CPS Post Audit is a new blog tracking Kansas child welfare legislation and related topics.

It is vital to know about upcoming CPS child welfare legislation in your state if you want to help stop CPS injustice.

I would love to see a blog similar to this one created for all fifty states. Keep an eye on those state legislators and make sure they know what your issues are!

From the inception of the FightCPS.Com site in October, 2000, I was aware of North Carolina CPS abuses and always have thought of North Carolina as one of the most corrupt states (for child welfare) in our country. This impression comes because there have been many North Carolina residents online complaining about child welfare injustice there, whereas for other states like North Dakota or West Virginia, you rarely meet anyone with a complaint.

For example, the Candace case: A five-year-old girl was ripped from her loving mother because mom couldn’t find a ride to go pick her up from Head Start on time one day. Candace was adopted out to a nurse practitioner who took her to Colorado for “rebirthing therapy”… which caused Candace’s death at the age of ten.

Now another ten year old child needs to be rescued from North Carolina’s child welfare industry. He belongs in the state of Texas and his father has court documents to prove it. But North Carolina not only won’t let go of Joshua William Smith, they seem to be hiding this child. The full story is on the Stop Corrupt DSS blog. Here’s the link: Where is Joshua William Smith?

I just connected with Shauna D. Robinson on Twitter and discovered her new Ning group, Colorado’s Children. I’m pretty excited about it.

What a great venue for a family rights advocacy and support group! I would love to see Ning groups for each state. I use Ning with a few groups connected to my work on Squidoo.Com and love the versatility and ease of setup. Shauna’s group shows some of the great Ning functions such as video presentation, blogging, a forum, and a community photo slide show.

Good show, Shauna!

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If you have a site you’d like to have featured here on FightCPS, please let me know. My email link is at the bottom of this page.

An Arkansas woman has been arrested, ostensibly for burning a child with a cigarette. The charge was made by a physician, but a second physician diagnosed the sore as a staph infection.

See: Arkansas Mother ARRESTED after Protecting Children from Foster Care

The father’s letter has been posted on the web: Response from Suzanne McHenry’s Husband.

More information on Facebook: Suzanne and Calvin McHenry Support Group.
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Please get a Twitter account and follow family rights bloggers: FU4 Child Rights, Amiablyme, and FightCPS.

Want to read something that will touch your heart?

Check out this new website: Life of a Foster Kid - Foster care in a child’s eyes written by teens, for teens. Click on “My Story” in the side column to read how his life was torn apart by child protective services social workers.

If you’re a teenager you can join the site and share your story with site manager, Jonathan Nickols.

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If you have a site you’d like to have featured here on FightCPS, please let me know. My email link is at the bottom of this page.

Post here if you need a CPS defense lawyer - June 2009

People who need CPS defense lawyers can post their information here…

If you post an email address to be contacted, please post it in this format:
yourname - at - yourdomain.com . . . this will prevent spammers from stealing your email address and innundating you with unwanted emails.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

<b>Please read before posting:</b>

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
<a href=”http://fightcps.com/2007/08/20/make-your-court-appointed-attorney-work-for-you/” title=”Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU”>Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU</a>

Check out this page:
<a href=”http://fightcps.com/2007/08/10/lawyers-who-take-cps-defense-cases/” title=”Lawyers who take CPS defense cases”>Lawyers who take CPS defense cases</a> - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

[Note: sorry these pages are late this month; I need to automate them like I did last year . . .]

This is the guestbook for June 2009. You’re welcome to tell us about yourself and why you’re here.

If you want feedback on your case, register at the <a href=”http://forum.fightcps.com”>Fight CPS Message Forum</a> where there are advocates and activists waiting to hear from you. Please note it may take 10 to 48 hours to get your message board account approved. We need to approve them all individually.

[Note: sorry these pages are late this month; I need to automate them like I did last year . . .]

This is the place for Fight CPS prayer requests during June 2009. Click the comments link below to make a request for prayer.

FightCPS is an interfaith site and is not aligned with any particular religion, political party, or organization.

FightCPS is intended for <u>all</u> families needing support and information to fight false allegations of child abuse or neglect.

It is acknowledged that many people find help by appealing to a higher power.

[Note: sorry these pages are late this month; I need to automate them like I did last year . . .]

FightCPS now has a Twitter account: http://twitter.com/fightcps.

If you are on Twitter, you’re welcome to leave your link in the comments here.

I received this email from Greg Smart of “No More Family InJustice”. He is working to build a nationwide organization for victims of CPS false accusations.

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:

This is the guestbook for May 2008. This thread is closed to new comments.

If you want feedback on your case, register at the <a href=”http://forum.fightcps.com”>Fight CPS Message Forum</a> where there are advocates and activists waiting to hear from you. Please note it may take 10 to 48 hours to get your message board account approved. We need to approve them all individually.

Note: This thread is closed to new comments. Please refer to the <a href=”http://fightcps.com/cps/fight-cps-website/guestbooks/”>most recent guestbook thread</a> to leave your message.

People who need CPS defense lawyers <s>can post their information here</s>…

Please post on the most recent page of <a href=”http://fightcps.com/cps/lawyers-needed/”>lawyer requests</a>.

If you post an email address to be contacted, please post it in this format:
yourname - at - yourdomain.com . . . this will prevent spammers from stealing your email address and innundating you with unwanted emails.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

Please read before posting:

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU

Check out this page:
Lawyers who take CPS defense cases - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

This is the place for Fight CPS prayer requests during May 2009. Please refer to the <a href=”http://fightcps.com/cps/fight-cps-website/prayer-requests/”>most recent prayer requests page</a> to leave your request.

FightCPS is an interfaith/secular site and is not aligned with any particular religion, political party, or organization. FightCPS is intended for all families needing support and information to fight false allegations of child abuse or neglect.

There’s a lively discussion going on at the Sacramento Bee’s most recent article in their CPS article archive. Look for the title: Court file details CPS ‘Vendetta’… published on April 20. The comment section is worth reading.

Thanks to Sam for emailing me the link!

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.

This is a message for everyone who uses MySpace… you’re welcome to leave your link in the comment section of this message so that other family rights victims, advocates, and activists can find you there.

FightCPS has a MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/fightcps

This afternoon I looked at a Squidoo lens about Open Letters… and of course CPS came to mind. If I was to write and complain about anything, it would have to be about CPS!

So here’s a plan. We can all write these open letters…. then I’ll gladly publish them on the front page of this site so long as they are about CPS (on topic) and clean/non-abusive. I can’t publish anything that would bring bad vibes to this site in the form of angry public officials demanding retractions… but perhaps with names removed you could tell a few people off.

Anyhow, you’re welcome to write your open letter and send it to me at: webmaster -at- fightcps.com … and please let me know if you want me to make up a fake name, or publish your real name. Either way is fine with me but if you have an open CPS case I recommend anonymity.

I look forward to reading some great letters. Please everyone, participate! This could be fun and at the same time will be a good way to get some strong feelings off your chest.

If I get enough of these letters, I can put them together in an e-book we could give to all sorts of people needing CPS information … wouldn’t that be cool?

So who will you write to? Your social worker? The foster parent? The Juvenile Court Referee? The psychologist?

Be as creative as you like. Illustrations welcome!

I received this in email from Diando this morning:

Thanks, Diando, for letting us know…