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Sample Letter To Social Services
If your children have been removed from your care and it has been several months since then, and you are experiencing delays on the part of the social worker(s) in providing you with services and or having the children returned to you even though you are diligently completing your case plan, I suggest you write a letter to the worker with a cc: to the supervisor AND the Director or Assistant Director. Here is a good example if CPS has recently changed workers and causing a delay in what they are supposed to do. You can copy this letter and change it to fit your situation. I have witnessed the effectiveness of these types of letters. Always be sure to send a copy to your attorney as well as file it with the Court, especially using it as an attachment to a Declaration in the event you file a Contempt of Court against CPS.
Dear Suzy Social Worker:
I understand the Department’s goal is to protect my children while providing me and my family with the tools and services we need to overcome our difficulties. [Name of husband, wife, partner] and I have been dedicated to strengthening our family by engaging in all of the services that the Department is providing us. We are working diligently in completing the case plan because we firmly believe that it is in the best interests of our children and family. We are dedicated to complying with whatever the Department deems necessary for the safe and timely return of our child(ren) to our home. As we can sympathize with the Department’s caseloads, this is no excuse for failing to diligently perform your duties and responsibilities. The Standards of Practice as well as the State’s Policy Manual clearly regulates the Department regarding the children’s permanency. {name of husband, wife, partner] and I are meeting our responsibilities without delay and we expect nothing less from the Department. This letter is to notify you that the Department is failing our family with excessive delays in their service functions which is not meeting regulatory policies in regards to providing our children with permanency.
Over a month ago, I was told that we would be provided with overnight visits. I had spoken with our previous worker, [name], four times prior to the change in workers however, I was repeatedly told that our case was being transferred to you and that as soon as you reviewed the file that the Department would be providing the court ordered overnight visits. I spoke with you a week after you received the file and you told me that you had not reviewed it yet. I called again three times last week and was unable to speak with you personally so I left several messages. To date, I have not received a return call. I find this unacceptable and unprofessional not to mention not in the best interests of our children, who ask me everyday I speak with them while in foster care, when they can stay the night. Our children cry and exhibit signs of severe emotional distress. This can be verified by the foster family.
This letter serves as an official request and demand that the Department adhere to the Court’s Order and provide my children the benefit of familial association before the emotional damages become worse, immediately. If the Department fails to respond to this request and demand within 48 hours of receipt of this letter, we shall have no other remedy than to proceed with a Contempt filing.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
cc: [List of names of other recipients, i.e., worker’s supervisor, the Director and/or Assistant Director of DPSS (or ACS/ACFS/DCFS, etc.), your attorney, other parent’s attorney, minor’s counsel
HERE IS A LINK TO CALIFORNIA CPS POLICIES
YOU CAN GOOGLE “CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES POLICIES ___ (NAME OF YOUR STATE)
http://www.childsworld.ca.gov/res/pdf/SDM_Manual.pdf
Juvenile Dependency Court Survival Guide
Click on the picture to be directed to the entire Guide.
Please note that this guide states that CPS has a “color” system for drug testing and I have been told that has changed.
Your Tax Dollars Paying To Protect DPSS Workers
$700,000 per year. This is what Riverside County has been granted for UN-ARMED guards to “protect” the people who CARE SO MUCH ABOUT CHILDREN! WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY NEED PROTECTION? THESE OFFICES DO NOT HAVE ANY CASH OR VALUABLES ON HAND, WHY WOULD PEOPLE THREATEN TO HARM AND CAUSE “ALTERCATIONS” IF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICE WORKERS ARE NICE, CARING HUMAN BEINGS WHO JUST HELP PEOPLE IN NEED? Maybe CPS social workers, supervisors and the Director, are not really very nice or care one bit about the children!
Check out the Submittal to the Board of Supervisors who approved the funding:
http://rivcocob.org/agenda/2014/04_29_14_files/03-14.pdf
Ha ha ha ha Temecula doesn’t get any guards!!!!!
Adoptive Parents collected $175,000 for children they murdered. CPS approved this home and never checked on any of the nine children they adopted and then murdered them for over 10 years
These people adopted children to torture and kill them and GOT PAID TO DO IT! How could they have gotten away with this for 8 years? Because once a case is closed by adoption or guardianship, CPS washes their hands of the entire thing like, “Oh, well, we replaced the parents with strangers so everything will be OK now.” This is the quality people CPS chooses and the only thing the States seem to care about is the money from the federal government. On top of the supplemental income for the adoptions, these people also claimed the children as dependents on their tax returns! You would think that the IRS would make it mandatory to audit these people on a yearly basis.
I am telling you now we can not stand for this treatment of our children any longer.
donnellyjustice 