Meanwhile, in other states, including my own home.
In the few months that I have been residing in my home-at last state of New Mexico, a body of horrifically disturbing data arising with respect for the state's most at risk youth has emerged, data that is 100% on point with the fact that in Arizona, the Department of Health/Behavioral Health Services has been been willfully engaged in violating its obligations to the public trust, specifically in relation to the state's most at-risk population(s). It is a common feature of our nation's deepest shortfalls today, as I see it, the simple fact that in those places where anybody of reasonable of conscience would expect our most vulnerable citizen-peers to be most safe, there are irrefutable patterns of abject discrimination, widespread abuse, and administrative ineptitude. This is absolutely due to the associated fact that in settings of this sort, and in terms of the state agencies most directly responsible for overseeing such settings, persons that are virtually predatory in their gross dereliction(s) of duty.
(FORMER ASH STAFF ROGER ALLAN FORNEY, ANYONE?
THE MAN WHO WAS HIRED TO WORK AT ASH, 2010, IN SPITE OF A VERY SERIOUS PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORD THAT INCLUDES SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN.)
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And now a glance at the role of a high ranking state administrator in direct association with this issue, specific to New Mexico's most at-risk kids.
"Child abuse case at YDDC fell through cracks." (copyright Albuquerque Journal Jan. 30, 2014)
The criminal case against a former staff member at the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center, accused in a civil suit of beating and sexually assaulting resident children, was closed after falling through the cracks.
ARAGON: Arrested and charged with child abuse
Eddie Aragon Jr., 31, was arrested and charged by State Police in February 2012 for child abuse, but the case was closed last October when the District Attorney’s Office said it failed to get additional information needed to proceed.
(FORMER ASH STAFF ROGER ALLAN FORNEY, ANYONE?
THE MAN WHO WAS HIRED TO WORK AT ASH, 2010, IN SPITE OF A VERY SERIOUS PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORD THAT INCLUDES SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN.)
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And now a glance at the role of a high ranking state administrator in direct association with this issue, specific to New Mexico's most at-risk kids.
CYFD chief defends agency, explains staff vacancies
Children Youth and Families Secretary Yolanda Deines testifies before the Senate Public Affairs Committee on Friday about shortcomings in her agency. Jane Phillips/The New Mexican
Posted: Friday, January 31, 2014 7:00 pm | Updated: 12:09 pm, Sat Feb 1, 2014.
The head of the state’s Children, Youth and Families Department defended her agency Friday, telling lawmakers that even an influx of money cannot solve all the problems that make protecting children one of the hardest jobs in state government.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: "(Y. Deines) also told the Public Affairs Committee that she opposes a joint memorial seeking a raft of historical information from her agency regarding foster care... .Deines said compiling some of it would be onerous, and she was concerned about the resources that would be needed." This is a ludicrous mischaracterization of CYFD's obligations in terms of record keeping. "Compiling" such historical data should not be a task, in itself (much less deemed as "onerous"), and should rather be readily maintained and available at any point in time, on behalf of CYFD's clientele, and NM's citizenry as per the public trust. The primary purpose of such data/record keeping is so that this public agency, responsible for overseeing the needs of NM's most at risk kids, can be maintained in reasonably transparent fashion. As with other related stories evidence in NM 2013-14 proves, inc. the very recent story about an at-risk youth facility (see: "Child abuse case at YDDC fell through cracks", Alb. Journal 01/30/14), settings and agencies obligated to serve the needs of such highly vulnerable persons (e.g. the elderly, mentally ill, and disabled in general) are far too often rife with deep shortfalls (abuse, admin. ineptitude, etc.) that I contend are shocking to anyone of reasonable conscientious. This woman's misconduct and the assoc. issues are occurring to the detriment of NM most at-risk kids, at the the expense of NM taxpayers across the board. (PJ Reed, author: "The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse" [blogspot.com]).
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INEVITABLE, I SUPPOSE, THAT I WOULD CARRY MY EXPERIENCES AND ACCRUED KNOWLEDGE BASE SPECIFIC TO BEING A CLIENT OF ARIZONA'S GROSSLY SUBSTANDARD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES, AS IT RELATES TO MY 13 MONTHS OF HOSPITALIZATION IN THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL (AND THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS BLOG) TO MY HOME STATE OF NEW MEXICO. I HAVE YET TO TURN MY ATTENTION TO NEW MEXICO'S PRIMARY LONG TERM MENTAL HOSPITAL, LOCATED IN LAS VEGAS, NM, BUT SUFFICE IT TO SAY, AS MY WORK IN ASSOCIATION WITH ASH HAS GARNERED LOCAL ATTENTION, A RANGE OF PERSONS I KNOW HERE IN NM HAVE SHARED EQUALLY TROUBLING INFORMATION ABOUT THIS STATE('S) FACILITY, INCLUDING HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. THIS IS ON A PAR WITH PERSONS I CAME TO KNOW IN ARIZONA WHEN THIS BLOG WAS FIRST CREATED, IN EARLY 2012, PERSONS WHO HAD INTIMATE FAMILIARITY WITH, AND ADHS/BHS. AS THE ASH STORY CONTINUES TO EVOLVE, AND MY WORK IN THAT CONTEXT EBBS SOMEWHAT (PRESUMING OF COURSE THAT MY PRIMARY OBJECTIVES IN TERMS OF OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ARE ESTABLISHED), I DO INTEND TO SEEK MORE DATA ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT NM'S MOST SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL CITIZENS ARE BEING PROVIDED WITH, OR LACK THEREOF). IT IS THE LEAST I CAN DO, AND ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH MY SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY, CONSCIENTIOUS SELF AWARENESS, AND UNWILLINGNESS TO STAND IDLY BY WHILE THE MOST AT-RISK AND VULNERABLE TO ABUSE PERSONS IN MY IMMEDIATE LANDSCAPE ARE TREATED LIKE VERMIN. I SAW AND EXPERIENCED FAR MORE THAN ENOUGH OF THAT WHILE HOSPITALIZED AT ASH. RAT BASTARDS BEWARE.
INEVITABLE, I SUPPOSE, THAT I WOULD CARRY MY EXPERIENCES AND ACCRUED KNOWLEDGE BASE SPECIFIC TO BEING A CLIENT OF ARIZONA'S GROSSLY SUBSTANDARD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES, AS IT RELATES TO MY 13 MONTHS OF HOSPITALIZATION IN THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL (AND THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS BLOG) TO MY HOME STATE OF NEW MEXICO. I HAVE YET TO TURN MY ATTENTION TO NEW MEXICO'S PRIMARY LONG TERM MENTAL HOSPITAL, LOCATED IN LAS VEGAS, NM, BUT SUFFICE IT TO SAY, AS MY WORK IN ASSOCIATION WITH ASH HAS GARNERED LOCAL ATTENTION, A RANGE OF PERSONS I KNOW HERE IN NM HAVE SHARED EQUALLY TROUBLING INFORMATION ABOUT THIS STATE('S) FACILITY, INCLUDING HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. THIS IS ON A PAR WITH PERSONS I CAME TO KNOW IN ARIZONA WHEN THIS BLOG WAS FIRST CREATED, IN EARLY 2012, PERSONS WHO HAD INTIMATE FAMILIARITY WITH, AND ADHS/BHS. AS THE ASH STORY CONTINUES TO EVOLVE, AND MY WORK IN THAT CONTEXT EBBS SOMEWHAT (PRESUMING OF COURSE THAT MY PRIMARY OBJECTIVES IN TERMS OF OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ARE ESTABLISHED), I DO INTEND TO SEEK MORE DATA ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT NM'S MOST SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL CITIZENS ARE BEING PROVIDED WITH, OR LACK THEREOF). IT IS THE LEAST I CAN DO, AND ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH MY SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY, CONSCIENTIOUS SELF AWARENESS, AND UNWILLINGNESS TO STAND IDLY BY WHILE THE MOST AT-RISK AND VULNERABLE TO ABUSE PERSONS IN MY IMMEDIATE LANDSCAPE ARE TREATED LIKE VERMIN. I SAW AND EXPERIENCED FAR MORE THAN ENOUGH OF THAT WHILE HOSPITALIZED AT ASH. RAT BASTARDS BEWARE.
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