Kansas increased number of children in foster care while the USA numbers dropped over last decade

Privatization has done nothing for preserving families in Kansas. While the USA foster care system has decreased the number of children in foster care over the last decade, Kansas has continued to increase the number of children placed in foster care.

"In 2012 the number of U.S. children in foster care dropped for the sixth straight year, falling to about 400,000 compared to more than 520,000 a decade ago, according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services.1 The latest figures show there were 400,540 children in foster care as of September 30, down from 406,412 a year earlier and from approximately 523,000 in 2002. Privatization has continued to play a role in reducing the number of children who enter the foster care system." Read more here: http://reason.org/news/show/apr-2013-child-welfare-privatizatio

Under Governor Brownback and DCF Phyllis Gilmore RECORD Number of Kansas Children are in Foster Care

http://www.khi.org/news/2013/aug/12/number-kansas-children-foster-care-continues-grow/
 The Kansas Health Institute's KHI numbers for children in foster care don't seem to match the State's own records.

Taken from the KHI website: "In Sedgwick County, the state’s most populous after Johnson County, the average number of children in out-of-home placements has increased from 950 in fiscal 2011 to 1,319 in fiscal 2013. On June 30 across Kansas, there were 5,719 children in out-of-home foster care settings, a mix of foster homes, relatives’ homes, group homes, psychiatric facilities, and juvenile detention facilities. That’s only the second time in the past 10 years that the number has exceeded 5,700 on the final day of the state’s fiscal year. The last time was in 2008, the onset of the Great Recession."

One thing is for certain, under Governor Brownback and DCF Secretary Phyllis Gilmore more children are being taken from their families, lives are being destroyed and Kansas children don't stand a chance of having any stability in their lives.

The numbers don't match. On the State's website it shows the total number of children served in Sedgwick County in fiscal 2013 was 1,452 which is higher than the 1,319 KHI reported. On the State's website it shows the total number of children served in out-of-home foster care settings was 8,853 which is also much higher than the 5,719 KHI reported. See link here: http://www.dcf.ks.gov/services/PPS/Documents/FY2013DataReports/ServedInDCFCustody/OOHPChildrenServedSFY2013.pdf

The Wichita Eagle Reported: "Over the past two years, near-record numbers of children have entered the state’s foster-care system, the Kansas Health Institute News Service reported. In Sedgwick County, the average number of children in out-of-home placements has increased from 950 in fiscal year 2011 to 1,319 in 2013. Statewide, there were 5,719 children in such placements as of June 30 – only the second time in the past 10 years that the number has exceeded 5,700 on the final day of the state’s fiscal year (the last time was at the start of the Great Recession in 2008)."

The numbers above are below the actual numbers listed by the State but then the Eagle took their story based on the KHI article. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/18/2947009/eagle-editorial-foster-care-increase.html#storylink=cpy

Sedgwick County DA Marc Bennett Is Soft On Child Molesters, Makes Plea Deal

Sedgwick County DA Marc Bennett Is Soft On Child Molesters, Makes Plea Deal http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/14/2943132/derby-church-youth-soccer-coordinator.html#emlnl=Morning_Headlines_Newsletter Knabe had been arrested and originally charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child, a crime that can be prosecuted under Jessica’s Law, leading to a mandatory life sentence without parole for 25 years. The original charge accused him of “lewd fondling or touching” of the boy around Oct. 12. But in June, shortly before his trial, Knabe accepted a plea deal for a less serious felony crime — aggravated indecent solicitation, which is enticing or persuading a child to commit a sex act, according to court documents. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/15/2945215/sources-derby-mans-sex-crime-against.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Headlines_Newsletter#storylink=cpy

Megyn Kelly With America Live Discusses Baby Sammy Wrongful Removal From Parents

Voices Not Heard

Connie Fahrbach seems to believe that if everyone had an attorney they would have stood a chance at a fair hearing. In reality, it wouldn't have mattered because the decisions were made prior. It's a corrupt court system filled with parasites. The safety and welfare of the children is not the priority of the Judges in Sedgwick County and no attorney, legal representation, could have made a difference in a case that was manipulated. Good Luck Connie, I only wish you the best! Published in the Wichita Eagle: Voices not heard I recently witnessed a case presented to a family law judge who renders decisions on issues such as parental rights. I walked away realizing that the family law legal system is designed only to serve the rich. If people are poor and cannot afford legal representation, their voices will not be heard. Citizens are allowed to file pro se motions, but the likelihood of the motion being filed correctly is slim. That also has a negative impact on the outcome. Individuals who can afford legal representation will be heard through their attorneys, and the likelihood of the judge rendering a decision in their favor is almost guaranteed. The judge does not require proof from a testifying case manager or the lawyer representing the wealthy. What the case manager and lawyer say is considered factual, and they do not have to provide evidence to support their statements. When deciding parental issues, there simply has to be a better system for financially struggling people who cannot afford legal counsel. I wonder how many loving parents have lost their children based upon their inability to afford case management services or legal representation when appearing before a judge. CONNIE FAHRBACH Andover Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/12/2934147/letters-to-the-editor-on-libertarianism.html#storylink=cpy

Sex-trafficking sting highlights vulnerability of foster children

Taken from: http://www.infowars.com/foster-care-system-traps-children-into-vicious-cycle-of-sex-abuse-2/ Children rescued from sex abuse are placed right back into it. Lee Ann McAdoo Infowars.com August 1, 2013 The FBI raid that rescued 105 sexually exploited children from a sex trafficking ring last weekend has highlighted the vulnerability of foster children. Sixty percent of runaways who are victims of sex trafficking had been in the custody of child protective services. Many times when children are rescued from sex traffickers they are put right back into the foster care system to repeat the same vicious cycle. Victims may even recruit other children into the very abuse they had just left. With the “child protectors” snatching even more children into the system to get more federal funding, there has become a serious shortage of good foster parents to handle the surplus of children, which means the bar has been set really low for people who can qualify to foster. Click on the link above for more on the story. Posted by LATimes http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-child-sex-20130730,0,1571781.story "According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the information clearinghouse that tracks missing child reports in the United States, 60% of runaways who are victims of sex trafficking had been in the custody of social services or in foster care." Posted by LATimes http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-child-sex-20130730,0,1571781.story

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