It’s been my experience over the last 10-ish years that more and more people are becoming frustrated with a system that is not functioning properly anymore. With how popular media like Dateline’s “To Catch a Preditor” is, I’d venture to guess the easiest way to get the public wanting to know is simply to tell them the truth. There are enough heartbreaking and unjust experiences families have with the child protection system to really get people wanting change, if only people realized the truth.

But, “oversight” is really only going to accomplish what I mentioned above, getting people to want change, but not giving people a means to change it. Child service reform has been the area of my passion for almost a decade, and I have what I think are really good ideas. Does anyone have a sense if this meeting will be to passify the public (simply good PR) or are the people with authority to ACTUALLY change things truly open to hearing ideas?