Issue Position: DCFS Reforms

Issue Position

We are all aware that something is wrong, and that it is costing us the lives of the most precious gifts, our children, our future. It must stop now.

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I will demand that a public oversight board be established and granted with the power to create checks and balances, and reform mechanisms, including punitive and legal remedies, to end the systemic corruption and willful disregard of our families and their well being.

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Enough is enough! I can not stand to see one more family destroyed because of an over-exaggerated sense of superiority or because a small mistake was made, or because of personal biases and prejudices!

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If someone is hurting children, they must be made to stop!

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As a state, we need to change our vision on this broken system, and some of its faulty ideas. We need to decide to focus on reuniting and strengthening families whenever possible, removing the incentives to tear families apart. Not all families can be fixed, but many of the families that are torn apart were never broken to begin with. Parents sometimes need help learning better ways to deal with trauma.

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