Stakeholders make decisions and policies on the way CPS provides it's services. Stakeholders should not be judges, attorneys, public defenders, CPS social workers, etc... because these people have power, influence, interest, and the ability to destroy a family's life. Abuse of power in the field of Children's Protective Services is currently not only a problem in every state in the United States but also in other countries as well. The existence and survival of healthy intact families need your help to change the current unfairness and imbalance of power in the CPS system.
Who picks the stakeholders for an agency? The agency forms the group to be their stakeholders. An agency simply has to hand pick their stakeholders in order to produce a wanted outcome of an agency's goal. Stakeholder mapping is a process of identifying stakeholders and assessing their power, influence, and interest.

Napa County Child Protection Services stakeholder members consist of members from:

Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC ), Juvenile Justice COordinating Committee, Child Welfare Services, Napa County Public Health Dept., Napa County Mental Health Dept., Napa County Health & Human Services (designated agency to administer CAPIT/CBCAP/PSSF), *Parents CAN Family Resources, Napa County Probation Department, Cope Family Center, Foster Parent, Napa County Counsel's Office, *Public Defender's, Napa County District Attorney's Office, St. Helena Family Resource Center, American Canyon Family Resource Center, Lilliput Children's Services (kinship support/adoption), Napa County Alcohol and Drug Programs, CASA Program, Napa Emergency Women's Services, Victim Services, Community Resources for Children, Napa County Office of Education, Napa Valley Unified School District, Calistoga Unified School District, St. Helena Unified School District, Napa Police Department, St. Helena Police Department, Napa Sheriff's Department, Family Services of Napa Valley, Bay Area Regional Training Academy, Catholic Charities, Hillside Christian Church, VOICES, Progress Foundation, Head Start Programs, Community Action Napa Valley, North Bay Regional Center, Queen of the Valley Hospital, and CDSS.

The one's with * next to them are court ordered by the judge to work with the parent. Parents CAN Family Resources is appointed to be the parent advocate to advise the parent on their parental rights. The Public Defender is the parent's attorney.

You could conclude that Napa County Child Protection Services has done a thorough job of hand picking and recruiting their stakeholders by identifying key members of the Napa County community and surrounding communities and assessing their power, influence, and interest.

Seems to me that the cards are stacked against the parents from the very beginning! I have also been told that it is not a conflict of interest for a Public Defender, who is defending a parent in court on a CPS court case, to be a member of CPS's stakeholder group. How can this not be a conflict of interest?

Stakeholder mapping is a process of identifying stakeholders and assessing their power, influence, and interest. Stakeholders and shareholders are virtually the same both having a vested interest in the company's product.

A shareholder is an individual, group, or organization that owns one or more shares in a company, and in whose name the share certificate is issued. It is legal for a company to have only one shareholder. Also called (in the US) stockholder.

A stakeholder is a person, group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the organization's actions, objectives and policies. Some examples of key stakeholders are creditors, directors, employees, government (and its agencies), owners (shareholders), suppliers, unions, and the community from which the business draws its resources.

CPS's product so to speak are the children that enter the system. Without children entering their system, there is no funding. Every member on the list of stakeholders above has a vested interest on a child entering the system.

The agencies that the stakeholder members work for are written into a family's case plan which has to be completed in order for their children to come home. These agencies scratch CPS's back by providing services to parents with CPS case plans. CPS scratches these agencies by writing them into the family case plan therefore a parent is court ordered to seek services at these agencies.
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Your Lawyer: A User's Guide (Book)
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CHECK THIS INFO OUT FROM CHAPTER 7 OF THE BOOK ABOVE:
You'll like this one, too. As we discussed elsewhere, your lawyer has to maintain his independence from any third party who is paying his fees, whether it is the client's dad, employer or insurance company. So, if your lawyer has some personal reason why the representation might be fettered - he has a prejudice or a business interest that might materially reduce his ardor - that interest must be disclosed to you. Similarly, if your lawyer or any other lawyer in his practice - even if he is in a 1,000-person law firm - represents your adversary, your lawyer must first ask whether a reasonable lawyer could conclude that the other representation would not significantly interfere with representing you and, even if he so concludes, he must then (a) tell you about the matter, and (b) let you decide, after being fully informed of the circumstances, whether you will permit the representation to proceed nonetheless.

Meaning, can I live with it?
Exactly. It's entirely your decision. Does it bother you that someone else in the firm is doing work for your adversary? That's the question you must ask. At the same time your lawyer will have to tell the law firm's other client about the possible representation of you and determine if that client will consent to his firm representing you.
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An attorney must inform their client that they are working with their adversary. By law, Colleen Clark, the public defender for mom's with CPS cases here in Napa, CA, has to tell her clients that she is a stakeholder with CPS and if she doesn't, she has violated this rule. She has also denied her clients to file appeals, another client filled out the paperwork twice for an appeal and she never filed the paperwork, and another client hired their own attorney to replace Colleen Clark and was not permitted to fire Colleen Clark.

Public Defenders Letter To CPS Clients:
https://www.facebook.com/publicdefendercc/photos/a.499166156816145.1073741825.499124830153611/870960259636731/?type=3&theater
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PARENTS ARE BEING DENIED DUE PROCESS:

How does a parent defend themselves against false allegations in a declaration from the CPS worker that is in a Request For A Court Order Petition when they are not being properly informed?

Issue 1:
The first issue here in Napa county and other cities here in California, when a parent receives a request for a court order petition it doesn't include the documents required to file a responsive declaration.

Documents Required to File a Responsive Declaration:
Ø Responsive Declaration to Request for Order, [FL-320]
Ø Proof of Service by Mail, [FL-335]
Ø Attached Declaration [MC-031] (if needed)
Ø Family Law Case Participant Enrollment Form, local form FL/E-LP-660

Issue 2:
Most the time parents are not given proper service either. The parents are suppose to receive the petition in the mail 24 hours prior to the court hearing. The 1st time parents see the petition and meet their public defender is when it is handed to them in the 1st court hearing by their public defender. A parent has a right to file a Responsive Declaration in response to the request for a court order petition. In the courts current policy, the respondent is denied this right due to improper service, lack of time to do so properly, and not being given the necessary forms to do so.

Issue 3:
The public defender does not inform their client, the respondent, of the option to file a Responsive Declaration for the 1st hearing as well as any other stage where a petition is filed with the court.

The parent at no time is advise that they can file a Responsive Declaration to the petition that was filed with the court. According to the form How to Complete a Responsive Declaration to a Request for Order it says, "If you do not file a Responsive Declaration in time for the hearing or do not mention important facts in your Declaration, the Judge might refuse to let you speak about the issues at the hearing."

So how is a parent suppose to dispute the facts in the petition if they are not informed about filing a response or not given the forms to file a response, or their public defender failed to advise them of their right to file a response or not allowed to speak about the issues at the hearing? When is the parent allowed to defend themselves against the false allegations in the petition?

Issue 4:
The judge can only rule on what has been filed with the court. Parents are uninformed about filing a Responsive Declaration to the petition that was filed with the court. So the only thing a judge has to review and make his ruling on is the CPS works report to the court. Again the parents are being denied due process due to not being properly informed by their public defender and not including the Responsive Declaration forms with the petition in order to give the parents a chance to respond to the allegations in the petition. The judge makes the only ruling he can which is based on the CPS workers report to the court and what they are requesting a court order for because they don’t have anything disputing the CPS worker’s report to the court.

PARENTS ARE BEING DENIED DUE PROCESS:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/public-defender/parents-are-being-denied-due-process/1187331821332905
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I do realize that there are cases where CPS is needed and I am all for that in those cases. However, when CPS is so caught up in gaining federal dollars and fails to protect a little girl like Kayleigh Slusher which cost her her life, it's clear that they have their priorities mixed up.
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The Napa Valley Register newspaper stated:

A lawsuit filed Friday in San Francisco accuses Napa Police and county social workers of failing to fully investigate reports of child abuse, contributing to the death of 3-year-old Kayleigh Slusher.

Napa Police found the child dead on Feb. 1, 2014, in the second unit of the Royal Garden Apartments on Wilkins Avenue, where she lived with her mother, Sara Krueger, and her mother’s boyfriend, Ryan Warner. Krueger, 25, and Warner, 27, were arrested a day later and charged with murder and assault.

It also stated:

Robin Slusher on Jan. 27 reported to Child Welfare Services workers Nancy Lefler-Panela and Rocio Diaz-Lara that Kayleigh was not being fed, that Krueger and Warner were using drugs and that the drugs were accessible to the child, according to the complaint. Lefler-Panela told Slusher to call police, the suit states.

Two days later, Wade and another office, named only as Deguilio, went to the apartment again, the suit states. This time they saw bruises on Kayleigh’s face when an evasive Krueger brought her to the front door after refusing to let the officers inside the apartment, according to the complaint.

The entire articel titled "Police, social workers sued in death of 3-year-old Kayleigh Slusher" can be viewed at:
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/police-social-workers-sued-in-death-of--year-old/article_0f51838d-f9cd-58f4-bf6e-7e9f94989b83.html
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It's too bad that Nancy Schaefer isn't still alive because she may have gotten something done about this issue.
Nancy Schaefer exposes the EVIL CPS:
https://youtu.be/_TcDTJlPWbE
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These children are being used to gain federal dollars, families are being ripped apart unnecessarily, and it's just plain wrong. The bond between a parent and their child is God sent and no one should mess with that bond due to greed. Please help these children!

PLEASE HELP BY SIGNING THIS PETITION!

Sources of Information:

Exercising Judicial Leadership to Reform the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses:A Convenor’s Action Guide for Developing a Multi-Stakeholder Process:
http://www.juvjustice.org/sites/default/files/resource-files/Convener%20Action%20Guide%20FINAL_0.pdf

Child Welfare Services Documents
Napa System Improvement Plan 2013 CFS (Page 7 of 112 list of stakeholders):
http://www.countyofnapa.org/Pages/DepartmentDocuments.aspx?id=4294967432

BusinessDictionary.com
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/shareholder.html#ixzz3jZbDmK7w
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/stakeholder.html

Nancy Schaefer exposes the EVIL CPS:
https://youtu.be/_TcDTJlPWbE

Your Lawyer: A User's Guide:
http://www.legalmatch.com/resources/lawyer-contents.html

Rethinking Foster Care: Molly McGrath Tierney At TEDxBaltimore2014:
https://youtu.be/c15hy8dXSps?list=PL0_plJ8j1eLa__afp5KjdZXQy7wLRraxu

Public Defenders Letter To CPS Clients:
https://www.facebook.com/publicdefendercc/photos/a.499166156816145.1073741825.499124830153611/870960259636731/?type=3&theater

Parent's Are Being Denied Due Process:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/public-defender/parents-are-being-denied-due-process/1187331821332905