Thursday, September 3, 2009

Next Up: What Happens When You Have A Complaint Against A CASA?

Please send in to the comment section of this entry...what happened to your complaint. I will write more. But, Dear Reader, you can comment here please.

First Entry:
"I guess I was lucky when I complained about a CASA worker on our case. The prior CASA told me to demand he got back on the case. I didn`t think it would work but it did. Just so everyone knows, this worker has been doing this for 8 years and he himself has said he has seen so much corruption in the past 2 years that after our case is done, he`s done. He is only doing this to help us. The emotional part of it has affected his health. He is a wonderful person and will always be a part of our family. As for the complaint about the other CASA worker, she is still the worker on the case of a different child that was in our care and she is a LIAR. At first, she pretended to be on our side but that changed when we were in court. She is without a doubt,a puppet of the state. She also looks like she is high all the time."

Dear Reader..please call me with the contact information so I can talk to this person at some point. Thanks.

Second Reader Response:
Senator, my prayers are with you. This system will try to tear you apart while never looking at their own tendencies towards the destruction of the family. Warm, friendly, sentimental sounding goals in writing may sway many, but the reality on the front lines leaves a wake of broken people with little recourse.
CASA was born from a need, but has since morphed into part of the problem. I have seen CASAs with severe mental health problems, little to no contact with the family, forceful behaviors with family, overly supportive with boundary violations in others, and on and on. This is not a regulated industry in any sense of the word and should not have the power in the court room that it has.


Third Reader Response:
"NOTHING was done about our complaints with our CASA. In fact the head of the CASA dept. called me at nine p.m. on a Sunday night DEMANDING that I retract my complaints! Even after admitting her knowledge of this CASA's shady past in California. She needs to go as well."

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I guess I was lucky when I complained about a CASA worker on our case. The prior CASA told me to demand he got back on the case. I didn`t think it would work but it did. Just so everyone knows, this worker has been doing this for 8 years and he himself has said he has seen so much corruption in the past 2 years that after our case is done, he`s done. He is only doing this to help us. The emotional part of it has affected his health. He is a wonderful person and will always be a part of our family. As for the complaint about the other CASA worker, she is still the worker on the case of a different child that was in our care and she is a LIAR. At first, she pretended to be on our side but that changed when we were in court. She is without a doubt,a puppet of the state. She also looks like she is high all the time.

Anonymous said...

NOTHING was done about our complaints with our casa. In fact the head of the casa dept. called me at nine p.m. on a sunday night DEMANDING that I retract my complaints! Even after admitting her knowledge of this casa's shady past in California. She needs to go as well.

Anonymous said...

In our case the casa not only never visited the children in our care but she made insane accusations against us.the things she said were then used against us by the dhs. When I finally complained to her supervisor I was told if I could prove what she said was a lie then the supervisor would go to the judge and retract what was said. But how do you prove you didn'tdo something ?

Anonymous said...

I think I would like to answer that. If it can be proven that there is a pathological system in place that regularly lies or embellishes or deliberately eliminates information to make their case against someone, then lie detectors can become the norm. The problem with them getting away with it is the courts won't back up lie detectors and just takes everyones word for it. I will start a list for people just in Washington State to organize just for this issue alone. This way when someone goes to court, they will have a list to bring in and demand a lie detector because of this pattern of abuse. A person can take the list then get it notarized and bring it into court as an affidavit.
Jan Smith
Washington State Extended Families
familypreservation@live.com

Anonymous said...

Pam, This is another concern to me. Another reader commented that they thought their casa was "high". We had felt the same way about our casa. It was very apparent that this casa had a problem with cocaine. In fact, we were contacted by someone who knew this casa for years, but hadn't seen this person for a few years, asked how this person looked? And when we asked why? The person informed us that this casa has a cocaine problem, and has had it for years! Which confirmed our thoughts. So, while public disclosure on casa is a battle in itself, why can't we push for manditory and random drug testing in the casa dept.? Surely, Ms. Katz wouldn't object to that would she?

Anonymous said...

Jan Smith said what I`ve been thinking for a while now. A lie detector test should be able to be used to get down to the truth. I KNOW if the casewoorker on our case took one, she would not only fail but the machine would probably blow up with that much deceit it would need to handle.