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

[(Anonymous)]

You're not alone! Very few people I know who have read this believe a word of it. You would think if this was real, she wouldn't be on LJ begging people to repost, but would be going to every damn news outlet. They would never turn down a story like this, so the fact that it hasn't made the news...

Makes a good scare tale for Halloween, I suppose.

[margotlefaye.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty normal for someone who has been on LJ for four years to post about her personal trauma in her journal. I can think of several reasons why local media wouldn't take a story like this, such as local politics. Not living anywhere near the area, I have no clue if that's the case, here.

I'm not naive. I've seen, even helped investigate, online hoaxes perpetrated upon online communities. Enough to know that money isn't always the motivating factor in such cases. I'm just not seeing the same hallmarks here.

That said...I do believe there is some danger in making these posts public. What's to keep the people harassing her from finding them and using them to their advantage?

However, while the posts remain public, I'll be following the story with interest and offering what moral support I can.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I have been on LJ since, I think, 03 or 04. I document EVERYTHING here. Even if it is in a private post, everything is documented and then backed up with ljbook at least once a month.