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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!
# 7,450:
12:41 pm PDT, Jun 22,
Vanessa Fry, Michigan
# 7,449:
5:04 am PDT, Jun 22,
Cassandra Boyer, Armed Forces Europe
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7:32 pm PDT, Jun 21,
Omani Mourad, Angola
# 7,447:
5:39 pm PDT, Jun 21,
Jack Reef, Illinois
# 7,446:
10:15 am PDT, Jun 21,
Aleasha Casaretto, Texas
Foster children should not be turned out into society at 18. It’s awful! This is a great cause. We need to prevent homelessness before it starts. They need the same chance children with parents have! The majority grows up to face extreme poverty or homelessness. These children have been "Uprooted" sometimes many times. Children are the future; they can be working adults and helps our economy instead of living a terrible homeless life. Children are our future. The people who go through many struggles turn out to be stronger or smarter than most. These children have had a hard enough time in life, possibly being moved around from family to family, facility to facility. take GOOD care of children, they are our future!!
Foster children should not be turned out into society at 18. It’s awful! This is a great cause. We need to prevent homelessness before it starts. They need the same chance children with parents have! The majority grows up to face extreme poverty or homelessness. These children have been "Uprooted" sometimes many times. Children are the future; they can be working adults and helps our economy instead of living a terrible homeless life. Children are our future. The people who go through many struggles turn out to be stronger or smarter than most. These children have had a hard enough time in life, possibly being moved around from family to family, facility to facility. take GOOD care of children, they are our future!!
# 7,445:
7:55 am PDT, Jun 21,
Cate Webb, United Kingdom
# 7,444:
6:46 am PDT, Jun 21,
Brian Pitchford, South Carolina
# 7,443:
1:48 am PDT, Jun 21,
Louise Boilevin, Canada
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11:44 pm PDT, Jun 20,
Lars Sjöström, Sweden
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1:43 pm PDT, Jun 20,
Mikaila Malone, Washington
# 7,440:
8:35 pm PDT, Jun 19,
Daniel Manahan, California
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4:43 pm PDT, Jun 19,
Luz Rodriguez, Puerto Rico
# 7,438:
1:40 pm PDT, Jun 19,
JAMES SULLIVAN, Illinois
# 7,437:
11:49 am PDT, Jun 19,
Virginie Jayana, Canada
# 7,436:
5:53 am PDT, Jun 19,
Michelle Brooks, Texas
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12:33 am PDT, Jun 19,
Alicya Lima, Netherlands
take GOOD care of children,they are our future!! |
# 7,434:
11:42 pm PDT, Jun 18,
Kersten Mahler, New York
# 7,433:
7:23 pm PDT, Jun 18,
Inanna Macfarlane, Missouri
These children have had a hard enough time in life, possibly being moved around from family to family, facility to facility. They need to be given a chance to have a normal life.
These children have had a hard enough time in life, possibly being moved around from family to family, facility to facility. They need to be given a chance to have a normal life.
# 7,432:
2:16 pm PDT, Jun 18,
Irina Vodonos, Washington
# 7,431:
10:58 am PDT, Jun 18,
Cydnee Bruce, Canada
Because the people who go through many struggles turn out to be stronger or smarter than most.Giving the minority of those people a chance that they most certainly deserve would most likely pay off.
Because the people who go through many struggles turn out to be stronger or smarter than most.Giving the minority of those people a chance that they most certainly deserve would most likely pay off.
# 7,430:
10:55 am PDT, Jun 18,
Joyce Crock, Pennsylvania
Children are our future. We must see that they grow up to live productive and happy lives.
Children are our future. We must see that they grow up to live productive and happy lives.
# 7,429:
6:22 am PDT, Jun 18,
Jessica Siney, Ohio
# 7,428:
5:32 am PDT, Jun 18,
Carol Hutson, Virginia
# 7,427:
2:00 am PDT, Jun 18,
Name not displayed, France
# 7,426:
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9:44 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Matthew Lunsford, Arkansas
Children are the future, they can be working adults and help our economy instead of living a terrible homeless life. |
# 7,425:
6:38 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Kellie Laughinrain, North Carolina
These children have been "Uprooted" sometimes many times...are you going to let them become "Children Of the Streets"? This is in your hands to make a change right here...right now. Can you lay down at night and sleep knowing that you could have made a difference...and did'nt?
These children have been "Uprooted" sometimes many times...are you going to let them become "Children Of the Streets"? This is in your hands to make a change right here...right now. Can you lay down at night and sleep knowing that you could have made a difference...and did'nt?
# 7,424:
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5:57 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Janet Forte, Florida
Because the majority grow up to face extreme poverty or homelessness. They need our help. State Depts of Children & Families are way too underfunded to give them a good education. Most haven't learned any skills to prepare them for the work place. |
# 7,423:
4:41 pm PDT, Jun 17,
William Fowler, Georgia
They need the same chance children with parents have!
They need the same chance children with parents have!
# 7,422:
1:25 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Indira Dixon, North Carolina
We need to prevent homelessness before it starts. Empowering these young people, protecting them from abusers, and giving them direction is a good way to start. Please, let's be proactive in our approach to this problem as a nation and not wait until it becomes an epidemic.
We need to prevent homelessness before it starts. Empowering these young people, protecting them from abusers, and giving them direction is a good way to start. Please, let's be proactive in our approach to this problem as a nation and not wait until it becomes an epidemic.
# 7,421:
9:45 am PDT, Jun 17,
K Ramirez, West Virginia
This is a great cause. I grew up as a child in foster care. Starting early. Being moved from home to home . Going back with family only to be put back in foster care again from home to home.Even one point. I was pregnant by a unwanted sexual encounter by step father. I was put into juvenile detention 6 months pregnant because at that time until they could find room had no where else to put me. You could imagine going throughs of sexual. mental abuse by the hands of those who were supposed to protect me. I could not understand why they would even put me in a detention center. I was 16 went through brutial rape carrying the child of that rape. I eventually had child and loved her no matter what. I then went through battle to keep her. My nother and her boyfriend who molested and raped me for years tried to take my child and because he was the biologiol father. I think children derserve much more. We need to be protected and I think the system fails us. I was in need and I felt I was let down..
This is a great cause. I grew up as a child in foster care. Starting early. Being moved from home to home . Going back with family only to be put back in foster care again from home to home.Even one point. I was pregnant by a unwanted sexual encounter by step father. I was put into juvenile detention 6 months pregnant because at that time until they could find room had no where else to put me. You could imagine going throughs of sexual. mental abuse by the hands of those who were supposed to protect me. I could not understand why they would even put me in a detention center. I was 16 went through brutial rape carrying the child of that rape. I eventually had child and loved her no matter what. I then went through battle to keep her. My nother and her boyfriend who molested and raped me for years tried to take my child and because he was the biologiol father. I think children derserve much more. We need to be protected and I think the system fails us. I was in need and I felt I was let down..
# 7,420:
6:14 am PDT, Jun 17,
Stacie Causey, Florida
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9:38 pm PDT, Jun 16,
Sara Rediske, Washington
# 7,418:
3:31 pm PDT, Jun 16,
Cindy Van laken, Belgium
its awfull!
its awfull!
# 7,417:
1:38 pm PDT, Jun 16,
Carrie Scoma, New York
# 7,416:
9:27 pm PDT, Jun 15,
Grace Asturias Galicia, Guatemala
# 7,415:
8:39 am PDT, Jun 15,
C C Activist, North Carolina
# 7,414:
8:26 pm PDT, Jun 14,
Jeff Dearman, Massachusetts
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6:35 pm PDT, Jun 14,
Kerrie Joannides, Australia
# 7,412:
2:51 pm PDT, Jun 14,
Linda Beal, United Kingdom
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1:48 pm PDT, Jun 14,
Name not displayed, California
# 7,410:
11:30 am PDT, Jun 14,
Frances M. Amaya, Texas
# 7,409:
5:28 pm PDT, Jun 13,
Kristin Thieringer, Connecticut
# 7,408:
11:15 am PDT, Jun 13,
Cassandra Bartol, Texas
# 7,407:
10:08 am PDT, Jun 13,
Debra Chandler, Florida
Foster children should not be turned out into society at 18. They should stay in foster care until they are able to support themselves, even if it means until 25. The lack of transition services in this country is a profound shame. Shame on those who do not change it!
Foster children should not be turned out into society at 18. They should stay in foster care until they are able to support themselves, even if it means until 25. The lack of transition services in this country is a profound shame. Shame on those who do not change it!
# 7,406:
8:53 am PDT, Jun 13,
Voinea Alexandra, Romania
# 7,405:
11:53 pm PDT, Jun 12,
Barbara Bunton, Texas
# 7,404:
11:35 pm PDT, Jun 12,
Brenda Brown, South Carolina
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9:23 am PDT, Jun 12,
Paul Shultz, Pennsylvania
# 7,402:
7:47 pm PDT, Jun 11,
Sabina Zandvliet, Canada
# 7,401:
2:12 pm PDT, Jun 11,
Carrie Kistner, Connecticut