Butler County woman named to Foster Care Committee
Rawnica Dillingham of Hanover Township, executive director of Mental Health Matters and candidate for Butler County commissioner, has been named to Attorney General Marc Dann's Committee of Information Sharing for Foster Care Reform. Mental Health Matters is a non-profit public awareness group.
The committee’s primary focus is to recommend changes in the laws affecting background checks, communication with law enforcement, domestic violence reports, and the creation of a statewide registry of foster parents.
"If the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office had known at the time they received a domestic violence call to the Carroll’s residence, that the Carroll’s were foster parents, there is a chance Marcus Fiesel would still be with us today," Dillingham said today of the 3-year-old who died in a foster home in August.
Dillingham has been asked to research and develop a plan to improve communication between law enforcement, foster care agencies and Childrens Services Boards.
"Merely pointing fingers and placing blame at the local level, is not the answer to helping our children in the foster care system. Changing the law and forcing stricter compliance will help to a large degree," Dillingham said.
In October, Dillingham suggested a five-point plan for reforming the foster care system -- suggestions that state Rep. Courtney Combs, R-Fairfield, plans to introduce as legislation this year.
Combs also is a member of Dann's information sharing committee.
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at 6:10 PM, February 10, 2007 
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at 3:31 AM, February 13, 2007 
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Post a Comment*Could this post be any more inaccurate?
First of all, it is impossible to be "named" to the sub committee because it is open to the public. There is no committee roster or membership; you just show up.
Second of all, the sub committee is not Mark Dann's committee. The sub committee is part of the Niehuas-Wagner legislative workgroup. Someone from the attorney's general's office volunteered to be committee chair, just to give reports to the general group and keep minutes.
Politics Extra: please remove this post as it has no facts... except that a woman decided to attend a meeting that is open to the public.
If that is news, then I suggest reporting that I am about to go to Kroger's with my wife to go grocery shopping.
At least she's doing something about the problem in our Foster Care System. If you would spend more time researching things and less time hanging out with your wife at Krogers you would know that this Dilligham woman is the one who pioneered the legislation to begin with. The new reforms were her ideas. While every politician this side of The Rockies were pointing fingers and placing blame about Marcus Feisel she decided to do something about it.
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