Operation Rio Grande Phase Three to focus on “Dignity of Work”
Workforce Services employment counselors have already started meeting with people experiencing homelessness to develop individualized employment plans
SALT LAKE CITY (Nov. 9, 2017) - Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and Speaker Greg Hughes announced the start of Phase Three of Operation Rio Grande today, and said that this phase is about focusing on individuals and the pride and self-esteem that comes for participating in work.
“The Dignity of Work phase has been an essential part of Operation Rio Grande since its inception,” said Cox. “The importance of work in each of our lives cannot be overstated, and in Phase Three, we are going to provide individuals experiencing homelessness with opportunities to prepare for and engage in positive work experiences.”
A centerpiece of Phase Three is the creation of individualized employment plans tailored to each participant based on their history, education, vocational background, personal goals, and an assessment of their readiness to work. Four full-time employment counselors from the Department of Workforce Services began meeting with homeless individuals from the Rio Grande area yesterday to start building plans.
A committee of private, nonprofit and government organizations is leading the Dignity of Work effort, chaired by Steve Starks, president of Larry H. Miller Sports and Entertainment.
“It is our belief that in order to truly impact people’s lives, they have to be known individually,” said Starks. “They need a friend who cares about them, and they need opportunities to learn, work and be challenged.”
The Dignity of Work plan anticipates three different groups of individuals. The “work ready” group includes individuals who are ready to work now. The pre-employment group includes those who are not ready to work yet because they first need to focus on sobriety, mental health or other issues. The third group falls in between, and will be encouraged to participate in “dignity activities” like workshops, daily devotionals and developing healthy routines.
Starks also introduced “DREAM Teams” which involve private employers providing short-term internship opportunities to provide one-on-one mentorship and learning to prepare participants for paid employment. Businesses interested in participating can learn more at operationriogrande.utah.gov/dow.
“Phase Three is a critical component of Operation Rio Grande,” said Speaker Hughes. “We have created a safer place for people to seek services; we are providing enhanced access to mental health services and drug rehabilitation; and now we are preparing people to engage in meaningful work to become self-reliant.”
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Judicial Watch Sues Department of Justice for Communications Relating to ‘Russian Lawyer’ Immigration Parole
Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower, had her immigration parole refused for the period in which the meeting occurred
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for all records of communications relating to Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya’s immigration parole. (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-02357)).
Judicial Watch filed suit after the Justice Department failed to respond to an August 4, 2017, FOIA request seeking
Any and all records of communications sent to or from officials in the Offices of the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General regarding an immigration parole issued to Russian national Natalia Veselnitskaya between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2016.
Fox News recently reported on a meeting between Fusion GPS and Veselnitskaya:
The co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with [Veselnitskaya] before and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump.
The opposition research firm has faced renewed scrutiny after litigation revealed that the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for that research. Congressional Republicans have since questioned whether that politically financed research contributed to the FBI’s investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign – making Fusion’s 2016 contacts with Russian interests all the more relevant.
“The ‘Russian lawyer’ who finagled a meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. evidently wasn’t supposed to be in the country,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “We want to know what the Obama Justice Department knew and when it knew about what Ms. Veselniskava was up to.”
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Sexual abuse and rape are crimes; not unfortunate incidents, it is imperative that they are handled as crimes and no longer internally swept under the rug
Gov. Cuomo is responsible, what Governor Cuomo has done violates numerous State and Federal laws and is the worst Discrimination in Civil Rights that still exists in New York State.”
— Michael Carey
ALBANY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, November 10, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Tens of thousands of sexual assaults and rapes are occurring within Governor Andrew Cuomo’s extremely dangerous New York State mental health care system every year, yet hardly any are ever prosecuted. http://www.einpresswire.com/shareable-preview/yVLT9UfvJ56NwuZ34VCZnw New York State’s system is rampant with sexual abuse and it thrives because of a culture of internal reporting and criminal cover-ups. The people that cover-up sex crimes and rapes are usually far more dangerous than the original offender https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html and https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2017/02/20/predators-dream-ny-pays-3m-family-molested-boy/98154714/.
Following the award winning extremely damning New York Times “Abused and Used” investigative reporting series http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/abused-and-used-series-page.html which was a runner up for a Pulitzer Prize, Governor Cuomo took decisive actions to try protect himself and his agencies, not to protect people with disabilities or people with special needs. Governor Cuomo worked with the provider agencies to concoct a scheme to rename and relocate the internal reporting agency that was caught with its pants down; it was basically covering up everything. Bait and switch, putting lipstick on a pig, you get the picture; the governor very foolishly thought he was actually going to pull off his scheme by renaming it. The governor’s house of cards, his fraudulent abuse hotline spun by the Governor to be called the Justice Center is crumbling. Almost the entire plan that Governor Cuomo and his top staff rolled out and portrayed as the toughest standards in the nation to protect the disabled is nothing short of a massive Medicaid fraud Ponzi -Scheme and massive criminal enterprise.
This is how Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid Fraud/Criminal Cover-up Ponzi Scheme operates;
• The evil and crimes always seem to start around lots of money, power and control. State and Federal funds in the many billions annually that are controlled by the State are supposed to be used to provide safe care and services for people with disabilities and those struggling with mental health issues are being used for other purposes. The misappropriation of funds is mind boggling and astronomical in scope.
• Well connected people and entities use the vast majority of the money to enrich themselves or their friends, not to ensure the best and safest living environment for those in need. The natural consequences of such gross negligence and incompetence are massive numbers of sexual assaults, rapes, physical assaults, negligence of care and criminally negligent deaths. The State’s answer to the providers, don’t worry about it, we’ll make sure almost everything disappears.
• To cover-up literally almost everything happening behind closed doors, these crimes must be kept from the 911 call systems set up and in place to protect and immediately assist everyone. People with disabilities living in both State and private facilities and group homes throughout New York State do not have equal access to 911 emergency services, which is obviously discrimination. This is purposeful and in many cases deadly. The absolute vital key for this Scheme or plot to succeed is to ensure that local police, paramedics, Medical Examiners, Coroners and County elected District Attorney’s are not notified and able to do their jobs. When this takes place anything can be covered-up.
• Governor Cuomo’s wrongfully named Justice Center does just that, it purposefully ensures that most sex crimes occurring within State or private sub-contracted provider agencies, as well as other crimes and most deaths are handled internally and never reported to local authorities. Almost everything disappears by the directive of Governor Andrew Cuomo.
• Governor Cuomo had to ensure there was no oversight for his fraudulent Justice Center so he shut down all independent legal protection and advocacy entities, close to twenty, that were in place all across New York State. These entities were in place to help the disabled and they could go into any of these facilities at any time. So this is exactly what Governor Andrew Cuomo did to ensure the cover-ups, he shut them all down, they no longer exist.
• Governor Cuomo because of the scope of the money involved, the power and the vital need to control everything, in his mind he had to make the decision to control all public records, what would get out or not, all damaging information that could hurt him or his agencies and further expose these crimes. So this is exactly what Gov. Cuomo did, he took decisive actions to control public records and have FOIL requests go to his attorney’s at the Capital http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-cuomos-office-tightly-controls-public-records-2014oct23-story.html . Gov. Cuomo did this to hide and conceal State documents and records, evidence of crimes, specifically because of the New York Times “Abused and Used” investigative reporting series that used many State documents to expose the State.
The Jonathan Carey Foundation released publicly a timeline of what and when former Attorney General Cuomo and now Governor Cuomo have known and has been involved in regarding hiding and concealing most reported sexual assaults and rapes of people with disabilities, as well as many other crimes and deaths from local police and county elected prosecutors http://www.einpresswire.com/article/414428414/cuomo-has-been-protecting-sexual-predators-for-over-a-decade?n=2 . The evidence is overwhelming. The sex crimes and cover-ups are astronomical in scope, but it is also important to bring to light the same is happening surrounding thousands of deaths within this same corrupt system. The Jonathan Carey Foundation laid out the case or indictment if you will of how most sex crimes disappear within Cuomo’s agencies. Gov. Cuomo is responsible, what Governor Cuomo has done violates numerous State and Federal laws and is the worst Discrimination in Civil Rights that still exists in New York State.
The Criminal Conspiracy surrounds the governor’s bogus Justice Center hiding and concealing documents and evidence of sex crimes and many other types of crimes, including homicides, from local police so that criminal investigations in most cases will never happen. No 911 call, no tape of the reported crime, no police report, no independent medical report , no criminal investigation, then it didn’t happen is how New York State is operating under Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Governor Cuomo knows full well about these atrocities, he has protected most of the criminals involved and he has taken no significant actions to stop or prevent any of these sex crimes or criminal cover-ups. Governor Cuomo must be investigated and criminally charged as soon as possible.
No longer can 911 and local police be bypassed. 911 call systems must be immediately called by all mandated reporters regarding all sexual abuse and obviously all other crimes and medical emergencies. Donate to support this vital Civil Rights Movement for the disabled and their families, but also for our country and the world, the maltreatment and unequal treatment of the disabled is an international societal problem that must be addressed now. People with disabilities are equal and just as valuable and precious as anyone else- period. http://jonathancareyfoundation.org/donate/
Michael Carey
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