#foster care
Los Angeles man makes it his life mission to foster terminally ill children. He has cared for more than 40 kids, 10 of them dying right under his roof. “I know those kids need people like us.” http://abcn.ws/2lYIRGs
What do John Lennon, Babe Ruth & Marilyn Monroe all have in common?
Learn more at: http://igg.me/at/skookum-kids
Listen up, Tumblr. This is important.
Since February I’ve been working with a team of social workers, faith communities, and child care professionals to create an organization called Skookum Kids that would care for children in their first 72 hours of foster care.
There’s a huge need for this nationwide, but here in my home of Bellingham Washington it’s particularly acute.
When children enter the foster care system, social workers often struggle to find a place for children to stay. A sustainable solution to this problem has already been created in next-door Everett, Washington. A facility called Safe Place receives children as they enter foster care, taking pressure off social workers and giving the children entering foster care a much softer landing. Through divine appointment I met the director of Safe Place in Everett. And when I expressed interest in building an extension in Bellingham, he was incredibly supportive and encouraging. He shared both his business plan and a huge amount of hard-earned wisdom. We are starting now with the benefit of his experience and his full support.
I am optimistic that we could be caring for children as early as the first quarter of 2015, and I’d love to have your support. Our biggest needs right now are visibility and donations.
You can give through our crowdfunding campaign, and choose from a variety of perks only available to our startup supporters.
And I’d love your help spreading the word through email, facebook, twitter, smoke signal, carrier pidgeon—any means necessary. We need your help!
For convenience, feel free to use these links to share quickly:
(sorry, no link for carrier pigeons)
If you’d like to stay connected with Skookum Kids as it develops, you can subscribe to receive email updates, and I’ll be sure to keep you informed as things develop.
Thank you in advance,
Ray Deck III
お昼寝の時間です。
Squad.
Size comparison of baby foster kitty and baby Miso…
Looking for me…?
Floof so done with everything…
Today was the third annual Foster Youth Shadow Day. Jacqueline of Duluth, MN was my shadow. She is an alumna of the Minnesota foster system, having been in care from 6 months to age 17. I appreciated hearing about her experience aging out of the system, her relationship with her family, her educational goals, and what she hopes Congress will address to improve the lives of those still in the system. This wonderful young woman has a such a giving heart. I can’t wait to see what the future has in store for her.
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The Foster Youth Caucus is celebrating National Foster Care Month by sporting blue ribbons.
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May is National Foster Care Month!
Nearly 400,000 children and youth are in Foster Care in the US. This month is a time to raise awareness about the strengths and weaknesses of the care system; the issues faced by children in care or adopted from care or transitioning out of the system; and to celebrate all the children and those who make a meaningful difference in their lives.
To learn more about the foster care system and/or how you can get involved, please visit: https://www.childwelfare.gov/fostercaremonth/
The site offers resources for foster youth and foster parents; state-by-state information; tools to help promote National Foster Care Month and more!
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Shadow Day came at the end of a successful Foster Care Month. Throughout the month of May, we highlighted an issue that is near and dear to my heart—foster care.
Although May has come and gone, I hope you will join my colleagues and me in advocating for America’s forgotten kids.
Looking back on Foster Care Month
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don’t like abortions? just ignore them like you ignore kids in care and dads that don’t stay :)
Redditors crashed the website with donations over $25k and 0 wishes left. via /r/MadeMeSmileClick here and follow to get more daily positivity on your dash!
In response to this event, some redditors created r/charityraid, with the goal of concentrating the power of thousands of users into a single charity at a time to hopefully break a few more sites.
As of 9/21/21, the site has updated with more wishes. The incredible spike in donations is amazing, but if you want to and are able to keep the momentum going, there are over 300 waiting to be filled at https://www.onesimplewish.org!
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