Thursday, September 1, 2011
Foster children are crying for help:
Children in foster care have no win in the world. They are crying out for our help, are we helping, are we caring, are we doing the things that we were taught to do. My name is Pamela Pittman I have been working in childcare over 16 years. I have been placed in several YMCA programs because I'm a strong teacher. And I'm able to make sure that each child learn life skills to function in our world today. I work with foster children and this have been a struggle for me. I've never thought that I would have a problem with teaching children. Foster children have change me, the reason why I say this is because after working with foster children for a year I realize that I need to become an advocate for them. I need to be their voice, I need to help in any way I could. I realize that their are so many foster parents who does not care. So many children have been placed in Foster care and have been beaten and rapped while in the homes. What kind of Association can this been to take a child from a terrible situation and placed them in a more worst one. Can you all give me your feed back on how you think that I could change this? How I can help those children in foster care? How I could become their voice?
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My family has been taking care of foster children for the majority of my life, and I am not exaggerating when I say that I have seen it all. These children have been physically and mentally abused and you are right when you say that they are being placed into the care of other homes that are continuing the cycle. So in order for you to be their voice, if you notice that abuse of any kind is still being inflicted upon these children, you have to step in and go above and beyond that parents head. And if the caseworker working that case doesn't get involved, then you have to go above and beyond that persons head until you get some results. Because some of these parents are in it for the money when they're supposed to be in it to help give that child some attention, love and care.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Cooky for your comment, I agree with everything that you have said because it is all true. I have to say that I have never had any foster children in my home, but since I have been teaching Foster Children I have been looking at life different and I have change my whole way of living and thinking. These children I see everyday have been beaten, rapped, they have no social emotional, cognitive, physical, development. This make it very hard to help these children adjust in a normal classroom environment. But I give my self to my passion for Foster Children. I have found myself volunteering at battered centers for teens. Cooky you mom have to be a very stronge women to do the things she do, I tip my hat to her and may god bless her soul..
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