Finding the Money Trail ...to fixing cases for bad dads. Facilitated with the HHS Access-Visitation Enforcement program, The Responsible Fatherhood program and Fatherhood Faith Based Initiative; funded by earmarks, executive orders and other hidden measures.
White
House 1995 Executive Order requring all departments to support fatherhood
programs
This
is what started the Responsible Fatherhood programs which are currently running
in over 10 federal departments and agencies !
Administration
for Children and Families Home Page -
this federal division of HHS is the
source of the funding which is fueling the court corruption problems.
Judge are making their rulings according to the program grant requirements and
not by the case evidence. Past ACF officials were closely
associated with the fathers rights groups and leaders, and essentially turned the
dept into a pro-father, abuse cover-up agency.
ACF Responsible Fatherhood site This
site has a good example of their "pass-the-buck" excuses of
their own fraud: 'the federal government is not authorized to handle custody and
visitation - so we will have the state agencies do it for us':
"Although
visitation is not in the same office as child support, the state CSE agency
should be able to tell you who can help with custody and visitation enforcement
in the state. Family law, including parental rights, is under the
jurisdiction of the individual states, and the Federal government cannot
intervene."
More HHS-ACF sites where programs are set up to promote the interests of
responsibility evading fathers
Child
Access and Visitation Grants:State/Jurisdiction Profiles for FY 2006
Promoting
Responsible Fatherhood, U.S. HHS 2006
HHS-ACF
Responsible Fatherhood Report - 2008
OCSE
Responsible Fatherhood Programs,
"Early
Implementation Lessons, Center for Policy Research, Jessica Pearson, Ph.D.,
Nancy Thoennes, Ph..D." This is the demonstration programs which was the basis for all the others.
We have excerpted the most relevant pages of this 105 page report, highlighted with inserted notes pinpointing the sections
describing the fraudulent intent.
Look for sections which describe free attorney for
fathers and child support abatements.
This Michigan fathers rights group even offers litigation forms. Doesn't
this indicate that non-lawyers are offering litigation assistance which of
course is illegal??
Dads of Michigan / Fathers
are Parents Too
This
Michigan State Dept of Human Resources site offers fathers litigation help.
Hasn't anybody told them that HHS-ACF funds are not authorized for litigation.
Even worse they appear to be to soliciting for litigation?
MI-DHS - Dads get free legal advice and information about parenting
"
The series is sponsored by the Michigan Department of Human Services'
Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative, Michigan State
University's Chance at Childhood, and community providers of the Proud
Fathers-Proud Parents programs"
( This money is coming from the $150,000,000 middle-of-the night earmark got by NFI - see below)
.
FORMER HHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY, WADE HORN, GOT HUGE EARMARKED FUNDING FOR
FATHERS' FATHERS LITIGATION
$150,000,000 "middle-of-the-night"
Dec. 2005 "earmark" for fatherhood programs, engineered by Wade Horn's
and his Senate allies, when Horn was HHS Assistant Secretary for ACF, which only a few knew about until after the Senate session
ended the next day. National
Fatherhood Initiative ::: NFI Capacity-Building grants
HHS
gives the money to NFI, who in turn distributes it to local state agencies and
fathers group (renamed to appear more neutral). On this site you will find
a long list of organizations which received these grant funds from N.F.I.
Horn resigned from his HHS-ACF top position in mid-2007 (coincidently
after Liz submitted documentation to high level HHS legal officials about Horn
serious conflicts with the fathers rights over these programs.
DC SET UP SPECIAL COURT FOR FATHERS !!!
Apparently
nobody at the Washington D.C. court system heard about the laws against gender
bias, since they have setup special courts for fathers. This court starts out with the assumption the
father is the good guy who needs more "help". Wonder which gender will
be favored in court rulings?
Superior
Court, OAG Collaborate to Form New Fathering Court (note:
find this article on linked site half way down page)
"The family court of the Superior
Court of the District of Columbia has partnered with the D.C. Office of the
Attorney General and other D.C. government agencies to create a new entity, the
Fathering Court. This program, currently in the pilot phase, will help recently
incarcerated fathers get the help they need to support their families through
services such as drug treatment, parenting classes, and job training."
"The Fathering Court will help an initial class of 45 noncustodial fathers become responsible for their children through a combination of needs assessment, case management, and linkage to community resources. Resources for Fathering Court participants include mandatory fathering classes, employment training, and family and parental educational classes. Participants also must maintain sobriety, which will be enforced through mandatory drug testing. An individual case manager and the Fathering Court program manager will monitor each participant’s progress."
“The Fathering Court is a unique effort to help fathers returning from prison become better parents—financially and emotionally—to their children,” said Family Court Presiding Judge Anita Josey-Herring. “[W]e will be able to help them find gainful employment, slowly increase the amount of child support they owe, and to develop meaningful relationships with their children. Custodial parents will get the child support they are due, fathers will have a chance to meet their support requirements, and the relationship between parent and child will be about more than just money.”
D.C. Attorney General Linda Singer agreed.
“Parents coming out of prison have many strikes against them, and this program is designed to give them a fighting chance to be a parent to their child or children,” she said.
Magistrate Judge Milton Lee, who will preside over Fathering Court cases, added that he looked forward to the challenge that this new program represents.
“Judges who hear child support cases can grow weary of excuses, just as those returning from prison can grow weary of job application rejections, and custodial parents can grow weary of not receiving court-ordered child support. And the children living without the benefit of appropriate financial and emotional support from both parents are the ones who suffer most,” he said. “We know that children benefit from having both parents involved in their lives.”
Some agencies supporting the Fathering Court include the Bureau of Prisons, Child Support Services Division, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, Fatherhood Initiative of the Department of Human Services, and D.C. Office of the Attorney General. —J.R.
Safe
Visit Topeka -CRC / Supervised Visitation Network Action Alert
Note site section mention of CRC influence in getting HHS
money: "Because more than a half million
families have been helped since the first $10 million a year in access funds was
provided, at the Children's Rights Council's request"
Jeffery
M. Leving, Ltd. Attorneys at Law
"Leving
was appointed as Chair of the Council on Responsible Fatherhood for the State of
Illinois by Governor Rod Blagojevich". (This deal also included
lots of money !!)
Feb
15, 2008 Illinois Council Responsible Fatherhood Notice picture
with Leving in center, surrounded by Judges.
The
Illinois Council on Responsible Fatherhood
Sources
of Funding for Male and Father-Involvement Programs Family
Therapy Center -- Expert help on custody, parental alienation and parent
New York & Gerogia
Georgia
Fatherhood Programs
Wade Horn Resigns, Perhaps he was thinking that the revelation "shortly before his resignation" that the nearly $1 million he gave to the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), where he had been the president for many years prior to joining the Bush administration in 2001, as Assistant HHS Secretary for Administration for Children & Families - was only the tip of the iceberg.
THEY
CAN'T EVEN KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF THE CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTIONS !!
The HHS Inspector General is supposed to be the oversight auditors for the
department. Instead , they are ordering the states to turn over
abandonded child support money to the federal government. Their
policy is the that the state child support agencies must split
66% for federal vs 34% for state, all collected but not received or deposited by
custodial parent . States are allowed to devise their own
policies and methods to verify when a child support account payment is "abandoned",
which
means the custodial parent can not be located, or the checks are not cashed, or
the mailed check is returned as undeliverable mail. This purported
"abandoned" funds must be distributed back to the federal
government. A few quick calls to state
child support agencies
revealed in at least one large state - the method of handling and determining
an "abandoned" payment was fraudulent
and most like a deliberate "set-up-to fail" procedure, enabling the state agency
to continue collecting the
support money from the non-custodial parent while not sending it to the custodial parent and eventually keeping the money
for the state's general fund.
Search this site for Inspector General reports titled: "Review of
Undistributable Child Support Collections..." instructing various state
agencies to return to the federal government monies collected from the
non-custodial parent which have not been received by the custodial parent.
HHS-Inspector General Audit Report
This information was turned over to a
Daytona Beach reporter who wrote an article on her findings of a similar
situation with Florida's child support agency:
Daytona
Beach NewJournal - ChildSupport 02/06/08
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