As one of my favorite sexy guys Ben Franklin used to say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". How would you like to help a victim of childhood sexual abuse NOT become a sex offender? How would you like to help prevent a crack baby from growing up to be a crack mom or dad?
Edgewood is closing its doors to SF County kids. These kids will be transferred to locked psychiatric units (not appropriate for emotionally traumatized kids) or foster homes (losing the counseling support so many of them need). You can help these kids - before they become the homeless guy pissing on your building or the crackhead breaking in to your car. Do you realize that high school dropouts (on average) don't move more than 3 miles away from the school they dropped out of? Do you realize that kids who grow up through foster care rarely leave the area they were raised in? Fix them while they are kids and still have a shot at a healthy life instead of paying to have them incarcerated in a decade or two. Think of it as a karma investment.
www.edgewoodcenter.org/
www.edgewood.org/believe.html
For any of you living in San Francisco PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEEE clink on the second link and do *something* to support Edgewood staying open - many of the options are non$$$ and just take a little time (like writing a letter to Mayor Newsome). A psych ward for a kid who does not have psych issues is not appropriate.
Edgewood is closing its doors to SF County kids. These kids will be transferred to locked psychiatric units (not appropriate for emotionally traumatized kids) or foster homes (losing the counseling support so many of them need). You can help these kids - before they become the homeless guy pissing on your building or the crackhead breaking in to your car. Do you realize that high school dropouts (on average) don't move more than 3 miles away from the school they dropped out of? Do you realize that kids who grow up through foster care rarely leave the area they were raised in? Fix them while they are kids and still have a shot at a healthy life instead of paying to have them incarcerated in a decade or two. Think of it as a karma investment.
www.edgewoodcenter.org/
www.edgewood.org/believe.html
For any of you living in San Francisco PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEEE clink on the second link and do *something* to support Edgewood staying open - many of the options are non$$$ and just take a little time (like writing a letter to Mayor Newsome). A psych ward for a kid who does not have psych issues is not appropriate.
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Re: pay now or pay later??
Tue, May 13, 2008 - 7:25 PMOh, sweetheart - would that I lived in the Bay area! What an *amazing*-sounding facility! For the little ones - hell, for all of us - I pray that people will be willing to step up and help.
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Re: pay now or pay later??
Wed, May 14, 2008 - 1:58 PMI just don't understand them. I get that they are broke but I am sure there is something else in the budget that does less good and is still there. Bleh!
Plus they say these kids will go to fosterhomes...but who is going to foster kids who have this many issues? What harm will come to the kids and the people around them if they are not getting the help they need?
and how freakin much are they going to be paying out when something goes wrong? or when even one of the kids that could have gotten the right help ends up in jail...then they are stuck paying way more. -
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Re: pay now or pay later??
Wed, May 14, 2008 - 9:22 PMThat's the thing about foster homes - these kids are more than most foster parents signed on for, so they get bounced from home to home which just exacerbates their problems.
So much of a persons world view forms during childhood - things we don't even think about as adults because by adulthood they are deeply ingrained. Things like social cues/understanding what is socially acceptable, what different emotions look & feel like... what healthy versions of them should look & feel like, impression of self and what kind of impact self has on others, etc. -
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Re: pay now or pay later??
Thu, May 15, 2008 - 10:38 AMtotally! I think even adults who had the healthiest childhoods are working on dealing with things that were ingrained then that need to be readjusted.
It also isn't fair to the foster parents. Good foster parents are precious and this feels like abusing them to me.
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