email sent to those involved in trying to move Sue

this is what i sent to all the names i have that are invloved in trying to move Sue from Kanangra. I will post their replies if i get any.

Hi
I am Sue's sister and I have some questions about why your agency is considering moving her.

Why are you considering moving her when her staff and the psychiatrist at Kanangra have told you she is not ready to move?
What is the pool of staff that will work with Sue and how many staff will be on duty each day at the accommodation you are thinking of moving her to?
How many staff are going to be assigned to Sue?
What are the staffs qualifications and experience?
What day programs and activities are you going to provide for Sue and where are they going to be held?
I have been told that Sue will be able to maintain contact with her friends at Kanangra how will this be achieved?
Is there a plan to move Sue into the wider community?
If this move fails what is the plan for Sue's accommodation? Can she move back to Kanangra?
What are you going to do if neighbours complain about the behaviour and noise from your residents?
Are the other clients permanent residents? Do they have an intellectual disability?
Have you read Sue's file?
Do you know what her various diagnosis are?
Have you read her court records?
What makes you think this placement will work when others have not?
Have you read her parole conditions?
Do you think you can modify Sue's behaviour better than Kanangra?
What happens to the housing and Sue when funding for the project Stronger Together stops or is rescinded?
How are you going to deal with her mental health issues? Will she have ongoing psych support as she has at Kanangra?
Who suggested Sue was valid candidate for this move? And why? Have they meet Sue or talked with Sue or her staff?
Was Sue assessed for this placement? If so how? What was the criteria?
When was the last time anyone connected with this project meet Sue?
Who is The Office of the Senior Practitioner?
Is Sue being considered to be moved because of a need to fill vacancies?
Why not just leave Sue where she is and move her with the rest of the Kanangra clients?

Or is it on the table to move Sue purely because the Ombudsmen has criticised DADHC'sDADHC's role and that in "In 2004, in response to a complaint about the lack of progress of the SOG, we initiated an investigation of DADHC's conduct as lead agency of the SOG. Our investigation found significant problems with DADHC's leadership of the SOG, little progress on individual projects initiated under the auspice of the SOG, and little evidence of agencies working collaboratively and cooperatively to achieve better service delivery for people with an intellectual disability in contact with the criminal justice system."
(NSW Ombudsmen, Supporting people with an intellectual disability in the criminal justice system: Progress report A special report to Parliament under s31 and s26 of the Ombudsman Act 1974 August 2008)

Is the Community Justice Program Program Guidelines Version 1.0 still the guidelines your agency is working off? If so then Sue does not meet your own policy guideline: "to assist people moving from a correctional facility into the community, and to meet the accommodation and support options for those who are exiting a correctional facility." Sue is currently housed, she is not in jail. Neither is she :"Without support and stable housing in the post release period", or at risk "of homelessness often resulting in returning to gaol." Neither is Sue a valid candidate for: "moving through and out of the accommodation and support services" that DADHC provide. She cannot live in the broader community.

Your report also says that: many of the clients you will help "have little access to consistent financial, vocational, educational and social opportunities or support." That is not the case with Sue. She has excellent support at Kanangra.

You are considering moving someone who is currently housed safely and stably and has not had any contact with the police since she has been housed at Kanangra. Why are you thinking of intervening when she is already settled?

I would like to raise the fact that prior to Kanangra Sue had had 7 previous housing options provided by DADHC. All of these failed. Why do you think she is in Kanangra?

I have grave concerns when DADHC staff start talking about training Sue, that she can be taught to behave via behaviour modification. Why do you think she is in Kanangra? Kanangra does behaviour modification. Sue is not just acting out, or a "bad person" like previous DADHC staff have told me and she can not be "trained" to behave and DADHC staff need to realise that and get their head out of the sand and to stop expecting Sue to achieve things that she can not. You set her up to fail and then hold her responsible for your actions and your failings.

You need to listen to the Kanangra staff, they are the experts. They deal with Sue everyday. Why does the Criminal Justice Program and DADHC think they know better than Kanangra? One could come to the conclusion that you are saying that Kanangra do not know what they are doing. And if you think that then DADHC and the Criminal Justice Program are once again failing their clients and falling into a state of do-gooding, or maybe playing a numbers game, without thought or concern for their charges and really, in the end, that just amounts to stupidity.

To end I find it disturbing that Sue is still being consider to be moved against the advice of those working with her and I am wondering now whether it is because DADHC is currently under review by the ombudsmen via the Senior Officers Group?

Thank you
Julie