Teen who fled foster-care facility in January dies

Teen who fled foster-care facility in January dies | CommunityPress.com | cincinnati.com

COLLEGE HILL - A 17-year-old on the run since being given a day pass from a foster-care facility in January is dead after accidentally killing himself with a gun last week.

Head of UK Tribunal trying Pope Ratzinger and Queen Elizabeth Windsor for Genocide Barred from re-entering England

BREAKING NEWS

Sept. 15 Tribunal to hear evidence on Elizabeth Windsor culpability in Canadian depleted uranium (du) and radiation genocide as well as Windsor and Pope Ratzinger culpability in crimes against humanity, and child trafficking

Defendants Elizabeth Windsor and Joseph Ratzinger

By Alfred Lambremont Webre

Listen to exclusive interview with Rev. Kevin Annett of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State.

Our Stolen Children in Foster Care in 2009

STATE FOSTER CARE COUNT 2009 700,000 CHILDREN IN ONE YEAR

I wonder how many more there are in Foster care this year!

2009 V1 STATE FOSTER CARE RECORD COUNTS
Code
State
Records
Alabama
9,779
Alaska
3,081
AZ
Arizona
17,407
AR
Arkansas
7,574
CA
California
99,424
CO
Colorado
14,131
CT
Connecticut
7,733
DE
Delaware
1,369
DC
District of Columbia
2,814
FL
Florida
35,556
GA
Georgia
15,790
HI
Hawaii
2,902
ID
Idaho
2,898
IL
Illinois
22,956
IN
Indiana
20,885
IA
Iowa
11,251
KS
Kansas
9,306
KY
Kentucky
12,306
LA
Louisiana
8,469
ME
Maine
2,605
MD
Maryland
10,317
MA
Massachusetts
16,323
MI
Michigan
27,906
MN
Minnesota
11,693
MS
Mississippi
5,384
MO
Missouri
14,746
MT
Montana
2,578Code State Records
NE
Nebraska
8,962
NV
Nevada
7,871
NH
New Hampshire
1,488
NJ
New Jersey
13,227
NM
New Mexico
4,173
NY
New York
41,650
NC
North Carolina
14,515
ND
North Dakota
2,101
OH
Ohio
22,271
OK
Oklahoma
15,292
OR
Oregon
13,393
PA
Pennsylvania
29,385
PR
Puerto Rico
6,819
RI
Rhode Island
3,716
SC
South Carolina
8,636
SD
South Dakota
2,865
TN
Tennessee
12,937
TX
Texas
40,846
UT
Utah
4,725
VT
Vermont
1,709
VA
Virginia
9,287
WA
Washington
15,771
WV
West Virginia
7,276
WI
Wisconsin
11,708
WY
Wyoming
2,234
Total Records
700,040

AFCARS User’s Guide Foster Care File Annual Supplement, FY2009

http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/NDACAN/Datasets/UserGuidePDFs/153user.pdf

AFCARS User’s Guide
Foster Care File
Annual Supplement, FY2009
(Oct 1, 2008 through Sep 30, 2009)
NDACAN Dataset Number 153
Version 1

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
Family Life Development Center
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-4401
607-255-7799
ndacan@cornell.edu
www.ndacan.cornell.edu
Initial Release: October 01, 2010

PREFACE
The year 2009 data for the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS)
have been given to the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect for public distribution
by the Children’s Bureau. Funding for the project was provided by the Children’s Bureau,
Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. This user’s guide supplement orients the user to the
AFCARS Foster Care data for the year 2009, and should not be confused with the supplements
detailing AFCARS data from earlier releases.

BREAKING: Home Raided By SWAT for Student Loans

http://RTR.org | A SWAT team broke into a home at the request of the US Department of Education to arrest and collect on a defaulted student loan. Kenneth Wright was dragged from his Stockton California home in his underwear while his children were in held police custody for several hours as they searched for his estranged wife. We bring you coverage of the unfolding story with remarks from Sheriff Richard Mack on the increased use of SWAT teams nationwide and Congressman Ron Paul's remarks on the Department of Education.

the beast that is foster care « I Was A Foster Kid

the beast that is foster care « I Was A Foster Kid


the beast that is foster care

June 12, 2011

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if foster care were an animal, what would it be…

.
a chameleon, so difficult to see,

changing colors, to deceive you and me?
.
OR
.
the queen whose hive is up in the tree…

in charge of what happens to the bee family?
.
OR
.
a giant tortoise, up from the sea …

it takes them forever, they move so slowly?
.
OR
.
a hyena, in the desert laughing wildly…

its jaws so powerful, they’ll rip you apart quickly?
.
OR
.
a giant panda, gentle and cuddly …

it cares for its young, so tenderly?
.
OR
.
a 17-year cicada, eating in a tree …

these insects come around so rarely?
.
OR
.
a great white shark, in the ocean so free…

beware, it’s a creature extremely deadly?


11 years spent by me…

living in the animal kingdom, so dangerously.

kids dont belong with monkeys in trees,

kids like me, belong in FOREVER families…

NH DCYF Celebrates Foster Care Month, Why NOT Family Re-unification Month?

NH DCYF Celebrates Foster Care Month, Why NOT Family Re-unification Month?
Oh, that's right. They don't celebrate because there is NO Family Re-unification in NH, so why waste more money on a Holiday that doesn't exist.

I thought this comment deserved it's own post. I hope you like it as much as I did. Sent from Anonymous:

Hey Unhappy Grammy,

Did you read that article in the May 3, 2011 from NH Insider stating that NH DHHS recognizes May as foster care month? NH DHHS claims that approximately 53% of the children in foster care will reunify with their families and out of the approximately 47% that don't reunify, approximately 77% will be adopted to foster strangers!

I have difficulty believing that DHHS will reunify approximately 371 children out of the 700 children in foster care to their natural biological families, otherwise the family courts wouldn't be costing this state so much money! Could you please show me the statistics of the number of children in NH foster care, the percentage of children in NH foster care who are reunified with their families and the percentage of the children in NH foster care who are adopted out to other families?

And why is there only a Family Reunification Day for celebrating the biological families with their own children, when there's a whole month devoted to foster people? Don't the children's natural biological families deserve to have at least an entire month dedicated to them too? Wow, looking at how NH DHHS celebrates the fact that children are in foster homes really shows how serious they are about helping families. Just look at what NH DHHS has to say in that NH Insider article: "In honor of Foster Care Month, celebrations are being held around New Hampshire. A statewide event is being held May 14th at the Hampton Falls Baptist Church in Manchester. Jellystone Campground in New Hampton will also hold its annual camping weekend for foster families in early June. There are also other events scheduled including ice cream socials, dinners, picnics and even a trip to Storyland. A list of all activities can be found at New Hampshire’s Foster and Adoptive Parent Association website: nhfapa.org."

So here are devastated and traumatized families who are extremely unlikely to be reunified with their children and here are devastated and traumatized children who are extremely unlikely to be reunified with their families, and here's NH DHHS CELEBRATING, yah we stole children from their natural homes and yah we've placed these 700 children in unnatural and unfamiliar environments; Great Job! Let's make it a State-wide Party, OK? Let's go camping! Hey! Time to have picnics! Now is a GREAT TIME for ice cream socials, don't ya think?! And hey, let's have dinners-- and after dinner let's take a trip to Storyland! Is this supposed to be an example of keeping within NH DHHS' sub-company NH DCYF mission statement: "We are committed to the support of families, to ensure the protection of children and the communities they live. To accomplish this we will provide leadership and develop community collaboration in the creation of public policies and programs which strengthen and assist families. We are dedicated to providing services in the least restrictive manner possible while respecting the dignity of the families we service." Looks to me like NH DHHS respects the foster families and provides services for the foster families via community collaboration and considers foster homes as the communities where children live, while providing a load of dis-services biological families. I've never heard of NH DHHS holding a state wide celebration with ice cream socials, camping, trips to Storyland and dinners in honor of Family Reunification, have you? The only trip to Storyland that I've ever heard NH DHHS taking biological families on is "The Never Ending Story" of devastation and trauma and heartbreak because the family's child has been taken away......Anonymous