The Nittany Nightmare Continues: More Financial Incest At PSU- Accused Perjuror Gary Schultz Head of Nittany Insurance Pays First Victim Payout AND His Lawyers
State College, PA & Burlington, VT- In the latest example of financial incest involving PSU, The Second Mile, and a bevy of double-dipping board members and executives, we arrive at the first discovery between an accused suspect in the case and his principal interest in an insurance company that recently paid out a settlement to an alleged victim of Jerry Sandusky. As the filing has likely been sealed as a condition of it’s settlement, it is unknown if Schultz or anyone else within PSU in addition to Sandusky was named in the civil action.
Gary C. Schultz, interim Sr. VP for Finance and Business returned following previous retirement from PSU this past July.
His return to the PSU payroll around the time that a grand jury was meeting about his possible complicity, FOLLOWING his own alleged perjurious testimony begs the question-As Schultz knew he was under investigation as well as Sandusky and Curley-
Did Schultz come out of retirement in anticipation of incurring significant legal fees he did not want coming out of his own pocket?
You read that correctly.
Mr. Schultz, who along with Tim Curley were bound over for trial at their preliminary hearing on perjury charges and a misdemeanor failure to report summons last month, is being provided legal representation costs through Nittany Insurance Company, where he is a paid Director. According to Acting President Erickson, it will also be used to cover any civil settlements and judgements in the Sandusky debacle et al.
This would seem to be in violation of the Vermont Captive Insurance Regulations Section 12, or conflict of interest.
In a letter sent to Penn State Interim President Rodney Erickson, Senator Michael Stack (D) Philadelphia, expressed his concern that taxpayers and donors should not be footing the bill for the Universities necessary legal representation for the various civil and criminal issues and potential settlements.
In a response to Senator Stack, President Erickson assured him that such costs would be accommodated by it’s liability insurance. Nittany Insurance Company is listed as the professional liability insurance company of record on the PSU site as well as the provider for PSU students in programs including the Hershey Medical Center.
President Erickson did not reference Mr. Schultz’s directorship position within Nittany Insurance Company although www.blinkoncrime.com was able to confirm with the Vermont Secretary of State that as of this afternoon, there are no pending changes to its registration.
Gary Schultz’s co-director at Nittany Insurance Company, is Allan Anderson, Former VP and Chief Executive Officer for Hershey Medical Center.
While the captive insurance firm is self-administered, as Director, Schultz would be in a position to review, award, accept, negotiate or reject settlements within the framework of their contract with PSU and appropriate regulatory requirements. Captive insurance companies are often developed as part of a risk mitigation strategy and as an entree to the reinsurance market for payouts exceeding a fixed amount. Registered in Vermont, Nittany Insurance Company was formed in 1993.
It would seem a good starting point for questions on the regulatory and compliance matter might be how the bid is/was awarded for initial self-administered liability coverage directed by a potential party and what the premiums, which are deductible to PSU, were and are?
What adjustments to same have been made in relation to the known incidents and corresponding dates alleged against Sandusky, Curley and Schultz?
What else is Nittany Insurance funding it may have had ample heads up about?
Does Schultz have a poster of Ken Lay in the top of his humidor? Bernie Madoff?
www.blinkoncrime.com poster erose contributed to the research of this article.
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The article, link below, says that Tennant, of Arrow, contacted TSM shortly after charges were filed. (Arrow seized upon a similar opportunity a few yrs back, taking in the kids and maybe women from that polygamy compound in Eldorado, TX–will give that link second below). Here’s today’s status, per this account; there’s more to read there:
“The Second Mile foundation has about $8 million in assets, including $3 million pledged for an unfinished educational and recreation center in Bellefonte. The foundation wants court approval to forward $2 million contributed for the center to Arrow instead, enabling it to run five of the Second Mile’s main programs for two years. After that, “Arrow will attempt to resuscitate and duplicate” the Second Mile’s fund-raising network to pay program expenses, the filing says.
Some, but not all, contributors to the Second Mile have consented to giving the money to Arrow. Those who oppose can intervene in Orphans’ Court. Court proceedings may be complicated, as all of Centre County’s Common Pleas Court judges have recused themselves from the criminal case because of ties to the Second Mile.”
link:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120526_Sandusky_rsquo_s_Second_Mile_charity_moves_to_dissolve.html
link to inner workings when Arrow took in the Eldorado folks; soliciting the church volunteers to spiff up housing for them; new bldgs were needed:
http://kingwoodunderground.com/topic.jsp?topicId=11143924
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Not to distract anyone–although, you never know what might tie in–but if anyone finds a resume on Mark A Tennant, please post it. I’ve had no luck.
@Blink. If he had a community membership in the HGI pool, and was there regularly in summer, I bet dollars to donuts he was routinely allowed use of a midday room without registering by someone on hgi staff to shower & dress without registering.
This was done in PA. I used to love as I crossed PA going to club tournaments to take children to a hotel in Lancaster with mega indoor/outdoor pools. I was stranded there a week once in summer when volvo died.
The outdoor pool was treated by the hotel as a local country club type summer membership (for a fee)
for community retirees from “business” ranks who were so numerous and territorial they took over from hotel guests.
I think it was a Hilton property.
@berjay
I’m not sure if taking in ALL the kids from a cult compound is altruistic, a best business expansion practice, or something else involving psychological predation. ditto TSM. Interesting who took the takeover initiative. Well, those assets will anchor more of that church lending company
xanax is too mild, beejay. Where is the PA AG? Where are the Feds?
datn, an election year, and who wants to offend “evangelical churches”?
If any one posted this I missed it. Can you believe?
Chestertown pastor faces 70 more counts of sex abuse
CHESTERTOWN An area pastor faces new charges of sexual abuse of a child less than two weeks after being charged in connection with similar incidents of abuse.
In 2006, Bartley had undergone a full background check (which includes an FBI criminal background check, a comprehensive home-study with a licensed social worker and mandatory training) to become a foster parent, Donald said in a statement.
***He had been certified by Arrow Child and Family Ministries,*** which Donald identified as “a DHR contractor with the authority to recruit and certify foster parents, consistent with Maryland laws and regulations.”
http://www.stardem.com/news/local_news/article_959acec0-81e6-5b25-9862-565b579c80fb.html
You know, maybe nobody thought anything about seeing JS with a kid at the Hilton Garden Inn. I just read a review of the hotel, and the guest said fine, etc, a little busy with some middle school wrestlers. It’s probably the scene of lots of conferences, meetings, and guests staying to be near PSU for sports events of all kinds. JS was seen around regularly with kids in tow.
CDT’s article said that prosecutors “simplified” Victim 9′s charges from the fitness center to just the hotel. Didn’t say where in the hotel–a room? fitness center/pool/sauna? men’s bathroom? IDK. Didn’t go back to the court filing itself, Blink. Tell me if it says hotel room.
That hotel is listed on the “nearby” list for Ken Chertow’s Home Training Center (HTC), Boalsburg, PA. Also giving the beginners wrestling training events, camps, etc link to Chertow’s, which gives his own bio (PSU wrestler/coach):
http://kenchertow.com/?page=HTC_hotels
http://kenchertow.com/?page=beginners
Nope, just says Hilton Garden Inn, so all is in play, if I got that wrong, I appolly.
B
http://vimeo.com/album/1826686
Tennant talks
The guy who owns that restaurant in the local Hilton Garden Inn–the one that was donating a percent of proceeds to PSU wrestling club–is a wrestler himself. Which is neither here nor there.
” Harrison Wine Country Grill
* Food Service
* Retailer
Wine, Grill and Catering at the Hilton Garden InnChef Harrison Schailey and wife, Kit Henshaw, own and operate Harrison’s Wine Grill and Harrison’s Catering and have since it opened as Harrison’s Chef-Prepared Foods in 2000. Harrison, a native of the Levittown, Pa, originally came to State College to wrestle for Penn State.”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ks4NDH09K5MJ:http://papreferred.com/search/index/57%2Bhilton+garden+inn+state+college+pa+%2B+wrestling&hl=en&gbv=2&ct=clnk
More much ado about probably-nothing. Harrison Schailey also participated in a chef’s event to raise funds for TSM’s Ctr for Excellence. Aug, 2011. IDK who corralled him into doing that. But everybody around there did stuff for TSM. :
“We are happy to have both, Harrison’s Wine Grill and catering and Suzie Wong Egg Rolls and More participating at this year’s State College magazine’s Chefs on stage raising money for The Second Mile’s Center for Excellence. ”
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=213362868718965&id=111157524790
And Bruce K Heim is one of the principles of the co that developed that Inn (hospitality asset management co), but that means nothing either. I’m lost in useless minutiae here.
Even more unbelievable.
On Monday morning at 9 o’clock, in a proceeding before Circuit Court Judge Paul M. Bowman that lasted about a minute, State’s Attorney Robert H. Strong Jr. dismissed the remaining five charges against Bartley.
http://www.myeasternshoremd.com/news/kent_county/article_7f66a6a7-df8c-5c3d-b04b-0ec41dd25667.html
@beejay. closest I come yet to a resume:
http://sabeacon.com/sites/default/files/april.pdf
i googled lancaster bible college thinking it was closest (and who knows its name now…) and this article flipped up.
I figured a 5th tier bible college or bible baptist college (given supporting churches) was most likely.
this article only says “ministry degree” and if it were even Grace (Ind) or Calvary (KS) or Bob Jones or Moody, or any accredited christian college of any kind, he’d cite the school, so who knows what the degree was. if it were a ba or BMin, he’d cite it proudly imo.
the church work was probably some kind of “youth minister.” An administrative job in a foster care agency could mean answering phones and filing, or not.
Well, he’s coming home.
@erose. a Md DHR contractor. I knew it.
Who opened the Md market to Arrow?
happened under last Md Repub governor I bet.
points of light connectivity
BTW my now deceased uncle lived in Spring;
his daughter a Houston River Oaks
denizen.
@beejay. imo ministry studies were with a bible or bapt college in PA, TX or Md.
Because of church support names.
maybe even Dallas Bible (does it still exist?)
look to his “pastor in Houston” cited in the article, whoever that was.
a diploma or practical degree.
most bible college grads are devoted to their alma mater & trumpet name plus degree proudly.
well erose Rastern Shore is a) Catholic, b) good ol boy concentric circles around courthouse.
BUT it seems clear Strong could do no other without reliable vetted child testimony (and 6 too young) PLUS some physical corroborating evidence (med exam, semen sample etc) Maybe the boys just wanted the F out of his crazy licensed foster care home (a pentecostal pastor of a church of 25). Hos does Arrow vet church foster care home volunteers in Md? Founder doesn’t have the prof background to do so.
oh heck. beejay, you knew I betcha.
Neil Bush’s (is it 2nd?) wife on the Board.
I suspected when I saw Spring (bedroom community for River Oaks relatives)
http://www.arrow.org/heart/Board-Of-Directors.html
So now ee know why the entree to these State’s DHRs.
Oral Roberts was his degree. of course.
http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news/local/&id=154311815
um, gang. why is this dissolution occuring on the very eve of trial?
Arrow BOD
http://www.arrow.org/heart/Board-Of-Directors.html
Makes me wonder if there isn’t a plan to gobble up small charities for one reason or another to have the monopoly on foster kids in this country, now that they have been “privatized.”
Rose says:
May 26, 2012 at 11:53 am
Very interesting Arrow was founded 1992 and Tennsnt was from the County
http://news.bostonherald.com/sports/college/football/view/20120525jerry_sandusky_charity_to_shut_down_transfer_programs/
Makes me wonder if there had been a plan for some time, before JS was outed and sacrificed, by some locals to work out this very takeover. Pity there’s not some sort of court case where the parties could be deposed as to when the idea was first discussed.
The couple running TSM were very expensive and perhaps were no longer team players.
Watch to see who the local donors to Arrow will be, what churches pick up supporting their programs, and eho’s a Trustee in those churches.
LOL.
04-02-12
Since its formation in 1992, Arrow Child and Family Ministries has served approximately 40,000 children in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas, California and Honduras. Jimmy shared his life story through lecture and song during
*****Arrow Child & Family Ministries’ Ambassadors Luncheon held Thursday, March 29 at The Casino at Lakemont Park.*****
Dr. Zane Gates whose Partnering for Health Clinic and Gloria Gates Medical Foundation assist the under-served in our local community, and Kristen Himes, whose “Bag of Dreams” organization has provided student-created care kits to over 1,200 foster children in Blair and Centre counties were honored by the fundraiser.
http://senatoreichelberger.com/2012/04/john-attends-fundraiser-for-arrow-child-family-ministries/
Here’s John & Johnny…
John is an avid runner, an outdoors-man, and remains active in numerous community causes and civic organizations. He and his son, Johnny (John H., III), are accomplished musicians. Johnny is currently attending the University of Texas School of Law. Their extended family includes two rescued Airedale Terriers: Keano and Lillie. John’s wife, Charlotte, is best known as the health reporter for WTAJ-TV. The Eichelberger family lives in Blair Township in Blair County.
http://senatoreichelberger.com/meet/
I had a full schedule back home today. At lunch time, I attended the Arrow Child and Family Ministries event in Altoona. I have been a supporter of this organization for years. Country music singer Jimmy Wayne mesmerized, and I mean mesmerized, the crowd with his story and his music. I’ll have a photo of Jimmy and I soon on my website. I met with people about funding today, taped a public access program, went to the HCBI open house and attended a dinner in Huntingdon. I have a lot less on my agenda tomorrow and hope to get caught up with office work. At least, that’s the plan.
-John
http://senatoreichelberger.com/2012/03/jimmy-wayne-mesmerized-the-crowd-with-his-story-and-his-music/
snips from the blogging senator>
Posted by John Eichelberger | April 22, 2012
The headlines today were pretty much all about the forthcoming election. Like everyone else, I’m ready for it to be over. I did get some office work done after church and caught a little of the Pens game.
Posted by John Eichelberger | April 16, 2012
I spent a few hours at Juniata College today. I had a tour of the campus by one of the staff and three students. The college has done a remarkable job over the past 10 to 15 years of updating…
http://senatoreichelberger.com/category/blog/page/4/
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability – ECFA
http://www.ecfa.org/
EARN THE PUBLIC’S TRUST
ECFA is committed to helping Christ-centered organizations earn the public’s trust by fostering confidence in the ECFA membership seal. This is accomplished by:
Addressing, in a biblical manner, complaints from the public, demonstrating respect for both the complainant and the member organization.
Serving the public by providing free of charge member profile reports, an 800 number telephone access, and a Giver’s Guide which includes a “Donor’s Bill of Rights” designed to help donors give wisely.
Promoting the membership and ECFA’s Standards to the public on a continuing basis through public service announcements, various advertisements, and radio and television talk shows, etc.
Representing the membership and the Standards to the media through interviews, press releases, and at conferences and other events.
Providing materials that aid member organizations in promoting their membership to their respective constituencies.
http://www.ecfa.org/Content/MissionStatement
ECFA Member (page 25) Arrow Child and Family Ministries – Orphan Care
http://www.ecfa.org/Files/2012-Integrity-Report.pdf
Arrow new ECFA Member 2011
http://www.ecfa.org/Focus/Nonprofit/2012/FOCUS_1Q_2012.pdf
Member Profile (check out financial) They get 1M in donations, so the other 30+M in revenue must come from the states?
http://www.ecfa.org/MemberProfile.aspx?ID=29372
Penn State and Catholic Church Child Sex-Abuse Trials Divide Penn. Public
(Full disclosure: I’m a Penn State graduate, I’m married to a lifelong Philly Catholic, and I serve as co-counsel to victims of both the Philadelphia priests and of Jerry Sandusky—although my clients are not involved in the criminal trials, so I am not subject to the gag orders.)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/27/penn-state-and-catholic-church-child-sex-abuse-trials-divide-penn-public.html
Somebody sure likes using that casino for events!
KidsPeace FCCP office in Duncansville, PA, joined with Arrow Child & Family Ministries of Hollidaysburg to honor area foster and adoptive families at a recognition banquet May 20th from 6- 9 p.m. at The Casino at Lakemont Park in Altoona.
http://www.kidspeace.org/blog.aspx?blogmonth=5&blogday=26&blogyear=2010&blogid=104
More info from my last link…
Thanks to a generous grant from the Adoption Coalition of the State of PA, Department of Public Welfare, a total of 125 adults attended the event and enjoyed a wonderful meal and informative presentations.
The event included a dinner and awards followed by a panel discussion featuring: Mark Tennant, Founder/CEO, Arrow Child & Family Ministries; Maryanne Burger, Administrator, Blair Country Children, Youth & Family; Kim Walkingshaw, Statewide Adoption Network (SWAN); President Judge Jolene Grubb Kopriva; Paul and Maribeth Mills, KidsPeace Resource Family; Troy and Jodie Campbell, Arrow Ambassador Family.
——–and
Kidspeace formerly, the Wiley House was founded by the president of Bethlehem Steel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidspeace
Bill and Joan Mack, a Christian couple from Bedford, were foster parents to Mark Tennant, now the ministry’s president and CEO, who was emotionally and physically abused as a child by his mother’s live-in boyfriend before going into foster care.
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/556567/Group-aims-to-help-abused-and-neglected-children.html?nav=742
The hearing went smoothly — each attorney had 10 minutes to argue, and Cleland organized them into groups according to the similarities of their arguments. As Cleland shepherded the first round of arguments from school districts’ attorneys, he wanted more clarity.
He sat back in his chair, and with a friendly smile as though he were a counselor seeking to get to the bottom of a problem, said to Amendola: “What do you really want?”
Cleland saw through Amendola’s explanation, which centered around his quest to see if the records would show the boys had behavior problems before they met Sandusky.
“Do you care if they went to school every day in kindergarten?” Cleland said to Amendola.
Amendola said no.
Before adjourning that day, an attorney from Washington stood up and asked Cleland why he denied a “friend of the court” motion from the National Center for Victims of Crime asking him to throw out the subpoenas. Cleland had denied it earlier without explanation.
He looked at the attorney, seemingly careful to choose his words as not to insult or dismiss her while still relying on the letter of the law.
The request was premature, he said.
“I don’t feel your perspective has been lost,” he told her. “It’s not as though there are uncounseled parties here. The important other principle goes to the rule of law, which is that although we have loosely referred to victims, until the prosecution proves a crime has occurred, there are no victims.”
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/27/3209400/man-overseeing-sandusky-trial.html#storylink=cpy
For me, comment of the week.
jpenny
You can’t get the emails Spanier, Penn State is a state affiliated school and not required to comply with Right to Know and Open Records laws. What irony. Hang by your own petard.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/25/3208339/former-penn-state-president-graham.html#storylink=cpy
erose- Thank you for the new word look up on a Sunday morning. This guy. What a tool.
B
co-counsel to Sandusky victims whose clients are NOT involved in criminal
trial:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/27/penn-state-and-catholic-church-child-sex-abuse-trials-divide-penn-public.html
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/25/graham.spanier.sues.ap/index.html?sct=obinsite
Spanier suit
Imo in at least Dallas TX in 70s and before, who knows now, an ORU grad would’ve been seen, subculturally speaking, by the types of churches now supporting Arrow (Bible & Bapt) as a cult member type or at least strange. So his first “ministry” job, likely in TX, probably made the man, contact-wise. Anyway, if he went to ORU maybe he wrestled as I don’t think the school had football. And how did someone from PA get to ORU anyway?
TY, Blink. So it coulda been Victim 9 in the rose garden for all we know.
For anyone who’s trying to line up other folks with Art Sandusky, here’s the link to a local newspaper article in the Observer-Reporter on April 14, 1970. Art was being honored. We know he helped found youth wrestling in PA, for geog area designated IV.
And 4 yrs after Jer graduated from PSU, and was said to be parent to a 9-month old boy, Art was Chairman of Junior Olympic Wrestling for Area IV and Pres of Area IV Youth Wrestling League.
here:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19700414&id=hOZdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IF8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=3494,1849906
So, did Mark A Tennant play sports in Washington PA or not? He left PA in 1980 to get his divinity degree at Oral Roberts U. Lived in Wash till he was 11, when he went into a shelter and then a series of foster homes–IDK where. Then the family in Bedford PA took him in.
Arrow is big. They do have at least one residential tx center for children/adolescents. It’s in Baltimore. Is a 90-day diagnostic center. Let’s assume someone qualified to assess the credentials of those psychologists and psychiatrists and other staff it lists did the hiring of those folks.
Why now? Well, summer camp time is upon us. If TSM’s summer camps are gonna happen, the court will need to move on this transfer of $2 million of TSM’s tl $8 million. That’ll hold Arrow over till they can raise funds to keep the TSM-originated programs going. In PA.
So, um, they’ll also be keeping the existing volunteers. And will need to win over all the former TSM donors. Who will the huge group of TSM loyals adopt as their charity now that TSM will be gone? I’m sure Arrow is hoping to win them over. White hat rides in.
Tennant does have a compelling story, you have to admit. I assume he’s genuine and this will be the organization that TSM was supposed to be. And, for the MOST part, was. Kudos to him and Arrow, then. I’m just a very nervous nelly. I cleaned up one of these former church-owned children’s homes back in the early 1980s, ten years before Tennant founded Arrow. There were still good church people and a former top administrator taking the little “orphans” on their laps when this hatchet lady came in and broke the news to them.
“Under the proposed settlement, Woodle said, Arrow would receive enough funding to take on The Second Mile programs for about 18 months, during which time it will be trying to ramp up its own funding and volunteer bases.”
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/05/the_second_mile_surrenders_to.html
I remember reading about this and think we posted it here earlier.
“Spanier, Curley and Sandusky all attended a small reception at Beaver Stadium on March 23, 2011, honoring the Penn State wrestling team.
The modest gathering stemmed from a seemingly impromptu invitation sent out by Curley on March 22, 2011, which read, in part:
Dear Wrestling Booster Club Members and your Guests,
Please join us for a celebration to honor the 2011 NCAA Wrestling National Championship Team led by Big Ten Coach of the Year, Cael Sanderson!!
We will gather in the Mount Nittany Club in Beaver Stadium….”
http://sportsbybrooks.com/tag/graham_spanier
The Curleys sponsored that reception. Photos of Sandusky present. Maybe his ongoing connection to PSU wrestling is thru the Booster Club?
It’s me again.
All these PSU coaches from various sports knew each other, as did the players. So, this is just for erose’s wrestling scrapbook, I guess.
Reported May 21, 1984: At meeting of PSU [alumni?] of LeHigh County, at podium were Jerry Sandusky and Coach Rich Lorenzo (PSU wrestling).
“In behalf of Lorenzo and Sandusky, the Penn State Club made two $500 donations – one to the Penn State Wrestling Club, and one to Sandusky’s on- going project The Second Mile.”
http://articles.mcall.com/1984-05-21/sports/2421371_1_head-coach-joe-paterno-penn-state-wrestling-club-athletes
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Quote from an interview with Dr. David Joyner, whose wrestling coach at PSU was Rich Lorenzo:
“My best memories from Penn State are: the wonderful fans and the crowds at Rec Hall where we wrestled, my friendships with my coaches and teammates, and my continued friendship with Coach Rich Lorenzo in the years past. Ira Lubert and I have remained great friends….”
Also:
“I was in junior high school, kind of big and a reasonably good football player. My father thought that perhaps it would be good to try. Homer Barr (former Penn State wrestler) was the coach at State College (Pa.) High School. State College had a very successful wrestling program, so we thought that it would be an excellent winter sport for me. I didn’t get started until eighth grade but once I did, I was very much smitten for the rest of my career on the values and importance of this wonderful sport.” [Barr died not too many years ago, but coached a lot of these folks as youngsters]
http://nittanyliongrappling.org/joyner.html
@Rose: Joyner is a 5th degree black belt instructor in Karate, so he can kick your butt (or do i presume wrongly?) in that discipline too!
Arrow was already doing joint public appearances with well-known KidsPeace in PA in May, 2010 (maybe before, I didn’t check). (Remember we talked about KidsPeace before, wrt it having taken over The Wiley House, Emmaus campus). Note the funding source, in this snip, then I’ll throw up some names of those attending.
“KidsPeace FCCP office in Duncansville, PA, joined with Arrow Child & Family Ministries of Hollidaysburg to honor area foster and adoptive families at a recognition banquet May 20th from 6- 9 p.m. at The Casino at Lakemont Park in Altoona.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Adoption Coalition of the State of PA, Department of Public Welfare….”
Some attending:
Mark Tennant, Founder/CEO, Arrow Child & Family Ministries;
Maryanne Burger, Administrator, Blair Country Children, Youth & Family;
Kim Walkingshaw, Statewide Adoption Network (SWAN);
President Judge Jolene Grubb Kopriva;
several Blair CYS Supervisors and caseworkers,
representatives from Bedford Bounty CYS,
a couple of Guardian ad litem attorneys, and
many foster and/ or adoptive families,
families interested in beginning the process of becoming foster or adoptive parents
At this dinner they also showed “Heart Gallery,” (video and photo gallery of Pennsylvania children who are available for adoption.)
The organization they gave for more info on how to become a foster or adoptive parent in PA, was for KidsPeace.
This writeup is on the website for KidsPeace, and this webpage has other articles that might be of interest to some Blinksters:
http://www.kidspeace.org/blog.aspx?blogmonth=5&blogyear=2010&blogid=104
Yes, that earlier discussion of The Wiley House was wrt Hank Lesch, who was with them in the 1980s, before joining TSM. Here’s one ref:
Flag Is Wish Come True For Wiley House Kids Briefly
June 14, 1985|The Morning Call
A wish came true for 233 students of the Wiley House’s Emmaus Avenue campus when President Reagan granted their request for a new American flag.
Henry R. Lesch, information director at the Salisbury Township treatment center for emotionally and socially disturbed children….”
http://articles.mcall.com/1985-06-14/news/2466970_1_american-flag-flown-capitol
There’ve always been mergers/acquisitions in health care. A few yrs back KidsPeace had a real problem when some kids suffered broken bones and other injuries while being restrained by staff. That’s when then-top-man we talked about (O’Donnell) had to resign.
So, Arrow might be looking at something wrt KidsPeace.
“KidsPeace finances shaky, misses bond and pension payments
Missed bond, pension payments highlight concerns over nonprofit’s future.
April 03, 2012|By JD Malone, Of The Morning Call
Five years after a major reorganization in the wake of a scandal over injuries caused by KidsPeace counselors who restrained troubled kids, the children’s mental health agency remains on shaky financial footing.
KidsPeace, which runs a residential campus and hospital in North Whitehall Township, failed to make a $1.4 million bond payment in January, according to a regulatory filing. And last week, a federal agency placed a lien against KidsPeace after it missed a $3 million contribution to its retirement plan.”
[article explains what they're trying to do to restructure the debts, etc]
http://articles.mcall.com/2012-04-03/news/mc-kidspeace-misses-bond-payment-20120403_1_kidspeace-counselors-kidspeace-officials-pension-payments
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Here’s article re O’Donnell resigning. I read more awhile back. My take on it was they got caught up in taking on kids they weren’t really capable of handling. Those kids are hard to place, and bring in more $$ sometimes. It’s always a temptation to grow your program by doing that.
http://articles.mcall.com/2007-12-14/news/3894699_1_o-donnell-youths-children
Just a disclosure need from me: I have 2 close personal friends that worked at KidsPeace while pursuing their advanced degrees in the practicum phase. Way before this era, but I like to be upfront on these issues. Fwiw, neither are using that experience in their current fields.
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@Beejay. much of my life it was a tiny target, but twould be very hard to miss now.
Karate customers around here are often 6-12 yo boys ehose parents believe it helps focus. Our family passed.
Board of Arrow (Neil’s wife)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush#section_10
a review
–traveled with Moon himself, sampling Thai wares as he went
–pushed his owned reading online product for middle schoolers
-both he & son are LD (no surprise there)
–Maria is Barbara’s mentee
His degree reads like ORU in Pastoral Counstling which has subspecialties, ie Youth Worker. But, it is
Possible to get degrees from ORU online
http://www.oru.edu/academics/online_campus/accredited_bachelor_degrees/
warning, snark: Arrow should expand to the private sector in Putallup WA and Portland.
‘Twould fit right in professionally.
I commend his motives. Personally I muself, after getting a BA in Theology and couple years on church staff went and got a professional devree for professional work, as well as supervision.
IMO with his church partners, he’s using government institutions not merely to care for kids but to proselytize among the country’s most vulnerable population. I’m all for proselytizing, just do it at VBS or scholarship camps.
I do not believe State governments should contract out
essential social services for abused/neglected minors, nor contract out special education (unless a res psych setting is needed). I thought that Md res facility was Bel Air (on PA’s doorstep) & spec ed.
Contracting out foster care mgmt to his private group has same pitfalls as TSM or Puyallup non-profits.
I know Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services ran foster care programs in my day, but with denominations there was a bit more professionalism and accountability than a loving hearthearted layperson going into business.
So he’s been ready to expand in PA since May ’10.
I wonder if he and Raykovik (sp?) knew each other?
The question is not whether his ongoing connection was wrestling Booster Club member (these are the team’s workerbee volunteers), but why tf was he permitted by Spanier/Curley to be a Booster Club member in 2011 getting these emails and going to small receptions with the college prez and events with the students? No wonder JS, long after his fall, saw himself in grandiose terms, an inflated sense of his own importance?
Why shouldn’t he be in denial if the College Prez and AD were?
So is Arrow a kind-hearted ‘minister’ then? Oral Roberts. yeh.
The work with troubled and needy youth is not a matter of “Under New Management!”
Can CPS or the courts help with creating a waiting period or restructuring of one year’s time? It’s all spinning so fast that I don’t think there is time to ensure the integrity of the organization or the security of those enrolled.
Sorry kids, no camp this year. You are still safe.
Regarding the Hilton Garden Inn, I was under the impression that Jer just helped himself to the pool, towels, facilites. He may also have rented rooms.
But I will tell you this. The back of house staff knows. They may not speak up (where I live they are illegal and haven’t yet been caught, or just don’t want any attention if they are legal).
I had one housekeeper who knew about a horrendous odor in one suite, but didn’t say anything. She also at times had been admitted, even with the DND sign up or by using her key (i know, wrong) to clean the bathroom and empty the condom-filled wastebasket.
Why didn’t she tell me? Well, she thought I knew, she didn’t think it was her business, etc.
It turns out that there was 3x4x2.5′ pile of sub sandwiches, kfc, all kinds of other food in the hallway leading to the main bedroom. Three full garbage bags of rotting food.(Food brought by customers?)
Vomit-inducing indeed. Couldn’t rent that room for nearly two months.
@erose. Foster care (recruiting & supervising foster parents & addition of middlemen “nonprofits) has moved to private “nonprofit” govt contractors since early Reagan years. Also in his first three months he scuttled/dumped terrific Model Adoption regs for States drafted in response to an earlier act of Congress (’77?). The Regs were in Final publication form after 3 years of hearings & meetings by DHS include the responses to Draft Regs, with all
States & stakeholders writing together with Fed DHS. Best practices & acceptable to Stayes. Regs were required to get Fed $ to States for adoption. Only one lobbying group, a Coalition of 50 old fashioned private agencies led by a lobbyist Bill Pierce opposed it.
When we went to adopt in late 80s, and my region was clearly out of it in agency functioning (ie, here then, no one over 35 could adopt period), and my husband was 36, , I located and called the Fed DHS employee in charge of the Final regs and asked what happened to Nat’l policy & those States regs. The short answer was they were quashed within 3 months of the Reagan oath of office, and at Gary Bauer’s direction. I told a White House friend in a Bible study with him where he could shove that religious man. Of course Romania led to the proliferation of many agencies, most around here founded and run by nonprofessionals and more adoption possibilities. Anyway, govt privitization of services at the State level to abused/neglected kids were Reagan/Bush 1 policies and imo driven by “Christian lobby” or already private existing agencies (Catholic Charities–Pierce was Catholic–Lutheran SS, Barker, etc.)
Ancient history. But How can responsible govt agrncies take charge of the foster care system again?
I think contracting out costs the taxpayers more because there’s a lot of service duplication
didn’t govt take over foster care early last century in part due to abuses in institutions? Think Bucheald (Jewish Home) and various religions’ and charitable org’s Orphanages?
good thinking Word Girl, plenty of camps out there.
That DC Victims org attorney Cleland educated
might be useful by trying to file a motion in the matter
of the program transfer for eval purposes.
Thing is, the value in any business lies in it
being an ongoing enterprise.
@Word Girl: I am absolutely 1000% with you on this, “But I will tell you this. The back of house staff knows. They may not speak up….”
Some of them might not have known who he was–at the time he was hanging out. It’s possible. I’m amazed at what some worker types around here don’t know. And don’t care to learn; some of that out of self-protection because of their own marginal status.
I’d like to know how Jer worked that, though. Probably no one would question it if they knew who he was and that he was simply “crashing” the fitness center the that Inn. Wonder if they have showers in the fitness ctr itself.
My other thought is, IF this was a frequent thing, maybe some staff person with sufficient authority gave directions to allow him use of facilities, possibly even a guest room. You know, for him and his young fitness buff to shower in after working out. Many unsavory ideas run thru my mind. Including other victims who haven’t come forward.
@Rose: Curley knew in 2011. I was thinking earlier today that maybe we haven’t given enough emphasis to how much PSU wanted to keep that Second Mile connection out in the public eye, using JS for that purpose.
My “target” ain’t miniscule anymore either!
I map everything now. It is eight-tenths of a mile from the Sandusky home to that Hilton Garden Inn. Sonuvabitch! That’s amazingly bold.
OK, went back to the Amended Bill of Particular filed May 18, 2012.
http://www.co.centre.pa.us/media/upload/SANDUSKY AMENDED BILL OF PARTICULARS.pdf
Both Victims 1 and 9 were assaulted at that Hilton.
Will somebody please read at least the first 3 paragraphs of this document, filed May 25. And tell me if it means that because Amendola waived all those initial hearings, he has made it impossible for the court to grant his motion for dismissal (without the court making a serious legal error)????????????????????
http://www.co.centre.pa.us/media/upload/SANDUSKY COM’S RESPONSE TO DEF’S SUPPLEMENTAL PRE-TRIAL MOTIONS.pdf
(If you want to access it thru the court filings, scroll way down, to where the ink color changes, go past the Docket list, and go to the second document down. Bears name of pdf file I showed above)
http://www.co.centre.pa.us/media/
So, Sandusky understands this strategy? Defense attys always move for dismissal of the case before trial. I’m fascinated how, what with the court pointing out the strangeness of this failure to create a record on which to base a dismissal. Wow!
In researching the possible Oral Roberts connection between Michael Madeira and William Tennant, I ran across this story, posted May 24, 2012.
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In 2007, Rogers was convicted for beating to death in State College Young Cheol Park, a Penn State student.
About a year later, Rogers was granted a new trial after a judge found that former district attorney Michael Madeira withheld evidence.
http://wearecentralpa.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=373572