I received this in email:

Just a reminder… there’s a request by the owner of another family rights website for letters to be sent to President Obama and his wife. Here’s what I received in email:

I’m grateful that I’ve spent twenty years as an activist exposing America’s sick child welfare system to the light of day.

I’m grateful for the emails and comments I received telling me how much this site has helped. Those testimonials mean a lot to me and always will.

Twenty years ago this month, my fourth child was born in Central California. Before I could leave the hospital a social worker visited my room to talk to me about my history of being battered by my child’s father. Later I learned that while I was there I nearly died, and during that time my child’s father threatened the doctor, so he decided to report us to CPS. I had to leave my baby in the hospital because she was premature, and on the day she was released a social worker picked her up and left a slip of paper on my front porch.

Only a few days later I learned what it was like to go into Juvenile Court to be given a social worker’s report filled with lies. That was the day I realized that our justice system was broken, that social workers could lie and nobody cared - and that they could get away with perjury. That was the day I started learning that our Constitution doesn’t apply in Juvenile Court and that I couldn’t have a jury trial. That was the day I started realizing how ineffective public defenders are for child welfare victims.

Okay - it has been twenty years. I am one of the very lucky ones who fought back, found an activist to help me, and who succeeded in getting my child home again (after eight months of separation.) Lucky me. But I was traumatized to an extreme - not only by my shock at the injustice of the child welfare system, but also by my family’s non-support, my need to cope with being a battered woman, and the end of my relationship with the man who battered me.

Trauma takes a long time to wear off, and twenty years later — honestly, I’m still dealing with it!

When this happened to me I was working as a welfare worker in the same Department of Social Services that contained the CPS agency that attacked and lied about me. I was sickened to learn that my employer allowed these vile social workers in the CPS unit to perjure themselves, violate regulations, and be rude to young, traumatized, suffering parents. My thought was that if they were doing this to me (another DSS employee) WHAT WERE THEY DOING TO ALL THE YOUNG PARENTS WITH LESS EDUCATION AND MONEY THAN ME? I was appalled. Shocked. Disgusted. I wanted to do something to help other parents going through this wretched system of injustice, and from the time my case closed in 1990 until now, I’ve been doing what I could when I could.

My main goal at first was to expose, expose, expose. I wanted the public to know what was going on in the social services department. I was fortunately led to a local weekly paper with a similar goal - to expose local government corruption. I wrote some articles. I contacted some child welfare victims and helped a few of them to file for State Administrative Hearings. I burnt out - and needed to turn my attention to raising my two youngest children - both preschoolers at that time.

Next I started a computer bulletin board service (BBS) via the FidoNet network. Anyone here know about FidoNet? I did that for five years and during that time contacted a few child welfare victims including the woman who wrote Don’ts and Do’s When Falsely Accused… she lived nearby and we got together quite a few times. When her case closed she moved out of state.

The internet got my attention next. I was handicapped by my finances - I was unable to afford a worthy computer for quite a few years. I learned to do some webdesign, and in 2000 started the Child Protection Reform Yahoo Group (which I’ve since given away) and next I created Fight CPS And Win - now simply called FightCPS. I’ve been developing this site since October 2000 - almost nine years.

Here’s the bad news (or maybe it is good news) . . . I’m ready to do something else with my life. I feel my most important goal here has been fulfilled. That goal was to expose the system to the American public. I feel that has been done, and that we’ve reached CRITICAL MASS in that now many people are speaking out about the injustice including wonderful state legislators in Georgia and Washington. Also the news media, especially television news, is speaking out to expose the system. That didn’t happen back when I started my activism, twenty years ago. Back then even child murders in the foster system were not carried in the news media, so I’m excited when I see television news commentators exposing CPS injustice. There are also multiple developing websites to cover this issue on the internet now, many more than when I started, and I see the seeds of greatness in some of them. Very exciting stuff! So I know that when I leave, there will be others to take my place and fill in the gaps. My mission here is complete.

I will always feel as I do about the crazy, unjust, and cruel child welfare system. I have not changed but I have other things to do now. I have no more children under age eighteen. I need to focus on other things in my life now.

I don’t know what will become of FightCPS.Com — and am considering all the options at this point. I won’t leave this month or next, but I’m sure by the end of 2009 I’ll no longer be doing this. Therefore I’m ready to hear from other activists or advocates who feel able to own and maintain this website. This will require someone to move the entire site to another server, so I’m looking for someone with confidence and competency in the web skills arena. It also requires someone with outstanding writing skills.

This site has thousands of links pointing to it. It ranks well in the search engines. For that reason, I don’t want to just dump it. I worked hard to make it rank well so that people in need of help could easily find us. I think it is a valuable site for that reason, and that it would be a shame to just close it down. I really want someone else to take it over, love it, develop it, and leave it on the web as a beacon of hope to whoever goes to Google and types in “child protective services”. It is the only anti-CPS site that shows up in the first page of search results.

Anyhow, if you’re someone who could take on this project and make it work, please contact me. I’m interested in hearing from you. My webmaster email link is at the bottom of this page. Please note that if I don’t know who you are, that’s a problem. I don’t want some government-paid disinformation agent to take over this site and subvert its purpose. Getting the right person for site ownership is more important than any other consideration at this point.

I’m going to give you a suggestion and hope with all my heart that you will act on this. Please print out this article and send it to your county’s District Attorney with a suggestion that he investigates your local CPS agency.

Prosecutor alleges ‘pattern of misconduct’ at DSHS

I could not be more excited! This article shows how the Stevens County prosecutor, Tim Rasmussen, spent months investigating CPS in North-East Washington state. He uncovered multiple incidents of severe corruption including:

1. Social workers giving a morphine drip to a baby that was not originally drug addicted.

2. Social workers subjecting children to sexual forensic exams when there were no allegations of molestation or abuse of any kind.

3. Social workers removing multiple children from their homes on very trivial and questionable charges.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Tim Rasmussen! Thank you for taking the time to investigate the complaints of traumatized parents. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul.

Do you know how many years I’ve been waiting for this to start happening?

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Thanks to dear Marina, one of the moderators at our FightCPS Message Board Forum, for posting the link to this article. You truly brightened my day!

I cannot believe how fortunate we are to have a high-energy, experienced and committed advocate like Nancy Schaefer of Georgia on our side. (Also Senator Pamela Roach of Washington!)

Here’s a recent speech given by Nancy Schaefer about CPS:

Here’s the link to the video where you can leave comments: Nancy Schaefer.
This is a link for a recent alert from her office: Alert from Nancy Schaefer re: David Ogden.
Thanks to Marlene Jones for sending this to FightCPS.

Washington grandparents Doug and AnneMarie Stuth have every right and reason to be caretakers of their three-year-old granddaughter, yet caseworkers at Child Protective Services are making up unreasonable justifications to keep the cute little blonde girl in foster care. They say the Stuth’s aren’t making an effort to support the child’s reunification with her teen mother, the Stuth’s daughter. Yet a KING5 news video report proves they have done everything in their power to help the mother have access to her child.

The Stuths made their case high-profile through going to their state legislators including Senator Pamela Roach, and to the news media. They are fighting the case in court. They are a good example for the many thousands of other grandparents who want custody of their grandchildren who have been placed in foster homes. The denial of kinship care rights to grandparents is one of the worst aspects of current child protective services corruption. CPS agencies want to adopt children out to strangers so they can qualify for federal subsidy bonuses.

Source: Investigators: Grandparents passed over in favor of foster care by Susannah Frame on December 11, 2008, for KING5 News. Be sure to read through all the related content on this article! This is a major exposé!

A word to CPS workers: The word is out… everyone knows how corrupt the CPS agencies are. Come out of your dark offices and admit to the world and to yourselves that you’ve done wrong. Good always triumphs over evil. The love of family overcomes the evil of family destruction. In time you will see this is true.

Thanks to an Obama supporter, we’ve got contact information:

Here is his Senate office address:

Obama, Barack- (D - IL) Class III
713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2854
Web Form: http://obama.senate.gov/contact/

From http://www.senate.gov

And here is his campaign ‘contact us’ info:

http://answercenter.barackobama.com/cgi-bin/barackobama.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

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After you write your letter please post it here in comments.

Let’s keep our letters together, and keep them on the internet and see how much change we get.

Please remember that a handwritten letter on paper will probably get more attention than an email. Legislators often delete emails unread, or just scan the subject lines.

By Debra Braxton

1. Rely on God for inspiration. Write down things to check as God speaks. I continually tell God, “Thank you, I’ll check into that.”

3. Every state has a DSHS website. Have people search this, for knowledge is power. Records Request forms are there. Use them.

4. DSHS has both an Internet website and an Intranet website.
Google: DSHS Internet website; Then Google: DSHS Intranet website

5. Get CPS to provide a copy of their Policy and Operations Manual. They can print this out for the parent and it is free. I’m waiting on mine.

6. I bought a book called “Washington Court Rules” for the state. There are Washington Court Rules for the Federal side of the dependency case. Now this book will have a different title for each state of course. Find the dependency section and challenge CPS on this and your Pro bono attorney who works against you. It’s amazing how some attorneys dummy up when it comes to people like me and I surprise them with what I know. I am a paralegal student who wants to fight them long after the case is over.

7. DSHS falls under Administrative Law and everyone from Children’s Administration “CPS” from lowly case worker, supervisor, area administrator, regional manager, to assistant secretary at the DSHS Headquarters is liable for the shared decision making process they claim to use. So one mistake of one worker affects all, do you see?

8. Think outside the box to solve issues. Be unconventional. They won’t expect it and will be caught off guard.

9. Communicate in paper to all persons connected to the case and insist the people write back. I use emails and fax machines. Save this. It is ammunition later on and is considered a legal document.

10. Go to a law library located in County Superior Courts, or at a university that teaches law. Find the state’s rules book and look up juvenile court rules. Civil court rules and federal court rules as well. Also the website for the state legislature.

11. Go over the records repeatedly because God will tell you as he told me, “See this paper, the CPS didn’t do a recommendation properly.”

12. Whatever is discovered, put it in writing either as a letter or as a declaration. This way all parties of the court including the judge will be held accountable and the case may proceed to appeals court and this information could help the group of appeals judges with their decision.

Have you noticed that Senator Pamela Roach of Washington state is using her blog to defend family rights? She’s posted multiple articles to expose Child Protective Services for the terrible family-destroying agency that it is.

THANK YOU Senator Roach!

Now she’s under attack by an angry foster parent. This foster adoptive woman (I can’t honestly call her a foster “parent”) exposed herself and her name by filing an ethics complaint against the senator.

Read the details at Senator Roach’s blog, and show your support… with a comment, if you feel moved to do so: The Pam Roach Report.

We need more legislators like this one who are willing to speak the truth about Child Protective Services.