When did Financial Institutions such as “Wells Fargo” become Human and Social Services Workers or Agencies?

In light of the Wendy Williams docu-series, one must ask a serious question about the professionalism of banks making CYS recommendations involving human and social welfare to the courts about care and guardianship of individuals when such recommendations need specialists trained and licensed to make that recommendation and decision. IT SHOULD BE HUMAN AND SOCIAL WELFARE WORKERS MAKING SUCH RECOMMENDATIONS to the courts. Furthermore, the CARE should include and involve FAMILIES. That has been the modus operandi of human and social services for decades, so what has changed, and what is going on?

 

Recently, it was revealed that Wendy Williams’s bank accounts were frozen and she was appointed an Independent Guardian to provide care and administer Wendy’s affairs and life while her family was shut out, only to watch on the sidelines; orchestrated by Wells Fargo Bank acting as CYS Social Work Professionals making recommendation to the courts of this country who acted on that said recommendation without appropriating family statutes law and care that was best practice.

Child, youth, and family services are geared towards keeping families together in a safe environment with minimal safety risks and hazards, especially when this involves children. Programs such as FGDM are utilized today to identify next-of-kin or family/community in place of state and punitive services to treat and keep the family together. Wells Fargo’s decision to get the courts to strip the family from providing care and guardianship of Wendy Williams at a time when she needs family is a draconian solution that has only exacerbated Wendy’s problems. There is child care but also adolescent and adult care whereby agencies respond to the children’s and entire families’ needs to help the adult become an able members of the community to serve themselves. Community and family. There are systems in place, but it seems as if in Wendy’s case the established system was not used.

Furthermore, it shows how the system and the private sectors work against already established best practices in human and social services in caring for the family. Banks and financial sectors should never make decisions about family care. The banks should have alerted the relevant care providers or make a recommendation. If anything the courts should have thrown out the case as the banks lack precedence and jurisdiction to make such a determination given their lack of training in this regard. Further, the courts should have never sided with the banks to block the family from planning and providing care for Wendy. This suggests collusion and corruption and is a step backward. Moreover, the HHS has been promoting family care in their assisted living programs and services, so the fact that the family is now involved in care to not disrupt the family connections which is pivotal to adult and CYS care and empowerment of individuals in the community.

The docuseries, although hard to watch and said to be exploiting Wendy, was necessary as it revealed a truth about how the courts and banks work to shut out families from their family members’ care against what CYS professionals promote. I hope that this will provide openness to discussing care and how banks must never get involved in such decisions. It also puts Wells Fargo in a negative spotlight as disloyal to customers and their families. The courts’ work to provide just and fair decisions in this regard must also be questioned. The Department of Health and Human Services with the Banking and Financial Regulatory Departments with Congress must work together to set policies and regulations that guide what banks can do in situations like these.

 

 

Submitted by Renaldo McKenzie of The NeoLiberal Corporation.