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Keep Foster Children Off the Street

Target: U.S. Senate
Sponsored 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.

deadline: 2-4-2009
goal: 10,000

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Dear Senator [Last Name]:

Right now, one-fifth of foster children grow up to be homeless adults.

Many of these children are compelled to leave home due to severe family conflict, parental mental illness, or physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Also, many of the young people who enter foster care age out at 18-years old with little or no support for their transition to the adult world. For youth struggling to responsibly care for children of their own, the challenges are even greater.

Clearly, the state child welfare systems responsible for the safety and protection of these young people often lack the tools to meet their complex needs, which is why I urge your support for the S.2560, the Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act.

The Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act gives more support to foster families, foster children, and young adults transitioning from the foster care system into adulthood by:

We signed the “Keep Foster Children Off the Street” letter!

# 7,529:

11:50 am PDT, Jul 8, Margaret Tollner, California

# 7,528:

9:26 am PDT, Jul 8, Anna Karen Skúladóttir, Iceland

# 7,527:

9:46 pm PDT, Jul 7, Cathy Allen, North Carolina
children ARE OUR future!

# 7,526:

6:44 pm PDT, Jul 7, Ann Muczynski, Pennsylvania

# 7,525:

1:04 pm PDT, Jul 7, Shannon Doss, Arizona

# 7,524:

10:54 am PDT, Jul 7, Bridget Hopper, Kentucky

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5:15 am PDT, Jul 7, Agnes Skuladottir, Iceland

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2:53 am PDT, Jul 7, Susanne Unruh, Germany

# 7,521:

1:01 pm PDT, Jul 6, Chelle Gorman, Massachusetts

# 7,520:

10:00 am PDT, Jul 6, Jana Filipcanova, Slovakia
Everyone deserves the same chance. Young people need help because they want to find the right way and find themselves.

# 7,519:

6:54 pm PDT, Jul 5, Hannah Hill, United Kingdom

# 7,518:

10:29 am PDT, Jul 5, Tonya May, Florida
So we don't end up paying for them later on to live in jails or prisons.

# 7,517:

12:32 am PDT, Jul 5, Jo Laz, Illinois
PLEASE SUPPORT THIS ACT FOR FOSTER CHILDREN!! WE NEED TO DO ALL WE CAN TO GUIDE THEM INTO ADULTHOOD.

# 7,516:

11:06 pm PDT, Jul 4, David Clark, Tennessee

# 7,515:

2:05 pm PDT, Jul 4, Heather Wakely, Canada

# 7,514:

4:22 pm PDT, Jul 3, Christie Eads, Indiana

# 7,513:

2:21 pm PDT, Jul 3, Mark Chase, Arizona
It is paramount that we offer followup care to our Foster Children. Often, because they turn 18, they are thrust into a world they are not prepared for. It benefits everyone by providing extra care and support, financial, career, etc..to foster children/adults.

# 7,512:

12:40 pm PDT, Jul 3, Nicole Hill, Canada
Abandoned children need to know that we care for them. There is a void there which can only be addressed with the greatest of care. Let's not let these kids down.

# 7,511:

12:33 pm PDT, Jul 3, Joelle Coudriou, France

# 7,510:

11:31 am PDT, Jul 3, Andrew Boslem, United Kingdom

# 7,509:

10:08 am PDT, Jul 3, Name not displayed, Michigan

# 7,508:

6:02 pm PDT, Jul 2, Hannah Webb, New Hampshire

# 7,507:

3:03 pm PDT, Jul 2, Angelica Corpeno, Illinois

# 7,506:

1:18 pm PDT, Jul 2, Morghan Crownover, Texas

# 7,505:

11:33 am PDT, Jul 2, Giselle Strauss, California

# 7,504:

10:51 am PDT, Jul 2, Danielle Sullivan, California
These children had no choice in their fate and they were put out in the streets to survive only to find themselves commiting crimes to survive so we have to save them lead them to a better way to live!

# 7,503:

10:50 am PDT, Jul 2, Justin Reader, Washington

# 7,502:

7:50 am PDT, Jul 2, Michelle Fanroy, Indiana
We are letting the future of America suffer in silence and be destroyed for no reason except we choose to do nothing as children are already being exploited the government should not let further exploitation take place on our future.

# 7,501:

1:05 am PDT, Jul 2, FREYA HALL, Florida

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