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New York Taps Family First Act Fund to Prevent Aging Out During Pandemic [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

 

By Megan Conn, The Chronicle of Social Change, July 12, 2020

For months since the eruption of the deadly coronavirus, youth and advocates have been imploring New York to allow young people in the foster care system to continue receiving financial and housing support beyond their 21st birthday.

Now, the state is endorsing a creative way for county social service departments to do just that – by using some of the money meant to help counties comply with the requirements of the Family First Prevention Services Act.

That law, which passed in 2018, overhauled national child welfare policy to increase federal spending on family preservation and restrict funding on group homes and institutions.

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If human beings really want to end adversity and foster care, child homelessness, human trafficking, wretched child aloneness, rage, and despair,  and all the other horrific evils in this world, we have to think and ask questions and find all the data and research that exists and look at it; examine it; find out what is true and what isn't and what parts that we may have known once, but don't anymore, what parts do we desperately need to know now?   I believe I was born and sent into this world to do all I can to end all this unnecessary human suffering.  What I can do may be small but if we all had the same singular goal and genuine intent, amazing transformation would occur, that I know for certain.    Why can't we make sure that babies and tiny children are loved and not rejected?   It's the unloved and rejected that become the next adult aggressor and on and on and on and it never ends until we decide to end this.     I have been reading everything I can find on infant and child development and have been reading books from the 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.  I know a huge amount right now that I never learned before in 50 years of trying to figure all this out and getting way too much schooling.   I didn't learn very much from all that schooling.   I also know that people can do a better job raising children to have healthy minds but only if everyone in our society knows what types of experiences kids absolutely have to have to develop healthy minds and only if we as sentient human beings who care help our grown sons and daughters be the loving parents they want to be and help them give their children those essential experiences.    We can easily be mislead.  I would hate to know that in the not so distant future people only exist on display in a people zoo.    And when I say that we need to learn about everything, I mean everything.  Always try to find truth and do not blindly believe what "authority" tells you.  Authority doesn't have your best interest in his heart.   There is a reason we are not supposed to just believe.  There is a reason trust and mistrust exist.

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