DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – On Wednesday of last week, Michigan News Source published an exclusive story about how the Whitmer administration was planning to close down a black adoption agency on Friday, October 28th called “Homes for Black Children” (HBC) with the Department of Health and Human Services Child Welfare Division revoking their license for “financial instability.”
When contacted about the situation, the Dept. of Health was focused on moving ahead with the revocation but on Friday morning, CEO and President Jacquelynn Moffett released a statement through her daughter’s Twitter account that said, “I’ve been told by the governors office there is no imminent plan to close Homes for Black Children, they will work w/us + help us in our recovery.”
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Her daughter, Alex Moffett-Bateau, Ph.D., tweeted, “I truly cannot thank all of you enough. This has been one of the toughest weeks of our lives. Ultimately, we made it ONLY because of community. Words can’t express how grateful I am. Thank you, thank you , thank you…”
Back on Wednesday, October 26th, Bob Wheaton, Public Information Officer for the Michigan Dept. of Health & Human Services had told Michigan News Source in a long statement that the “well-being of children in care” was a top priority and “significant financial instability at this agency (HBC) over the past four years threatens its ability to manage the cases of vulnerable children.”
But two days later, the state was whistling a different tune. In response to the Detroit News picking up the story, Wheaton told them, “…we are working alongside the leadership at Homes for Black Children to further review the agency’s operations and explore opportunities to help them meet state compliance standards.”
Along with the new comments, we have the state of Michigan talking about how the organization only got an informal notice of the state’s intent to revoke their license, not a formal notice – and they’re offering assistance where none was discussed two days earlier.
So what happened in those two days?
When Wheaton was contacted again by Michigan News Source about why the state of Michigan changed their mind about moving ahead with revoking the license and if the decision had anything to do with the upcoming election, they didn’t respond to our questions this time around.
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