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#mtsu4umisc#child welfare#poverty#abolition#family policing#family separation#foster care#ACS#jmac for families#fuck acs#new york
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YEAH
YEAH.
#found a third jmac bobblehead yesterday. i did not know i was in possession of a third jmac bobblehead. help#also stormtrooper brandon crawford's head fell off while i was packing him#my family will be so thrilled with the things i am putting in their house#fresno oilers.txt
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good afternoon cuda fans, it is a rainy sunday in the bay area, i have had a medically inadvisable amount of chocolate and caffeine at two different holiday parties todau and if there's justice in the world, someone completely fucking random will score the gwg today on this, my birthday.
1st period takeaways: cuda's attempt to murder their pk continues apace, sieloff is getting real bossy in ways i personally find [redacted for a family internet] and i think jmac got a haircut. condors are up one, but that's ok bc when you live in bakersfield, you deserve a win once in a while
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CP on the left with Daly down the middle would be 🔥🔥🔥 if Tobins healthy her on the right and if she’s not fit then Emslie on the right. I’m not sure if the follow means anything though, Daly left for England specifically for family and girlfriend being over there reasons. Maybe CP just wanted to follow her? And Daly following ACFC might not mean much because so many players follow them (viv, cat, JMac).
Yeah maybe. I stopped paying attention to CP's follows or unfollows because they don't make sense sometimes.
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The New York Times: Is N.Y.’s Child Welfare System Racist? Some of Its Own Workers Say Yes.
Published Nov. 22, 2022Updated Nov. 23, 2022
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For decades, Black families have complained that the city’s child welfare agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, is biased against them.
It turns out that many of the agency’s own employees agree, according to a racial equity audit the agency commissioned but never publicly released.
A draft report, based on a 2020 survey of more than 50 Black and Hispanic frontline caseworkers and agency managers in Brooklyn and the Bronx, along with many parents and advocates, described a “predatory system that specifically targets Black and brown parents” and subjects them to “a different level of scrutiny.”
In New York’s child welfare system, where Black families are seven times as likely as white families to be accused of child maltreatment and 13 times as likely to have their children removed, “race operates as an indicator of risk,” the report concluded.
The survey laid out deep-seated problems afflicting an agency that must balance protecting the safety of children and respecting the autonomy of families.
A failure to detect signs of serious abuse can have tragic consequences, as a series of fatal beatings last year in families known to the agency demonstrated.
But families find child welfare investigations profoundly disruptive, humiliating and even traumatic. Caseworkers making unannounced visits strip-search children looking for bruises and peer into refrigerators and around homes looking for signs of bad parenting. One A.C.S. worker in the survey compared the experience to being stopped and frisked for 60 days.
For poor families pulled into A.C.S.’s orbit, who are overwhelmingly Black and Latino, symptoms of poverty are frequently punished as signs of neglect, the survey found.
Because poverty is correlated with higher rates of neglect and abuse, it is difficult to say how much the disparities in the system can be directly linked to income or to race.
But according to the survey, A.C.S. workers and other participants said that rather than starting from a presumption of innocence, “Black and brown parents are treated at every juncture as if they are not competent parents capable of providing acceptable care to their children.”
Caseworkers said they felt pressured to push their way into people’s homes and not tell parents their rights. They “feel complicit in the harm that A.C.S. can cause Black and brown families” and powerless to change the system, the report stated. Most A.C.S. caseworkers are Black, as is most leadership in the agency’s Division of Child Protection, the agency said.
Among the reforms recommended by staff members in the survey was a “Miranda warning” law requiring that parents be immediately informed of their rights not to speak to caseworkers and not to let them in without a court order, and to consult a lawyer.
The agency has opposed such measures, arguing that they would make it harder for caseworkers to immediately assess whether children are safe.
The draft report was obtained from the city via a Freedom of Information request by the Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit that represents parents in family court. The report, prepared by a consulting firm that helped governments design more racially equitable systems, was based on conversations with those who chose to participate rather than on a quantitative survey.
The report, said Joyce McMillan, executive director of JMac for Families, which advocates for families with A.C.S. cases, reveals an agency “targeting certain demographics” using tactics “based on surveillance and not the actual protecting of a child.”
“The report also tells us that their own workers are not comfortable doing this stuff and that they feel choked into submission,” she said.
The survey comes to light amid a flurry of reports criticizing New York’s child welfare systems. The state bar association recently declared the state’s system “plagued by racism.” Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union released a report last week concluding that in New York and several other states, Black children are needlessly separated from their families.
Now, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether child welfare authorities in the state violate Black families’ constitutional rights. The first hearing in the inquiry was held on Friday.
Much of the racial disparity in who gets pulled into the child-welfare system is outside A.C.S.’s control. It must investigate every allegation that meets definitions of abuse or neglect, and such reports can be made by anyone; two-thirds are eventually deemed unfounded. Last year, one in 15 Black children in the city was the subject of a maltreatment investigation; only 1 in 111 white children was.
A.C.S. declined to answer questions about the report, but its commissioner, Jess Dannhauser, said in a statement that the agency continued to work to address “racial inequities that have existed in child welfare for too long.”
“A.C.S. is focused every day on achieving safety and equity. While many have suggested it must be one or the other, we believe they can only be accomplished together,” he said. “We will continue to put policies and initiatives in place that aim to keep children safe while reducing unnecessary A.C.S. involvement.”
Racial disparity in child welfare is intertwined with economic and societal factors putting pressure on families, experts and research suggest. Maltreatment rates are five times higher for lower-income children, according to federal statistics, and Black New Yorkers are nearly twice as likely as white residents to live in poverty.
Statewide data underscores the connection: Racial disparities in child welfare involvement and the income gap between Black and white are both much larger in New York City than in the rest of the state.
Stress is at the root of the relationship between poverty and child neglect and abuse, said Melissa Merrick, president of Prevent Child Abuse America, an advocacy group.
“If you can’t pay your rent or you have to work three jobs and take three buses and you don’t have child care,” she said, “all of these things may put you on edge, and maybe make you not be able to bring your best parenting self to the job of parenting.”
Dr. Merrick said that conditions including racial bias, disinvestment in communities of color and lack of access to support systems all drive disparities in abuse.
But Black families in New York City are also more likely than Hispanic and Asian families to be accused of neglect or abuse or to have their children removed, even though Hispanic and Asian families have higher poverty rates. A New York Times analysis of 83 child homicides from 2016 to 2022 found that Black children in the city were killed in cases where family members were charged at about seven times the rate for white and Asian children and three times the rate for Hispanic children.
Several Black parents with recent A.C.S. cases said in interviews that they felt they would have been treated differently if they were white.
“I think A.C.S.’s goal was to prove abuse,” said Mylana Gerard, 25, who lost the right to be alone with her infant son for nearly a year after he was found to have 16 fractured ribs.
Even after she gave A.C.S. records from a specialist stating that the fractures were probably caused by a genetic variant, the agency waited five months before clearing her. Ms. Gerard, who works for a nonprofit and lives in the South Bronx, said she believed that if she were white and richer, A.C.S. would have tried harder “to find out what was going on with my son.”
Disparities in the child welfare system persist in New York City even as the overall number of children removed and placed in foster care continues to fall, from 40,000 in the late ’90s to 14,000 a decade ago to under 7,000 today.
Once Black families are in the system, the outcomes of their cases are more likely to be severe. As this year began, 4,300 Black children were in foster care — about 1 in 90 — while only 406 white children were — about 1 in 1,100.
The racial gap has also defied years of attempts by the agency to close it.
A.C.S. has had an “Office of Equity Strategies” since 2017. It has a Racial Equity and Cultural Competence Committee and an Equity Action Plan. It requires implicit bias training for staff.
It assigns a growing percentage of its caseload to a noninvestigative track that connects families to the help they need. It supported legislation that raised the evidence threshold for substantiating abuse reports and that required bias training for mandated reporters of abuse, including teachers and medical workers.
Gladys Carrión, A.C.S.’s commissioner from to 2014 to 2016, said that the challenges the agency faced were universal — and enormous.
“There is no child welfare system in the U.S. that stands out as being able to have effectively dealt with the issue of disparity,” she said. “To A.C.S.’s credit, they’ve tried a bunch of things, maybe more than other jurisdictions, and none of them has moved the needle.”
She added that the agency faced the impossible task of keeping every child safe without overpolicing families. “This is the only place which has a standard that you can never make a mistake.”
In October 2020, while the study, conducted by the National Innovation Service, was underway, A.C.S.’s then-commissioner, David Hansell, touted it to the City Council.
“We must listen, even when it is difficult,” he said. “And we must look critically at our own attitudes, even when it is painful.”
In the survey, many A.C.S. workers focused on how allegations of neglect — a broad category that includes inadequate guardianship, food, clothing or shelter and accounts for two-thirds of all maltreatment reports — are used to sweep poor families into the system.
Mandated reporters, the workers complained, often “file reports that describe conditions indicating poverty but not neglect.” Teachers make reports “based on the cleanliness of a child’s clothing or whether they bring food to school.”
Caseworkers said they spent so much time chasing unfounded neglect claims that it became harder for them to protect children from abuse. They suggested the agency push lawmakers for clearer neglect standards.
Emma Ketteringham, who heads the Bronx Defenders’ family practice and participated in the survey, said that nothing appeared to have changed at A.C.S. since the report.
“The bigger picture here,” Ms. Ketteringham said, “is that we have A.C.S. publicly committing to be an antiracist organization and then not even sharing the findings publicly, let alone implementing them.”
Angel Charles, a 37-year-old travel nurse, thought her dealings with A.C.S. were behind her.
Ms. Charles, who herself experienced sexual and physical abuse, had three children removed for abuse and neglect in her early 20s after her 3-year-old son burned himself on a radiator, she allowed her children to miss school and she kept an unsanitary apartment, her lawyer said. Ten years and many hours of therapy later, she says she has gotten her life together and has been steadily employed.
But after she gave birth to a daughter on New Year’s Day, an A.C.S. worker came to her hospital room, Ms. Charles said. The agency charged her with “derivative neglect,” meaning it considered her unfit to parent a new child based on her history — and has continued to press the case despite positive evaluations from her therapist and her baby’s foster-care agency, her lawyers said.
Ms. Charles is still fighting to keep her baby. She said that if she were white, she would not have faced this battle.
“I do feel attacked,” she said. “I’ve missed 10 months of my daughter’s life over this.”
#Is N.Y.’s Child Welfare System Racist? Some of Its Own Workers Say Yes#Parenting#Black Families#Black Children#Black Lives Matter#Stolen Lives#NY Child Welfare System#ACS
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with otto snoring beside me
dear me,
you've come off a holiday season that stored you right back in that glowy firelit warmth you'd missed out on the past few years. the holidays truly felt like decades, but you lived in them fully and with so much delight. so much more to say, but this isn't about that.
here you are in a home you spent almost half your time in, with two dogpeople that have intertwined along the garden wall with you, three vines growing together more and more each day. what has the year looked like?
jan: grannys birthday!
feb: everything everywhere all at once in theaters, julias car needed a stereo so played hookie,
march: rain forever, to florida and dc for an east coast extravaganza
april: titas birthday in fullerton, lots of outins with jmac, struggling through the last quarter
may: finished indoor league <3 , got trapped on coronado, found mold in my closet
june: SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER -> met claire, to valle for the first time, to the bay for birthdays and a flight to vancouver + boat to victoria,
july: 4th of july at our house, MAGIC CASTLE, beach picnic with a canopy, cristinas birthday and reserving a fire pit at 7 am, and a new year begins with a new staff new admin, new kids.
aug: watched barbie, TAYLOR SWIFT, house got painted, prepping our faces off for the europe trip
sept: boston on the first day of vacation and then to london!, made one night in paris, and then home early to recover from the chaos, beach picnic and cards, and my car finally kicked the full bucket so welcome to the family rav 4, and the house finally finally got its numbers and a new green door, had a night out at fleet science center with FREE dinner, quieter homes finally giving us ac and windows and locking both me and julia out of the house concurrently, and babysitting of course
oct: neighbor's pipe burst, first time surfing! decorating for halloween because we finally had the house back, yves tumor @ observatory, dinner @ amie's, babysitting ollie, creating the great pumpkin for trunk or treat, being cruella deville, and HOZIER!!!!!!!!!
nov: billy raffoul w/ amie + steven, jinhui's birthday at din tai fung, TWO FIELD TRIPS (zoo, the grinch), starting mimi and mamie's mixed media martial arts, waffling about staying in sd or home for thanksgiving, home for pia's 21st in sf, camping with jmac in the rain, friendsgiving, driving home at 4am, relic bageri!
dec: the whirwind of the winter season and fully embracing the fun at work, decorating the house for the holidays, my birthday at campfire!! , driving home with k, amie, nahla, and jules and spending a day with amie and home. enjoying the holidays with k, visiting carmel, visiting the cabin with furniture for the first time, and home again
in between all this, the sunday shopping trips, the weekend jmac excursions, the lack of a home, the car problems, the growing into yourself. you've felt a settling and a snapping into place of where you fit into this world, a sense of putting the last puzzle piece into the community, the friendships, the relationships, and life in general that you've made for yourself. when a puzzle's done, we break it up and start a new one. it feels like 2024 might be the year where we begin again and i'm scared to let go of the perfect life i have already. i'm scared of the new challenges ahead, of the way things are never quite the same as the days before. i'm scared to because i'm so happy and so loved, and i know life changes. i know i'm in a golden moment. i know life will change and give me more golden moments, but i have worked so hard to climb this mountain and reap these rewards, and i'm having a hard time knowing a new climb will be ahead even though i know that summit will be just as wonderful.
we grow, we change, life changes around us. we try and try again. happy new year, i love you. you can do it.
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shit like what jmac said really makes you wonder what the atmosphere is like btwn the players on the courage. like how do kham and abby erceg feel about honkle as they’re openly out? or other not out lgbtq girls on the team? or even the uswnt girls who we know support lgbtq rights (sam, abby, crystal). idk man just makes me think, like have they said anything about it to management or to honkle herself
dude i have no freakin clue. i mean everyone i know who’s worked with the team says they’re lovely and awesome and all that jazz, and it makes me wonder if they just ignore it for the sake of everyone getting along and it being one big happy family.. which is extremely problematic. i mean jmac clearly doesn’t give a shit which makes me have VERY little respect for her as a player and human in general. sorry.
#im so sorry my answer us all over the place#i cant form a coherant thought these days#im not good with words im so sorry yall#i hope i make sense#answered
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#mtsu4uMISC#social work#joyce macmillan#jmac for families#social welfare#family policing#child welfare#family regulation#child abuse#child neglect#abolition
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the uswnt: one big happy crackhead family
dads
-vlatko: every time someone scores it looks like it’s his first time ever watching a football game
-tobs: toblerone loves her son linessi and her smol child mal
-ko: Frat Daddy
-saucy sonny: Frat Daddy Jr (see gifs from the canada game)
-pinoe: BDE (big dad energy) look at her hair wow
moms
-alex: literally (almost). also def the mom friend in the AM/KO/AL trio
-jmac: literally again
-ali: just... mom vibes. plus she’s married to a fuckin child lmao love u ash
-our queen cp: MOM JEANS and have u seen her with dogs and/or tobito and mal
-abby d: a mom in all ways we stannnnnn
uncles, aunts, and more
-captain broon: actually no one knows who she’s related to. maybe fbi?
-alyssa: U N C L E
-ad: the cool aunt but everyone somehow forgets ab her? its ok we love u ad
-allie: the one aunt who pranks everyone and then almost shits her pants when someone pranks her instead
-dunny: taught all the kids how to dance before they took their first steps
-jj: actually could also fit in the mom category but she’s an honorary aunt
the children
-tierna: can barely legally fucking drink alcohol in the US of A
-moe: basically the only youngster who isn’t accidentally burning the house down
-mal: a smol soft bean aka tobinho+pressy’s child
-rose: chaotic sweet baby rose, a National Treasure
-sammy: a very Tall child (no seriously wtf 6 FUCKING FEET ?!?!)
-hat trick horan: toblerone’s ptfc son. freakishly tall child number 2
-ash: dont @ me, she 110% belongs here also how does a child even have tattoos
grandma
-carlos
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not trying to add to your fragile state but why does Jmac seem like best friends with homophobia?
haha i appreciate it 😂 and i have no idea. 🙄 i know it can be complicated when you have family members of views like this (my favorite aunt is very religious and im sure she doesn’t believe in gay marriage but like. she doesn’t discuss it to the media or actively talk about it at all) but if a friend of mine was homophobic i’d be like 👋🏻 bye i’m not having those disgusting views in my life. so yeah. but jmac does think of hinkle as a best friend which is 🤢
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it comes, it goes, i stay
Dear me,
Happy new year! wow, look at all you've accomplished. look at all the love in your life, the abundance of it all.
jan: k and otto moved in after their ceiling needed to be replaced
feb: trip to joshua tree and got covid, missed k's birthday
march: celebrated k's birthday, said the L word, went to london and scotland! saw issy!
april: babysat small dog, had friends over for paint night! watched coachella w/k, watched hasan! played in a softball league. went out w/ casey and amie
may: went to mxmtoon w/ melanie and hayley. calvin and melanie hung with us for memorial day
june: wedding in boston! london and italy with family!
july: san diego! babysitting ollie with a donut head and bopping over to LA for a day
august: babysitting the kids for a weekend
september: wedding in jersey! vacation in NY and nashville!
october: minions car decorating, also fixing the car. more ollie babysitting. celebrating julia's engineering test at campfire. watched a SD waves game! halloween party @ amie's
november: lake arrowhead w/ jmac. home for thanksgiving
december: even more babysitting ollie. cooking baking. ironside for my birthday. home, and finally to minneapolis because of course
dogs, friends, travel, love, family. i'm not sure what else i could ask for. of course your biggest foe is still around. it's officially been 5 years of it. this year has been so full to the brim of living and doing, and i am so proud of how much life there was to be had.
i hope that in the new year we can center in on what plagues us. i hope we can learn those healthy habits we so desperately want because we have done so well at building this life. i hope that we get more clarity and feel less trapped because right now, we really do feel trapped in our 9-5 life. and that's ok. i hope we can get some distance between our sense of self, how we see our own worth, and our work. we are still working on that perspective.
there has been so much joy. there has been so much self doubt. and yet i am still here. and yet i am still a person who brings light into others' lives. i want to do that and feel less of the dimming from others' expectations. i hope i can.
happy new year, i love you. you bring so much into the world.
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