The goal of ParentAdvocates.org
is to put tax dollar expenditures and other monies used or spent by our federal, state and/or city governments before your eyes and in your hands.
Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more you may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.
Mission Statement
is to put tax dollar expenditures and other monies used or spent by our federal, state and/or city governments before your eyes and in your hands.
Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more you may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.
Mission Statement
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The E-Accountability Foundation announces the
'A for Accountability' Award
to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.
Winners of the "A":
Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
[ More Details » ]
'A for Accountability' Award
to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.
Winners of the "A":
Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
[ More Details » ]
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Stories & Grievances
Retraint and Abuse of Children With Special Needs
CIBRA is a fledgling organization in the first stages of development. Founded by families whose autistic children were severely traumatized in well known programs of discrete trial (ABA)and other various settings utilizing dangerous behavior modification techniques, we are an integral part of the fast growing civil rights movement in the autism community.
LINK Our central mission is to provide a national/international support network for parents whose children (including adult children) have been traumatized, injured or killed by abusive behavior modification (ABA) and restraint . This mission includes raising public awareness of the abuses taking place in the treatment community. We will provide a national/international forum for public testimony of victims of these abuses. Following on the heels of the 60 Minutes (TV program ) expose' of the Charter Hospital chain, FOX News expose' entitled "Deadly Restraint" and Hard Copy's expose' on these same type of dangerous practices being used with autistic children (frequently without informed consent from parents), our goal is to arrest the growing use of this type of abusive , dangerous, and unethical treatment of children taking place in behavioral treatment systems and school districts. CIBRA is comprised of 2 divisions: Autism Division (Our primary division) Addressing abuses taking place in autism treatment and early intervention. Mental Health Division Addressing abuses taking place psychiatric treatment facilities with autistic and non-autistic children (Coming soon!). If your child has been traumatized or injured we entreat you to join us in our support network and public awareness campaign. To join our fast growing membership list send e-mail to CIBRA@webtv.net This page is dedicated to testimonials provided by the parents of autistic/PPD children (including adult children) who have been traumatized, injured or killed by the abusive or negligent use of dangerous behavior modification procedures. "The mothers [caretakers/teachers/therapists] role in fostering harmonious and uninterrupted progress in affect [emotion] verbalization and desomatization lies predominantly in protecting the child from psychic traumatization. Possibly the most crucial and difficult aspect of mothering is permitting the child to bear increasingly intense affective tension, but stepping in and comforting the child before his emotions overwhelm him. Her empathy is her only guide [to prevent psychic trauma] p.96 ....the "final common path" of traumatization was [is] the development of overwhelming affects..." p. 9l (Henry Krystal, M.D., TRAUMA AND AFFECTS, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 33 (l978), p.9l,96) In order to protect the anonymity of the following victimized families, we will not publish names with the website testimonials. Many of our families are or will be seeking justice in the courts. |
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