🇯🇲, Child Welfare, Systems Implementation, SalesForce Ranger. Foster kids are resilient, but need ❤️ too; exploring solutions. Jamaica College, HU- you know
“What I’m here to talk about is how our whole approach since day one has been like this: Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they’re jumping.”
Tommy Orange,
Author of “There, There”
“This is a significant step in the overdue movement to better support the extraordinary grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives who step up to care for kids every day. While we work to reduce the number of children placed unnecessarily in the foster system, we must fully and equally support kin families. Longstanding federal law upholds – and clinical research backs up – that children in the system are best served when placed with kinship caregivers.”
… apparently I have spent way too much time on the road, but glad @HiltonHotels was always there! Here’s to reaching a #million and looking forward to a million more @HiltonHonors
Couldn’t think of a better place for a cultural and educational #gapyear while further evolving his ⚽️⚽️⚽️ game … than representing #JamaicaCollege in the 2023 #ManningCup
Direct cash assistance and other economic equity strategies improve child safety and prevent foster care. None of these programs are part of Families First prevention programs. You would think researchers, model authors, and service providers wrote our nation's model of “prevention”, they did.
With the help of the mental health and juvenile justice systems, many black youth raised in foster care leave on their last birthday with a garbage bag of belongings, transformed into a diagnosis and a criminal record.
The dominant culture knows that family separation and foster care are bad for kids, it is just that leaving children with “those people” is considered worse. The conversation policy makers refuse to have, and the foster care industry can't afford to have.
@PICAJamaica I was unable to submit the application, and am not sure what are my next steps (I reside overseas). I simply couldn’t offer your office an additional hour of my day. Trying to maintain a positive perspective, but it really shouldn’t be this difficult to renew a passport in 2022.
Don't hate us for not covering your team or athlete.
Why were sports fans so angry with us this fall? In this installment of Take That! A troubling trend of negative feedback directed at 'yours truly' and what I think is behind it.
It’s apparent someone is not only the kicker. ⚽️⚽️⚽️ season is done and the kicker has elected to channel his inner @RandyMoss A touchdown, 2 field goals and five extra points … not shabby at all kid @FreeportFalcons