The Foster Care Crisis

Honoring the victims and survivors of foster care, and those who help them. Looking for solutions to the foster care crisis by aggregating and sharing info.

[The Foster Care Crisis @FosterCare2020]

Lyric Farrell was 2 years old when she died. "According to a police report, Farrell suffered a brain hemorrhage from a non-accidental traumatic head injury. Investigators also found fresh scratches to her face, neck, torso and back." https://t.co/lzvXxaFs3i #FosterCare

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Daniel Huertas says he lost his virginity at 15 years old to his foster mother. “She would watch pornographic videos and she would point out what she'd like me to try on her. And then we would do that...” https://t.co/E6vbNdDD1z. #fostercare

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"Thomas Stacy Jr. and Jennifer Stacy are accused of abusing or allowing someone else to abuse a child who was less than 12 years old between September 2008 and September 2012....The child was seriously injured numerous times..." https://t.co/go8K4NJVPr #FosterCare #Victim

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"Thirty percent of children staying in hotels night to night are younger than 9 years old. In Washington, Black children are more likely to be sent to a hotel overnight than children of other races." https://t.co/W8lP6mTd83 #FosterCare

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"the federal law, which was enacted Feb. 9, 2018, is focused on placing more foster children with a family member or friend instead of a residential congregate care setting." https://t.co/7X5NaPuNbI

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"At age 16, the social worker told him that she was going to check him into a hotel until they could find him a more permanent place to stay in the state’s foster care program." #fostercare https://t.co/YM8fag4W9r

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"Foster children who lived with Daniel and Jenise Spurgeon were sexually, physically, verbally, mentally and emotionally abused, according to the four lawsuits... the children were starved, isolated, tortured and assaulted..." https://t.co/fV3u1AoeRE #fostercare

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"As many as 84% of 17- and 18-year-olds in foster care want to attend college. But these teens are only about half as likely to enroll in college as their peers, and fewer than 3% of them will earn a bachelor’s degree by the age of 24." https://t.co/Nvs6VtVZIU

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"The recent death of a foster child in a treatment center in Fort Bend County and allegations of restraints being used on foster kids at another Houston-area facility have prompted the federal judge overseeing TX foster care to demand records..." https://t.co/OCIlECwbf6

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"A Wichita man has been arrested in the rape of an 18-year-old after she ran away from a foster home with a 12-year-old." #FosterCare https://t.co/IStxaGmXta

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"Courtney’s study has found no negative outcomes associated with remaining in EFC, but he says the implementation is still a work in progress."

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"In 2012, California implemented extended foster care legislation to improve outcomes for 18- to 21-year-olds. Is the program working?" #fostercare https://t.co/8wzrLU54bs

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“My whole mission is to raise awareness about child abuse...... Had we had somebody that stepped up in those 13 years we were being molested and abused by our adoptive parents, maybe my sister would still be here.” #childwelfare #fostercare https://t.co/SlahvAT2B6

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"Many foster kids struggle in school and suffer from low self-esteem and depression. Fewer than 4 percent earn a college degree. Many enter adulthood without the skills, confidence and support they need to find their way in the world."

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Excellent op-ed by @shaq on #FosterCare and the @FosterBoyMovie: "...many of the 440,000 kids in our nation’s foster care system are not well supported. Neglected and abused, they are separated from their siblings and shuffled from family to family." https://t.co/i8Uxv5lZ76

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"...there are hundreds of thousands of kids across the U.S. — 30,000 just in Los Angeles County – who struggle, suffer, and grieve every day, too often alone, usually unnoticed, and without much public understanding and support. They are foster kids."

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"After years of legal battle, the Schwartzes could finally adopt a boy who had been in foster care for 1,553 days." https://t.co/CAYCJSCBnU #FosterCare

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"The number of children in need of foster care in Mantiowoc County has more than doubled in the last five years, according to Manitowoc County Human Services." #fostercare https://t.co/Uxqh66P4gS

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"The Bryants’ son was one of 4,772 Colorado children removed from their homes by child welfare authorities and living in foster care last year. But their story isn’t the typical tale of a child rescued from abuse or neglect. It’s the opposite." https://t.co/A7ByNYpK3w

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"During the trial, Hoffman said more than two years later, the child — with a large amount of his brain tissue dead — has a "poor prognosis," with the mental capacities of a two-month-old infant."

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"City police said the 11-week-old boy suffered "severe head trauma by being shaken with violent acceleration and deceleration force," while in Hannaford's care, in December 2017." #VictimofFosterCare

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"Haffaford, 36, had been charged with aggravated battery and neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, both Level 3 felonies carrying up to 16 years in prison." #FosterCare https://t.co/htkrrSV8bn