No absolution is given by us to DHS! Further, Restitution Upon Conviction Warrants the Immediate Freezing of Personal Assets (Real Property and Equipment)
Posted: February 16, 2020 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, Business Ethics, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Development Fund, DECCD-MDHS, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, Mississippi Legislature, MS Department of Human Services, Office of Govenor Phil Bryant, SECAC Mississippi, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Uncategorized, Xerox | Tags: Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, child care Mississippi, DECCD-MDHS, MDHS, Mississippi CCDF State Plan, Mississippi licensed child care, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentNo absolution is given by us to DHS! Further, Restitution Upon Conviction Warrants Immediate Freezing of Personal Assets (Real Property and Equipment)
No Absolution
No absolution is given by us to DHS for “self-reporting” embezzlement only when/as John Davis’ gubernatorial appointment by Gov. Phil Bryant neared its end and many on the executive team at State Office vied/vie to fill the long term position of Executive Director to be appointed by Governor Tate Reeves.
If anything, child care leadership feels the public statements given over years by now Interim MDHS Executive Director Jacob Black, and others close to him, enabled/enable state actor misconduct in the administration of federal block grants in spite of grossly unreasonable justifications, violations of statute and scandal.
We First Reported March 12, 2018 – Almost Two Years Ago
We “reported” questionable appropriations March 12, 2018, including to Eric Blanchette at ACF in Atlanta. See Delta Licensed providers: Financial Windfall from MDHS to Family Resource Center allows Staff Increase From 30 to 260!
Following that post was an invitation to lunch with MDHS Executive Director John Davis and Dr. Laurie Smith of the Governor’s Office, where I was able, at long last, to influence the first release of CCDF funding for new child care enrollment in five consecutive years. See Delta Licensed Providers: March 27, 2018 “Child Care Collateral Damage is Unhealthy for this State, Life Changing and Wide Spread!”
Atlanta Meeting Requested
On August 14, 2019, a meeting was requested with HHS/ACF Region IV Office of Child Care Regional Program Manager Eric R. Blanchette. To this day, he has not acknowledged or responded to our request to discuss alleged and ongoing wrongdoing in the adoption and administration of Mississippi’s CCDF/TANF State Plans. Click here to see WLBT Red Flags: “We have been asking for help.”
Today
Families First Remains Open and held over parties have hired Butler-Snow Law Firm after receiving $65 Million in TANF Funds Over Five Years all the while Child Care Assistance was effectively “Defunded”.
See Greenwood Commonwealth February 13, 2020:
https://www.gwcommonwealth.com/news/article_2b471f1c-4e13-11ea-9df5-47b93290c9d2.html
Personal Assets (Real Property and Equipment) Accumulated In the Course of the Corruption Scheme Should Be Seized as Proper Restitution to the poor upon Conviction
See: ‘Tremendous growth’ Family Resource Center expands presence in Northeast Mississippi
Since the Mississippi Department of Human Services got involved and reorganized these organizations, there has been a significant increase in funding from the state. That has resulted in new centers built across the state at an accelerated rate, expansion of programs and a substantial staff increase.
The financial windfall that resulted from the partnership two years ago has allowed FRC to open 15 centers across Northeast Mississippi and increase staff from 30 to 260 employees.
Please click on the links below to see the title to the real property occupied by Families First of Greenwood which remains in operation and see the verification that it has retained Butler-Snow Law Firm for representation with some source of funding.
AVALON HOLDINGS LLC
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https://cs.datasysmgt.com/tax?state=MS&county=42
https://cs.datasysmgt.com/tax?state=MS&county=42#TaxPanel:taxweb_details:08608010101100
https://cs.datasysmgt.com/tax?state=MS&county=42#TaxPanel:taxweb_details:08608010201100
https://cs.datasysmgt.com/tax?state=MS&county=42#TaxPanel:taxweb_details:08608010201110
Avalon Holdings, LLC is a Mississippi Limited-Liability Company filed on March 8, 2005. The company’s filing status is listed as Good Standing and its File Number is 869004.
The Registered Agent on file for this company is New, Jesse S, JR and is located at 190 East Capitol Street, suite 100, Jackson, MS 39201.
The company has 1 principal on record. The principal is Nancy W New from Jackson MS.
The official CCDF Early Childhood Academy
The official CCDF training agency for child care providers serving low-income children in Mississippi is the Early Childhood Academy which has received merely/approximately $250,000.00 from MDHS to fund more than 20 locations at community colleges throughout the state!
Because MDCC had no room on its campus, plans were made to locate our Child Care Academy at Families First in Indianola.
I strongly opposed the Families First of Indianola location for our ECA
In addition to our localized protest (lack of support for MCEC and Families First’ no-bid funding and lack of a TANF public hearing) and concern for the organizations’ alleged entitlement/political advantage which we believed/believe greatly harmed low-income child care programs and innocent babies living in abject poverty, we did not wish to be the only ECA not located on a true college campus.
Fortunately, discussions that followed with Dr. Micah Knox of the Mississippi Community College Board resulted in the placement of our Early Childhood Academy at Mississippi Valley State University where college credits for caregivers might be earned and a demonstration pre-school for hands-on experience and instruction in curriculum and classroom management (much like short term student teaching for caregivers) may be established.
As I see it, these are the services and work that should now be given priority, fully funded and not interrupted!
Open House Friday – MVSU Early Childhood Academy
There will be an open house of the MVSU Early Childhood Academy on February 21, 2020, from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
All are invited to attend.
Urgent Child Care Providers’ Meeting Wednesday
Posted: June 18, 2018 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, Business Ethics, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Mississippi, Clarion-Ledger, DECCD-MDHS, General, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, MS Department of Human Services, QRS Mississippi, Quality Rating System, SECAC Mississippi, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | Tags: CCPP-approved Provider, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, equal access, Market Survey Rates, MDHS, Mississippi CCDF State Plan, SECAC, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentUrgent Child Care Providers’ Meeting Wednesday
Does the June 22nd Public Hearing Agenda Demonstrate a New Pattern of DHS Good Faith Effort?
Posted: June 14, 2018 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, Business Ethics, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Mississippi, Clarion-Ledger, DECCD-MDHS, General, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, MS Department of Human Services, NAEYC, SECAC Mississippi, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Uncategorized | Tags: Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, equal access, Market Survey Rates, MDHS, Mississippi CCDF State Plan, Quality Rating System; DECCD-MDHS; CCDF Quality Improvement, Quality Rating Systems, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentDoes the June 22nd Public Hearing Agenda Demonstrate a New Pattern of DHS Good Faith Effort?
“When we as people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth, even on what may seem to be the most trivial of matters, we go wobbly on America. Only societies able to pursue the truth and challenge alternate realities can be truly free.” Rex Tillerson
In exchange for the recent release of YEARS DELAYED CCDF discretionary funding (Certificates) to families eligible for child care assistance and the very delinquent yet federally required 2016 increase in child care market rates, child care leadership who have met in recent weeks with policy makers have questioned if they were being expected to grant absolution for – even support of – alternative realities detrimental to the practice of democracy and the lawful administration of the Child Care Development Fund.
(In nearly eight years time – during the term of Governor Phil Bryant – new enrollment in the child care assistance program was allowed once under the DECCD administration of Laura Dickson only. Further, from October 1, 2003 – April 30, 2018, MDHS did not increase the child care market rates/fees even following the federal requirement to do so in 2016.)
In February, former, proud, small business owner President Donald Trump signed legislation doubling the CCDF assistance to meet the workforce needs of historic jobs growth.
Since that time forward, MDHS Deputy Director Dana Kidd has kept her word for expedient redress of our grievances as demonstrated in the very recent release of funding to qualifying parents and the 2016 market rates increases we will finally realize next week.
But that has been in contrast to the failed and ongoing rhetoric of SECAC and other policy makers with regard to out-and-out agency misconduct and untruths.
Alternative realities continue to be clearly posted on both the State Early Childhood Advisory Council web site and the MDHS Early Care and Development web site.
- Although listed as the Mississippi (CCDF) State Plan, the goal to establish Standard and Comprehensive Centers is nothing more than the SECAC Strategic Plan – it is not the CCDF State plan or specifically required format/template to have been submitted to Region IV HHS/ACF… which we have never seen!
- The SECAC Strategic Plan was never vetted through a public hearing.
- There has not been a Mississippi CCDF State Plan filed with the office of the Secretary of State since Jill Dent’s administration.
- No economic impact study was conducted leading up to the disparate intent and effective defunding of the Child Care Development Assistance Program through no new enrollment for five consecutive years and the 2017 elimination/termination of approximately one-half of all remaining families receiving assistance.
- The child care workforce Social Security Numbers initially required by NSPARC in order to even complete the online registration (or be locked out of the next screen) for federally mandated health and safety training are prohibited from submission to HHS/ACF and must be fully redacted from NSPARC data or tracking systems and research upon your written requests to NSPARC.
- The ”PANTS ON FIRE” 2018 Market Rate Survey Report initially posted by SECAC and MDHS is is a very delinquent NSPARC 2016 Market Rate Report based on a 2015 data collection conducted by the EYN.
- MDHS did not collect required market rates data in 2018!
- The market rates listed for Comprehensive Centers is a moot point, for there are no Comprehensive Centers.
- Even though MDHS embedded the word Comprehensive into a policies manual, no rules have been provided or written.
- It is an alternative reality that SECAC and MDHS can facilitate an adoption of any word and then have the poetic license to make up the rules defining and governing the word as they go.
So, for all the immediate relief Mrs. Kidd has provided, we are still flying United. (Click here.)
The damage to a large percentage of child care infrastructure, particularly in rural areas, is likely irreversible.
But maybe, just maybe, our ongoing challenges to alternative realities have been heard by Interim Director Andrea Sanders as demonstrated by her communication below.
Do you think she will lift us above this violent Program turbulence and safely land what has been compared to a probable mid-air crash with no civilian survivors? (Some key policy makers have landed themselves quite well!)
I think she wants to try.
I think perhaps she is demonstrating a good faith effort.
I will be there on June 22, 2018.
You should be there too!
In the meantime, keep your parachutes on!
Why is the Governor Stalling Local Economies and Breaking With His Party Line?
Posted: February 23, 2018 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, Business Ethics, Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Mississippi, Clarion-Ledger, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, MS Department of Human Services, NSparc, SECAC Mississippi, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Uncategorized | Tags: Administration for Children and Families, MDHS, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentWhy is the Governor Stalling Local Economies and Breaking With His Own Party Line?
Even though, just last week, at the urging of corporate and business leaders, President Trump doubled the amount of CCDF (Child Care Development Fund) needed to better support work force development in this historic period of low unemployment and a growing economy, Governor Bryant’s CCDF child care advisors and policy makers still continue to hold communities and state economies to zero new enrollment state-wide.
In fact, the governor’s policy makers have not allowed new enrollment for low-income children in more than four years and have recently terminated funding for almost half of all children that actually were being served!
On Feb. 10, 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported businesses increasingly see child care as an issue vital to their operations and communities, and policy makers from New Hampshire to Michigan to Colorado have identified it as key to freeing up workers to fill stubborn vacancies and building a talent pipeline.
In Louisiana, a coalition of corporate and university leaders delivered a blunt assessment in a mid-January op-ed in the Shreveport Times : “One of the fixes to our labor shortage is as obvious as the fact that the snow is frozen: Make it easier for parents to get quality, affordable child care.”
So, why is SECAC/MDHS being allowed or instructed to be so out of touch and so dysfunctional as to still ”hold” the CCDF money received in October?
Why is the Governor stalling local economies and breaking with his own party line?
You will have to ask him.
Low-Income Parents to Receive Calls to Verify Contact Information
Posted: February 2, 2017 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, Business Ethics, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Mississippi, DECCD-MDHS, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, MS Department of Human Services, SECAC Mississippi, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Uncategorized | Tags: Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, child care Mississippi, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, equal access, MDHS, Mississippi CCDF State Plan, Mississippi child care, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentLow-Income Parents to Receive Calls to Verify Contact Information
Yesterday, CCPP providers received the first of many Emails to come from MDHS asking that we inform our CCPP clients (parents) that prior to receiving Email notification of redetermination, parents will first receive a telephone call from the NSparc call center at MSU to make certain MDHS has the correct contact information for each parent in the Child Care Payment Program.
Like us, MDHS is aware the contact information on file is likely not up to date with regard to telephone numbers that often change (with low-income parents) when the balance of the telephone bill is due.
MDHS is also aware that low-income, entry-level employees (parents) usually cannot receive telephone calls during normal working hours.
However, it is necessary for MDHS to demonstrate a process for purging inactive files and updating and validating all current files in order to be as efficient as possible (as required by HHS) in its management of limited CCDF resources and Child Care Certificates.
I think the DHS intent is to serve all in need (and all they possibly can serve) by reducing Program error.
Child care providers will still receive Email notification of each client’s period of redetermination so that we may assist low-income parents by providing faxing services, copying services and more.
Further, MDHS recently went to great lengths to add a new online service for providers to determine when each parent’s period of redetermination will begin. Here are the instructions for viewing a list of families who are due for redetermination:
- Log in to e-Ledger system
- Click on the green “Reports” button on the left hand side of your screen
- Click on “Parent Re-determinations”
- You will see a list of all families that are currently due for redetermination. You can filter based on parent name or the redetermination deadline. Please note that at this time or at any given time, you may not have any parents who are due for redetermination!
Parents who do not meet redetermination deadlines will be terminated from the Program and will need to re-apply (in order to be placed on the waiting list) as a “new” parent if child care assistance is still needed.
That’s the deal, yáll!
We thank DHS for giving us the “heads up” and hope it will soon be possible for DHS to issue new Certificates to new enrollees should any CCDF funds become available through this process!
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