We’re kind of in a holding pattern right now. Some of the agencies involved are seriously questioning why the left hand never knew what the right hand was doing in our case. Turns out the case worker was telling my daughter she would make sure all interested parties were notified when she met a requirement, then failing to do so.

Daughter was gullible enough to think the worker would keep her word so several of the agencies felt she wasn’t showing enough concern by advocating for herself. Daughter definitely knows better
and is making her OWN phone calls now.

Took her a while to learn that you can NOT rely on CPS to do even what it says it’s going to do, let alone the right thing.

Calif paid up big time to a Dad whom they claim they could not find although he was paying his CS thru the state.

Dad won a lawsuit. Daughter deprived of living with her Dad for around 13 years while Calif twiddled their thumbs.

Mom had died or something like that and kid was in stranger FC.

Calif supposedly revised it regs and put ex caseworkers back to work supposedly reuniting families Dad won his suit v Calif. I should think that teen daughter should be able to file her own suit , based on Calif * extreme indifference* and incompetence.

Did you check with TheACF. org?

Charlie runs that site. Good guy.

http://www.theacf.org

She has met every requirement for reunification they’ve put in front of her except for the one that she have a full time job, making enough to support her and Iain all by herself, which… during this depression… is TOTALLY unreasonable. Right now I’m helping her out financially and she does get food stamps. This is what families do when times get hard, or at least it’s what MY family has always done.

The LATEST thing now is that apparently the court ordered her to pay child support back in May but just got around to telling her about it a few days ago.

They claim they “couldn’t find her” even though she has attended several court sessions during that time, was having visits in their office with my grandson once a week at least, is registered with every county agency she’s had to deal with ant there have been several, and goes to meetings and “staffings” regularly with these people, right there in the office that is now claiming they didn’t know where she was so they couldn’t inform her of the support order.

They have always been able to call her every time they wanted to mess with her some more and they’ve also had my address and phone number all along and knew they could have reached her any time through me. Several different workers and CPS management personnel have met with her right here in my home and none of them NEVER had any trouble whatsoever in finding her then.

Seems strange to me that the only time they “couldn’t find her” was this time and now she’s $300 behind on CS she didn’t even know she owed.

Of course we can’t pay it, so it’s just piling up interest and they’re also using that to claim irresponsibility on her part as part of the reason for denying reunification now.

This is getting utterly ridiculous.

Have you checked out the Website of

http://www.theacf.org

California-based. Is your daughter in agreement that your grandson should NOT be in stranger FC, but placed with family?

So, it’s obvious Iain will not be coming home without a fight. So far no attorney has offered any kind of help and I can’t afford to go out and retain one. Looks like 2009 is going to be another banner year for the “parents for hire” gang here in Tulare County, California.

He was taken from my home and placed in foster care last April supposedly because they had decided I was too old and sick to care for him. That’s actually just one of the many reasons they’ve floated, depending on the situation on the day they’re talking about it and who they need to impress right then.

In the first home they put him in, he was beaten by the foster parent’s older children. We found out about it when he was changing clothes after a spill during an unsupervised visit and we complained to CPS, who said they would “investigate”.
They moved him a few days later but they also cut off our unsupervised visits.

He was also removed, almost immediately from the second home he was in although they won’t tell us why.

The situation in CT is SO BAD.

Connecticut is also named DCF.

A CPS caseworker had a child DIE ( mysterious circumstances) while she was fostering him)

CT will hold an OPEN CITIZENS MEETING THIS MONTH REGARDING DCF THERE.

See http://www.legallykidnapped.blogspot.com

The word is spreading. Please readers, work with those in your states to tame and shame CPS.

GO CONNECTICUT.