Valley of the Moon Children's Home Victims: How To Get Your Case File Without Going Into County

Efforts by advocates to figure out how Valley of the Moon Children's Home abuse victims could obtain their files without going into the county have finally come to fruition. Leslie Winters, the Section Manager which oversees Valley of the Moon Children's Home, has allowed a former foster youth to use this process to obtain her case file. As such, this is now a possible process for new youth. This is a generalized version of the letter sent to obtain the records.

Send the letter below to: Leslie Winters wintela@schsd.org


Foster Youth Name

Foster Youth Address
Foster Youth Address

Foster Youth Phone (Optional)

Ms. Winters,

This letter is a formal demand of my full, un-redacted, unmodified, and otherwise unedited case file and access log and or check out log. I demand that Sonoma County Department of Human Services do not leave out any information, do not withhold any information, do not redact information, do not edit information, do not refrain from providing documents of any kind or manner, and do their due diligence to collect missing information and provide it to me. All information in the case file shall be provided to me.

Due to the behavior of Sonoma County Department of Human Services staff during my time in foster care, I feel endangered to return to collect the case file. I ask that my records instead be shipped by secure mail to:

Name

Care of if applicable

Address

Address

Additional Information

If you refuse to ship, I will pick up the case file from:

Greg Begin

VOICES
714 Mendocino Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Or another agreed upon location between Mr. Begin and myself, at a time agreed upon between Ms. Begin and myself.

I believe this both meets the Sonoma County Department of Human Services concern for confidentiality and the need for neutral location to preserve my safety.

To verify my identity, I have included the following information:

Birthday:

Mother's Name:

Father's Name:

Approximate years in care:

Sibling Name:

If you have any questions, you may email/write me back at this email address/mail address. I expect to receive the case file within 10 days.

Thank you,

Youth's Name

Contact email address/mailing address