RE: CAMTS

["Paul M. Wright, Jr." <pmwright@home.com>]

Eileen -

I appreciate your willingness to jump into the fray and speak
from your position with CAMTS.  In reflecting on the thread
thus far and with particular reference to your description of
the range of remedies that CAMTS might use to address allegations
of bad behavior, it occurs to me that the point at which our
opinions diverge might be due mostly to different expectations
or understandings of the roles that CAMTS can reasonably be
expected to play.

Like many others, I tend to forget that the role of CAMTS is
primarily advisory and consultative and emphatically is NOT regulatory.
In the process you described, the only direct action is the
letter from the CAMTS attorney and all the other actions are simply
referrals to third-party agencies that may have the ability to
influence the outcome and will themselves assume the legal risk of
any adverse action.  How responsive those third-party agencies
are is apparently widely variable and therein perhaps lies the
frustration.  I'm still convinced there is a resource bottleneck but I
may well have been incorrect in attributing the bottleneck to CAMTS.

I would still maintain that CAMTS does not have the resources to outmanuever
an 800-pound recalitrant gorilla of a program in civil litigation but the
point I may well have overlooked is that serious allegations of misconduct
(e.g. fraud) would be handled by a regulatory agency with jurisdiction
rather than as a civil action by CAMTS.

Viewed from that perspective, the question about states adopting the CAMTS
guidelines as minimum standards is placed in an interesting light and it
would be interesting to know whether states are trying to adopt language
that says programs "must be accredited by a recognized accrediting agency",
whether they are citing CAMTS accredition by name or whether they are just
requiring that programs "meet or exceed the guidelines established by CAMTS
and adopted herein by reference".  None of these approaches would be
unprecedented but it would be interesting to know what has worked and what
hasn't.

regards!

paul

Paul M. Wright, Jr.
Mesa, AZ





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