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Another gap in the social safety net and a reporting team
This link is to a nonprofit investigative journalism site that ran a story about children coming out of the foster care system at age 18 and into homelessness on the streets. Not just one or two, but hundreds and thousands -- and where they used to move into work and be self-sufficient, the current economy has shut off jobs to them -- jobs going to the 20-something (maybe) and the 30-something.
The report highlights that there are a few youth only shelters, but space is limited and some are a lottery by the night. This leaves these youth scrambling with numbers sleeping on the streets or in inappropriate shelters with the chronically homeless who have had a rough history living with lifestyle problems not to pass on to another generation. And then, for the girls, a way into getting some help is to have babies -- so now we have a new cycle of chaos and dependency -- and incentives to remain unmarried.
A recent Op-Ed in the Washington Post noted that their reporting staff no longer covers Northern Virginia as well as the District and Maryland. Do we have a non-profit journalism site like this group in Virginia? A social justice blog space that the major media could pick up stories from?
http://www.invw.org/
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Tags: VOICE, dependency, homelessness, teens
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Comment by jill herndon on October 25, 2010 at 6:46pm -
Video blogging on an investigative jornalism site that is picked up by major new media?
Last night I watched "Outlaw" -- on Hulu.com but I imagine it is also on TV. The story was about a 14 year old at the top of Forida's wait list for a new liver, and the hospital administrations decision to pass him over because he was in Foster Care. The Hospital Administrator spewed chilling statistics to justify what a waste it would be to give the child a new liver -- because the numbers were so high on failure to be able to make a healthy and economically viable life. Episode "the Tyler Banks Story" or just "Tyler Banks".
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Comment by Barbara Johnson on October 21, 2010 at 10:38am -
Read the NY Times article by Aaron Glantz: After Service, Veteran Deaths Surge.
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Comment by Barbara Johnson on October 21, 2010 at 10:36am
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Jill, I was already thinking about the "structural violence" leading to all the suicides among glbtq youth, all the suicides in the ranks of returning war vets, when I read your post about the 18 year olds coming out of foster care. I want a more active way to stand on the side of love for all these lives...
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