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Message 1 of 3
Welcome to Child Welfare Reform!
ecsredeye2001
(M/New York City) 3/23/01 12:42 pm
Everyone knows something's very "not right" with the system. It's time to get down to try and change it! On one small aspect this is what I have done in alerting elected officials in NYC to a disaster in the making (Sent to most NYC elected officials):
I am an ACS worker in New York City.
ACS is creating a so called "Children's Center" at the old Bellevue Hospital Morgue. $67 million were spent on renovating the morgue. This is where children who are removed from their homes due to unsafe situations or conditions will be brought to spend from several hours to several days time waiting for placements.
Union Local 371 health and Safety Director Arnie Goldwag tells me that formaldehyde levels exceed EPA and NYOSH standards. I would hope there will be an uproar about this and it will be stopped until the safety of these "at risk" children can be assured. There are no window guards - as an ACS worker this is one of the first things I look at when making a safety assessment - and there are also issues regarding access of adolescents to the younger children.
The site is in close proximity to a homeless men's shelter as well.
It seems like an outrage to me - and the building where children are housed for pre - placement now at 7 Laight Street is and has been a "sick building" too with issues of fungus spores.
(To Contact the Health and Safety Department call:
Arnie Goldwag, Health and Safety Coordinator -- (212) xxxxxxx, ext. 3068
Priscilla Abernathy, Assistant to the Health and Safety Coordinator -- (212) xxxxxxx, ext. 3048)
Eugene Weixel
Kew Gardens, NY 11415
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Message 2 of 3
Ask mayor Giuliani
ecsredeye2001
(M/New York City) 3/23/01 1:57 pm
Ask the mayor about plans to locate foster children in a building that exceeds EPA standards for formaldehyde and that is right next to 600 homeless men!
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/mail/html/mayor.html
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Message 3 of 3
Re: Ask mayor Giuliani
linda_mom2five
(48/F/California) 4/28/01 9:41 pm
I followed up on this, and received this response:
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Dear Ms Martin,
I write on behalf of Mayor Giuliani in response to your recent E-mail. Thank you for writing. Please provide us with the name of the facility you refer to so we may address your inquiry.
Sincerely,
Carmela Piazza
Assistant to the Mayor
-----Original Message -----
From: Martin, Linda
Sent: 2001-04-14 15:43:33.293
To: The Mayor of the City of New York
Subject: Youth Services
Hello there,
I was surfing the internet today and came across some information about a new child welfare holding facility in your city that is actually a remodeled morgue, with formaldehyde levels beyond EPA standards.
Please let me know if any part of this is factual information.
Linda Martin
California
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LOL -- don't tell me NYC is such a big city you have more than one of these places!!
Linda
Fight CPS And Win
http://www.geocities.com/fightcpsandwin