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Posted By: Mr. NobodyWas she ever reprimanded for ther article on that family....didn't think so. "sure mistakes are made" should apply to everyone.
Seems like you got a beef with Lindor. Perhaps you should approach the "award winning " journalist and get your point across. May work better then ranting against her, she's got the pen .
Posted By: pizzamanSomething better. Higher skilled workers who posess higher life-skill values would be a good start.
Posted By: grumpy old man 26 minutes ago...From the Sun...
A CFS authority wants to spend $140,000 on an ad campaign to counter media coverage last fall which it feels led some members of the public to believe "devolution was a devastating mistake."
A draft document uncovered by the Opposition Tories from the First Nations of Northern Manitoba CFS Authority proposes to spend cash on a campaign showcasing aboriginals as educated, capable parents. The campaign is in response to coverage which, according to the document, led some members of the public to believe "First Nations people were uneducated, unskilled, and unable to care for their children."
"We were discussing how there are these stereotypes that have been applied to the authority and how devastating they can be. We wanted to alleviate people's concerns about First Nations people being able to take care of their own children," Northern Authority communications manager Rhonda Gordon Powers said yesterday.
The $138,900 for the campaign -- a "very rough estimate" -- would come from the communications budgets of the agencies under the authority's umbrella and would not detract from front-line services, she said.
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This kind of nonsense must end. Is it any wonder the hand is always out asking for more? What right-minded person would even consider this asinine initiative?
Posted By: pizzamanSomething better. Higher skilled workers who posess higher life-skill values would be a good start.
Posted By: pizzamanI have personally seen the CFS workers turn a blind eye to kids living literally in shit in their homes with lice infested dogs. And most people in the inner city can attest to that. Its time to dismantle this organization because it does not have the proper capacity to make a significant difference.
When it's dismantled, what do we do with the kids who are being abused? Do we just leave them where they are? I have to wonder if any of the people who talk about dismantling CFS, have ever seen CFS in action and know the mandates the workers work under. Not just what has been reported on TV, or in the newspaper.
I've seen it on many different sides. A man who had fought CFS to adopt a baby girl who had been taken from her crack addicted mother, was murdered. CFS then had to place that child in a safe home, so they found loving responsible family on the reserve that the baby girl's family came from and placed her there.
A woman who keeps having baby after baby so that welfare won't make her go to work, and so that her cheques will increase, has had her children taken away numerous times. Each time she does what she's asked in order to get her kids back, then falls back to her old ways when she's not being "watched by the system" anymore. She always blames CFS when her kids are taken from her. It never occurs to her that her drug addiction, drinking, etc... may be the problem.
When I was going through some major health issues and needed some help in caring for my kids, but being a single parent, on a limited income, I didn't have many choices. The Family Centre of Winnipeg couldn't help as much as they would have liked due to funding cuts from the government, so the suggested asking CFS for some assistance. Apparently the fact that you aren't physically capable of taking care of your children doesn't matter, as long as they have food available to them, aren't bruised with broken bones, and there's a roof over their head. CFS told me that I fell through the cracks of their system. Because I was a parent who obviously needed help, but I had no "parenting" issues.
There are many kids out there that need CFS, if you take it away, they will be left with nothing. Some of these kids don't have any adult support other than their CFS worker. That worker may be the one sitting in court all day, making sure the child gets to medical appointments, etc... when the parents can't or won't.
I agree, CFS needs some changes made, but dismantling it would only hurt the children.