tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6949272793553548917.post5202492278770909668..comments2023-07-23T04:38:55.832-07:00Comments on Pam Roach Report: OLYMPIAN Reports On New Director's IntentionsState Senator Pam Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18192817037938680418noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6949272793553548917.post-69232185636907947802009-06-19T16:43:14.122-07:002009-06-19T16:43:14.122-07:00With the attitude that nothing is really fundament...With the attitude that nothing is really fundamentally wrong with this system, it can never get better. The CA lives in a fantasy world, where the social workers are the down trodden. <br /><br />The pain and deaths of children and families does not exist in their enchanted utopia. <br /><br />As long as the children and their families are silenced, their abuse by CA will not lessen.<br /><br />No one can or will ever help the children in Washington State.<br /><br />Child abuse and death by abuse by Washington State has gone on for so long that we have come to accept it as healthy and normal.<br /><br />All we can do now is watch the children pray.infinite freedomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14155453786874578231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6949272793553548917.post-62942112164295804732009-06-18T08:00:43.146-07:002009-06-18T08:00:43.146-07:00We need to take advantage of the budget crunch and...We need to take advantage of the budget crunch and challenge a few things that can be challenged right now.<br />At the Braam Panel hearing I recommended a new approach that I feel would help families a great deal while at the same time would cut the budget in half. I borrowed from a couple of different legal approaches to come up with this.<br />The first aspect is the Deferred Prosecution approach. In this, a family would have 12 months of treatment and monitoring and 12 months of once a month monitoring. I believe that all "neglect" cases could easily be done DP scheduling and qualified abuse cases as well. With this approach, the parent would agree to treatment and a type of DP then be able to engage in programming much faster. The start to finish time of getting the child back in the home would be greatly reduced.<br />The second aspect is what I saw in Drug Court. In Pierce County, case managers are right there in court meeting with clients in the back room. They quickly determine a case management path, have the clients sign a contract, then go into court with this contract.<br />I also complained about inadequate chemical dependency assessments where an individual should be in inpatient but they are given outpatient. This happens frequently when an outpatient program dependent on dollars does the assessment. I believe that an independent assessment agency should do the assessments.<br />Jan SmithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com