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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in New Jersey. At Drug Rehab New Jersey we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in New Jersey, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in New Jersey. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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New Jersey's ShameDYFS: At least 123 children in New Jersey died of neglect or abuse from 1998 to 2002 The undertaker scooped the white pine box holding the body of Jaquan Holmes from the trunk of his hearse and carried it to a freshly dug grave. It was light as a breadbox.
In less than five minutes, the burial was over. There was no service at his graveside, no ceremony and no grieving relatives, just the undertaker and a caseworker from the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services.
Jaquan was just 7 days old when he died last year in Jersey City, the eighth child of a heroin-using mother.
From 1998 through 2002, at least 123 New Jersey children - 13 of them in Hudson County - died of neglect or abuse. Jaquan's name appeared last among the last 55 additions to the tally, which the state Department of Human Services had been working to complete since January.
More than half of the 123 children who died of abuse or neglect in New Jersey over the five-year period were younger than a year old, and almost half of them were African-American, according to a 22-page statistical analysis of the deaths that the department released at the same time.
Forty-nine children were beaten to death, and in most of those cases, the beating was administered by the father or another male.
Mothers figured heavily in cases of fatal neglect - through drug abuse or lack of supervision. Many children died in tubs, pools or fires while no one was watching them.
In one case, a toddler drowned in a bathtub while supposedly under the supervision of an older sibling. The father had left them alone for about a half-hour to smoke marijuana with his girlfriend.
A 22-year old Bayonne woman was sentenced last year to 30 years in prison for the 1999 murder of her infant son Solomon Blakney in a case in which DYFS had investigated allegations of abuse.
The child died in September 1999 of blunt force trauma to the head after being shaken too hard, medical experts and the prosecution said at the time.
Two-thirds of the children who died during the 1998-2002 period came from families who had been counseled by DYFS, suggesting that the state's efforts on their behalf may have failed more often than not.
The agency provides a variety of services to families, but its core mission is to protect children.
Human Services Commissioner Gwendolyn L. Harris called that finding alarming during a news conference last week in Trenton to discuss trends identified in the report.
There were cases, she said, "that were open and then closed and then a child death occurred within a year after the case was closed."
But rather than blame individual performance, she faulted what she called the state's "flawed" guidelines for assessing whether a child is safe in his home.
Other states use more scientific measures for deciding when a child should be removed.
"The division has not had a risk assessment. Risk assessments have been available in the field of child protection for a number of years," she said. "Why the state of New Jersey has not had it is an open question."
The departmental report itself, however, analyzed the performance of each of DYFS' 32 district offices and found disturbing differences in outcomes.
Offices in Newark, Camden, Ocean County, and Central Passaic had a "disproportionately large" percentage of fatal abuse cases that were open at the time of child's death.
In Atlantic County, every single child who died of abuse or neglect was known to DYFS, the report said.
Departmental officials said the analysis was undertaken to help the reform of DYFS following the public outcry over a child abuse case bungled by a Newark district office in January.
Police discovered the shriveled corpse of Faheem Williams, 7, in a Newark basement months after DYFS failed to follow up on a report that he was being abused.
Within days, the news media demanded reports on the child abuse fatalities that had occurred in New Jersey in the previous five years. By law such reports are public. The long delay was caused, in part, by poor record-keeping by case workers and their managers.
Those reports - sparse case summaries describing how the child died and whether DYFS had been involved - formed the basis of the report released last week.
In emotionless telegraph style, they frame the cause of each child's death.
"Mother and father admitted to beating Elliot over a period of time. Father admitted to hitting the infant with a car seat," one report states in the case of Elliot Burgos, a 4-month-old boy killed Nov. 14, 2000.
"Rhakida Daniels, mother of Aljaneer, left her son in the care of a friend's 10-year-old son, while she went out for fast food," states a report filed in the July 28, 1998, death of Aljaneer Caraway, a 4-month-old boy. "It appears the 10-year-old was unable to cope with Aljaneer's crying and punched the baby in the stomach and head."
Harris said one of the most disturbing trends uncovered by the report is that the number of very young children suffering fatal neglect or abuse has been on the rise since 1998.
Over the five-year study period, children no older than 12 months accounted for 57 percent of all deaths. But their proportion rose from 40 percent in 1998 to 66.7 percent last year.
Boys under 1 were more likely than girls to die from neglect or abuse, the report said. Overall, however, the deaths were fairly evenly split between boys and girls; boys accounted for nearly 54 percent of all fatalities.
Jersey's death toll of abused children is similar to other states in the Northeast. In 2001, state fatality data from the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect showed abuse and neglect death rates ranged from a rate of .32 deaths per 100,000 child population in New Hampshire to 7.89 per 100,000 in Delaware. New Jersey had a rate of 1.58, while Pennsylvania's was 1.65 and New York's was 1.67.
Harris underscored the need for improvedservices to mothers who use drugs. About 80 percent of the DYFS caseload consists of parents who use drugs, according to state officials.
"We've got to start acting like this is more the case as opposed to the exception," she said.
Harris also said the department, under the direction of Deputy Commissioner Colleen Maguire, has begun a systematic attack on the agency's documented shortcomings.
"We started in Newark," she said, which had 19 children die as a result of abuse or neglect from 1998 to 2002. "We are meeting with a cross-section of folks, agencies we contract with, health professionals, maybe law enforcement, to look at what we are doing and what we are not doing."
Finding successful ways to intervene in the lives of drug-using mothers, especially those who have had a number of children, is extremely difficult, said Michelle Rennert, a social worker in the neonatal intensive unit of University Hospital in Newark.
"Most of the time, with mothers with a long history of drug abuse, the intervention doesn't seem to be very successful," Rennert said.
At University Hospital, 8.3 percent of all live births involve mothers with a history of substance abuse, said Elmer David, attending neonatologist at the hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics at New Jersey Medical School/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
"Drugs add insult to injury," he said. In addition to the usual risks posed by prematurity, drug-exposed babies have daunting medical problems such as feeding intolerance, necrotizing enteritis and short bowel syndrome, he said.
DYFS not only knew that Jaquan Holmes' mother used drugs; it paid to provide drug treatment services.
It also provided her with foster care services, medical care, transportation, clothing, furniture, shelter care, respite care, homemaker services, and psychological services. After Jaquan died, DYFS paid one last bill - for a funeral and burial.
By the time he was born on Dec. 11, 2002, his mother had already given birth to seven children. One was already an adult, and the other six were wards of the state. DYFS had taken away all her children.
Her involvement with the division dated back to 1989. She had no prenatal care before Jaquan was born, weeks premature, at home. They were rushed to Jersey City Medical Center, where the baby died seven days later.
Not mentioned in the report is the fact that his body lay in the Newark office of the regional Medical Examiner for the next four months. The reason for that is unclear, and queries to the state Medical Examiner Office and to DYFS did not produce an answer.
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