Study Says Foster Kids Are Drugged Far Too Often

This is something we have been trying to bring to light for a while now and finally we have some main stream media looking into it.

We have read a copy of the training pages from Florida DCF for working with "human research subjects" aka children, they are litterally training workers on how to use and abuse our children. This is enough to make me sick.

I have made this know to Governor Rick Scott, as well as DCF workers such as David Wilkins, Robin Jensen, Lisa Voigt, Brena Slater and many others.

I say we hold governments accountable for this heinous crime against humanity, no child is disposable.

God save our children. 

Monday, November 21, 2011

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times

Foster children are being prescribed cocktails of powerful antipsychosis drugs just as frequently as some of the most mentally disabled youngsters on Medicaid, a new study suggests.

The report, published today in the journal Pediatrics, is the first to investigate how often youngsters in foster care are given two antipsychotic drugs at once, the authors said. The drugs include Risperdal, Seroquel, and Zyprexa -- among other so-called major tranquilizers -- which were developed for schizophrenia but are now used as all-purpose drugs for almost any psychiatric symptoms.

"The kids in foster care may come from bad homes, but they do not have the sort of complex medical issues that those in the disabled population do," said Susan dosReis, an associate professor in the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and the lead author.

The implication, Ms. dosReis and other experts said: Doctors are treating foster children's behavioral problems with the same powerful drugs given to people with schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder.

In recent years, doctors and policymakers have grown concerned about high rates of overall psychiatric drug use in the foster care system, the government-funded program that provides temporary living arrangements for between 400,000 and 500,000 children and adolescents. Previous studies have found that children in foster care receive psychiatric medications at about twice the rate among children outside the system.

The new study focused on one of the most powerful classes of drugs, antipsychotics. It found that about 2 percent of foster children take at least one such drug, even though schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, for which the drugs are approved, are extremely rare in young children.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11325/1191502-115.stm#ixzz1fLfsXs1w

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11325/1191502-115.stm

Parents of seven told: Your children are too fat, so you will never see them again.

This is not a problem that exists in Florida alone, it is world wide.  I had no idea that there was this much corruption in FL until Department Children and Families Sarasota Fl took my daughter on lies and for money.

I say that enough is enough, and who will stand up for Florida families.

The answer is simple.. follow the money for all the corruption in Department Children and Families Sarasota Fl.

 

Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed from their family by social workers after their parents failed to bring their weight under control.
In the first case of its kind, their mother and father now face what they call the ‘unbearable’ likelihood of never seeing them again.
Their three daughters, aged 11, seven and one, and five-year-old son, will either be ‘fostered without contact’ or adopted.

Torn apart: The parents, left and right, with six of their children who they fear will be taken away from them

Either way, the family’s only hope of being reunited will be if the children attempt to track down their parents when they become adults.

 

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The couple, who have been married for nearly 20 years and are not being named to protect their children’s identities, were given a ‘draconian’ ultimatum three years ago – as reported at the time by The Mail on Sunday.
Warned that the children must slim or be placed in care, the family spent two years living in a council-funded ‘Big Brother’ house in which they were constantly supervised and the food they ate monitored.

 

But despite subjecting them to intense scrutiny, social workers did not impose rules on what food the children should eat, and there was apparently little or no improvement.

News of the decision to remove them was broken to the couple, from Dundee, on Tuesday. Critics called it a disgraceful breach of human rights and a chilling example of the power of the State to meddle in family life.
In an emotional interview, the 42-year-old mother said: ‘We might not be the perfect parents, but we love our children with all our hearts. To face a future where we will never see them again is unbearable.
‘They picked on us because of our size to start with and they just haven’t let go, despite the fact we’ve done everything to lose weight and meet their demands. We’re going to fight this to the bitter end. It feels like even prisoners have more human rights than we do.’

The couple have not committed any crime and are not accused of deliberate cruelty or abuse. Their solicitor, Joe Myles, said there was ‘nothing sinister lurking in the background’ and accused social workers of failing to act in the family’s best interests.
‘Dundee social services department appear to have locked horns with this couple and won’t let go,’ he said, adding that the monitoring project caused more problems than it solved. ‘The parents were constantly being accused of bad parenting and made to live under a microscope.

 We have tried very hard to do everything that was asked of us. My wife has cooked healthy foods like home-made spaghetti bolognese and mince and potatoes; but nothing we’ve done has ever been enough.

The couple have three older children who are all distraught and angry at the ruling.
Speaking through tears, their 15-year-old daughter said: ‘The social workers should hang their heads in shame. A person’s weight is their own business and only we can do anything about it, not them. My parents are good people and they love us all. The four little ones don’t know what is about to happen to them.’

Social workers became aware of the family in early 2008 after one of the sons accused his father of hitting him on the forehead. In truth, he had fallen and hit his head on a radiator – a fact he later admitted. However, the allegation opened the door to the obesity investigation.
While the couple admit experiencing what their lawyer calls ‘low grade’ parenting problems, which would have merited support, they were aghast when the issue of weight was seized on as a major concern.
A council report at the time said: ‘With the exception of [one of the names], the children are all overweight. Advice has been given regarding diet but there has

been no improvement. Appointments with the dietician have been missed.’

Investigation: The family have been subject to an obesity probe -at meal times social workers took notes and children met with dieticians (picture posed by model)

At that point their then 12-year-old son weighed 16 stone; his 11-year-old sister weighed 12 stone; and his three-year-old sister weighed four stone. It is not known how much the four younger children weigh now.
The couple were ordered to send their children to dance and football lessons and were given a three-month deadline to bring down their weight. When that failed, the children were placed in foster homes but were allowed to visit their parents.

After the couple objected to this arrangement, the council agreed to move them into a two-bedroom flat in a supported unit run by the Dundee Families Project. They insisted on the couple living with only three of their children at a time.

At meal times, a social worker stood in the room taking notes. Doctors raised concerns that the children put on weight whenever they spent time with their parents, a claim they vehemently denied.
The couple and their children also had to adhere to a strict 11pm curfew. This involved ‘clocking’ in and out by filling in a sheet held by an employee who lived on site.
Although the children’s weight was the major concern, other allegations were included in a report. It showed that social workers were worried when the youngest child was found crawling unsupervised. The parents point out they were never far away and the flat had no stairs.
They also found her ‘attempting to put dangerous objects’ in her mouth. The family say this is natural in toddlers and she was never successful.

 To have a social worker stand and watch you eat is intolerable. I want other families to know what can happen once social workers become involved. We will fight them to the end to get our beloved children back.

Social workers were further worried when she crawled through the contents of an upturned ashtray – an ‘unfortunate one-off incident’, claim the parents. All the concerns were dismissed by the family’s legal team as ‘low grade’ problems.
It is understood the father crumbled under the strain of being so closely monitored in January this year and moved into a council flat elsewhere in the city.

In the next few months, the mother breached the lunch and dinner meal observations, by her own admission, on ‘several’ occasions while taking the children to see their father.

She personally never broke the 11pm curfew but once allowed her seven-year-old daughter to remain at her father’s flat after she fell asleep. She did not want to disturb her and argued the child had ‘two parents, not one’ and was in ‘good hands’.

These breaches led staff to declare the trial a failure and the mother was asked to leave the unit in April this year. She moved in to her husband’s flat but the children were then handed over to foster parents.
Her solicitor said he planned to use independent experts to prove that the children want to live with their parents and have been damaged by the social workers’ intervention. He added: ‘We may ultimately look towards human rights laws.’

The father, aged 56, said: ‘We have tried very hard to do everything that was asked of us. My wife has cooked healthy foods like home-made spaghetti bolognese and mince and potatoes; we’ve cut out snacks and only ever allowed the kids sweets on a Saturday. But nothing we’ve done has ever been enough.

‘The pressure of living in the family unit would have broken anyone. We were being treated like children and cut off from the outside world. To have a social worker stand and watch you eat is intolerable. I want other families to know what can happen once social workers become involved. We will fight them to the end to get our beloved children back.’

It is estimated 26 million British adults will be obese by 2030, with obesity levels running at an all-time high among children. Official statistics show those who are overweight spend 50 per cent more time in hospital, placing extra strain on the NHS.
Tam Fry, honorary chairman of the Child Growth Foundation, said: ‘This is a disgrace. These parents have clearly attempted to comply. They have, if you like, played Dundee City Council’s game and yet they are still losing their children.’
Dundee City Council said: ‘The council always acts in the best interests of children, with their welfare and safety in mind.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033486/Your-children-fat-again.html

Being to fat is not good but for God's sake work with the famlilies!!!

Please go to this site, sign the petition and repost. Department of Children and Families abuse of power.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/florida-department-of-child-and-families-dcf-power-abuse

This is a blog to bring us together with our stories of corruption with social services.

http://fightingforfamiliessupportgroup.blogspot.com/

 

Thank You

Randy

 

CT DCF Worker Breaks Down Wakes Up Comes Forward

Amy Clark Sarasota Guardian Ad Litem,Robin Jensen Sarasota Lawyer for DCF
Pam Hindman Sarasota Guardian Ad Litem,Brena Slater Community Development Administrator Sarasota DCF and April May Sarasota DCF.I would love to see one of you break down and come forward and you will be protected.

  Alan Quinby, president of the Children's Guardian Fund; Alan Abramowitz,

executive director statewide GAL; and Pam Hindman, director, 12th Judicial Circuit GAL

Floirida Whistleblowers Act
http://www.ehow.com/facts_6765121_florida-whistleblowers-act.html

In a surprising turn of events CorruptCT.com has been approached by an active DCF worker that says she can no longer sleep soundly with what she knows and is asked to do.  As promised we have guaranteed that no matter what her name and location will not be disclosed to anybody and in return we have been promised a 1 on 1 interview with her.
She has promised with the information that she knows the State of CT will no longer be able to turn a blind eye on the actions of the Department of Children and Families.  Keep in mind, this is not just things she has done but things management has forced her to do, tactics they are taught and trained to use on a daily basis to disarm and take advantage of lower class and income families.  The families that have no means to fight back, and then how to move forward for the kill and how to strip the family of all their civil rights and community support while stealing the children.
She was very hesitant to speak over the phone so we have a meeting setup for later on this week where CorruptCT.com has been promised first hand experiences of the corruption behind the DCF.  This includes but is not limited to classified documents the public is never supposed to see, the truth behind a higher profile case that took place last year that she was part of and the real leaders of this disgusting child kidnapping ring, how they have blackmailed families into giving up their children and why the government wants these children so bad.
All I can say is that I am so excited I will probably not sleep.  This meeting is going to be a stepping stone towards bringing down the corruption within the CT DCF / CPS offices we have been waiting for.  All I can hope is that other workers who like her can no longer live with the guilt and shame of what they are asked to do and will follow her lead and step forward.  We are here for you and we promise the same anonymity, no one will ever find out who spoke to who, but the time is now, DCF will be no longer once the truth starts to leak out continue with their dirty and illegal tactics.  The day is upon us and I am more then proud to say God bless us all and as for her bravery I will forever be indebted to her as will most of CT.

• http://www.corruptct.com/dcf-cps/information/ct-dcf-worker-breaks-down-wakes-up-comes-forward/

Thank you who ever you are for blowing the whistle you have saved children from our social services abuse.

Randy