DHS (the Oregon Department of Human Services). This is Oregon's version of social services. I don't know even where to start about these bastards. It was DHS, which brought me to the perception that just because you have a college degree it doesn't make you any smarter with real-life interaction.< p>

Most of their employees are book smart and people-stupid. It should be a mandatory requirement for any company or agency which deals with and dictates policy into human lives that they complete an internship living with and experiencing what is involved in the lives of the kinds of people whose care they will become responsible for.

If you have no idea what its like to stand in the other's shoes, you can't help them or be very compassionate.

My friend Thomas, who had brain cancer came to be under the overseeing care of DHS. DHS should stand for the Devil's Hell System; how can we assist in throwing you into the fires of hell?

Anyway, I took care of Thomas for 18 months, until the stress of dealing with Thomas' cancer and DHS got me on June 30, 2007, and I suffered a heart attack.

Immediately, like the next morning, his worker showed up at my hospital bed to tell me I couldn't take care of Thomas any more, unless I, not they, could find another care provider. I found another care provider (care providers are licensed through DHS, as, I had, as Thomas' illness worsened).

Using a long list given me by DHS, I found a lady I thought would work and allow Thomas to stay in our home. He was also my roommate. The first day the new care provider was in our home she refused to give him any ice cream because he didn't eat his dinner!

And, the next day, I caught her stealing his pain medication and ordered her out-of-the-house.

DHS immediately removed Thomas from our home and put him in a local concentration camp called Beaverton Rehabilitation. They, using their on-sight notary, drew up a document changing his power-of-attorney from me to them. Thomas didn't even know what he was signing, he did not have a clue.

Following that I was no longer permitted to bring him home, or even take him outside. He died there on August 3, 2007, after they pumped him full of morphine. Thomas and I had an agreement and that was to never allow morphine. I had no power, I could not stop them from killing him. And DHS approved it all.

After he passed I filed a complaint with another wing of DHS, Adult Protective Services, abot the care provider who stole his medication and about Beaverton Rehab. I, to this day have never been allowed to learn the results of that investigation.

But, one thing I can tell you, the woman who stole his medication is still to this very day working as a licensed care provider, under Home Care Worker Program coordinated and operated by DHS.

Thomas had communicated to me that upon his death he wished to be cremated and I was to take his ashes and scatter them at Mt. Tabor Park in Portland, Oregon. I had even worked it out with the great guy who is the County Coroner for Washington County, Oregon. He was kind enough to arrange for a free cremation. He told me "as soon as Thomas is ready I will personally call you.

He called me a couple of days after Thomas passed, and said, "Mr. Howard, I'm really sorry, but, I never received Thomas' body. Beaverton Rehab donated his body to science. There will be no cremation."

I dug around a little bit to see if I could stop the process. DHS said it was out of their hands. It should have never been in their hands. What I found out was Thomas was in a freezer, his head removed. And, that is the last I ever knew of my friend.

On the morning I had the heart attack I knew what was going on, but, I couldn't just leave Thomas home alone. He weighed only 60 pounds (he was 5 foot 9 inches tall).

I got him dressed, in his wheelchair, and then called a cab. The hospital admitted me immediately, but, I had no one to give Thomas to. So, there we were. I was in my hospital bed, and Thomas parked next to me in his wheelchair. The hospital said "he can't stay here all night!"

Thomas looks at the nurse and says "oh, that's ok, I'll go outside to the bus shelter and hang out there till morning." He was such a sweetie. That's when I said "that's not going to happen."

"I need to call Adult Protective Services." It was 6pm on a Friday night, and get this, Adult Protective Services, like all state agencies, close at 5pm on Friday, and does not open till 8am on Monday. Well, that's real protection!

(Thomas' cancer caused memory losses, this was just the tip of the issues - I remember he always said, "its one thing to lose your mind, its another thing to know your losing it.")

So, I'm trying to think, who to call?

Thomas looked up and said, "I have the solution! It's......"

Thomas nodded a lot too. He hated what was happening to him. His journey, had been long, from American scientist - to trying to beat the grim reaper.

Thomas, had nodded away. So, now, I'm back looking through, of all things, the Yellow Pages, the book!

I look up from the book and Thomas is wide awake looking at me. I asked him, so, what's up? That was, sort of, our secret-code, to let him know he had lost track of the conversation, and he had been talking.

"What are you looking for, he asks? Some safe place YOU can spend the night!

You don't have to look in there. He hands me a piece of paper with a phone number on it, he had removed from his wallet.

He says, "last year I met a lady on the bus and she thought I needed help." He hands me a piece of paper with a name and phone number on it. He could always pull a rabbit out of a hat, even, when there was no hat.

We called the number, and a guy answered. I told him about my plight, and, he said, "where did you get this number? I live in Salem (50 miles from where we were) and I'm almost home!!" After a couple of minutes of combative conversation I hung up on him.

Within seconds, my phone rang. This guy says, "I'm not even suppose to be talking to you. Your not even registered with our agency. I'll be there as soon as I can."

Without the guy's help, Thomas and I, both, might have had to go to the bus shelter till morning. I would have never let him go alone.

James found Thomas a nice caring place to stay for a couple of days, and remained our friend till Thomas died, and continues to remain my friend.

DHS, in Oregon, is Children's Services. While in their care children have been abused, killed, and sent to Mexico, even though they were U.S. citizens.

They are the scum of the earth.

Oregon agencies hold more power than our courts. And, always remember, if you think they're on your side, hey, they all eat lunch together...

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Other DHS related on Xomba: (updated 4 May 2009)

IDAHO:
http://xomba.com/oregon_s_death_camp_adminstration_department_human_services#comment-71104

OREGON:
Read about the hell two Oregon grandparents are going through in trying to get their grandchild from DHS:
http://www.xomba.com/fighting_our_grandson

Updated 9 May 2009

Here are some links to DHS problems:

Gresham foster kids abused despite DHS checks
($2Million payout)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/gresham_foster_kids_abused_des.html

THE STATE IS THE CHILD ABUSER - VICTIMIZED FAMILIES TESTIFY AT OREGON DHS BUDGET HEARING
http://www.nkmr.org/english/the_state_is_the_child_abuser.htm

Best Interest of the State: AG Marcia Lance-Bumb, Oregon DHS, and the Case of "Baby B"*
http://www.motherinterrupted.us/Darling.htm

Mom of girl killed in Mexico rallies for new DHS laws
http://stopcorruptdss.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/tausha-cram-rallies-for-new-dhs-laws/

DHS Foster Care System - words from a teen hung up in the system -- (this is an inside look at what kids go through)
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341216.shtml

Lars Larson on Oregon's DHS failures becoming a national story
http://www.oregoncatalyst.com/index.php?/archives/896-Lars-Larson-on-Oregons-DHS-failures-becoming-a-national-story.html

AUTHORITY OF OREGON JUVENILE COURTS TO REVIEW DHS ACTIONS IN CHILD DEPENDENCY CASES" -- by The Oregon Child Advocacy Project:
http://familylaw.uoregon.edu/docs/dhs.pdf

DHS is CORRUPT -- a public blog of Letters to the Editor of the Oregonian newspaper - dated March 2009
http://blog.oregonlive.com/myoregon/2009/03/dhs_is_corrupt.html

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