Parents in Washington State lost a voice this week with the death of Colleen Hill (born September 11, 1968 and died October 29, 2009) in Snohomish, Washington.
There are people because of their hearts and integrity are compelled to respond to those devious and underhanded.
Unable to let Washington State parents' children be used to fill the coffers of a former Pennsylvania social service state bureaucratic worker, Andy Stern, the autocratic, dictator president of SEIU, an organization claiming to be a union of the people and for the people (but is not) Colleen spoke up and organized.
Andy Stern learned from being that former state government worker what a cash cow state government was and has been bringing in the taxpayers' money ever since.
Colleen Hill, small business entrepreneur, child care center owner, past president of the Snohomish Chamber of Commerce became the most articulate, most from the heart activist and the most dynamic listened-to-speaker at the Capitol in Olympia to educate the legislature on what an out-of-state union in name only was doing and further planning to do using your children to fill Andy Stern's SEIU coffers with your money.
Because Colleen truly put children first, her passion, vitality was evident to everyone including the Washington State legislature. With heart, passion and humor Colleen did what was right. Colleen didn't let an organization like SEIU with millions and millions of dollars at Andy Stern's disposal frighten or stop Colleen from doing what was right.
David vs Goliath. Colleen Hill went to Capitol Hill in Olympia and faced down the growing behemoth that had been SEIU.
Because of Colleen, Candi Doran, Ginger Still, Senators Hatfield and Hobbs, a small band of child care centers and others including Washington Parents for Safe Child Care and Child Care Consulting in Washington State (and others), the in-name-only, so-called union, SEIU for the first time in Washington State history was defeated in 2007 and then again in 2008 from using your children and taking your money.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead)
Colleen Hill will be remembered, missed and yet she leaves a striking image, a ready smile, a spunky-kind-truth-teller, a role model who continues to inspire others as we craft Colleen Hill truth-telling-moments to come.
We miss, honor and appreciate. Colleen Hill will not be forgotten.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
I don't believe in labeling and here's why
The labeling in our country has gotten way out of hand and here are some aspects of that history to consider and reflect on.
By degree I have a Masters in Social Work administration having gone through the university public school education system.
In researching why our many bureaucratic systems (child care licensing, child protective services, kindergartens, grade, middle, high and college schools, the military, etc) keep failing the citizens of the US, I found the threads that now make up the fabric of America comes from the German/Austrian cultures (long before the current geographical boundaries). A relatively few select citizens from this country in the early and mid-1800s were enamored of the German/Austrian ways of living and more importantly, controlling life.
Government bureaucratic workers to whom vast sums of your money goes to (yes, your taxes)are not in touch with where they come from, who they are and why they quietly and unquestioningly accept the indoctrination of our school and mental health care systems.
Sigi never became famous until age 50 after he came to America for one visit. Yes, I mean Freud. His full name is Sigismund Schlomo Freud. Sigi was sexually abused by a nanny, was a cocaine addict, it made a hole in his nose, he had 30 operations on his mouth, he slept with his sister-in-law with his wife in the house and the man committed suicide. This...this is the man America turned to for mental health?
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) used by doctors and social workers has ballooned to over 300 categories, this is the book Step-Ford licensed professionals use to diagnose you and your children.
Let the labeling begin. From one diagnostic category to over 300. Over 1000 pages now in the "manual".
Let critical thinking be denigrated. Let labels prevent us from seeing the individual. Let us begin burying family, community and national secrets under psychiatric labels.
•1840 was the start of statistically keeping data on mental illness in institutions for the insane and had a single category: “idiocy/insanity”.
• By 1880 they added a few more including “dementia”.
• By 1917 an Army committee that will later become the APA (American Psychiatric Association) increased the number to 22. Wow, the APA was born from the War to end all Wars!
• WW II saw large scale involvement of psychiatry in selecting soldiers to be in our military. Wow, the Army’s work was a precursor to the DSM-I the first DSM book? Guess who was head of the APA in 1952? It was Donald Ewen Cameron who was best known for his MK-ULTRA-related mind-control and behavior modification research for the CIA. Wow, and I thought bringing the Prussian Army into our school system was bad.
• By 1952, the manual was 130 pages with 106 mental disorders (and schizophrenia was added).
• By 1980, just five years after the end of the Vietnam War, the DSM would grow, with the help of a committee of 27, and increase to 494 pages with 265 diagnostic categories.
• By 1987, it grew to 567 pages with 292 diagnoses.
• By 1994, we are up to 886 pages and 296 disorders.
Since then someone recently told me it is over 300. Over 300 to choose from and perhaps 1000 pages to read through. Sounds like the current health care bill mess with 1400 pages. Can be mind boggling.
Guess which label out of the more than 300 is used most by the “professionals” when they submit their billings? If you said “Other”, you would be right.
People aren't labels. Who people are and what they need are contained in their stories. The stories unlock any puzzle or difficulty that they may be experiencing.
By degree I have a Masters in Social Work administration having gone through the university public school education system.
In researching why our many bureaucratic systems (child care licensing, child protective services, kindergartens, grade, middle, high and college schools, the military, etc) keep failing the citizens of the US, I found the threads that now make up the fabric of America comes from the German/Austrian cultures (long before the current geographical boundaries). A relatively few select citizens from this country in the early and mid-1800s were enamored of the German/Austrian ways of living and more importantly, controlling life.
Government bureaucratic workers to whom vast sums of your money goes to (yes, your taxes)are not in touch with where they come from, who they are and why they quietly and unquestioningly accept the indoctrination of our school and mental health care systems.
Sigi never became famous until age 50 after he came to America for one visit. Yes, I mean Freud. His full name is Sigismund Schlomo Freud. Sigi was sexually abused by a nanny, was a cocaine addict, it made a hole in his nose, he had 30 operations on his mouth, he slept with his sister-in-law with his wife in the house and the man committed suicide. This...this is the man America turned to for mental health?
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) used by doctors and social workers has ballooned to over 300 categories, this is the book Step-Ford licensed professionals use to diagnose you and your children.
Let the labeling begin. From one diagnostic category to over 300. Over 1000 pages now in the "manual".
Let critical thinking be denigrated. Let labels prevent us from seeing the individual. Let us begin burying family, community and national secrets under psychiatric labels.
•1840 was the start of statistically keeping data on mental illness in institutions for the insane and had a single category: “idiocy/insanity”.
• By 1880 they added a few more including “dementia”.
• By 1917 an Army committee that will later become the APA (American Psychiatric Association) increased the number to 22. Wow, the APA was born from the War to end all Wars!
• WW II saw large scale involvement of psychiatry in selecting soldiers to be in our military. Wow, the Army’s work was a precursor to the DSM-I the first DSM book? Guess who was head of the APA in 1952? It was Donald Ewen Cameron who was best known for his MK-ULTRA-related mind-control and behavior modification research for the CIA. Wow, and I thought bringing the Prussian Army into our school system was bad.
• By 1952, the manual was 130 pages with 106 mental disorders (and schizophrenia was added).
• By 1980, just five years after the end of the Vietnam War, the DSM would grow, with the help of a committee of 27, and increase to 494 pages with 265 diagnostic categories.
• By 1987, it grew to 567 pages with 292 diagnoses.
• By 1994, we are up to 886 pages and 296 disorders.
Since then someone recently told me it is over 300. Over 300 to choose from and perhaps 1000 pages to read through. Sounds like the current health care bill mess with 1400 pages. Can be mind boggling.
Guess which label out of the more than 300 is used most by the “professionals” when they submit their billings? If you said “Other”, you would be right.
People aren't labels. Who people are and what they need are contained in their stories. The stories unlock any puzzle or difficulty that they may be experiencing.
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