2012 January 22 « I Was A Foster Kid

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noble truths of a drunk

today i went to talk to jessie so she could help me understand all the shit about my settlement. after she dropped me off at my apartment, i took the $20 she gave me and walked to the gas station and bought a case of miller and a big bag of cheetos puffy. CHEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSs

i am on miller #5

1-2-3-5 then 6-7-9-11-12 BEeeEeeRrRrRr

realized today are

the 4 noble truths of LT

#1 – you cant fix stupid. there are smart poeple and stupid people and im stupid

#2 – if your used like dirty toilet paper, you need to be flushed, cause youll never be clean again

#3 – shit stays shit ….and people hate smellie shit

#4 – if you groe up without a family, you will always be looking in from the outside. you will never truely belong

miller #6 is calling me…..

January 22, 2012 at 10:22 pm 44 comments

Foster Parents… Don’t Forget Finance 101

All this recent stress about money and the settlement from my bike accident got me thinking. My knowledge and skills regarding money, credit, bills, taxes, spending, bank accounts, …. SUCK…. and this is a failure of the foster care system. I aged-out of foster care at 18, still a sophomore in high-school, and not in an ILP.

Before you tell me “all foster kids are required to take life skills” — I say bullshit and READ THIS from 2010. This is one state, but 67% of the oldest foster children HAD NOT completed a Life Skills course that would help them to live independently and qualify for financial assistance. The majority of youth said they had never completed a life-skills program, which provides instruction in financial management, cooking, housekeeping and other living skills. Representatives of NJ stated that there were not enough programs…”

Well that is just fabulous…. don’t you think? Kick kids out with no home, no jobs, and no skills. Guess what happens to them?

As this non-profit leader says HERE: “We go from ‘you’re in foster care, where you may handle $10 a month’ to ‘you’re responsible for everything’”

I am not going to spend the rest of this blog giving you statistics… you can find them yourself on the web. I am going to spend the rest of this blog giving you ideas how to help and examples from my life.

The system can’t seem to get it right, so foster parents, IT IS UP TO YOU!