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Keep Foster Children Off the Street
Target: U.S. SenateSponsored by: Covenant House
One in five foster children grow up to be homeless adults. Many of these children are forced to leave their homes due to physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse, but the state child welfare systems responsible for their well-being lack the tools needed to meet their complex needs.
The Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act attempts to break the vicious cycle that disconnects these children from the help they need. The act supports these young people by: strengthening federal child welfare systems, extending their access to support services, and amending the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to improve access to benefits.
Every child deserves a chance to succeed no matter where they grow up or who raises them. Urge your senators to support S.2560, the Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act.
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We signed the “Keep Foster Children Off the Street” letter!
# 7,100:
12:09 pm PDT, Mar 30,
Crystal Wilkinson, Oregon
So they don't become dysfunctional adults.
So they don't become dysfunctional adults.
# 7,099:
11:56 am PDT, Mar 30,
Lacey Griffiths, Pennsylvania
# 7,098:
3:14 am PDT, Mar 30,
Name not displayed, Oregon
# 7,097:
3:08 am PDT, Mar 30,
Hampton Bolen, South Carolina
# 7,096:
12:46 am PDT, Mar 30,
Karina Ibarra, California
# 7,095:
11:11 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Jodie Nathan, New York
# 7,094:
4:54 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Don Zoller, Oregon
# 7,093:
3:20 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Raman Khabra, California
# 7,092:
2:16 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Brenna McGowan, California
# 7,091:
10:30 am PDT, Mar 29,
Kimberly Dobson-nesti, Michigan
# 7,090:
5:22 am PDT, Mar 29,
Lori Collis, Canada
# 7,089:
11:14 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Beverly Zahrobsky, Iowa
# 7,088:
9:23 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Janice Roberts, California
Without these children, who know so much of life as it truly is...we desperately need them to help create the future that our Mother Earth requires to survive. We must believe in these children, who, with the critical opportunities, will have the insight to bring humanity to truly peaceful existence. They've known hunger. They've known what it feels like to be perceived as garbage, to be considered disposable pieces of human waste. They can, if given the chance, bring a sense of oneness to our consciousness.
Without these children, who know so much of life as it truly is...we desperately need them to help create the future that our Mother Earth requires to survive. We must believe in these children, who, with the critical opportunities, will have the insight to bring humanity to truly peaceful existence. They've known hunger. They've known what it feels like to be perceived as garbage, to be considered disposable pieces of human waste. They can, if given the chance, bring a sense of oneness to our consciousness.
# 7,087:
8:44 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Alicia F, Arkansas
# 7,086:
8:31 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Khan Khan, Canada
# 7,085:
8:03 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Alba Gamboa, California
# 7,084:
4:57 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Louise Lanham, Texas
Bless the beasts and the children. It is every child's right to have a decent home, food, education, and medical care. Period.
Bless the beasts and the children. It is every child's right to have a decent home, food, education, and medical care. Period.
# 7,083:
4:36 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Jennifer Wright, Texas
# 7,082:
1:23 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Amber Kelsey, Texas
# 7,081:
12:56 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Adrianna Martin, Indiana
# 7,080:
11:18 am PDT, Mar 28,
Shivonne Willcocks, New Zealand
# 7,079:
11:12 am PDT, Mar 28,
Frank Baltz, Tennessee
# 7,078:
11:09 am PDT, Mar 28,
Dee Clifford, New York
# 7,077:
10:47 am PDT, Mar 28,
Elaine Mubaidin, Florida
# 7,076:
8:47 am PDT, Mar 28,
Danielle G, California
# 7,075:
8:33 am PDT, Mar 28,
Name not displayed, Maryland
MY child is in the system an di neither abused nor neglected him at LALL THEY TOOK HIM BECAUSE THEY GET FUNDING TO DO SO>>>i have a whole arsenal of people to witness how awesome of a mom i was but they refuse to return him...what need sto be done is change the entire system DO YOU KNOW THEY MAKE $100,000 if they can adopt a child off...and that they will take a child for any reason? not just abuse. They can say you have amental problem like in my case. I don't and my psychologist attested i don't have anything that'd interfeere with my parenting and yet they have him in 4 foster homes GOD DAMN THEM TO HELL!
MY child is in the system an di neither abused nor neglected him at LALL THEY TOOK HIM BECAUSE THEY GET FUNDING TO DO SO>>>i have a whole arsenal of people to witness how awesome of a mom i was but they refuse to return him...what need sto be done is change the entire system DO YOU KNOW THEY MAKE $100,000 if they can adopt a child off...and that they will take a child for any reason? not just abuse. They can say you have amental problem like in my case. I don't and my psychologist attested i don't have anything that'd interfeere with my parenting and yet they have him in 4 foster homes GOD DAMN THEM TO HELL!
# 7,074:
7:43 pm PDT, Mar 27,
Brittany Yarrington, Michigan
# 7,073:
4:17 pm PDT, Mar 27,
Sheila Biondo, California
# 7,072:
4:02 pm PDT, Mar 27,
Dorene Zimmerman, New York
# 7,071:
10:10 am PDT, Mar 27,
CAROLYN BROWN, Tennessee
THEY ARE OUR CHILDREN OF TOMORROW. GOD LOVES EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM.
THEY ARE OUR CHILDREN OF TOMORROW. GOD LOVES EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM.
# 7,070:
8:33 am PDT, Mar 27,
Marcia Warth, Ohio
Children need all the help they can get as they grow. It does take a community to raise any child. Children deserve to have necessary resources available to them. Our children ARE our future...how do you want the future to be?
Children need all the help they can get as they grow. It does take a community to raise any child. Children deserve to have necessary resources available to them. Our children ARE our future...how do you want the future to be?
# 7,069:
8:13 am PDT, Mar 27,
Susan Bannon, Massachusetts
It is time to help our foster children. It is our responsibility as people.
It is time to help our foster children. It is our responsibility as people.
# 7,068:
7:49 am PDT, Mar 27,
LINDSEY KISER, Massachusetts
# 7,067:
7:35 pm PDT, Mar 26,
Rose Charley, Washington
# 7,066:
6:18 pm PDT, Mar 26,
John Hinds, Oklahoma
# 7,065:
6:14 pm PDT, Mar 26,
Carol Wassell, Florida
# 7,064:
2:52 pm PDT, Mar 26,
Brittany Werner, Canada
# 7,063:
1:50 pm PDT, Mar 26,
Brad King, Florida
# 7,062:
12:35 pm PDT, Mar 26,
Sage Oswald, Canada
# 7,061:
6:39 am PDT, Mar 26,
Helia Antunes, Canada
to help nurture them to be able to fit in society as adults and for them to have goals and be able to achieve them
to help nurture them to be able to fit in society as adults and for them to have goals and be able to achieve them
# 7,060:
1:45 am PDT, Mar 26,
Mandy McGranahan, California
# 7,059:
11:24 pm PDT, Mar 25,
Kali Prior, Alabama
# 7,058:
9:38 pm PDT, Mar 25,
Mary Detrick, Florida
# 7,057:
2:22 pm PDT, Mar 25,
Titty Ricchiuti, Italy
# 7,056:
2:03 pm PDT, Mar 25,
Voislav Kolevski, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of
# 7,055:
1:03 pm PDT, Mar 25,
Christy Smith, Florida
I could not imagine the horrors some of these children have had to face when thrown into the homes of strangers. Sometimes its better on the streets. They need somewhere to turn for help.
I could not imagine the horrors some of these children have had to face when thrown into the homes of strangers. Sometimes its better on the streets. They need somewhere to turn for help.
# 7,054:
10:30 am PDT, Mar 25,
Cheryl Adlebush, California
# 7,053:
9:44 am PDT, Mar 25,
Rebecca Kinne, South Carolina
# 7,052:
6:12 am PDT, Mar 25,
Tracy Mandelman, Tennessee
# 7,051:
5:31 am PDT, Mar 25,
Lena Chhay, Australia