Sunday, April 10, 2011

DCF strives to avoid errors of past overhauls

By Ana M. Valdes
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 11:03 p.m. Sunday, April 10, 2011

MIAMI — Barely three months into his job as head of the state Department of Children and Families, Secretary David Wilkins described what he found there as "total systemic failure of the child welfare system."

....But this isn't the first DCF overhaul. More than 20 times in the past 25 years, it and its predecessor, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, altered how they handle foster children, usually after horror stories led blue-ribbon panels and grand juries to call for action. FULL STORY

I left a nice comment there- UPDATE 4-11-2011-- MY COMMENT WAS NUKED. 

Re: "total systemic failure of the child welfare system."


20 overhauls in 25 years?


Each "overhaul" leaves the SAME system, theories, Mode of Operation in place, and sort of bureaucrats employed by the system.


Could it occur to anybody that the premise of coercion, kidnapping, hostage-taking, kid doping, destroying families is THE PROBLEM?

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