We get to see the boys

After spending 2 hrs. with the boys father at the therapist on 12-3 we finally got to see the boys with the therapist present on 12-9. It had been 5 months and 9 days since we had talked to them in person. The therapist is court appointed but she seems to be ok. We have been there before and the jury is still out on that. We saw them again at her office on 12-16 for about 40 min. after she had talked to the boys one at a time and then with us and the boys father together. The boys want to come to our house for overnight but their father objects so the will come to spend 8 hrs. with us on 12-26. After that they will start spending more time with us. I asked if we could go to the little boys school music program at school the next day and the boys father said no. I will add more after Christmas.

Case Plan Meeting

We had a case plan meeting this afternoon. It was about the same old thing with different players. The only one of the old crew was the guy who visits the boys. The CSO (court officer)was there for the first time. The boys were not allowed to attend. Court orders you know. I would have thought there was enough people there to protect them from us. Now we wait for the therapist.

Appeal Denied

On July 29th I sent a "report of alleged violation" to the Behavioral Sicences Board with a mound of evidence of wrong doing by the case manager and the family therapist. Today I called the Special Investigator to ask about the status of the investigation. I got a call back from one of the underlings who said it was turned over to the review committee yesterday and they dismissed it. Now we must find a new route, and we will.

old blog

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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.