE: Number of single men adopting foster kids doubles

Doyle’s study, however, provides “the first viable, empirical evidence” of the benefits of keeping kids with their families, says Gary Stangler, executive director of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, a foundation for foster teens. Stangler says it looked at kids over a longer period of time than had other studies.

“It confirms what experience and observation tell us: Kids who can remain in their homes do better than in foster care,” says Stangler. He says some kids, for their own safety, need to be removed from their families, but in marginal cases of abuse, more should be done to keep them together.

Smaller studies have found kids from abusive families do better in foster care. “There are high rates of re-abuse” for those reunited with parents, says Heather Taussig, a pediatrics professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Taussig co-authored a study in 2001 that found kids reunited with families after a brief stay in foster care were more likely to abuse drugs, get arrested, drop out of school and have lower grades than those who stayed in foster care. She followed 149 youths in San Diego over a 6-year period.

Taussig says case workers shouldn’t assume that keeping kids with relatives is better.

“We need more research,” she says.

Doyle says foster care remains a needed safety net for some kids but he agrees that it merits further study.

Doyle’s 2013 white paper took an historic look at outcomes.

www.facebook.com/groups/1697223540511940/permalink/3022654124635535/

This year I sought to introduce a Bill that would put a family advocate in place in every case.

DCS got a hold of my bill and changed it to a family member. I did mot like the change but I was willing to go with it and offer to educate the family member.

But then questions came about confidential proceedings and who would train the advocate.

This is not over.

For the third time in my legal career the system is retaliating against me for being vocal and calling out conduct that offends justice, like ex parte orders, false statements, discovery abuses etc.

They must consider character and reputation in this process. In the past I have not sought to present this evidence but now my advocacy is a grand part of my work and is really the basis of their complaints.

I need your help. Here is a form you can use or you can just write a letter. You must add the declaration language below.

“I affirm and declare that the statements made herein are true and correct under penalty of perjury.” And you must sign and date it.

My address is: 1646 Westgate Cir Ste 101, Brentwood TN 37027.

Thank you for you support.

Btw there is no real formula you have to use. You can speak your heart. I appreciate you.

Connie Reguli.

Connie Reguli

3/25/21 9 th circuit

No right to be armed on public.

‘Dissenting, Judge O’Scannlain, joined by Judges Callahan, Ikuta, and R. Nelson, would hold that both [the state law] and the 1997 County regulation destroy the core right to carry a gun for self-defense outside the home and are unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny,’ the ruling continued. ‘Judge O’Scannlain stated that the majority holds that while the Second Amendment may guarantee the right to keep a firearm for self-defense within one’s home, it provides no right whatsoever to bear—i.e., to carry—that same firearm for self-defense in any other place.’

‘In his view, the majority’s decision undermines not only the Constitution’s text, but also half a millennium of Anglo-American legal history, the Supreme Court’s decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), and McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), and the foundational principles of American popular sovereignty itself.’

Becker News has more:

Meanwhile, just two years ago, the frequently overturned 9th Circuit actually ruled that open carry was a constitutional right for the same defendant.

‘Plaintiff George Young sued Hawaii in 2012 for denying his applications for permits to carry a concealed or openly visible handgun,’ Courthouse News reported. ‘A Hawaii state law requires a license to a carry a gun in public.’

The court ruling at the time addressed the Hawaii gun law and upheld the constitutional right to open carry.

‘With one judge dissenting, two circuit judges concluded that Hawaii cannot deny permits to non-security guard civilians who want to carry guns in public,’ the report added.

by Connie Reguli

For the 2021 Tennessee General Assembly – Family Forward is supporting –

HB 1545 (Weaver) / SB 1529 (Roberts)

Which will provide for the appointment of a special family advocate in cases involving DCS investigation and litigation. To focus on supporting families and family reunification.

Script: This is ___________ calling on behalf of families supporting child welfare reform in Tennessee and across the United States. We are working together through the Family Forward Project with over 15,000 members and we are asking you to support HB 1545 to appointment a family advocate in cases involving the Department of Children Services. It is a national trend to provide services to rehabilitate families prior to removal and encourage kinship placement when removal is required. This was adopted when Congress passed the Families First Act in 2018. As families and advocates who know this system, we know that this will provide a positive result for the families of Tennessee. Thank you.

Thank you team.

Connie Reguli