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The Tennessee Department of Human Services (DHS) oversees the distribution of SNAP benefits, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for low-income folks in Tennessee. Last year, DHS implemented a new application processing system for the first time since 1992— the same year of the L.A. riots, Barney and Friends' debut, and President George H.W. Bush projectile vomiting in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister. In the process of transitioning to the new system, there were quite a few technological snafus. Existing SNAP benefits recipients applications weren't properly carried over, leading to DHS falling behind. The federal government mandates that DHS must either certify or reject an application in 30 days, and at the peak, there over 50,000 Tennesseeans whose applications were not processed in that window. Some people waited as long as four months for a decision. While DHS is on track to be caught up sooner rather than later, people have had to scramble in the meantime to feed themselves and their families. Further, those in the lowest income brackets are already struggling with the benefits backlog, but then there is the added stress of inflation—making groceries unaffordable for even people in the middle class. We'll talk about food costs, accessibility, and affordability by looking at SNAP, the bill to end grocery taxes in TN, and food waste programs. This episode was produced by Elizabeth Burton. Special thanks to Ken Jobe. Guests: Signe Anderson, Senior Director of Nutrition Advocacy at Tennessee Justice Center Jules, social work graduate student Rae Ruohonen, SNAP recipient Ladevia Hartsfield and Althea Hartsfield, SNAP recipients Pastor Greg Bullard, pastor at Covenant of the Cross
Question: Should DHS provide more support to CUAs, given their unique vulnerability? Alternatively, should DHS be allowed to override CUA decisions if their agency is open to risks that DHS is largely protected against? Donte and I (Renaldo McKenzie) discuss this issue which was one of the may key points raised during a recent interview with Mr. David Fair, Deputy Chief at Turning Points for Children and a past Deputy Managing Director of the City of Philadelphia. However, on this podcast episode we discuss this particular point which was also an article exploring the issue in The NeoLiberal Post at https://renaldocmckenzie.com entitled, Child Placement and Responsibility: Exploring the Role of Philadelphia's CYS-DHS, dated Oct. 5, 2023. #FootNote: The Department of Human Services (#DHS) is the government agency responsible for overseeing child and youth family services within the @PhiladelphiaGov. Within this framework, #CommunityUmbrellaAgencies (#CUAs) play a pivotal role as the #casemanagement model under the #IOC (#ImprovingOutcomesforChildren) initiative. Under this program, #CYS (#ChildYouthandFamily Services) case management services are outsourced to non-profit or private agencies to efficiently operate and manage these critical services. or any stream. Find your stream via our production platform: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal. Support this podcast by donating here: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support. The NeoLiberal Round is a production of The NeoLiberal Corporation by Renaldo McKenzie, serving the world today to solve tomorrow's challenges by making popular what was the monopoly. Visit us at https://theneoliberal.com or https://renaldocmckenzie.com. Follow Renaldo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/renaldomckenzie or via at https://twitter.com/theneoliberalco. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support
Mableton woman accused of intent to murderSerina Renee Alexander, a 44-year-old woman from Mableton, has been charged with aggravated assault and intent to murder. She is accused of using a knife to cut the neck of Brian Byrd on July 30 at a residence on Charlotte Drive in Mableton. A responding officer found a blood trail leading to the front door and, after getting no response, entered the home and detained Alexander. Byrd had sustained a bleeding neck laceration and head wound. Alexander is facing charges of aggravated assault with intent to murder and obstruction of law enforcement. She was arrested on site and is currently held without bond in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.**Hiram man charged with shooting at police officersJoahan Aragon, a 21-year-old Hiram man, has been charged with firing five 9mm rounds at police officers during their investigation of another incident. Armed with a Glock 17 pistol, Aragon allegedly fired at officers while also being in possession of 24 grams of marijuana with the intent to distribute. The incident took place on July 30 at 2750 S. Cobb Industrial Boulevard SE in Smyrna. Aragon struck a wall four times, and one shot was aimed at officers but missed the building. He had a black bag in his vehicle containing marijuana, a digital scale, plastic bags, and $965 in cash. Aragon faces charges including intent to distribute, possession of a firearm during a crime, and aggravated assault on a public safety officer. He was arrested on July 30, booked into the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, and released on a $30,000 bond.**University System of Georgia contributes more than $20 billion to economyIn fiscal year 2022, the University System of Georgia (USG) reported a total economic impact of $20.1 billion, marking an increase of $800 million or 4.14% from the previous year. This impact comprised $14.2 billion from direct spending by students, colleges, and universities, while the remaining $5.9 billion represented the multiplier effect benefiting local communities. The USG's 26 public colleges and universities significantly contribute to Georgia's economy by creating both on-campus (32%) and off-campus (68%) jobs, totaling 159,034 positions. The economic study, conducted by the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, also revealed that USG institutions collectively generate an employment impact equivalent to the state's top five employers combined. Additionally, graduates of USG programs are projected to earn over $1.1 million more over their lifetimes for bachelor's degree holders and $1.4 million more for those with master's degrees, according to a companion study by Terry College's Selig Center for Economic Growth.Report: Cobb growing slower than metro AtlantaCobb County experienced a population increase of 6,100 residents from April of the previous year to April of the current year, according to a report by the Atlanta Regional Commission. The county's population reached 785,349 on April 1, with a growth rate of 0.78%. This growth was slower than the broader 11-county metro Atlanta region, which grew by 1.3%. Over the past year, the fastest population growth was observed in Atlanta and the region's exurban counties, particularly Cherokee (2.5%), Forsyth (2.1%), and Henry (2.1%). The report suggests that metro Atlanta's population growth is attributed to strong employment opportunities, with a 5.4% increase in the employment base since the pandemic began.Roller-coaster ‘hoteling' of Georgia foster children at record lowGeorgia's foster care system currently has only seven children "hoteling," according to the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS), Candice Broce. "Hoteling" refers to temporarily housing foster children in state offices or hotels. This number has fluctuated, with a recent high of 95 children and a record low of seven as of Tuesday night. The state legislature allocated $10 million to address this issue in the fiscal 2024 budget. A bill was also passed to establish a uniform process for placing children in the custody of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS). The DHS is launching a pilot program to aid families in accessing treatment and services. The reunification of children with their parents remains a primary goal for DFCS. The study committee plans to continue meetings to make recommendations for the upcoming legislative session.KSU's economic impact exceeded $2 billion last yearKennesaw State University (KSU) had a significant economic impact on Georgia, totaling over $2.03 billion in fiscal year 2022, which was a 10.3% increase from the previous year's $1.84 billion. The university, with 40,162 enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, is the third-largest in Georgia after Georgia State University and UGA. The University System of Georgia's report stated that KSU's economic contribution stemmed from various sources, including personnel and operating expenses, student spending, and community purchases driven by the institution, its employees, and students. KSU's employment of 15,917 individuals led to the creation of 2.8 additional jobs in the local community for each job on campus. KSU's president, Kathy Schwaig, highlighted the university's positive impact on the state's economy through academic programs, research, enrollment, and partnerships.Kell's Brown commits to South FloridaCJ Brown, the 6-foot-2 point guard from Kell High School, has committed to playing college basketball at the University of South Florida. Brown, a three-star recruit, announced his commitment on social media, expressing gratitude for the offers he received from various college coaches. He will join South Florida's basketball program, which is now part of the American Athletic Conference. Brown was a key player in leading Kell High School to a 28-2 record and their first state championship. He will play under the coaching of Amir Abdur-Rahim, the former Kennesaw State coach who recently took over the South Florida program. Brown's commitment comes after receiving offers from several other schools, including Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Mississippi State.Girls Cross Country Preview: Marietta in position to repeat as state champion The Marietta girls cross country team is in a strong position, having secured their third consecutive state title with five titles in six years. Their success is attributed to a close-knit and hardworking team culture. The team's dominance was evident in their recent state championship win, scoring only 33 points with top placements. The majority of their runners remain young, with only one graduate out of the seven who competed in the state championship. Marietta's youth shone through last season, with notable performances from freshmen and sophomores. Their success has made them a consistent threat in the state, despite competition from rivals like Harrison and Walton. Overall, Cobb County has a strong presence in girls cross country, with several schools making significant impacts in state championships. **Georgia ranked No. 1 in preseason coaches pollThe University of Georgia's football team, the two-time defending national champion, has secured the top spot in the 2023 preseason coaches poll. In the USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll, Georgia received 61 out of 66 first-place votes. The Bulldogs, led by Coach Kirby Smart, will begin their season against Tennessee-Martin on September 2nd. Michigan holds the No. 2 position, its highest preseason ranking since the poll's inception in 1991. Alabama is ranked third, receiving four first-place votes, while Ohio State claimed the remaining one for fourth place. 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Turning Points for Children's Community Umbrella Agency (CUA) CYS program is being terminated due to mounting legal and insurance challenges, as revealed by David Fair, Deputy Chief at the organization. In a recent interview with Renaldo McKenzie of The NeoLiberal Round Podcast, David Fair, Deputy Chief at Turning Points for Children, announced the termination of its Community Umbrella Agency (CUA) CYS program. This decision comes in the wake of mounting challenges faced by the child welfare agency, including legal and insurance obstacles. According to David Fair, "we're discontinuing the CUAs as of August 2023... We can no longer afford the insurance. The insurance costs are in the seven figures, and DHS won't reimburse. It's a complex situation. They [DHS] have immunity because they are government, so we're the ones who get sued even when they are at fault. The insurance costs are in the seven figures, and DHS won't reimburse. It's a complicated story." The program has faced escalating lawsuits and insurance claims, making it financially unsustainable. Turning Points' liability of $10 million, significantly higher than the typical cap of $500,000, increased the financial risks. Disputes between Turning Points and the Department of Human Services (DHS) over decision-making authority have also complicated matters. To ensure continuity of care, Turning Points will transfer its core services to other community agencies. This decision highlights the unforeseen legal issues faced by child welfare agencies and the need to balance accountability with the crucial work of organizations like Turning Points. Efforts to secure legislative immunity faced opposition from trial lawyers. Collaborative efforts are required to address the complex legal and insurance challenges faced by the child welfare system. The cessation of Turning Points' CUA CYS program serves as a sobering reminder of the challenges encountered by child welfare agencies. Fair acknowledged that the architects of the community umbrella agencies did not foresee the magnitude of legal issues that would arise. While the intention was to safeguard agencies from lawsuits, unscrupulous lawyers exploited the system, specifically targeting child welfare organizations in pursuit of significant settlements. Attempts to secure legislative immunity, similar to that granted to DHS, were met with resistance from trial lawyers concerned about the potential financial implications. As the child welfare system grapples with these complex legal and insurance challenges, it becomes increasingly crucial to strike a balance that ensures accountability while safeguarding the vital work performed by organizations like Turning Points for Children. The protection of vulnerable children and families remains paramount, demanding collaborative efforts to address these issues effectively. Subscribe for free! Donate to support our growth: The NeoLiberal Round Visit us at https://theneoliberal.com or http://renaldocmckenzie.com Submitted by: Renaldo McKenzie, Creator and Chief Publisher at The NeoLiberal Round and The NeoLiberal Corporation. Renaldo is also the author of "Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty, and Resistance." Renaldo is an Adjunct Professor and a Doctoral Student at Georgetown University. He has previously worked as a CUA Case Manager and a CYS Agency Director at the It Takes a Village FGDM program. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support
Coming up Later on The Podcast: Breaking News: Social service organizations that operate the Community Umbrella Agencies (CUAs) are at an impasse with the Department of Human Services (DHS) in Philadelphia; the government's super agency that oversees and fund the CYS programs. In fact, some social service organizations are abandoning their CUA programs over an insurance requirement which the CUA's can't meet given limited funding and recent legal claims that they must pay out. One agency chief said: "we're giving up the CUAs as of August 2023...We can't afford the insurance.... The insurance costs are in the seven figures and DHS won't reimburse. It's a complicated story. They [DHS] have immunity because they are government, so we're the ones who get sued even when they made the error. The insurance costs are in the seven figures and DHS won't reimburse. It's a complicated story. David went on to reveal to us that "all four of our CUAs are being transferred to new agencies. Three will move as of August 1st and the fourth around Labor Day." David Fair, Deputy Chief of Turning Point for Children (TP4C). We will have David Fair on The Neoliberal Round later today talking about the state of child welfare (part 2). Subscribe for free! Donate to us to get us growing: The NeoLiberal Round • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters Visit us and access Renaldo McKenzie's books, Neoliberalism, https://theneoliberal.com or http://renaldocmckenzie.com Submitted by: Renaldo McKenzie, Chief at The NeoLiberal Round and The NeoLiberal Corporation. Renaldo is also the author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and resistance. Renaldo is an Adjunct Professor and a Doctoral Student at Georgetown University. Renaldo has worked previously as a CUA Cae Manager and A CYS Agency Director at It Takes a Village FGDM program. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support
News Alert: There is a Workforce Crisis in Child Welfare, which is affecting Social Services Agencies abilities to serve children and families effectively. Mr. David Fair Deputy Chief at Turning Points for Children spoke to the City Council Committee on Children and Youth Child Welfare on Monday, March 13, 2023, and shared his testimony with us a few days ago that we had published in The Neoliberal Journals and The Neoliberal Post of The Neoliberal Corporation Moral Magazine https://theneoberal.com and https://renaldocmckenzie.com. Today Mr. Fair spoke with us via Zoom today Sunday March 19th, 2023, to provide more insights on his testimony and to provide further awareness surrounding the issues and how we can become part of the solution. Mr. Fair revealed some breaking news and interesting information as to the challenges facing child welfare in Philadelphia. Mr. Fair is also a former Head at Department of Human Services (DHS), the government agency in Philadelphia that administers and directs child youth and family services. 1. Philadelphia replaced the old DHS system that had already failed with the same system, they just did it with community workers that costed less. 2. Under the new Improving Outcomes for children that is CUA worker-driven, there is only one worker (Case Manager) with a caseload of up to 30 that at times include several families and households per case. 3. Agencies such as IHPS (In-Home-Protective-Services were phased out and Foster Care Agencies roles changed from case work to a more supportive role to families. 4. While the plan was to reduce staff at DHS, DHS currently has more than the workers it had before CUA started, which is now focused on mainly administration and bureaucracy, with high salaries, while CUA's 5. Provide the case management and or case work with administration and case management supervision, quality assurance and staff that provide the same functions as DHS administration and who also have the similar credentials and experiences. 5. CUA's seem to bear most of the risks, while receiving limited funding to pay their staff and to provide effective childcare. 6. DHS has made decisions that affected the CUA's whereas it is not involved in case work, it makes decisions that supersedes the CUAs about families that ultimately puts the families at risk and opens the CUAs to lawsuit. Mr. Fair explained a recent incident where his agency was sued and had to pay millions of dollars to a family from a decision taken by DHS. According to Mr. Fair, DHS cannot be sued as it is a government agency. As such, the CUA's have to have an insurance of up to 10 million dollars. 7. Mr. Fair revealed that his agency has 600 workers and receive 40 million from government funds to care for 3000 children daily. He lamented that this was insufficient to do what needs to be done to provide the welfare that the children it serves deserve. Turning Points is one of the largest Child Welfare Agencies in Philadelphia and is a part of the largest Social Services Agency in Philadelphia PHMC which is also a Not-For-Profit Agency. 8. Mr. Fair explained that DHS staff gets paid up to $5000 more than CUA workers who do most of the work and are overworked. His agency reportedly has up 45 % worker turnover rate. 9. Workers are not compensated enough; they can't even support their own families. Therefore, they can't care for the children in welfare in the ways that they want to and should be due to limited funding. Philadelphia Officials at DHS are speaking with the city to increase Case workers compensation from approximately $44 - $45,000.00 per annum to $51000 - $52000 per annum. Credits: Renaldo McKenzie is an Adjunct Professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary, Doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University, Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and Digital Content Creator of The Neoliberal Corporation. https://theneoliberal.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support
Last week the Child Welfare Training Academy hosted the Grand Opening of its Roseville center. Child welfare facilities are often utilitarian at best, communicating that the work is barely worth paying for. But this building practically shouts “Our staff are valued!” It has state-of-the-art equipment, business-world-like huddle spaces where staff can do impromptu problem-solving, and simulated client living rooms where workers can hone their skills through videotaped interviews with professional actors. This joint effort by the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the University of Minnesota's Center for the Advanced Study of Child Welfare (CASCW) delivers foundational training to 500 new workers annually plus advanced skills to 150 staff monthly at Roseville and four regional locations. Since 2015 DHS and CASCW have worked tenaciously to get the Academy funded, design the facility, and blend their technologies. The result is “Wow!” This week's podcast captures Rich Gehrman's recent interview with Jennifer Sommerfeld, who is the Director of Legislation and Internal Affairs for the Department of Human Service's Child and Family Services Administration. Jennifer provided an inside look at the annual cycle of how the Department of Human Services determines its legislative priorities. =========== Join us for our annual fall breakfast on 10/13/22! In-person in St. Paul, MN or livestreamed to anywhere-- RSVP today! https://bit.ly/spbreakfast2022 Sign up for Minnesota's Inaugural Conference on Family Violence. It's free and virtual, here: https://safepassageforchildren.salsalabs.org/mnsinauguralconferenceonfamilyviolence/index.html =========== Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota's nonprofit mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. Rich Gehrman is the founder and Executive Director of Minnesota nonprofit organization Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota. He is the 2021 winner of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Minnesota's 2021 "Mark Proctor Hero for Children Award." Support Safe Passage's work for Minnesota's most vulnerable children at www.safepassageforchildren.org/donate www.safepassageforchildren.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/safe-passage-for-children/message
08/19/22: Governor Doug Burgum appointed Chris Jones as Executive Director of the Department of Human Services (DHS) in February 2017. He joins Joel on "News and Views" to discuss the recent audit saying some North Dakota social workers are not checking on suspected victims of child abuse in a timely manner.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Show host Autumn sits down with Matthew Gunnip, President, Service Employees International Union SEIU Local 580 and Rafael Martinez, President, AFSCME Local 2882 to talk about the staffing issues at DHS. Due to the understaffing and the pandemic, massive backlogs for vital assistance are keeping Rhode Islanders from accessing the critical services that DHS provides. Food assistance, child care, medical care and income supports are but a few of the necessary programs that are being affected by this lack of urgency to fill these support positions. The state agency has roughly 150 unfilled positions, and in some cases it has taken over 600 days for them to post vacant positions to be filled. Meanwhile workers are feeling unsupported and overwhelmed as they attempt to help Rhode Islanders access state benefits. What can we do to help? SIGN THIS PETITION: https://buff.ly/3PVFO0o
When a child becomes involved in a court case, there are different proceedings followed, other players involved in the system, and separate issues relating to information and safety regarding the child. Cases can become increasingly complicated when you have a juvenile issue going on with a pending family law matter. Today we welcome to the podcast Elizabeth Hardman, an attorney with our firm. Elizabeth went to law school at DU in Denver and started her law career as a public defender in Northern Colorado. She currently practices adult and juvenile criminal defense, DUI/DWAI defense, and family law. Today we talk about juvenile delinquency and how this issue might come up in a family law context. Key Points From This Episode:What juvenile delinquency entails and more about what sets apart juvenile court. Who are the players within the juvenile court system?More about the involvement of the Department of Human Services (DHS). How courts get status updates on how juveniles are doing during the trial and post-sentencing.Elizabeth talks about the court proceedings of a juvenile case; what a family might expect. When a juvenile case may go to a jury trial. Diversions in juvenile cases; what that means and how it differs from jurisdictions. How a juvenile delinquency issue can come up in a family law context.Does the child need an independent voice? A question that may arise in these cases.Issues related to what information you can get from a juvenile case that goes to a child expert.As a family law attorney, who would be the first person to contact in a juvenile case: the juvenile defense attorney. Other situations where you could see where there is an intersection between juvenile cases and family law cases.If the child is involved in a juvenile charge, do they have the right to an attorney?Attorney-client privilege; how does that work with parents involved?What is Divorce at Altitude?Ryan Kalamaya and Amy Goscha provide tips and recommendations on issues related to divorce, separation, and co-parenting in Colorado. Ryan and Amy are the founding partners of an innovative and ambitious law firm, Kalamaya | Goscha, that pushes the boundaries to discover new frontiers in family law, personal injuries, and criminal defense in Colorado.If you have additional questions or would like to speak to one of our attorneys, give us a call at 970-429-5784 or email us at info@kalamaya.law.************************************************************************DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS ON THIS PODCAST IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE. CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE OR AREA TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE ON ANY OF THESE ISSUES.
The federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) just released 2020 child maltreatment reports, more than a year after the reporting periods. They showed wide variations among states and counties. Why is that? What is happening? What needs to change? Join Rich for a full discussion on this plus his in-depth commentary and analysis in this week's podcast. ========== Rich Gehrman is the founder and Executive Director of Minnesota nonprofit organization Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota. He is the 2021 winner of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Minnesota's 2021 "Mark Proctor Hero for Children Award." Read the full blog and podcast transcript at https://safepassageforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Narrative-for-podcast-on-federal-and-state-child-maltreatment-reports.pdf Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota's nonprofit mission is to strengthen the Minnesota child welfare system so children are safe and can reach their full potential. If you know someone who cares about children, be sure to share this podcast with them. Support Safe Passage's work for Minnesota's most vulnerable children at www.safepassageforchildren.org/donate and visit them at www.safepassageforchildren.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/safe-passage-for-children/message
A new service by the Department of Human Services (DHS) will connect Aboriginal people with limited English skills to interpreters who can translate important information from government departments.Executive Director of Community Support and Investment at DHS, Ruth Ambler, shares how the service works and why it will break down communication barriers for Aboriginal people living in South Australia.DHS is hiring Aboriginal interpreters currently living/working in Adelaide, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Port Pirie, Eyre Peninsula and APY Lands. For more information contact: 8226 6661 or alis@sa.gov.au
Meet Sam Wilson and Pastor Nick Williams with the Brinkley Heights Food Alliance to discuss our annual AM 640 / Super-Lo Foods Thanksgiving Food Drive. Brinkley Heights Food Alliance is one of the recipients for food donated to this year's food drive. The alliance of seven churches in the inner-city of Memphis serves our community through emergency services, clothes closet, food pantry, spiritual and referral counseling program that's operated year-round. The program also works in close cooperation with the Department of Human Services (DHS) and Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA)
09/07/21 : Governor Burgum appointed Chris Jones as Executive Director of the Department of Human Services (DHS) in February 2017. He joins Joel Heitkamp to talk about the future of childcare in the state and how it should be changed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Child abuse law is not something to be taken lightly. In this video, we discuss what is classified as child abuse under Iowa law and how an investigation would occur if there was suspicion that child abuse was occurring. Read the full article here: https://www.oflaherty-law.com/learn-about-law/child-abuse-in-iowa O'Flaherty Law now serves over 105 counties across Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana. If you have any questions regarding a case or would like to speak to one of our attorneys after watching a #LearnAboutLaw video, give us a call at (630) 324-6666 or send us an email at info@oflaherty-law.com to get in contact with someone from our team. Subscribe to our channel for daily videos dedicated to all things law and leave a comment with any questions about this topic. Find us online for more legal content and to stay connected with our team - Website: https://www.oflaherty-law.com/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oflahertylaw - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oflahertylaw - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oflahertylawGroup/ This video will discuss child abuse and neglect, as it applies to child abuse investigations conducted by the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS). We cover the following questions: What is child abuse under Iowa Law?, How does an investigation into child abuse begin?, Is law enforcement involved?, What is the child abuse assessment?, What is in the child abuse assessment report?, and What could be the outcomes of the report? **None of the content in this series is intended as paid legal advice.
Cold weather is on its way and this week, we're discussing the District's outreach to vulnerable populations in our community. Director Rodriguez is joined by Laura Zeilinger, Director of the DC Department of Human Services (DHS), and Melvyn Smith, the Homeless Services Outreach Coordinator about services and resources in place to support our neighbors in need. Tune in to learn how you can help protect residents experiencing homelessness from cold weather injury and death. For more information on resources provided by DHS, visit dhs.dc.gov. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Special Guest Lori Windham, Senior Counsel at Becket Fund joins Mark to discuss the status of the case Sharonell Fulton v. Philadelphia. NCLA filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in support of Fulton. In 2018, Philadelphia abruptly terminated foster placement through Catholic Social Services (CSS) leaving foster parents like Sharonell Fulton, who has fostered more than 40 children, without CSS's support. NCLA is deeply concerned about this decision excluding a religious organization. Philadelphia left its policy decision to the City's Department of Human Services (DHS)—an administrative agency. This is problematic because, in comparison with legislative policymaking, administrative policymaking is unresponsive to the interests of religion—especially relatively orthodox or traditional religion—thus rendering resulting policies unequal and unconstitutional under the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause. Learn more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
School wide mental health practices have always been at the forefront on our minds. With the COVID-19 pandemic, these practices become even more essential for both children and adults. Dr. Perri Rosen is a consulting psychologist at the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) at the Department of Human Services (DHS) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is also a Pennsylvania certified school psychologist and special educator. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) Crisis Text Line: Text ‘PA’ to 741-741 PA Support and Referral Helpline: 1-855-284-2494 (for TTY: 724-631-5600)
Work with Purpose: A podcast about the Australian Public Service.
A big part of the Australian Public Service’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been deciding what to do and what not to do.The interests of the Australian people have been at the heart of the question.In our fourth episode of Work with Purpose, David Pembroke sits down in Studio-19 with the secretary of the Department of Social Services and a senior member of the Australian Public Service leadership Kathryn Campbell AO CSC.Kathryn has served in several roles across the APS before she was appointed Secretary of the Department of Human Services (DHS) by the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard.In 2017, Kathryn moved across to be secretary of the Department of Social Services (DSS) with responsibility for both social policy and service delivery.Kathryn is also a Major General in the Australian Army Reserve. In the 2019 Australia Day honours she was appointed an officer in the Order of Australia for her distinguished service to public administration through her senior roles in government departments and in the Australian Army Reserve.Discussed in this episode:– The Department of Social Services priorities.– The challenges of processing a year’s worth of claims in 5 weeks– The onboarding of thousands of new staff– How the APS has grounded its work and decisions on what’s best for the Australian people.– How to sustain a workforce already exhausted by the Bushfire crisis.– What makes Kathryn proud to be an Australian Public servant– How the APS accesses community networks to make better decisions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Iowa's Department of Human Services (DHS) exists to help Iowans achieve healthy, safe and stable lives. But with the arrival of Covid-19, the state's largest department is facing uncharted territory — and whose role is critical, now more than ever, in keeping Iowa's children safe. Anne is joined by Janee Harvey, child welfare bureau chief, to discuss how DHS is responding to the crisis and exciting changes on the horizon for foster care in Iowa.
This week the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) launched a new initiative called Trauma Aware. DHS is the first state agency in Oregon to adopt a trauma-informed organizational policy and launch a Department-wide effort to promote healing and resiliency among its workforce and the people it serves. Director Fariborz Pakseresht and Chief Administrative Officer Don Erickson, the sponsor of the initiative, said rolling out the Trauma Aware program now is a way to bring more supports and resources to staff coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss what it means to be a trauma-informed organization and how we will become one. “Regardless of what part of this organization you work with, you see a lot of trauma. We have a responsibility as an organization to help those people with the trauma they experience but as an employee, when you deal with these things, you take some of that on and begin to experience trauma yourself. Our ultimate goal with this effort to be a trauma-informed organization is to create an environment where we can minimize the trauma for staff and deal with it in a way that we can create an environment of wellbeing for anyone who works for DHS or receives services from DHS,” said Director Pakseresht. Learn more about our Trauma Aware initiative on the OWL. Find more information for staff about COVID-19 on the OWL. Find more information for clients and the public about COVID-19 on the DHS website. Follow DHS on Twitter @OregonDHS. Download full script by clicking here.
This week the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) launched a new initiative called Trauma Aware. DHS is the first state agency in Oregon to adopt a trauma-informed organizational policy and launch a Department-wide effort to promote healing and resiliency among its workforce and the people it serves. Director Fariborz Pakseresht and Chief Administrative Officer Don Erickson, the sponsor of the initiative, said rolling out the Trauma Aware program now is a way to bring more supports and resources to staff coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss what it means to be a trauma-informed organization and how we will become one. “Regardless of what part of this organization you work with, you see a lot of trauma. We have a responsibility as an organization to help those people with the trauma they experience but as an employee, when you deal with these things, you take some of that on and begin to experience trauma yourself. Our ultimate goal with this effort to be a trauma-informed organization is to create an environment where we can minimize the trauma for staff and deal with it in a way that we can create an environment of wellbeing for anyone who works for DHS or receives services from DHS,” said Director Pakseresht. Learn more about our Trauma Aware initiative on the OWL. Find more information for staff about COVID-19 on the OWL. Find more information for clients and the public about COVID-19 on the DHS website. Follow DHS on Twitter @OregonDHS. Download full script by clicking here.
The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) is operating very differently than it was just a few weeks ago. Some programs are operating virtually. Others are encouraging client communication by phone or online, and limiting in-person appointments so they can practice good physical distancing. Much of our workforce quickly converted to telework. We’re doing things we’ve never done before and we’re all learning how to navigate our way through this health crisis together. Director Fariborz Pakseresht and Deputy Director Liesl Wendt share stories from staff who are teleworking, many for the first time. “We want everyone to express their frustrations and their gratitude because we need to know all that so that we can take the right steps to meet their needs. We're all trying the best that we can. We're all in this together and we'll work through this together. We'll get it done,” Director Pakseresht said. Find more information for staff on the OWL. Find more information for clients and the public on the DHS website. Follow DHS on Twitter @OregonDHS. Download full script by clicking here.
The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) is operating very differently than it was just a few weeks ago. Some programs are operating virtually. Others are encouraging client communication by phone or online, and limiting in-person appointments so they can practice good physical distancing. Much of our workforce quickly converted to telework. We’re doing things we’ve never done before and we’re all learning how to navigate our way through this health crisis together. Director Fariborz Pakseresht and Deputy Director Liesl Wendt share stories from staff who are teleworking, many for the first time. “We want everyone to express their frustrations and their gratitude because we need to know all that so that we can take the right steps to meet their needs. We're all trying the best that we can. We're all in this together and we'll work through this together. We'll get it done,” Director Pakseresht said. Find more information for staff on the OWL. Find more information for clients and the public on the DHS website. Follow DHS on Twitter @OregonDHS. Download full script by clicking here.
Minnesota is one of the healthiest states in the country, but it has some of the worst health disparities. A primary driver of health and chronic disease starts in people's social and physical environments. This could be transportation, education, childcare settings, or their housing. All communities can experience poor health outcomes, but due to systemic inequities and the racial hierarchy on which the United States was built., they disproportionately occur in communities of color and the American Indian community. In this episode we take a closer look at what we mean by “systemic inequities,” and talk with two people deeply engaged in this work in two large health institutions in Minnesota: Vayong Moua, Health Equity Director at Blue Cross, and Maria Sarabia, Racial and Health Equity Administrator at Ramsey County. They both serve on the Cultural and Ethnic Communities Leadership Council in the state of Minnesota's Department of Human Services (DHS). DHS is the state's largest agency and provides or administers a variety of services to help people meet their basic needs and live as independently as possible. The agency makes up approximately 42 percent of state spending and approximately 80 percent of the agency's $18.65 billion fiscal year 2019 budget is devoted to health care and related services. DHS is working to implement equity practice and capacity within its core functions, through implementing a health equity policy, and the formation of the Cultural and Ethnic Communities Leadership Council, that serves to track equity, accountability, and systems change throughout the agency.
In this podcast, Oded Awaskar and Yoav Arad Pinkas review the latest cyber & intelligence incidents from the past 2 weeks.On the agenda:“Simbad” – a mobile adware campaign spotted on Google's Play Store by Check Point Researchers.‘Norsk Hydro', an Aluminum company, “Hexion” and “Momentive”, two American chemicals companies have been hit by the LockerGoga ransomware.2 million emails of over 350,000 clients of the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) have been exposed after a successful spear phishing attack.Vulnerabilities found in implantable defibrillators expose patients to life-threatening hacks.You can find our full weekly Threat Intelligence reports here and here.Also, the full “Simbad” blog post can be found in the cpesearch blog.
CheckMates GO Podcast S01E01 - Threat Intelligence Welcome to the first episode of the CheckMates GO Podcast. In this podcast, we review the latest cyber & intelligence incidents from the past 2 weeks. On the agenda: 1. “Simbad” – a mobile adware campaign spotted on Google’s Play Store by Check Point Researchers. 2. ‘Norsk Hydro’, an Aluminum company, “Hexion” and “Momentive”, two American chemicals companies have been hit by the LockerGoga ransomware. 3. 2 million emails of over 350,000 clients of the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) have been exposed after a successful spear phishing attack. 4. Vulnerabilities found in implantable defibrillators expose patients to life-threatening hacks. Enjoy your listening!
Episode 10 of The Case Against examines the documented mental ills of young Damien Echols. #WM3 #DamienEchols #TrueCrime From "Blood on Black" by Gary Meece 'AN ALIEN, FROM ANOTHER WORLD, NOT LIKE ANY HUMAN ON EARTH" “I think at the time I probably suffered from what most teenagers suffer from, you know, just teenage angst, maybe depression, maybe sometimes even severe depression,” Damien Echols explained to CNN's Larry King in 2007 about his adolescence, making it sound as if he was a typical moody teenager. Echols painted a self-portrait of a fairly ordinary kid just a little out of the norm: “Things weren't exactly the same — especially in the South — as they are now. I believe that I probably stood out in the small town where we were living just because of the music I listened to, the clothes that I wore, things of that nature. They considered me an oddity. So I drew attention. For example, one of the things they used against us at trial was the fact that I listened to Metallica. You know, back then, 15 years ago, that was something that was considered strange. Now you hear it played on classic rock stations. It's no big deal at all.” The West Memphis police had more promising leads than who was listening to Metallica, which would have been a rich field for suspects. By 1993, Metallica was one of the top rock acts internationally, playing 77 shows worldwide on its “Nowhere Else to Roam” tour, including dates in such Southern towns as Johnson City, Tenn., Lexington, Ky., and Greenville, S.C. Five years earlier, Metallica had been one of the headliners for the Monsters of Rock Tour at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, just across the river from West Memphis. Two years before that, Metallica had opened for Ozzy Osbourne at the Mid-South Coliseum at the Memphis Fairgrounds. Then as now, being a Metallica fan was no big deal and not something that would single anyone out as a murder suspect. Echols was known around Marion and West Memphis for his carefully cultivated persona as a sneering specter in black stalking along the side of the road, reveling in his bad reputation as a practitioner of the dark arts. What troubled authorities was not an immature poseur with Gothic pretensions but the deeply troubled youth behind the cliched facade. In 2001, Dr. George W. Woods, a Berkeley, Calif., psychiatrist, attempted to clarify what was wrong with Damien Echols in a lengthy statement with an encompassing survey of Echols' mental troubles and background, based greatly on suspect self-reporting. Dr. Woods' evaluation was requested by the Echols defense to determine if his mental illness affected his competency to stand trial. The defense, attempting to appeal the conviction, contended that antidepressants Echols was taking in 1992-1993 heightened his manic episodes, creating a “psychotic euphoria” that included hallucinations and the delusion that “deities” were transforming him into a “superior entity.” The problems and limitations were longstanding, Dr. Woods explained. “Mr. Echols' mother, Pamela, was adopted under mysterious circumstances and reared as the only child of her adoptive mother, who was trained as a practical nurse, and her adoptive father, who was an illiterate blue collar worker. When Mr. Echols' mother began junior high school, she developed bizarre behavior that intensified as she grew older. She stopped attending high school because, in her words, it made her ‘crazy.' She was unable to cope with the stress of school, stopped leaving her home entirely, and received psychiatric treatment. Her adoptive mother was forced to quit work in order to stay home and care for her. Mr. Echols' mother, Pamela, married Mr. Echols' father, Joe Hutchison, when she was only 15. “Mr. Echols' mother became pregnant with Mr. Echols during the first year of her marriage. Due to her age and mental condition the pregnancy was high risk and marked by numerous complications. According to her, the pregnancy ‘almost killed me.' She remained so nauseated and ill that she lost 50 pounds over the course of nine months. Her diet was very poor; she was not well nourished. Her long, high risk labor necessitated a caesarean section from which she recuperated slowly. “Not surprisingly, Mr. Echols had many problems as an infant and young child. He was ‘fretful and nervous and cried all of the time.' His mother could not soothe him, and he slept fitfully for only three or four hours a night. At a very young age he began to demonstrate troubling behaviors. He repetitively banged his head against the wall and floor until he was three. ... “Following Mr. Echols' birth his mother suffered a miscarriage and soon after became pregnant with his younger sister. ... Mr. Echols' mother was not able to care for her two small children, so she sent Mr. Echols to live with his maternal grandmother. Although Mr. Echols returned to live with his mother and father, his mother was very dependent on her mother for assistance in caring for Mr. Echols and, later, his sister. Pamela Echols was never able to live on her own or care for her children without a great deal of support. She remained dependent on others for guidance and assistance with child rearing. “Like Mr. Echols' mother, his father, Joe Hutchi- son, also appears to have suffered from mental instabili- ty. Joe Hutchison is uniformly described as immature, self absorbed, cruel and capricious. He chronically neglected and abused his family. He berated his wife and son, set unrealistic expectations, called them degrading names, destroyed their most cherished possessions, terrorized them by threatening to break their bones and hurt them in other ways, and isolated them from community and family support by moving frequently -- sometimes impulsively leaving a residence only days or weeks after moving in. On one occasion, he forced his wife to leave her hospital bed to move with him to an- other city. He found sadistic pleasure in donning horrifying rubber masks of hideous monsters and appearing at his son's bedroom window where he terrified Mr. Echols by making gruesome noises. In addition, Mr. Hutchison kept his family anxious with his fixation on the notion that others were trying to hurt him. For ex- ample, he was convinced ‘people were trying to run him down' and constantly harangued his wife and son about the individuals who were trying to kill him. ... “Neither mother nor child was equipped to deal with Joe Hutchison's increasingly disturbed behavior. Fearing for her life and those of her children Pamela Echols finally found the courage to divorce Joe Hutchison in 1986.” Damien was the product of two extremely unstable parents. Damien's troubling and often bizarre behavior from an early age worried family members. None of this suggested that the result would be a teenager whose only complaint would be your average case of ‘“the summertime blues.” Dr. Woods continued: “Mr. Echols first recalls being overwhelmed by distressing and terrifying emotions in the second grade when he was positive there was going to be a nuclear war. He believed he ‘had to get back to where something told him he came from before the war started.' As he grew older this obsession evolved into a driving force that consumed him and ‘took up every bit of brain space and brain power.' He became convinced that he was ‘an alien, from another world, not like any human on earth.'” Problems at home continued, Dr. Woods noted. “Mr. Echols' mental deterioration spiraled against the backdrop of his unpredictable and troubled home life. His mother's confusion and dependence continued. Within days of divorcing Joe Hutchison she married Andy Jack Echols, an illiterate laborer who worked intermittently as a roofer. The family was extremely poor. They found a shack set in the middle of crop fields that were doused with pesticides at regular intervals. Despite the extremely unhealthy conditions, the Echols remained in the shack for five years. …" Damien's adoptive father, the since-deceased Jack Echols, gave his impressions of the young Damien on Sept. 4, 2000: “I married Pam Hutchison in 1986, shortly after she split up from her husband Joe. I had known her from the city through friends that we both had. I adopted both of her children, Michelle and Damien. When I adopted Damien, his name was Michael and he had to change his last name to Echols and while he was doing that he changed his first name to Damien. Damien was reading about a preacher named Damien who he liked and that is how he got his name. “When we first got married, I lived in some apartments in Marion. Pamela and her children moved in with me and we stayed there for a few months. We finally moved into a house that needed a lot of work that was in the middle of a wheat field. Some folks might call it a shack, but it gave us a roof over our heads and a place to go home to. It was only 35 dollars a month and we needed someplace that did not cost very much. I fixed the house up as best I could. We had a toi- let in the bathroom and a sink in the kitchen, but they weren't hooked up right so we could not use them at first. I fixed up a pump that was supposed to pump in water, but it could only handle a little bit of water at a time. We learned to use as little water as possible. Since water was a problem we ate off paper plates so we did not have to do dishes. During part of the year, the water would quit running and we had to bring it in from outside. Most of the time we went to Pamela's mama's house and my children's houses and filled up gallon jugs. We tried to fill up enough at one time so that we only had to go every other day or so. We had to haul in wood to heat the place, and it got plenty cold in that part of Arkansas. I got paid okay when I was roofing but if there was ever a storm or other bad weather then I did not work and we did not get a paycheck for that week. I was the only one working in the family so it was real hard when I missed out on work.” In his writings, Damien has described this portion of his childhood with great bitterness. Jack Echols continued: “Damien was not in very good health while we lived at the old farm house. He was not able to go outside of the house because he got really sick. He had a real hard time with his breathing because of all the crops outside the house. Sometimes his eyes and throat swelled up and he could not swallow or see very good. The place right below his eyes turned to a darkish color kind of like he had been hit in the eye. I think the worst thing for Damien, though, were his headaches. From the time that we moved into that house, he would get terrible headaches. He asked me to squeeze his head so that his pain would go away. I would put my arms around his head, like in a head lock and I squeezed it. I did not want to hurt him but he always asked to squeeze harder, so I did. I think that the pain of the headache hurt more than the squeezing of his head. He got relief for a few moments while I did this but the headache always came back. He took some medicine to help with his breathing and to try and keep his swelling down and it did help a little bit but not near as much as we wanted it to work. “Damien went through these spells where he could not sleep no matter how hard he tried to. He stayed up for three or four nights in a row without sleeping at all. These periods were very hard for him and by the end of the second day of no sleep, he was exhausted, fussy, and miserable. He cried a lot during these times and no one seemed to be able to help him with what he was upset about. We never could figure out what he was so upset about, but there was no doubt in my mind that he was as miserable as a little boy could be. His sister Michelle went in his room to talk to him and he sometimes fell asleep for a couple of hours or so and then he stayed up for another few days before getting anymore sleep. I was worried about Damien but I did not know what to do. I had to work during the day and every evening when I came home, I hoped that he would be asleep but he was normally still up. After many days of this, Damien finally slept for an entire night. Once he got a full night's rest, he went for a few weeks without having trouble sleeping. I always hoped that these times would not come back but they always did. It just about broke my heart to see how hard Damien tried to handle his problems, but he never was able to figure out what made him so sad. “Damien never was a really happy boy. He got really sad sometimes and no one, including Damien, had any idea what was wrong. He cried really hard and I asked him what was making him so sad and he told me that he did not know. I never could figure out how someone could cry so hard and not know why they were sad and it was real hard to watch Damien go through this. Damien used to spend a few days in a row where he cried really hard. Sometimes it seemed like he was having trouble with his breathing because he cried so much. During these periods, Damien sometimes started laughing uncontrollably, just like one of those laughs that comes from the belly. It was very strange to me that he went from crying to laughing and I was confused about why he did this. Michelle and his mama tried to get him to stop being so sad but the only thing that ever seemed to help him was time. After a while, he would finally get to where he could stop crying and being so sad. Damien went through this on a regular basis. “There were other times when Damien had so much energy he did not know what to do. He got really excited and kind of hyper and he always walked at these times. Damien walked to some of the parks in the area, to some of his friends houses, and across town. He told me that he sometimes got confused because he was sure where he needed to go but when he got there he felt like he was in the wrong place. I thought that he meant that he changed his mind about where he wanted to go but he told me that it was not like that. Damien did not decide where he was supposed to walk to but got a feeling about where he should be but, when he got where he was going, his feeling changed and he had to go somewhere else. He was real frustrated at these times and I did not know how to help him. I did not really understand what he meant about not knowing where he wanted to be. I sometimes felt that I should have done a better job trying to figure out what he was talking about and maybe then I could have made things a little better for him. “I remember that Damien had some strange needs. Some things could never be out of place and had to be put in a place just so. He had the same pillow all his life and if it ever got misplaced, he howled his head off. Damien could not sleep with any other pillow for as long as I have known him. He had a lot of fear about the closet in his room and did not want any of his toys ever put in the closet. If his toys were in the closet, he panicked and thought they would die. Damien had these two fire hats; one was black and one was red. We had to keep the hats under the bathroom sink just so and right beside each other. If they were not in their place, it made him panic and afraid. … “Sometimes Damien did not have any appetite and he did not eat for several days. It did not seem to matter what Pamela put on the table, he did not want to eat it. After a few days of not eating, Damien looked weaker and I could tell it was wearing on him. I wished that he would eat for his health but when he did not have an appetite there was nothing any one could do.” Dr. Woods wrote: “Going from Joe Hutchison to Andy Echols was like going from the frying pan into the fire. In addition to increased isolation and poverty and being exposed to toxic pesticides, the Department of Human Services (DHS) records show that Andy Echols sexually abused Mr. Echols' younger sister repeatedly until she mustered the courage to report him to her school counselor. DHS intervened and Pamela moved her children out of the shack. Yet, that was as much as Pamela Hutchison Echols was able to do to protect her children from the ravages of poverty, domestic violence, mental illness and sexual abuse. For, no sooner had she separated from Andy Echols than she, Damien and his sister moved in with Joe Hutchison, along with Joe Hutchison's own mentally impaired son. The return of Joe Hutchison, whom Mr. Echols had not seen for years, coincided with Mr. Echols' first psychiatric hospitalization.” Echols' mental troubles did not get better with age, wrote Dr. Woods. “In adolescence Mr. Echols became frankly suicidal. Unable to find a way out of his depression and hopelessness, he thought the only escape from his constant mental, physical and emotional pain was to kill himself. ... At about the age of 16, his mental illness took a sudden turn for the worst. Mr. Echols describes feeling disorganized and out of control of his racing thoughts and emotions. He began to ‘laugh hysterically and make other people think I was crazy.' For Mr. Echols ‘manic-ness' meant ‘everything sped up and became frantic. Others called it hysterical,' but Mr. Echols described it as ‘... being driven.' When he ‘... went crazy, everything sped up.' He ‘... had no thought process.' He could not remember ‘... all of the weird things I did,' but people would tell him about them lat- er and he was surprised by his actions. For example, he recalled a time when ‘some kids threw a hamburger up on the ceiling' and he reached up, grabbed it, and ate it. “His mania was interspersed with periods of ‘waiting' interminably for ‘an abstract thing that might come in the blink of an eye.' He was mentally confused and ‘did not know what he was waiting for.' Mr. Echols ‘tried cutting' himself to ‘feel different somehow' and ‘to see if it would let some of the pain out.' He felt ‘worn-out.' During the one year of high school he attended in the ninth grade, he kept a journal at the instruction of his English teacher. It became more and more abstract -- ‘when I wrote about one thing it came out as something else. If I wrote about the moon, I was actually describing the grocery store.' “Mr. Echols reported that the intense shift between depression and mania ‘literally drove me crazy.' He remembered that ‘everything hurt, from the smell of water to green grass, brown grass.' He was exquisitely sensitive to ‘the way people smelled' and ‘the smell of water.' He described manic episodes when his ‘brain rolled, like a TV that is not adjusted.' He believed his brain rolled when it rained or when he was near a large body of water. The change of seasons had a strong effect on him also, especially fall and winter, and made ‘his brain roll constantly.' “Mr. Echols' overwhelming depression and other problems with mood during childhood and adolescence caused disabling disturbances in his emotions, thoughts, behavior and physical health. His sleep was irregular; he often had no energy to perform the simplest tasks; his thoughts were paralyzingly sluggish or racing at speeds he could not control. He felt caught in time, and thought it was hopeless even to think about feeling better or gaining control over his life. He ruminated about painful memories and insignificant events. He could not concentrate and became easily confused; it was impossible to make even simple decisions. He cried and ‘sobbed all the time without any understanding of what made ...' him so sad. He had no ability to feel joy or pleasure. He became completely inconsolable and isolated, unable to relate to others in any meaningful way. He was inexplicably sensitive to physical sensations and reacted to the slightest changes in his environment. His body ‘hurt when the sun went up or when the sun went down, when it rained or when it did not rain.' He could not stop or escape from the pain; it became ‘a throb that never went away.' He despised himself and felt worthless; he was consumed with shame and despair.” Dr. Woods added: “Mr. Echols has been evaluated on three separate occasions by three different psychologists, each of whom administered a battery of tests. A prominent feature of each evaluation was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), which was administered on June 8, 1992; September 2, 1992; and February 20, 1994. The independent test results were quite consistent; all revealed valid profiles and strong indications of depression, mania, severe anxiety, delusions and psychosis. “Test results for the June 8, 1992, MMPI reflected elevations on scores of psychotic thinking, including hallucinations, paranoid ideation, and delusions, as well as severe anxiety and other related emotional disturbances. The suggested diagnoses were schizophrenia, disorganized type; and bipolar disorder, manic. Individual responses on this test revealed that Mr. Echols was afraid of losing his mind, had bizarre thoughts, and had very peculiar experiences. Three months later, on September 2, 1992, a second MMPI was administered. The test results very closely paralleled the findings of the earlier MMPI. Shortly before Mr. Echols' trial began in 1994, he was administered the MMPI a third time for the purpose of identifying mitigating evidence. Like the other two, this MMPI revealed psychotic thought processes consistent with schizophrenia. Specific indicators of a thought disorder included mental confusion, persecutory ideas, acute anxiety, and depressed suicidal ideation. ... “Prior to and during his murder trial, Damien Echols suffered from a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by enduring delusions, auditory and visual hallucinations and severe mood swings ranging from suicidal depression to extreme mania.” Dr. Woods wrote: “Mr. Echols' accounts of his symptoms since childhood are consistent with severe traumatic stress disorders and mood disorders. He reported periods of dissociation in which he ‘lost' long spans of time. He also endorsed numerous physical problems, including frequent severe headaches (for which he was treated with prescription medications as a child), heart palpitations, difficulty breathing (he was diagnosed with and treated for asthma), and chronic sleeping problems. He reported having nightmares from which he awakened in a terrified state as often as twice a night. These symptoms persisted throughout his childhood and adolescence and grew to include periods of psychosis. … “ Although he has received no psychiatric treatment on death row Mr. Echols stated his mental illness has improved significantly since his incarceration. ... “Prior to and during his trial, Mr. Echols heard ‘voices that were not really voices' and he ‘was not sure if it was a voice inside' his head or ‘somebody else's voice.' He thought it ‘was nearly impossible' to tell if it was his voice or somebody/something else. He experi- enced visual hallucinations that ‘were personifications of others. They were like smoke, changing shape but present and constant.' The personifications had specific names and activities. One was ‘Morpheus Sandman' who was a hybrid of a human being and a god. Another example was ‘Washington crossing the Delaware.' Mr. Echols saw Washington cross the Delaware with ‘Her- mes on the boat.' Hermes was able to cross with Wash- ington because ‘Hermes was moving backwards through time.' Mr. Echols came to believe that he was the same as these personifications, ‘made of the same material and from the same place.' “Mr. Echols stated that at some point in his adolescence he came to believe he was ‘something that was almost a supreme being that came from a place other people didn't come from.' This transformation caused him to change physically, the pertinent changes appearing in his ‘appendages, hands, feet, hair.' He acquired ‘an entirely different bone structure that was not human.' He developed ‘stronger senses.' His eyesight was better and his ‘ability to smell and taste changed.' He had a different stance, moved his eyes and held his head differently. He grew his nails so that they would be a ‘perfect 1 ½ inches long.' When he looked at his hands, he could see his bones. His weight dropped to 116 pounds, consistent with neurovegetative signs seen in mood disorders. 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ENCORE PRESENTATION.... NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!!! Lamont Banks, Cliff Stewart, and Lisa Stewart of the Colorado exoneration firm A Just Cause discuss what happens when the wheels of justice trample unbridled over the rights of innocent Americans. Although the American system of justice is the most-respected worldwide, it is still a system designed, and operated, by humans, which means it's not perfect. Lamont, Cliff and Lisa will highlight ongoing struggles against "the system" and what happens when justice miscarries against our American citizens. Our Special Guests for tonight's show are Melissa Maestas, Angela Patterson, Jennifer and Scott Berry, along with Suzanne Shell, who is the Founder & Director of the American Family Advocacy Center located in Colorado Springs, CO. They will all be sharing stories about the abuse identified within the Department of Human Services (DHS). A Just Cause is currently campaigning for "FreeTheIRP6," who's wrongly imprisoned in Florence, CO for a crime they didn't commit. Read full story: www.freetheirp6.org. For more information, about A Just Cause and to Donate to the IRP6 legal defense fund, visit www.a-justcause.com. Follow us on Twitter: @AJCRadio, @A_JustCause, @FreeTheeIRP6, @FreeeTheIRP6 and Like our Facebook Pages: https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCoast2Coast, https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCO and https://www.facebook.com/FreetheIRP6 Thank you for your support!
Lamont Banks, Cliff Stewart, and Lisa Stewart of the Colorado exoneration firm A Just Cause discuss what happens when the wheels of justice trample unbridled over the rights of innocent Americans. Although the American system of justice is the most-respected worldwide, it is still a system designed, and operated, by humans, which means it's not perfect. Lamont, Cliff and Lisa will highlight ongoing struggles against "the system" and what happens when justice miscarries against our American citizens. Our Special Guests for tonight's show is Melissa Maestas, Angela Patterson, Jennifer and Scott Berry, along with Suzanne Shell, who is the Founder & Director of the American Family Advocacy Center located in Colorado Springs, CO. They will all be sharing stories about the abuse identified within the Department of Human Services (DHS). A Just Cause is currently campaigning for "FreeTheIRP6," who's wrongly imprisoned in Florence, CO for a crime they didn't commit. Read full story: www.freetheirp6.org. For more information, about A Just Cause and to Donate to the IRP6 legal defense fund, visit www.a-justcause.com. Follow us on Twitter: @AJCRadio, @A_JustCause, @FreeTheeIRP6, @FreeeTheIRP6 and Like our Facebook Pages: https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCoast2Coast, and https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCO, https://www.facebook.com/FreetheIRP6 Thank you for your support!
The Department of Human Services (DHS) in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, is a leader in the use of data to continually improve services for its residents. In 1999, DHS created its Data Warehouse that consolidated its human services data relating to topics such as behavioral health, child welfare and homeless services. It then expanded this database to […] The post Linking data to improve human services while working within privacy laws: An interview with Erin Dalton and Brian Bell, Allegheny County Department of Human Services – Episode #151 appeared first on Gov Innovator podcast.
SenioRx Radio, part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, in collaboration with the ASCP returns with a dynamic interview about Value Based Care in LTC Pharmacy. Chad Worz, host of SenioRx Radio interviews Harry Thibodeau, PhC, R.Ph., CCP, FASCP Chief Operations Officer with Pharma-Care, Inc. Medication related problems and medication mismanagement are a huge health problem with serious cost implications. In this age of austerity, employers are working hard to ensure that they provide employees and their families continued access to high quality health care while saving money. To this end, the Asheville Project has proven to reduce avoidable treatment and hospitalizations that will generate substantial cost savings; up to four times greater than the cost of the program. Starting in Asheville, North Carolina, a Value Based Insurance Design, Medication Therapy Management (MTM) has had a long track record of achieving positive health outcomes for health plan enrollees with chronic conditions as evidenced by the twenty studies which found pharmacists improved economic and clinical outcomes through direct patient care. 1 Because of this impressive history, Value Based Care (MTM) programs are included in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug benefit. Over the past several years, Pharma-Care, Inc. has successfully implemented Value Based Care (MTM) services for many independent pharmacies and several municipalities, which, to date have yielded a 7.30:1 return on investment. They also contracted with the New Jersey Counties Division of Aging & Community Services, a division of the Department of Human Services (DHS), to provide Value Based Care (MTM) services to seniors living in their respective communities. The Pharma-Care, Inc. Value Based Care Design program focuses on people with chronic health conditions to accomplish the following goals: ▪ Improve therapeutic outcome for targeted beneficiaries through improved medication use ▪ Reduce the risk of adverse health events through decreasing number of errors in prescribing and in taking medications ▪ Reduce the number of per patient medication claims and medical, hospital and emergency department costs The program has documented the following consistent effects among participants: ▪ Improved knowledge of their disease ▪ Increased medication adherence ▪ Improved self-management behaviors ▪ Improved clinical outcomes Pharma-Care, Inc. presents “Best in Class” solutions by employing a studied proven model, deeply engaging participants, providing individualized and goal driven guidance, providing proof of performance, and easy implementation and integration into current health plans. 1 American Journal of Health System Pharmacy, October 2010 Chad Worz, Pharm.D. Medication Managers LLC 513.746.5087 cell 888.847.2921 fax www.medicationmanagers.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SenioRx Radio, part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, in collaboration with the ASCP returns with a dynamic interview about Value Based Care in LTC Pharmacy. Chad Worz, host of SenioRx Radio interviews Harry Thibodeau, PhC, R.Ph., CCP, FASCP Chief Operations Officer with Pharma-Care, Inc. Medication related problems and medication mismanagement are a huge health problem with serious cost implications. In this age of austerity, employers are working hard to ensure that they provide employees and their families continued access to high quality health care while saving money. To this end, the Asheville Project has proven to reduce avoidable treatment and hospitalizations that will generate substantial cost savings; up to four times greater than the cost of the program. Starting in Asheville, North Carolina, a Value Based Insurance Design, Medication Therapy Management (MTM) has had a long track record of achieving positive health outcomes for health plan enrollees with chronic conditions as evidenced by the twenty studies which found pharmacists improved economic and clinical outcomes through direct patient care. 1 Because of this impressive history, Value Based Care (MTM) programs are included in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug benefit. Over the past several years, Pharma-Care, Inc. has successfully implemented Value Based Care (MTM) services for many independent pharmacies and several municipalities, which, to date have yielded a 7.30:1 return on investment. They also contracted with the New Jersey Counties Division of Aging & Community Services, a division of the Department of Human Services (DHS), to provide Value Based Care (MTM) services to seniors living in their respective communities. The Pharma-Care, Inc. Value Based Care Design program focuses on people with chronic health conditions to accomplish the following goals: ▪ Improve therapeutic outcome for targeted beneficiaries through improved medication use ▪ Reduce the risk of adverse health events through decreasing number of errors in prescribing and in taking medications ▪ Reduce the number of per patient medication claims and medical, hospital and emergency department costs The program has documented the following consistent effects among participants: ▪ Improved knowledge of their disease ▪ Increased medication adherence ▪ Improved self-management behaviors ▪ Improved clinical outcomes Pharma-Care, Inc. presents “Best in Class” solutions by employing a studied proven model, deeply engaging participants, providing individualized and goal driven guidance, providing proof of performance, and easy implementation and integration into current health plans. 1 American Journal of Health System Pharmacy, October 2010 Chad Worz, Pharm.D. Medication Managers LLC 513.746.5087 cell 888.847.2921 fax www.medicationmanagers.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Many parents are afraid to exercise biblical discipline or teach their kids the moral standards of Scripture for fear of having their children taken from their homes. Are these concerns legitimate? Do we have more parental rights than we think? And who can we call when we think our rights as parents are being violated? Our guest, Brad Dacus served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, and went on to receive his Juris Doctor from the University of Texas, School of Law. In 1997, Mr. Dacus founded Pacific Justice Institute, where he serves as president and works to defend religious liberties and parental rights. Brad Dacus can be heard weekly on his radio show, The Dacus Report, and he has been a guest speaker on CBS Evening News, CNN, NBC News, and the O'Reilly Factor. Mr. Dacus has participated in respective debates against the presidents of the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Mr. Dacus has guest lectured at Stanford University School of Law and has testified numerous times before the California State Legislature. He was presented an honorary Doctorate of Religious Freedom and Family Rights degree from California Baptist University. Do You Know Your Parental Rights It's time to give parents back their license to parent. So many kids today are getting amped up and told to do their own thing by friends, social media, and just about everyone and everywhere else they turn to in our culture. Many kids believe their parents have no right to tell them what to do; they've bought the idea that their parents darn sure don't have the right to brainwash them with all that archaic Christianity stuff. Believe it or not, unfortunately, a lot of this stuff is coming from their public schools. I hope today we can help blow the lid off of some of the urban legends about the Department of Human Services (DHS) coming in to snatch kids away from parents just because they're Christians trying to raise their kids according to the mandates of the faith. But, by the same token, there are still some very legitimate concerns that need to be addressed. Today's guest ought to be an encouragement as we discuss parental rights by addressing the following topics: Who is Brad Dacus and why should I listen to him. What is the Ninth Circuit and why should parents be concerned. What is gender identity dysphoria. Is there empirical proof of gender dysphoria. Will family services become involved for disciplining one's own child. Picture provided by: Dannel Malloy
Many parents are afraid to exercise biblical discipline or teach their kids the moral standards of Scripture for fear of having their children taken from their homes. Are these concerns legitimate? Do we have more parental rights than we think? And who can we call when we think our rights as parents are being violated? Our guest, Brad Dacus served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, and went on to receive his Juris Doctor from the University of Texas, School of Law. In 1997, Mr. Dacus founded Pacific Justice Institute, where he serves as president and works to defend religious liberties and parental rights. Brad Dacus can be heard weekly on his radio show, The Dacus Report, and he has been a guest speaker on CBS Evening News, CNN, NBC News, and the O'Reilly Factor. Mr. Dacus has participated in respective debates against the presidents of the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Mr. Dacus has guest lectured at Stanford University School of Law and has testified numerous times before the California State Legislature. He was presented an honorary Doctorate of Religious Freedom and Family Rights degree from California Baptist University. Do You Know Your Parental Rights It's time to give parents back their license to parent. So many kids today are getting amped up and told to do their own thing by friends, social media, and just about everyone and everywhere else they turn to in our culture. Many kids believe their parents have no right to tell them what to do; they've bought the idea that their parents darn sure don't have the right to brainwash them with all that archaic Christianity stuff. Believe it or not, unfortunately, a lot of this stuff is coming from their public schools. I hope today we can help blow the lid off of some of the urban legends about the Department of Human Services (DHS) coming in to snatch kids away from parents just because they're Christians trying to raise their kids according to the mandates of the faith. But, by the same token, there are still some very legitimate concerns that need to be addressed. Today's guest ought to be an encouragement as we discuss parental rights by addressing the following topics: Who is Brad Dacus and why should I listen to him. What is the Ninth Circuit and why should parents be concerned. What is gender identity dysphoria. Is there empirical proof of gender dysphoria. Will family services become involved for disciplining one's own child. Picture provided by: Dannel Malloy
Hank Jongen is a General Manager and Departmental Spokesperson for the Australian Federal Government's Department of Human Services (DHS). As the primary spokesperson for DHS, Hank Jongen regularly participates in talkback radio, is interviewed on television and is actively engaged across the spectrum of social media. Hank has been a Senior Australian Public Service Executive for more than 20 years. He has been responsible for national strategies supporting key government reforms and had a major role in the creation of Centrelink. Hank was awarded the Australian Public Service Medal for outstanding public service as Centrelink's media spokesperson and leading innovations in communication. In this episode, you'll learn about DHS' massive social media effort. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hank Jongen is a General Manager and Departmental Spokesperson for the Australian Federal Government's Department of Human Services (DHS). As the primary spokesperson for DHS, Hank Jongen regularly participates in talkback radio, is interviewed on television and is actively engaged across the spectrum of social media. Hank has been a Senior Australian Public Service Executive for more than 20 years. He has been responsible for national strategies supporting key government reforms and had a major role in the creation of Centrelink. Hank was awarded the Australian Public Service Medal for outstanding public service as Centrelink’s media spokesperson and leading innovations in communication. In this episode, you'll learn about DHS' massive social media effort.
Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, is recognized as a leader in using data to improve the results of its human services programs. In particular, the county’s Department of Human Services (DHS) created its Data Warehouse in 1999. The initiative stated by consolidating its own internal human services data relating to topics such as behavioral health, child […] The post How Allegheny County’s Data Warehouse is improving human services through integrated data: An interview with Erin Dalton, Allegheny County Department of Human Services – Episode #110 appeared first on Gov Innovator podcast.
In continuing the series for the North American Sasquatch Researcher, Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio is excited to bring you a husband-wife duo, Todd and Diane Neiss. Eyewitness turned researcher, Todd Neiss is an Active Duty Staff Sergeant in the Oregon Army National Guard; and a veteran of the Iraq War. He founded the “American Primate Foundation” in 1998. Actively researching these elusive creatures for over two decades, Neiss has been the subject of many television shows and documentaries and has been a featured speaker at numerous Bigfoot conferences across the U.S. and Canada. He holds an Associate of Arts degree in Multi-Disciplinary Studies from Grantham University. Diane Stocking Neiss is currently employed by the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) and founded “Stocking Hominid Research” in 2007. She too has given lectures at various conferences as well as appeared on television. Diane became interested in Bigfoot at a very young age and went on to conduct research in the Southeastern United States as far back as 1974. She co-authored the cryptozoological book “Elementum Bestia” in 2007. After visiting the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s, Stocking ultimately moved to Oregon, where she continues her research with her husband Todd. Diane holds an Associate of Science degree in Forestry from Lake City Forestry College in Florida. Todd & Diane Neiss live aboard a 42-foot motor yacht christened “Jadoo Shikari” (Hindu for “Mystery Hunter”) in Portland Oregon. Upon retiring, they plan to utilize the yacht as a research vessel; exploring the numerous wilderness inlets along the British Columbian coastline in search of Bigfoot. Equipped with a mast mounted remote-controlled FLIR camera, they intend to explore intercostal islands and scour their shorelines and interior for any evidence of these elusive creatures.
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