WE MUST RISE UP , MARCH and PROTEST AGAINST THIS SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION and put a DEMAND ON CHILD WELFARE  COMMISSIONERS to IMPLEMENT PRO-PARENT INITIATIVES that SUPPORTS and EXPEDITES REUNIFICATION OF FAMILIES.............

Adoption and Safe Family Act

ASFA is a PRO-Adoption Law.

ASFA expedites Termination of Parental Rights for the parents who have been failed by the Child Welfare System, Service Provider foster care Agencies and Family Court. It's been almost 30 years since the law was written and the ASFA law needs to come up for review as we now know that there are many gaps, barriers  and systemic failures on the path towards Family Reunification.  

Systemic Failures MUST be Confronted, Investigated and Corrected.

• CPS engage in poor case work practices that impedes expedited service plans and service provision by their failure to expedite referrals for families in Timely manner. 

• Failure of Case planners to effectively communicate and empower parents in their parental role around their children's medical, education and mental health needs and services.  This is only communicated when consents needs to be signed by the parents. 

• Case planners falsifiaction of progress notes where there have been no visits to foster homes to ensure safety of the children under the care and custody of the Commissioner, which is a child safety concern. 

• Progress notes being removed by mangers that supports the progress of the birth parents. 

• High Turnover in Department of Child Protection field offices where there were no assigned CPS for months, hence there is a lapse in referrals and services for the parents. 

• High turnovers in the foster care agencies that creates gaps and barriers in service provision to families. 

• The criminal act of removing of emails and progress notes documentation by children welfare managers that protects them from being exposed from critical case concerns for which they failed to follow up. 

• Ongoing and gross violation of parental Rights by CPS and Foster care Caseplanners  

• Lack of strength based case practice that empowers the parents but is rather punitive and hostile towards parents. 

• Lack of workshops for parents that promotes reunification preparedness, while ther are so many for foster parents.  

• Manipulation and weaponization of courts report to the court that goes intentionally against the parents. 

•  Foster parents sabotaging reunification for financial gain ( The maximum adoption credit taxpayers can claim on their 2021 tax return is $15,590 per eligible child.) 

• Maximum State Aid Rates for Foster Boarding Home Payments and Adoption Subsidies 2023-24 Rate Year (July 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024)  in NEW YORK CITY PER CHILD - Regular Rates - $1, 284-----Special Rates - $2,012 ---------Exceptional rate - $3,015 and Extraordinary Rates - $3,711 PER CHILD. 

• Attorneys stand to makes up to $3000 per adoption an incentive that drives adoption processes. 

• Family court Judges abuse of Power and Position over their decision-making regarding children and parents whose fails to apply the rule of law but rather ROGUE RULING motivated by financial gains and favoritism, while being granted IMMUNITY.

• Children 16 years of age are not being told that they can choose not to be adopted and can request a Goal Change of Independent living for which the agency must begin to plan with youth to be discharged to their own care between 18 - 21 years old. The foster. The foster care agency pays for college and submit housing application towards independent living. 

• Children have become a Commodity of  the child welfare system thats being traded on the adoption and child trafficking market for financial gain by Judges, Attorneys and foster care agencies. 

• Mental Health Providers who are willing to give foster parents  serious mental health diagnosis to foster children so they can have the subsidy rates increased  for foster children.  

• Managers that conspire with foster parents around fabrication of lies to sabotage reunification of families for financial gain.

• Known and orchestrated trafficking of children in the county child welfare system.

• Foster care agencies that are child trafficking centers for the unacompanied minors. 

• The problem of retaining those staff who are willing and is complicit in trafficking children and the undermining of court reports towards supporting such endeavors.

• The problem of forcing integral and ethical staff out of their position because they will not be complicit with sabotaging cases and engage in corrupt practices. 

• A culture of abuse and harrassment of staff who refuses to falsify progress notes that goes against parents ( such staff are usually forced out)  

• Manager sabotaging the progress notes of staff  to write them up and push them towards termination if they fail to comply with unethical practicies. 

• Non-disclosure of Kinship to the court in reports to the court.

• A lack of worskshops in the foster care agency for our youth/teen to safeguard and  inform them about sex trafficking,  how to recognize the red flags, luring, grooming, etc.

• Failure to do due diligence to interview youth about being trafficked and getting law enforcement involved to follow up leads for arrest to be made.  

“At the heart of the criticism of family preservation is one overriding assumption: If you remove a child from the home, the child will be safe. If you leave a child at home the child is at risk. In fact, there is risk in either direction, but real family preservation programs have a better record for safety than foster care.”     -Parental Rights Foundation -