Colorado System Accountability Network (CSAN)

Mission:

Hold systems and people accountable for the harm they cause families through individual or system negligence, falsification of records, or denying people appropriate due process.

CSAN is being formed to give Colorado moms, dads, and children who have been harmed by the failures of family court, CPS, domestic violence, and child support systems a way to give a voice to the voiceless. CSAN starts giving families recourse and informing policymakers to pass legislation that protects children and families from government overreach and negligence.

Vision:

CSAN intends to be a community-organized network of advocates, whistle-blowers, investigative reporters, podcasters, and others who can collect, write, video, and tell stories so that people can be heard and helped. Current system complaint methods are ineffectual, rarely help, and readily fail the people and families they were intended to serve and protect.

The failures are pervasive, traumatic, and preventable. But the problems won’t be solved until the systems and those who work in the systems are held accountable. Raising public awareness is a big part of creating change in these broken systems that destroy families, lives, and dreams for profit.

CSAN Framework

Local community groups:

  • Collect the stories – regardless of how the intake process works in that community or who does it, encourage people to come forward who want to have their stories heard.
  • Conduct interviews – phone, in-person, virtual, podcast, or just a written write up by the person telling their story, conduct the interview. Record if given permission. Hopefully multiple people doing interviews and collecting stories.
  • Curate the story – if recorded, edit it into a manageable “episode” no longer than 45 minutes and, if possible, create multiple bite-sized (30-120 second) clips suitable for posting on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and TikTok. Create captions for posting.  Let the subject of story review everything and give their blessing before posting/publishing.
  • If not recorded, write up the story however you see fit. Probably keep to 2,000 words or less. Be clear and to the point. It would be great if the story could be broken up into multiple articles/posts/blogs. Let the subject of story review everything and give their blessing before posting/publishing.
  • Have a point of contact or local “editor” that is responsible for posting, publishing and or submitting to COR’s content library/repository.