Coalition For Hispanic Family Services @ Juan Morel Campos

BEWARE OF FOSTERING FROM THIS AGENCY! Senior management will give you NO SUPPORT, fail the kids, when you complain in advocating for your foster child/ren, they will close your home with a bad recommendation from future fostering! I have spoken to staff who does care and agree that this agency does not always work in the kids’ best interest but their hands are tied so turnover here is very high! ACS is aware of this and needs to shut them down or at the very least an agency or organization who works in the best interest of these vulnerable and traumatized kids should investigate them! How can they take kids from their parents and do worst by them? As a former FC, I am begging Coalition to PLEASE DO BETTER!

Horrible workers, Case planners do little to nothing to support families trying to reunite with their children. Unprofessional and often negligent works who avoid doing their job.

This foster agency is extremely bad. Social workers and case planners do not care about my concerns when it comes to my daughter’s health. They seem nice but they just genuinely don’t care about nobody kids they only care about getting paid. They won’t allow me to make sure that my daughter is safe and getting all the medical attention that she needs and is supposed to get. Someone is lying about saying I didn’t lose my parental rights but it feels like that way. It seems like I have no saying in what or how my daughter feeding schedule should be like or how my daughter should getting taken care of. THIS CASE PLANNERS AND SOCIAL WORKER ARE EXTREMELY BAD AT COMMUNICATION!!!! They won’t answer no text message even if it urgent, they will wait until they’re return back to work to return your phone call or messages. I also think someone is lying on my case and is trying to sabotage it so won’t get my daughter back. Everyone is very unprofessional, we’ll wait weeks later to bring up someone concerns or any information that was bought up a month later. It’s been 50 days I only get 2 agency visits which highly sad that I don’t get to see my kid like I’m supposed to.

Your Honor, this statement is not intended to constitute defamation of character. It is an expression of my personal viewpoint, which is protected under the United States Constitution as freedom of speech. My purpose is to communicate my experience related to this institution. This expression is not hate speech, nor is it meant to be taken as a personal attack against any individual. If some interpret it otherwise, such interpretations are mistaken, as such was never the intent. I was involved with this agency for approximately sixteen years but am no longer affiliated with them, as my rights were ultimately terminated. From my personal experience, my interactions with this agency were financially, emotionally, and psychologically draining. The agency’s practices placed significant strain on my marriage. Their actions appeared to isolate parents and encourage discord between couples by influencing how parents viewed and communicated with one another, including within the privacy of their marital relationship. During this time, I was encouraged, even pressured, to seek mental health services, which I did. I attended various facilities and worked with a psychologist. The psychologist at that time stated that the situation was a custody matter, which was outside her role to determine. However, that professional opinion was not accepted by the Coalition. Despite my efforts to comply and address every requirement in an expeditious and responsible manner, I was unable to regain custody of my two daughters, who were in the agency’s care. It is important that I emphasize the following: I am not engaging in defamation. Rather, I am sharing my personal account of how my case was handled. In my view, the Coalition operated in a manner that was harmful, excessively personal in its reactions, and, in my opinion, deeply antagonistic toward parents who were engaged in the reunification process through services that were limited in scope and poorly administered. Based on my experience, I perceived the agency as a form of institutional bullying and an organization lacking accountability. I understand that I have the right to speak openly and critically about institutions and services that affect the public, especially those that had a direct impact on my life. To my knowledge, there exists no court order that prohibits me from sharing my experience publicly in this way. My daughters are now adults, and I speak from both a personal and parental perspective. Furthermore, it is a matter of public record that anyone may file a complaint against ACS (Administration for Children’s Services) or its affiliates, including the Coalition by Hispanic Family Services. Public reviews and complaints exist, and mine is candid but measured compared to some of what has already been published. While I understand the risks in speaking so openly, and while I have personal concerns about retaliation, I nonetheless feel it is important to detail the level of discontent I experienced in what I found to be a highly vindictive and damaging organizational culture. This testimony represents my lived experience and personal perspective, expressed lawfully and with the intention of informing, not defaming.

I still dont understand why this foster care coalition for hispanic family services is still open to the public or keeps fostering children this agency should be shut down permanently these social workers or caseplanners or whatever you want to call them should be fired because there are very incompetent the social workers/caseplanners lies on the bio parents in family court there very bias the caseplanners/social workers picks & choose the foster agency falsifys documents. my 8 kids have been in foster care for 14 years out of my 8 kids 1 got adopted this agency is not my kids this foster agency is very careless. Please i beg for ALL the bio parents that deals with this foster care agency fight for your children to the nail because they can or will damage our childrens mental health these "so called" worker/caseplanners makes us the bio parents look bad in there book knowing this foster care agency is the problem.