Florida will be the first state to privatize it's child welfare program

[katmondoo]

Any predictions of what kinds of disasters that will bring? My first is the predators will take over.

[atreides1]

1. Just Great

Considering the fantastic job they're doing now. By the way, the predators took over a long time ago.

[htuttle]

2. I predict they'll start selling the children for profit

...If they haven't already started doing that.

[dorktv]

3. Hmmm...Who wants to adopt a Florida kid?

How can we have public accountablity with a group of people who answer to shareholders only?

[oneighty]

4. Senator Frist perhaps?

Adopt-a-cat-Frist. Or perhaps a Hannibal?

180

[rzemanfl]

5. So far it has been pretty much an unmitigated disaster. Family

Continuity Programs went belly up with unpaid bills all over the place. Hillsborough Kids, Inc. is shaky-its founder resigned under a cloud not too long ago. There are reasons that historically the private sector stayed out of this area. What happens is that the executives take the lion's share of everything and then bail out when things go to hell.

"More than 150 foster parents, doctors, attorneys and social service agencies say they are owed more than $1.5-million for work they did this spring on behalf of children in the foster care system in Pinellas and Pasco counties."

Among the unpaid bills: about $80,000 to Personal Enrichment through Mental Health Services; about $30,000 to Help-A-Child; and $98,000 to the Suncoast Community Mental Health Center, all in Pinellas County; and more than $100,000 to the Harbor Behavioral Health Care Institute in Pasco County." (St. Petersburg Times, December 3, 2004)

"Chris Card, former director of Hillsborough County's foster care agency, has issued a four-page statement denying any wrongdoing, in response to a recent state report.

Card recently resigned as director of Hillsborough Kids Inc., which oversees foster care under contract with the state Department of Children and Families." (St. Petersburg Times, February 19, 2005)

Just more "good government" from the womb of Barbara Bush.

[HockeyMom]

6. Private as in "faith based" maybe?