http://www.newson6.com/story/15716290/oklahoma-lawmakers-chide-dhs?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6359699
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Oklahoma Lawmakers Chide DHS
http://www.newson6.com/story/15716290/oklahoma-lawmakers-chide-dhs?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6359699
Nevada auditors fault Vegas foster home
By Geoff Dornan
Auditors reviewing Nevada's facilities for children in state care were so concerned about the mess they found in a Las Vegas foster home in March that they called Clark County Child Protective Services.
Deputy Legislative Auditor Sandra McGuirk wrote that, when they entered the home, they saw an empty insulin syringe on the floor, an empty prescription medicine bottle, unsecured flammable liquids, a hammer and sharp knives, pans full of grease on the stove, overflowing garbage cans and filthy bathroom sinks, as well as food remnants and soda cans on the carpet.
She said this is the first time conditions have been so bad in an inspection that they felt it necessary to call Child Protective Services.
“These conditions are unacceptable in any foster home,” said Sen. Sheila Leslie, D-Reno.
The foster home was one of more than 30 operated by Eagle Quest, which has homes in Las Vegas and Pahrump. Director of Operations Dave Doyle said the mess happened after the foster parent running the home suffered a medical issue and was taken to the hospital. He said the woman's husband was overwhelmed and he was not informed that she wasn't there.
Doyle apologized to the legislative audit subcommittee but added that the home was under a corrective action plan from Child Protective Services in Clark County and he was never told about that. He admitted that conditions in the house were “atrocious” when the audit team showed up and, and he said that's why he immediately moved the six foster children there to another home.
He said numerous changes have been made by the company since then to ensure that nothing like that ever happens again in one of its homes.
Foster home operators in his system must tell him immediately if they are being investigated by a government agency. He said that if a foster parent has a medical issue or another problem requiring their absence, his staff is to be informed within 24 hours so they can put someone in there. He said other changes have been made as well, including tightening controls over medications given to children in foster care — a perennial complaint by legislators.
“We now have multiple people signing off on the medication logs,” Doyle said.
Leslie, who chairs the audit subcommittee, said the medications issue is still showing up in every six-month audit of the child care system, yet she was unable to get a bill through this past session requiring training for foster care and group home workers so they keep accurate records.
Doyle said that standardized training is needed and that operators like himself need to hold their employees accountable.
The practice of investigating a sample of both governmental and private child-care facilities every six months was started about four years ago after serious charges were raised about conditions and treatment of those confined to the state's juvenile prison, the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko.
Source http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20111018/NEWS/111019762/1070&ParentProfile=1058
Auditors reviewing Nevada's facilities for children in state care were so concerned about the mess they found in a Las Vegas foster home in March that they called Clark County Child Protective Services.
Deputy Legislative Auditor Sandra McGuirk wrote that, when they entered the home, they saw an empty insulin syringe on the floor, an empty prescription medicine bottle, unsecured flammable liquids, a hammer and sharp knives, pans full of grease on the stove, overflowing garbage cans and filthy bathroom sinks, as well as food remnants and soda cans on the carpet.
She said this is the first time conditions have been so bad in an inspection that they felt it necessary to call Child Protective Services.
“These conditions are unacceptable in any foster home,” said Sen. Sheila Leslie, D-Reno.
The foster home was one of more than 30 operated by Eagle Quest, which has homes in Las Vegas and Pahrump. Director of Operations Dave Doyle said the mess happened after the foster parent running the home suffered a medical issue and was taken to the hospital. He said the woman's husband was overwhelmed and he was not informed that she wasn't there.
Doyle apologized to the legislative audit subcommittee but added that the home was under a corrective action plan from Child Protective Services in Clark County and he was never told about that. He admitted that conditions in the house were “atrocious” when the audit team showed up and, and he said that's why he immediately moved the six foster children there to another home.
He said numerous changes have been made by the company since then to ensure that nothing like that ever happens again in one of its homes.
Foster home operators in his system must tell him immediately if they are being investigated by a government agency. He said that if a foster parent has a medical issue or another problem requiring their absence, his staff is to be informed within 24 hours so they can put someone in there. He said other changes have been made as well, including tightening controls over medications given to children in foster care — a perennial complaint by legislators.
“We now have multiple people signing off on the medication logs,” Doyle said.
Leslie, who chairs the audit subcommittee, said the medications issue is still showing up in every six-month audit of the child care system, yet she was unable to get a bill through this past session requiring training for foster care and group home workers so they keep accurate records.
Doyle said that standardized training is needed and that operators like himself need to hold their employees accountable.
The practice of investigating a sample of both governmental and private child-care facilities every six months was started about four years ago after serious charges were raised about conditions and treatment of those confined to the state's juvenile prison, the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko.
Source http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20111018/NEWS/111019762/1070&ParentProfile=1058
Mother’s care was spotty, case manager says in murder trial
Blog authors note:
CPS really failed this little child but of course, they are not on trial for murder as is the mother. CPS should be just as accountable as the mother and charged with murder beause CPS aided and abetted the death by not doing their job!
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WINFIELD, W.Va. -- A case manager with Child Protective Services relied on the mother of a 3-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis to say whether the child consistently received medication and went to doctors' appointments, a Putnam County jury heard Tuesday.
Testimony continued Tuesday during the trial of Tracy Wright, 28, of Hurricane, who is accused of neglecting the medical condition of her daughter, Ashley, which allegedly resulted in her death.
Wright is charged with murder of a child by a parent, guardian or custodian by refusal or failure to supply necessities and child neglect resulting in death.
Jurors heard about two hours of testimony Tuesday from Gail Noullette, a case manager with the state Department of Health and Human Resources. Noullette relied on Wright to know whether Ashley had received her prescribed medications and attended doctors' appointments, she said.
Wright had told her in April that she was "giving [medicine] to Ashley here and there," but "wasn't being consistent," Noullette said.
Noullette said based on what Wright was telling her -- and Ashley's condition -- there wasn't imminent danger and therefore the child wasn't removed from Wright's care.
In September 2010, when Noullette spoke to Ashley's cystic fibrosis doctor, she said he informed her that Wright hadn't been giving her daughter proper medical treatment, and that Ashley's prescriptions hadn't been filled in the past nine months.
Assistant prosecutor Steve Connolly said Ashley was supposed to receive the medication four times a day, and that in September 2010 she had had only 60 pills since May.
"That would be two weeks' worth over the course of 4 1/2 months," Connolly said.
On Nov. 17, 2010, Noullette said, Ashley visited the cystic fibrosis clinic for the first time since February, and that her doctor said her condition was deteriorating.
A day later, Noullette said, she filed a nonemergency petition with the court.
"We had to do something because she wasn't making progress," Noullette said.
Wright's attorney, David Moye, questioned why Noullette didn't take action sooner if they knew that Ashley wasn't getting her medicine as far back as March.
Through numerous reports written by Noullette, Moye tried to exhibit a pattern showing that officials knew Ashley wasn't getting her medication as prescribed.
Click here for the rest of the story http://wvgazette.com/News/201110180149
CPS really failed this little child but of course, they are not on trial for murder as is the mother. CPS should be just as accountable as the mother and charged with murder beause CPS aided and abetted the death by not doing their job!
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WINFIELD, W.Va. -- A case manager with Child Protective Services relied on the mother of a 3-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis to say whether the child consistently received medication and went to doctors' appointments, a Putnam County jury heard Tuesday.
Testimony continued Tuesday during the trial of Tracy Wright, 28, of Hurricane, who is accused of neglecting the medical condition of her daughter, Ashley, which allegedly resulted in her death.
Wright is charged with murder of a child by a parent, guardian or custodian by refusal or failure to supply necessities and child neglect resulting in death.
Jurors heard about two hours of testimony Tuesday from Gail Noullette, a case manager with the state Department of Health and Human Resources. Noullette relied on Wright to know whether Ashley had received her prescribed medications and attended doctors' appointments, she said.
Wright had told her in April that she was "giving [medicine] to Ashley here and there," but "wasn't being consistent," Noullette said.
Noullette said based on what Wright was telling her -- and Ashley's condition -- there wasn't imminent danger and therefore the child wasn't removed from Wright's care.
In September 2010, when Noullette spoke to Ashley's cystic fibrosis doctor, she said he informed her that Wright hadn't been giving her daughter proper medical treatment, and that Ashley's prescriptions hadn't been filled in the past nine months.
Assistant prosecutor Steve Connolly said Ashley was supposed to receive the medication four times a day, and that in September 2010 she had had only 60 pills since May.
"That would be two weeks' worth over the course of 4 1/2 months," Connolly said.
On Nov. 17, 2010, Noullette said, Ashley visited the cystic fibrosis clinic for the first time since February, and that her doctor said her condition was deteriorating.
A day later, Noullette said, she filed a nonemergency petition with the court.
"We had to do something because she wasn't making progress," Noullette said.
Wright's attorney, David Moye, questioned why Noullette didn't take action sooner if they knew that Ashley wasn't getting her medicine as far back as March.
Through numerous reports written by Noullette, Moye tried to exhibit a pattern showing that officials knew Ashley wasn't getting her medication as prescribed.
Click here for the rest of the story http://wvgazette.com/News/201110180149
Sunday, October 16, 2011
DHS misled level of child abuse in federal report
by: RANDY ELLIS, NOLAN CLAY & ROBBY TRAMMELL
Sunday, October 16, 2011
10/16/2011 7:17:13 AM
DHS officials greatly misrepresented to the public and their governing commission the number of children abused and neglected in out-of-home state custody, documents reveal.
Last December, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services issued a news release stating "99.8 percent of children in out-of-home care did not experience maltreatment while in care" during 2009.
The agency proclaimed Oklahoma was one of 24 states that met a national standard of having at least 99.68 percent of children in custody not experience confirmed abuse or neglect in out-of-home care.
The claims were false.
Source http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=20111016_12_A1_DHSoff80925
More on this subject http://newsok.com/dhs-misrepresents-number-of-children-abused-and-neglected-in-state-custody/article/3613772?custom_click=pod_headline_usnational-news
Sunday, October 16, 2011
10/16/2011 7:17:13 AM
DHS officials greatly misrepresented to the public and their governing commission the number of children abused and neglected in out-of-home state custody, documents reveal.
Last December, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services issued a news release stating "99.8 percent of children in out-of-home care did not experience maltreatment while in care" during 2009.
The agency proclaimed Oklahoma was one of 24 states that met a national standard of having at least 99.68 percent of children in custody not experience confirmed abuse or neglect in out-of-home care.
The claims were false.
Source http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=20111016_12_A1_DHSoff80925
More on this subject http://newsok.com/dhs-misrepresents-number-of-children-abused-and-neglected-in-state-custody/article/3613772?custom_click=pod_headline_usnational-news
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