Insult To Injury

Cape Counseling Services has stated these accusations are unfounded. Yet in the same breath Cape Counseling Services has stated that the company is doing everything possible to facilitate and cooperate with investigators. Our question is: How can Cape Counseling Services declare the accusations are unfounded without the findings of the current investigation?

This also raises other questions. When is the last time the CEOs of Cape Counseling Services set foot inside Rainbow Of Hope? When is the last time the CEOs of Cape Counseling Services interviewed the children-residents of Rainbow Of Hope? A fact worthy of examination is that Rainbow Of Hope has existed as some sort of self-governing satellite post of Cape Counseling Services. There has not been an appropriate level of supervisory attention given to this program.

Most of us agree that Cape Counseling Services is a professional agency that performs a lot of good for the community. Many of us have relatives who received services from other divisions of this agency. These are not complaints against Cape Counseling Services as a whole. These are specific problems with Rainbow Of Hope and its managers and staff.

The State of New Jersey has the power to remove children from their homes and parents when it finds an "unsafe environment" exists at home for the child. In other words, a child can be removed from his or her parents for lack of proper parental supervision. What kind of sense does it make to put this child into another environment where those supervising them are witnessed sleeping on the job, surfing the internet in closed offices, texting and talking on cell phones, and walking out of the building to hang out with friends?

Please don't insult us by referring to these problems as "unfounded". We've personally witnessed it. We tried to correct these problems through appropriate channels and were ignored by Kevin Cook and Lisa Polite. They essentially called us liars by refusing to take our claims seriously. And they also refused to take the claims of honest staff and children-residents serious when they complained. Now Rainbow Of Hope is in the middle of a State investigation and you flat-out tell us the complaints are "unfounded"? That's what Cook and Polite said too. No problem though... this time we'll wait and see what the State of New Jersey has to say. Please don't insult us with canned rhetoric.

New From Inside Rainbow Of Hope

Sources tell us that certain children-residents are still receiving preferential treatment while those courageous enough to challenge the bad behavior of staff are being treated unfairly.

We have new information regarding a female counselor with the initials K.T. Apparently this counselor is fond of triangulating the children-residents against each other and outright blaming the children-residents for her poor choices and bad behavior. Fortunately we have a written affidavit to support this.

It's truly sad that "counselors", most of them little more than mere children themselves, are given the ability and power to abuse their positions and authority without reprimands from management. We question how these "counselors" can possibly know what's best for our children, especially when they have little or no practical experience in dealing with children. Experience and training are the keys to a successful outcome. Not the wanton abuse of power.