We see the therapist

We went to see the court appointed therapist this morning. Things may be looking up. She seems to be down to earth and has common sense, a quality that seems to be in short supply in that profession. One thing we had in common is none of us knew why we were there. She is going to check with the court and see if they know and get back with us.

Youthville Confession

We visted with our state representative last Friday about our problems getting to see the boys. We got a call yesterday from an upper level manager at Youthville. He said he had a call from the state representative and he wanted to hear our side of how we were treated. Before I could start he told me the case manager had been fired and during the conversation he indicated the foster parents in Lyons are no longer foster parents. He said he had talked to several people that we had dealing with at Youthville and they had nothing but good things to say about us. He said the case manager shouldn't have made the recomendation that we have supervised visits. He was sorry we had to go through all this but there is nothing they can do about it now. I suggested they go back to court and tell the judge what he had told me and he said "Oh no,we couldn't do that". So us and the boys go on paying for the state and there contractors mistakes. One good thing came out of the conversation. When I told Ruby the case manager had been fired she giggled and did a little dance. I was afraid she would break something.

We have an appointment

I am running behind on my entries. We finally have an appointment with a therapist. We get to see her on October 7, 2008. That is only 9 weeks since the court ordered it. Not bad for the court system. We haven't seen the boys since July 1 when we took them to buy fireworks and Youthville had a fit about that. We are hearing stories from friends that have seen them a few times and we are real concerned. There was an article in the Wichita Eagle this morning about so many children being killed by parents and care givers. Somebody at SRS needs to take their head out of their butt and look at what their contractors are doing.

We get a counselor - maybe

We got an email from our attorney last friday and he said the court has appointed a counselor to see us. I called her friday and the answering service said they are closed on friday. I called again on monday and the lady who answered the phone said they don't see court assigned cases but she would have the counselor call us. Now we wait again.

We get therapy

We went to juvenile court yesterday to see if the judge would let us see the boys without supervision like Youthville wanted. Youthville was supposed to set up our visits and mediation but as usual they didn't do what the tax payers are paying them for. since we aren't getting along with the boys dad-and that is true-the judge ordered us to have therapudic visits with the boys and group therapy with their dad.
Maybe this is a good thing. We hope when we get with a 3rd party we can find out what has made him so angry with us.

Back to court we go

Last night we received an email from the Youthville wannabe case manager. Following is a brief outline of that email.

She basically said since we went over her head to see the boys, all of our visits will now be supervised. The only reason we went to court was because SRS was supposed to set up our visits but they turned it over to the boys dad who refursed to let us see them at all. These little boys lived with us for the best 10 months of ther lives and now Youthville is spending tax money not for the good of the kids but to show us how tough they are.

This morning we told our lawyer to go ahead and file in juvenile court.

We go to court

After paying a very good lawyer $1500 we went to court yesterday. We get to have the boys over from 12:00 to 6:00 the 3rd Saturday of every month. Hey that's better than we had after waiting for Youthville to do the job the tax payers are paying them for. I don't think we are getting our moneys worth. We have plans to start a new group to run them out of town. Stand by for future announcements.