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Emily 
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Joined: 02/October/2003 Location: United States Posts: 3 |
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 Topic: Are you a member of CalAware?Posted: 02/April/2007 at 6:17am |
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Welcome to CalAware's free message board. This forum was created to provided a resource for Q&A as well as community support. We hope that you find it helpful.
Please consider joining CalAware today to support this and other resources that we currently offer and have planned for the near future. Our very affordable memberships start at $15 per year, and we offer automatic monthly debit subscriptions for as little as $5 per month so you can increase your pledge, but spread it over the entire year. We look forward to adding you to our membership community!  |
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Henry Willey
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Joined: 21/March/2008 Location: United States Posts: 1 |
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Posted: 21/March/2008 at 10:11am |
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I have just joined up and want to be your contact person in Humboldt for advocacy issues in the disability areas. I am on the board for Tri-County Independent Living Center and Vice-Chair of Humboldt County Mental Health Board. I also represent the Far North Region with the California Network of Mental Health Clients.
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Henry Willey, Vice-Chair Humboldt County Mental Health Board/Client Advocate,Eureka, Ca.
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Emily
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Joined: 02/October/2003 Location: United States Posts: 3 |
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Posted: 27/November/2008 at 2:48am |
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Thanks so much for your support and assistance, Henry! Glad to have you aboard.
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chico
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Joined: 07/May/2007 Location: United States Posts: 12 |
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Posted: 14/March/2009 at 4:49am |
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Emily,
I can't find where it is online to send it a yearly donation? Can you tell me where that is?
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Emily
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Joined: 02/October/2003 Location: United States Posts: 3 |
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Posted: 14/March/2009 at 7:23am |
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Absolutely! You can join CalAware here: https://www.calaware.org/support/join.php
Alternatively, you can set up recurring membership donations (weekly, monthly, annually) here: https://www.calaware.org/donation/payment_online.php Thanks for asking and for your support! Emily  |
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sbard@aol.com
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Joined: 09/October/2009 Location: San Diego Posts: 2 |
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Posted: 09/October/2009 at 8:08am |
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WATCH DOG REPORT - San Diego County
I am a volunteer on the San Diego County Older Adult Mental Health System of Care Advisory Council. ( OAMHSOC )
I volunteered in 2006 representing AARP Chapter 239 Encinitas Project Hope. ( Project Hope is committed to helping seniors stay active and independent for as long as possible. We are not a non-profit--are self supporting and do not collect money from any source. We pride ourselves on being totally independent.)
I have witnessed from the start how the Director of Mental Health has used his position to circumvent the requirement for this OAMHSOC Advisory Council to become authorized by Board of Supervisors ( BOS ) Public Policy A-74, which governs local volunteer citizen advisory councils/committees, etc.
This is significant because without Public Policy A-74 there is no appropriate structure/guidelines for the council.
Typically, the BOS requires county led volunteer groups like ours to be BOS authorized. Yet the OAMHSOC council is not.
And because it is not BOS authorized our council has no standing at all. It might as well be a social club.
As a result of ongoing observation it appears that the OAMHSOC council/committees were created by the director just to exist as a captive "stakeholder" base for the director to manipulate in order to get votes for his multi millions of Prop 63 funded proposals every year. Proposals that do not always benefit mental health clients.
By refusing to get BOS authorization for the OAMHSOC council the director claims the council is exempt from having to abide by laws like the Brown Act, Government Code 1090 ( conflict of Interest/contracts ) plus local county ethics codes, etc. By not getting BOS approval for the council the director is able to bypass resulting interference in his administration of Prop 63 that obeying laws would represent. He is able to just make up his own rules as he goes along.
As a result the director has almost total sole authority over multi millions of Mental Health Services Act dollars ( Prop 63 )
with very little oversight and/or accountability.
Prop 10 -First Five-- is the same kind of taxpayer funded proposition-- for benefit of kids. Recently the Union Tribune exposed the administration of Prop 10 for the same type of conflict of interest violations ongoing within Prop 63.
Prop 10 is also under the same San Diego County Health and Human Services Director as Prop 63 -- the director has been made very aware of the Prop 63 conflicts, yet the Prop 63 status quo continues.
The Board of Supervisors is accountable for both Prop 10 and Prop 63 administration.
San Diego County Counsel and the San Diego County Compliance Office ( who reports to the HHS Director ) both support the Department of Mental Health director's position
that he is exempt from the laws/ethics codes., etc. in his actions.
In addition the 2008/2009 San Diego County Grand Jury was warned by the San Diego County Counsel that if an investi-gation into the Mental Health director's department should take place a "tainting" complaint against the grand jury would be initiated as a result "of a personal agenda".
County enforcement officials seem to be banding together to insulate this one county official against having to obey laws in place that all others must observe.
How can reform happen when those who are supposed to be safeguarding public interests are providing needed protection/ support to perpetuate the travesties? ( HHS Director/County counsel/ compliance office.)
And what can individuals like the few of us who are complaining about it do to bring about change?
Who decides what is illegal or not? And who decides what constitutes an ethics violation?
How do we communicate effectively with the Fair Political Practices Commission and/or Attorney General if/when that might become necessary?
And what must be done ( if anything ) prior to escalating our complaint outside of San Diego?
1. Complain to the San Diego CAO?
2. Public appearance before the Board of Supervisors?
Are the above appropriate, or a waste of time?
All suggestions are welcome. An outside perspective would
be appreciated.
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crispe
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Joined: 04/June/2009 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 20 |
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Posted: 21/October/2009 at 7:22pm |
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You should check out the biggest theft is the federal incentives provided to states and counties that drains the Social Security Trust Fund in a program called Title-d which has replaced the money with $25 trillion in IOUs.
You can find out more about this on http://laryholland.com
We have been doing public disclosure requests with the county only to find the money being waste on spending that has nothing to do with help families, children, or elderly.
must be logged in to see:
This is a big scam paying county employees and paying for their pension when they pay nothing into Social Security, but ironically they are paid by stealing our retirement money.
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Marcy Ganz
pr(at)crispe.org CRISPE San Diego, CA http://www.crispe.org http://crispe.org/blog http://crispe.org/forum http://myspace.com/crispeinfo http://profile.to/crispe http://groups.to/cris |
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