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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 498781" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>thank you!</p><p></p><p>Buddy- no way- I'd be in jail within a week. LOL!</p><p></p><p>This state is primarily...well, I won't get political...let's just say the public here generally cares more about jobs than social issues and that's why the process is designed where lawyers, MH profs, judges, etc, get their experience in juvie courts- and seriously- they get a license or min requirements to get the job and they use juvie courts to train them. Then, when they have done the entry level stuff for a year or so, they become a super- so to me, it's the blind leading the blind.</p><p></p><p>I actually found the legal docs that say the reason a GAL in this state has to be an attorney is because "they have been taught how to put a brief together and present it in court". OK- but where in there did they learn what was in the best interest of an at-risk youth...especially when these are typically people who are too young to be parents of a kid over 5 and have absolutely NO experience raising a difficult child? It's to give newly licensed attnys the courtroom experience. Only the bar and other lawyer organizations can nominate an attny for judgeship and all judgeships begin in juvie courts. Are you starting to see a pattern here? No way private attnys are going against this since many, if not most, got their start in their career by being a GAL and because if they have any aspirations of becoming a judge someday, it won't happen if they tic off other attnys.</p><p></p><p>I can see the general public and legislators (who are of course mostly attnys voted in by the public) wouldn't give a koi- and that's how it ended up in this bad of shape- however, the past few years it's hurt their budget sooooo bad that they have had no choice but to look for a better solution. The state knows they can no longer afford to throw all these kids into Department of Juvenile Justice incarceration. A lot of that trnspired last year at the same time difficult child was first released with no services then recommitted- they actually said that the local gov had no funding to provide services so they were kicking difficult child back into Department of Juvenile Justice so he would be on the state budget. </p><p></p><p>My son isn't their guinae pig to be trained on and I'm tired of him being a pawn in a war between the state and local govs and I'm tired of being the brunt of a head game and power trip of local CSU.</p><p></p><p>I can point oout a lot of things stated in these gov reports that aren't being done. One- they are to have a collaborative approach that helps the family maintain employment and stability. Really? Did anyone tell the POs who have said they don't care what I say or if it costs me my job or not because it's all their choice, they will order whatever they want and any hardship it costs me is my problem? And this is how I'm treated when I try to see to it that my son is held accountable for committing an offense against me?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 498781, member: 3699"] thank you! Buddy- no way- I'd be in jail within a week. LOL! This state is primarily...well, I won't get political...let's just say the public here generally cares more about jobs than social issues and that's why the process is designed where lawyers, MH profs, judges, etc, get their experience in juvie courts- and seriously- they get a license or min requirements to get the job and they use juvie courts to train them. Then, when they have done the entry level stuff for a year or so, they become a super- so to me, it's the blind leading the blind. I actually found the legal docs that say the reason a GAL in this state has to be an attorney is because "they have been taught how to put a brief together and present it in court". OK- but where in there did they learn what was in the best interest of an at-risk youth...especially when these are typically people who are too young to be parents of a kid over 5 and have absolutely NO experience raising a difficult child? It's to give newly licensed attnys the courtroom experience. Only the bar and other lawyer organizations can nominate an attny for judgeship and all judgeships begin in juvie courts. Are you starting to see a pattern here? No way private attnys are going against this since many, if not most, got their start in their career by being a GAL and because if they have any aspirations of becoming a judge someday, it won't happen if they tic off other attnys. I can see the general public and legislators (who are of course mostly attnys voted in by the public) wouldn't give a koi- and that's how it ended up in this bad of shape- however, the past few years it's hurt their budget sooooo bad that they have had no choice but to look for a better solution. The state knows they can no longer afford to throw all these kids into Department of Juvenile Justice incarceration. A lot of that trnspired last year at the same time difficult child was first released with no services then recommitted- they actually said that the local gov had no funding to provide services so they were kicking difficult child back into Department of Juvenile Justice so he would be on the state budget. My son isn't their guinae pig to be trained on and I'm tired of him being a pawn in a war between the state and local govs and I'm tired of being the brunt of a head game and power trip of local CSU. I can point oout a lot of things stated in these gov reports that aren't being done. One- they are to have a collaborative approach that helps the family maintain employment and stability. Really? Did anyone tell the POs who have said they don't care what I say or if it costs me my job or not because it's all their choice, they will order whatever they want and any hardship it costs me is my problem? And this is how I'm treated when I try to see to it that my son is held accountable for committing an offense against me? [/QUOTE]
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