Laporte County Indiana Judges Support PFC

[Anonymous]

ARGH!!! Why does PFC get $15,000, the most of all? DFP, PFC, STRAIGHT, whatever.........  :bs:

http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sec ... M=42939.56

Judges helped collect fines for grants

Jeane Bock

Thank you to our La Porte County judges! Because our judges have been so diligent in collecting drug offense related fines, the Drug Free Partnership has more than $160,000 to appropriate in grants this year.

How does this work? Funding is obtained through court-imposed fines from convicted alcohol and drug related offenders. By state law, it is placed into the Community Drug Free Fund. Seventy-five percent of these funds are annually awarded through a grant process to community organizations and individuals involved in designing and implementing projects and services addressing the actions recommended in the Drug Free Partnership's County Plan.

The Partnership attacks this complicated issue via a three-pronged approach: prevention and education, treatment and justice. Twenty La Porte County projects are being funded this year.

Six justice grants are being awarded: La Porte County Sheriff Breathalyzers, $5,574; Teen Court, La Porte, $8,045; Teen Court, Michigan City, $8,635; La Porte Metro Operations Drug Task Force, $7,500; La Porte Police Department, $4,800 for portable breath tests; Risk Reduction/Women's Groups at Bradley Center, $800.

There are nine prevention grants and projects: TRIAD pill drops, $1,000; South Central Junior/Senior High School self-esteem program, $1,977; Community Corrections Teacher, $9,600; Project Ed, $10,000; County Jail Relapse Through Employment Mentor and Education, $8,600; Boys and Girls Club, $8,738; YANA, $1,000; Special Red Ribbon Projects, $2,000; Youth Making Moves, $2,000; Special Coalition Projects, $4,000; Drug Free Partnership, $2,816 for coalition building and public education.

Also, we're giving six treatment grants: Prenatal Substance Use Prevention Program at Dunebrook, $5,000; Pathway Family Center for adolescent treatment, $15,000; Open Door Adolescent Treatment, $8,250; Community Corrections In-House Treatment, $5,000; County Jail Substance Abuse Treatment, $8,500; It Takes a Village Community Action Board/Rejoice, $10,000.

Subsequent columns will focus on some of these programs so you can read firsthand what is going on in our county, the problems we see, the stories we hear and what is being done. So, thank you, honorable judges Kathleen B. Lang, Steven E. King, Paul J. Baldoni and William J. Boklund for all your support in 2008. We could not do this without you.

Drug Free Partnership meetings are held at noon the first Wednesday of each month, alternating between Michigan City and La Porte, and are open to the public. Call (219) 363-9550 for locations.

[Anonymous]

Things to do:

1. Keep track of the grants PFC is applying for to let the funding source know what they are ahead of time. If the funding source gets the information showing what PFC is actually doing to children, and the sender of this information insists on a letter of response, the funding source cannot claim ignorance of aiding and abetting child abuse and should therefore be concerned about liability.
2. Find out who to write letters to regarding this use of funding for child abuse. (Please sue me, PFC.)
3. Post these addresses.
4. Write a standard letter that anyone can print off, sign, and mail to the appropriate parties.

[Anonymous]

You could send something like this, it's bound to get thrown in the trash anyway, but wth, it's worth a shot....


To Whom it May Concern,                                                               January 12, 2009

The Indiana Attorney General must immediately act on this situation. Pathway Family Center has been holding at least one 14 year old boy on its Level One for 221 consecutive days. The LaPorte County judges, in collaboration with the Drug Free Partnership, have contributed financial resources to aid in the systematic physical and psychological abuse of clients in the Pathway Family Center program. The Indiana Department of Mental Health and Addiction licenses the Indianapolis Pathway Family Center. There are reports of similar lengths of time spent on Level One at this facility. This practice is not limited to the Michigan facility.

A partial list of those involved, to varying extents, in this behavior include the following agencies, individuals, organizations and entities:

Pathway Family Center
Drug Free America Foundation
Drug Free Partnership
Office of National Drug Control Policy
CADC of Porter County
Porter County Commissioners
Porter County Council
Porter County Sheriff
LaPorte County judges
DMHS/FSSA
CARF
ODADAS (Ohio)
Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH)
Bureau of Health Systems (licensing PFC in MI)

Of peculiar interest is this website: http://www.laportecounty.net/drugfree/index.html  ; The "Passages Group" link on that page goes to a site about a man named Bill Oliver. This man was the national director for STRAIGHT, Inc. which is what the Drug Free America Foundation is called today, however, the treatment modality from that program remains intact at all Pathway Family Center facilities.


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There's more in the letter, but it's just contact info that people already have...  :deal: