First hand experience with CAS......My daughter was 15 when she started to skip school, hang out with questionable friends, shop lift, sneak out, smoke in the house, ect, ect, ect....My ex wife and I raised her and our son without hitting or spanking...Time out was our punishment right from the start with fairly good results. We felt very strongly about it and I also have a son with my current wife and we have practiced the same technique with the same results.
Back to the 15 yr old she flipped back and forth a few times between her Mother and My house not doing well in either environment. Well she simply got angry one day and left my home and went first to her friends house and called CAS...They investigated by showing up at my youngest sons school(he was in SK at the time) to interview him. The worker called me at work from his cell phone to inform me of this. Of course I told him he had no permission to interview my son without my his Mother/Father/Grandmother/Grandfather present. This got his back up and he was very belligerent and flippant trying to tell me that he does in fact have the right. One call to the secretary of his school from me and there was no way she was letting anybody speak to my son without a court order....So on and on we ended up setting up his mandatory visit at home with his Mother and I present....It did not go well My little guy was a shy boy at this age and ended up very upset in sobbing tears because he did not want to talk to this man. At any rate I cut it short and demanded the worker leave...which he very reluctantly did. We requested a new worker and received one but no further interview was required. Which we already knew because we raise the kids in a loving positive way. The process this time took about a week and my daughter was back home. All was well for a few weeks then the bad behavior started again...sneaking out at 2am and the likes...Well it didn't take long she was back on the phone again to CAS this time with more serious allegations of physical abuse. This time although they didn't interview either of my other 2 children they put her directly into foster care. Signing off on it was very difficult for me but I felt it was the only option...She told me she would just run away again and had plenty of places she could live....... Oh it gets better she had to wait 2 weeks for a home to be available so she stayed where? you guessed it at her boyfriends house with his parents and CAS's permission///She is still 15 yrs old at this point. So the first Foster home she went too lasted 2 weeks the next 3 weeks....She ended up sleeping on a couch at a friend of the boyfriends parents who happens to live in the same apartment building for about 2 months eventually just moving back in with the boyfriend and his parents. All with CAS approval.
B/F's parents buy the reservation cigarettes for them and allow them to not attend school. B/F washes dishes at a local restaurant and my daughter does nothing.....Shes 17 now and not in school not working claiming she is depressed because of the way she was treated by her Mother, myself and all of her teachers.
I'm just waiting for the B/F's parents to take me to court for child support, Retroactive no doubt LOL.
CAS is an industry so is foster parenting....not to say they are all bad but my ex wife was disgusted when she visited her at the first foster home.
Through the whole process our worker changed 4 times one we didn't even speak to but we had a letter telling us that she was our new worker then we got a letter telling us we have another new worker LOL
The whole process is ridiculous and should be avoided at all costs. Oh and I tried to file a complaint about the first male worker and his visit to my young sons school but was stonewalled until I finally gave up.
