In southern Sarasota, nearly one in four former foster kids is homeless. In St. Augustine, fewer than one in 10 foster children age 17 is performing at grade level. And in Miami, Tampa and Daytona Beach, fewer than one in four 17-year-old foster kids passed Florida's high-stakes standardized assessment test.
DCF Secretary Bob Butterworth correctly calls this child abuse. The reason many foster children are homeless is to escape sexual and physical abuse. The article details that privatization of child services has hurt and not helped the DCF. WE can thank Jeb Bush for the privatization madness.
Children are not given education plans are taught money management skills. The short answer is these kids are not ready for the real world when they leave DCF services.
This is what I mean when I'm constantly railing about the fraud and disgusting 'service' that those 'good nazis' over to the YMCA Sarasota, Bradenton, Manatee and SOON IN TAMPA (they just got the contract a year ago)are providing to our vulnerable youth. They create this situation by almost STEALING children from their parents and then they do them worse in the foster homes. Supported by Nancy Bostock... christian fundie for fucking up children.
ReplyDeleteSorry, this is very big to me. I've met DCF employees who are ... the most awesome people IN THE WORLD. They should SPEAK UP MORE. They have to be able to see. Now, that CPS has been turned back over to the sheriff's office of Hillsborough County FOR THE THIRD TIME (at a cost of WASTED MILLIONS IN WHOSE POCKET EACH TIME)... in between the YMCA and the Hillsborough County sheriff's office bringing over the dead wood from the dcf and hopefully some decent dcf folks, the kids in Hillsborough County are well and truly FUCKED.
Good article.
YMCA INVOLVMENT IN FOSTER CARE PLUS
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