One down, now to shut down the rest!!!!!!!
A nonprofit organization in Concord that provides foster care and adoption services to families in New Hampshire will be closing its doors.
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Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
while I can some what understand your feelings concerning DCYF and other foster agencies due to how you understand what has happened with in your own family, can you truly be so full of hate and with covered eyes and ears as to think that there are not children here in NH in serious need of freedom from seriously abusive homes that do benefit from foster placement??
ReplyDeleteYes, you're right. I was a bit hasty. When you stop and think about it, there are SOME children who truly need Foster care and Casey Family Services is a much better organization than DCYF. DCYF should be the ones shutting down. Not Casey Family Services.
DeleteOn 26 June, board of directors of the Annie E. Casey Foundation announced that Casey Family Services will close at the end of the year.
DeleteThis decision will strand 400 vulnerable children in the six New England states and Maryland and place an increased burden on already-strained public and private agencies in those states.
Groups of CFS parents have organized to urge the AECF board to reconsider this decision and keep its promise to children currently in Casey's care, but to date AECF President Patrick McCarthy has refused to meet with us or even explain AECF's decision. (We know it’s not about tight money, AECF has an endowment of nearly $3 billion.
All foster children are different, but they have one thing in common: they were all failed by adults, often many times over. What is happening to these children now recapitulates trauma from earlier in their lives.
If AECF wants to get out of the foster care business, that’s a proper decision for its board to make, but we adults – the foster parents, the staff at CFS and AECF – made a collective promise to care for these children until they can care for themselves. We parents are dedicated to keeping that promise, but our task is now immensely harder.
We believe this action by the Annie E. Casey board is a betrayal of Jim Casey's vision for vulnerable children and more important, a betrayal of the children themselves. Please join your voices with ours and urge the board of the Annie E. Casey Foundation to keep its promise.
What can you do?
1 – Leave a comment on the Annie E. Casey facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/AnnieECaseyFndn
2 – Leave a comment on the “Save Casey Family Services” facebook page (“like” us, too!):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Casey-Family-Services/300971813333582
3 – Sign onto our petition at Change.org:
http://www.change.org/petitions/annie-e-casey-foundation-save-casey-family-services?share_id=KSUervfqAm
4 – Pass this message along to people you think will be interested.
All4MySweetHeart
ReplyDeleteIt is not the organizations' stated mission that people are objecting to. No one is disputing the fact that some children need foster care. It is the fact that some terrible abuses are occurring within DCYF that have not protected children; they have ruined innocent families emotionally and financially. When people within organizations lie, cheat, and break the law, they should be held accountable.
I know exactly what you mean. My Family is just one family of many destroyed by DCYF abuse.
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