When Hell Came to Our Home Update October 18

[crabby_lioness]

Master Post

After many hours of wrangling our lawyer got a copy of the DHS's "Individual Service Plan" for myself and my husband.  It's a hoot.  Counselors we've shown this to have hit the roof.  It only has one signature attached to it, and that isn't anyone I've seen or talked to.  Each section has a different date, and a different due date.  Everything is out of compliance with the official state practices.  Some of it is against state law, other parts of itare against official insurance practices.  Some of it isn't even worded in complete sentences.

Part 1 says:

"...will correct her home deficiencies to corrrect but arenot(sp) limited to replaceing the dead bolt lock"

This is:

1) ungrammatical,

2) incorrectly spelled, and

3) the deadbolt lock they want me to remove is next to a front door window that's already been broken into before.  The insurance people would hit the roof over that!

Part 2 wants the children's medical/dental records BUT doesn't offer to pay for them.  I learned today that's not kosher.

Part 3 says:

"...will provide proof/confirmation that the children's educational needs are being met."

That's ILLEGAL in Mississippi.

Part 4:

"the dead bolt will be replaced with a safer type of lock..."

DHS, meet insurance people.  Insurance people, meet DHS.

There's no "client" signature.  There's no "social worker" signature.  There is an "ASWS" signature -- but no date.  I was told that the ASWS is the social worker supervisor.  BUT the person who signed in the "ASWS signature" slot is not a social worker supervisor.  She's not even a social worker.  Melody Hamilton, who has the only signature on the entire document that they faxed our lawyer, is a student intern working in their office.

How many ways can you say FAIL!  


From dh:
We need an easy to use video recorder.
It needs to get OK pictures in indoor light but have really good audio pickup for recording any of these "encounters" or "interviews."
Any recommendations?

Comments

[celestinenox]

Apparently not, or she wouldn't have done it, I would hope.

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

She probably didn't do it -- I'd bet that, when compared, this and Melody Hamilton's actual signature will not match.

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[qara-isuke.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair....if you're gonna forge a signature, wouldn't you forge the signature of an ACTUAL supervisor? (This may be giving them too much credit)

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

Yep, I think you're giving them too much credit -- I'm guessing over-complication to confuse the trail. Something like: it didn't occur to them that CL would get a lawyer, so the never wrote up the report -- originally they thought that if you don't write it up then it didn't happen, therefor any questioning CL does about the "non-existent" visit makes her look paranoid. Problem with that was when the demand for info came down through official channels instead of through the hysterically panicked calls they expected, they panicked. They threw together something that included the basics of the complaints, maybe making it look incompetently prepared because they thought that would throw suspicion off of them. They used the student intern's name when they forged the signature because they consider her a soft target, likely because the actual ASWS is better able to defend herself. They probably think they've got the clues going in so many different directions that with everyone under suspicion the inevitable investigation won't be able to sort out the innocent from the guilty.

Something like that, anyway.

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[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

...they threw her under the bus

Indeed! Some folks are utterly contemptible - I mean, we knew that already in this case but JEEZE....