Our Foster Care Review Board Decision

I have many comments to talk about in regards to this document. I will start at the heading "The Boards findings." and the fraudulent information that was provided to this board for them to come to these findings.

I will first state here is what Kathy Sholty put in the service plan she signed July 14, 2005. "Brian Vanderzalm was the primary caseworker on this case until 6/17/05 at which time I took over the case." So Kathy Sholty took over this case June 17, 2005?

Now lets talk about the 2 primary reason for the move. Brian stated I admitted to using drug. All I admitted to was using marijuana in the past. I quit long before the children were placed in our care.

We were not the ones that let the boyfriend have contact with the children and Brian knew this. I was the one that informed Brian about these contacts and Erica was being punished because she let the boyfriend have contact with the children.

How could I be smoking marijuana with my daughter? Erica was having regular scheduled drug tests which all came back clean.

How could there be any unauthorized contacts between our daughter and her children? We were told Erica could live in our home with the children. I suppose if we allowed Erica to live in the same home as the children that was OK as long as she didn't have any contact with the children. Let's get real.

"Currently, parenting-time is offered on a daily basis, supervised by Timothy and Barbara Atwood, the children's grandparents." Treatment plan (Parent Agency Agreement) signed by Brian Vanderzalm 5/09/05 This is from the same agreement that was never discussed with us nor did we know what the contents were. This is the same agreement they have been using against us for no following. How can anyone follow an agreement someone else types out and you were never told about it or the contents were never discussed with you?

The initial investigation started June 15, 2005. Kathy Sholty took over the case June 17, 2005. The only contact Erica had with her children between the initial investigations start of June 15, 2005 and when the children were removed from our care June 25, 2005 was the Sunday visitation on June 19, 2005. This visitation we were told we had to let happen even though we were against it.

So it looks like Kathy Sholty is another of the CPS/foster care workers that can't be trusted to tell the truth.

Of course our daughter agrees with the move, She realized we aren't going to let her get away with things such as letting the boyfriend have contacts with the children as she would have liked. I suppose these CPS workers don't have the insight to realize when someone is angry with someone else they will tell lies about them. 

We were never in agreement with the move as they state. What can a person do when these people are able to tell their lies provide fraudulent information in documents and such with no accountability. If we were in agreement why would Lansing be called the same day as we were told the children were going to be moved? We knew the children wouldn't be at our son's home very long. They already have 3 children with one on the way. This was the reason I made sure we could still get this FCRB hearing when our daughter-in-law couldn't handle the care of two more children any longer. As you can tell I was right about this as these children were there less than a week.

Again I was aware the contact between the children and mother were suppose to be supervised. I was told this by Brian for the first time June 17, 2005 and this same day I was told we have to let Erica take the children to church the following Sunday unsupervised even though we were against it. In fact we were told again this same day that it was our decision if the children were retuned right after church or not.