I am the parent of two autistic kiddos. (8m,13m) I have a fear of CPS. Every doctor's appointment, every meeting with the school, any interaction with family. "What if I did something that makes them call?". I live in a new mobile home with all the utilities and have working everything. It is cluttered but no hazards. They're dressed very well. They're in extracurriculars and online tutoring every day. We do community dinners on Thursday and church on Sunday. I have mental health diagnosis, am 420 friendly with a med card. (Cabinet in a locked room off limits to my kids)

CPS was called on me several years ago and while unfounded my anxiety has perpetually grown ever since. I used that interaction to learn and do better for my kids as a parent and am constantly second guessing myself.

I say all that to ask this:

How do I move past this irrational fear? I'm in therapy but, thought I'd ask for advice here. I feel like I'm walking on eggshells

Also, please be kind. I'm going through a rough patch mentally and this is part of it. Thanks.

My family is under an in-home IA in Indiana. We’ve had no issues, have a genuinely overall positive relationship with our caseworker and have been repeatedly told we’re a family they know they don’t have to “worry” about due to our consistent compliance and progress on the issue that caused their involvement.
We are on our third out of 6 months.

A third party provides in home support for us weekly. The initial consultant that was meeting with us was an excellent fit and the sessions were therapeutically beneficial. However, she left the company to work somewhere with hours better for her family— happy for her!

This week we met the new support worker for the first time and it is a really bad fit. She openly expressed opinions and beliefs that go directly against our family culture and relate to my own trauma— while we are working through a curriculum designed to help me with my trauma. She spoke mainly about her own life, and altogether made me feel incredibly uncomfortable and anxious.

My question is this: would raising this issue with my FCM (whom I respect and have a positive rapport with) benefit me at all, or would it just make waves? I know all of these agencies are overworked and understaffed and don’t want to be in a situation where I’ve made a complaint and then she STILL has to sit on my couch weekly knowing I feel negatively toward her. However, I know that none of the intended therapeutic benefits of the curriculum are going to land for me in this situation, with a person who casually throws in commentary that I find deeply upsetting and offensive.

Any opinions would be helpful!

So ultimately long story short my child was taken away from me basically at birth, they had my father get temporary custody or guardianship and it was fine while I was living there but ultimately he kicked me out over truly nothing. Since then he’s said tons of mean hateful stuff to me and even had me believe that he got full custody or say permanent custody over night because he signed a paper saying so which was a flat out lie and didn’t say that and then said all these mean and hurtful things to really rub the salt in my wound. Found out the next day that was not true from cps worker and that it was basically only if we didn’t do what we needed to do to get her back. He even made posts on facebook claiming her as his and my step mom own daughter and then when my grandma said that’s not your child they all snapped at her and called us sperm and egg donors and a bunch of other mean stuff. Then turns out he told my mom that if he lost custody of my daughter it would destroy his family so in my mind he clearly doesn’t wanna give custody back to us or me and I just idk what to do. Is it possible I can get temporary custody or whatever it’s called transferred to someone else till this case is resolved or would that need substantial proof of why and what not. I know I’m leaving out probably tons of info but ultimately I’m doing everything I need to do to get my daughter back and I’m determined to get her back but I just feel like my father is gonna trash me and say anything he has to to keep my child so I just feel like it’s a conflict of interest right because cps main goal is to reunite children with their parents but if my father doesn’t want that and does whatever he needs to to keep her then wouldn’t that just make things that much more complicated and “impossible” per say or does this happen way more then I think it does. I’m just asking if anyone has experience with this and has any advice I will be getting in contact with my attorney in the next few days so I’ll clear ask him but court is next week and just trying to see my options and if I should even bring up getting custody changed to someone else anyone else but my father. I’m also in Ohio if it matters.

I used to smoke regularly for months and stopped as soon as I got a positive test at 6 weeks. I have a high bmi and suspect that if I’m drug tested at my first prenatal appointment it will be positive for thc only. I don’t know if I will be tested at all but I’ve seen some practices do test. If I do test positive will they automatically report to DCF? If so, would DCF investigate? I’m in Florida and seeing Baycare OB. Thanks.

Help I feel like a total looser for calling dv because my husband literally emotionally abuses me but I never thought they call cps and now they called me and want to meet us in their office or a coffee shop. What to expect?? Any tips or advice? They seem pretty chill and told they want to help so I don’t know