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Memo from the Ministry of Childrens Services
« on: February 24, 2009, 02:07:00 PM »
From a social worker friend:

HI XXXXXX:
 
Did you not report this to CYS? I thought you did...
 
here's the message from our ministry:
 

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and youth being abused or mistreated is one of our most important responsibilities at Children and Youth Services.

 

We depend on our community partners and the public at large to help us do this work. In fact, the obligation for citizens to report when they believe child abuse or mistreatment may be happening is so important that it is required under the law through the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act.

 

Last Friday, a report alleging abuse of youth in our province was aired on the CBC's Fifth Estate. The report was about a privately run addictions treatment program called the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre (AARC) in Calgary. The Fifth Estate spoke to former participants in the program who are now adults. While some credited this treatment program for having a positive impact on their lives, others made troubling claims of physical and sexual abuse while attending the centre.

 

The airing of this program raised questions this past week about the role of our ministry in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of youth in this centre. Given that the protection of children and youth is a core mandate of our ministry, it is important to provide you with information that was not presented on the Fifth Estate.

 

Most important is that our ministry is not aware of any report alleging the abuse or mistreatment of a young person at AARC. Such a report would be looked into immediately and investigated by the appropriate authorities. Minister Tarchuk made that point clear when she responded to questions this week in the Legislature. She stressed that every report of alleged abuse our ministry receives is taken seriously and is investigated.

 

 
( Message from Fay Orr, Deputy Minister, continued... )


Most important is that our ministry is not aware of any report alleging the abuse or mistreatment of a young person at AARC. Such a report would be looked into immediately and investigated by the appropriate authorities. Minister Tarchuk made that point clear when she responded to questions this week in the Legislature. She stressed that every report of alleged abuse our ministry receives is taken seriously and is investigated.

Our ministry does not look into allegations of abuse or mistreatment brought forward by adults, even when the alleged incident happened when they were children or youth. Reports by adults must be made to police and our role is to support police in their work, when requested.

Addressing reports of child abuse and mistreatment is within the mandate of our ministry. The provision of health-related addictions treatment services is the mandate of entities under Health and Wellness.

As Children and Youth Services employees, relatives and friends may sometimes speak to you about child and family services, including what they read or hear in the media. I encourage you to take the opportunity to ensure they are aware of how seriously our ministry and its staff take their responsibility to protect children and youth and to look into any report of abuse or mistreatment we receive. Please also remind them of the important role the public plays in helping us do this important work.

Making decisions that are in the best interests of children and youth at risk is not always easy. Minister Tarchuk and senior staff in our ministry understand that and are firmly behind you as you make decisions based on what the best information available at the time tells you is the right thing to do to support children and families at risk.


Wow

Isn't it good to know they take reports so seriously?
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Re: Memo from the Ministry of Childrens Services
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2009, 11:03:30 PM »
The whole piece was absolutely Orwellian. They made it absolutely clear that their commitment to children was secondary (despite much repetition to the contrary)... to their commitment to passing the buck wherever possible:

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Most important is that our ministry is not aware of any report alleging the abuse or mistreatment of a young person at AARC. Such a report would be looked into immediately and investigated by the appropriate authorities. Minister Tarchuk made that point clear when she responded to questions this week in the Legislature. She stressed that every report of alleged abuse our ministry receives is taken seriously and is investigated.

Our ministry does not look into allegations of abuse or mistreatment brought forward by adults, even when the alleged incident happened when they were children or youth. Reports by adults must be made to police and our role is to support police in their work, when requested.

These kinds of abuses -- that happen to kids in places like AARC -- often don't surface 'till said kids are adults, whether due to no recourse available at the time, or due to confusion and trauma experienced by the kids in question. Administrators in places like CYS simply do not want to acknowledge that reality. And they wonder why people don't take them seriously!!
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Re: Memo from the Ministry of Childrens Services
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2009, 10:25:56 AM »
LOL.  And since kids in AARC can't communicate with the outside world (without the approval of the program), it's pretty much ensured there will never be any reports.  Congratulations, Canadians!  It seems as if government over there is about as useful as it is over here.  So is this incompetence, sloth, corruption, or some combination of those?
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Re: Memo from the Ministry of Childrens Services
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2009, 01:23:45 PM »
I made a complaint directly to Ron Stevens in '07.  He refused to act, and passed the letter to Paddy Meade, at that time Deputy Minister of Health.  Meade refused to act and told me to call the Child Welfare Hotline if I knew of abuse.  I sent her another e-mail and stated that she now knew of such a complaint, so she ought to call the Child Abuse Hotline.  
Copies of my original message to Stevens and Meade's response are now in the hands of a Calgary reporter.  As Meade is now head of the Health Superboard, she was well aware of allegations against AARC.  She is, in addition to being a crook, also a liar.
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"AARC will go on serving youth and families as long as it will be needed, if it keeps open to God for inspiration" Dr. F. Dean Vause Executive Director


MR. NELSON: Mr. Speaker, AADAC has been involved with
assistance in developing the program of the Alberta Adolescent
Recovery Centre since its inception originally as Kids of the
Canadian West."
Alberta Hansard, March 24, 1992

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Re: Memo from the Ministry of Childrens Services
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2009, 01:35:58 PM »
Perhaps a copy of the letter that "a mom" received (substance of the OP) should be forwarded to that reporter as well? Nothing like a side-by-side comparison in hand for a visceral look at blatant hypocrisy and untruths.
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Re: Memo from the Ministry of Childrens Services
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2009, 02:18:18 PM »
Additionally, after Stevens sent my complaint to Meade, I sent Stevens another e-mail.  I demanded to know why he had referred me to Paddy Meade when Health and Wellness does not govern AARC.  Meade did hook AARC up to a half million a year or so in AADAC money, as well as the several million AARC got for their expansion.  What is important about Stevens' response is that he unequivocally stated that Meade was responsible for AARC.  I also sent those e-mails to the reporter.
The performance in the Legislature by our Health Minister, indicates that he is most likely also either on the payroll or part of the mutual masturbation club that keeps AARC afloar.
Either way, Meade is source of AARC government loot.  Thus Meade should eat the shit sandwich that is whipped up when the government has to explain why they were funding a program that uses the identical methods to the Seed, Straight, Kids etc., when these were all cults.
"But this is a good cult!"
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"AARC will go on serving youth and families as long as it will be needed, if it keeps open to God for inspiration" Dr. F. Dean Vause Executive Director


MR. NELSON: Mr. Speaker, AADAC has been involved with
assistance in developing the program of the Alberta Adolescent
Recovery Centre since its inception originally as Kids of the
Canadian West."
Alberta Hansard, March 24, 1992

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Re: Memo from the Ministry of Childrens Services
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2009, 03:06:29 PM »
I need some clarification on something...

After complaints of abuse regarding AARC, no action was taken.

After deaths in facilities in the united states, some places were shut down, albeit with a lot of litigious crap.

Conversely...

Casa by the Sea was RAIDED by the Mexican police.

Dundee Ranch was RAIDED by Costa Rican authorities, and they took the motherfucking facility over. Both were immediately shut down.


No offense to the mexican or costa rican police, but uh... whut? Please connect the missing dots.
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