Join our collaborative, community-based effort to ensure that victims of domestic violence and their children in the District of Columbia have adequate safe housing and housing support services. Our goal is to secure a Fiscal Year 2011 federal appropriation for the District of Columbia to sustain and increase capacity to meet the dire safe housing needs of victims and children.
Because the District is not a state, local officials do not have access to alternate, sustainable revenue that their counterparts in states rely upon to fund safe housing and victim services. 38 states have access to alternate, sustainable revenue. Federal lawmakers are in a position to dedicate gap funding to stabilize and increase these services in DC. This funding would reform a broken system and save lives.
Thank you! District Alliance for Safe Housing www.dashdc.org
Encourage your members of Congress to re-authorize child nutrition programs by sending them this letter! http://hungeractioncenter.org/hungeractionmonth/comm-email.aspx?utm_campaign=Hunger-Action-Month&utm_source=HAM3&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1#article1
A problem that often seems to go unnoticed is that over one in four children in the U.S. are malnourished. That's 13.5 million American children!
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Please join this cause I started on behalf of my son and kids like him. His attacker is walking freely while my son lived with terror and fear daily. The legal system failed my son even with medical proof of the assualt. Due to my son's inability to accurately describe the years of attacks, the legal system felt as though he was not telling the truth and did not want to risk a trial against his biological father. Please join the fight in raising our voices to change the system and obtain the assistance these children need and DESERVE.
Please pass the word along to anyone with children or anyone who might benefit from this knowledge: According to the United States Department of Justice's guidelines for forensic interviewing children with cognitive or behavioral disabilities, these children are allowed to have the proper interviewer in the room. The interviewers should possess the proper behavioral degree, usually a masters degree in behavioral psychology. Also the children are allowed to have a Behavorial Pyschologist or Pyshcrist in the room to assist in the interviewing process. This is to eliminate cognitive/behavorial mis-understanding between interviewer and child. There is to be audio and visual taping of the interviews, due to complexity of the cases and delay in the court system. This information is agreed upon with the Child Advocate Center's guidelines. However, each Child Advocate Center individual policy on who is allowed in the interview process and how it is recorded in regard to these children are left to the discretion of the Assistant District Attorney assigned to the Sex Crimes Division within your individual counties. Just because the interviewer is in the room with your child, the police are on the other side of the glass leading the interviewer and the questions asked. DO NOT LET ANYONE QUESTION YOUR CHILD WITHOUT YOU BEING PRESENT OR HAVING YOUR CHILD'S MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER PRESENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is an organization called KidsVoice, their mission states,"KidsVoice: Protecting Children's Rights Founded in 1908 as the Legal Aid Society of Pittsburgh, KidsVoice provides the full-service advocacy that every abused, abandoned, voiceless and vulnerable child deserves. Many of the children KidsVoice represents, in addition to being neglected or abused, must overcome significant physical and mental disabilities. Their conditions range from developmental delays, neonatal drug addiction and AIDS to severe brain damage, suicidal depression and critical organ failure."
Within the first sentence it says "every child" however when I called them to seek help in bringing my son's attacker to justice they turned him away. Their reason was because he was not "court-active." When asked what this meant, they stated he has not been removed from the home from CYF and therefore they were unable to assist my mentally disabled son.
Even after contacting the ACLU's local chapter my son's legal rights were over looked. The ACLU didnt feel as though a mentally disabled sexually abused child was worth representing since it did not represent a majority to benefit from. I think the ACLU needs to re-examine the statistics of the sexually abused mentally disabled.
I know my son's biological father will never be brought to justice due to the lapse in time and the neglect of the legal system and those who swore to uphold it; I am trying to stop this from happening to someone else before it is too late. Another child or another family should NEVER have to go through this.
Please spread the word about this cause and help make a difference.
There is an upcoming Festival celebrating Parents and Families There is more information in the underlined LINKS below. It has also been posted on the Adams County Group Page as well as other Freecycycle, Yard Sale, Cheapcycle and Neighborrow Yahoo Group Sites. It sounds like a fun time for Kids and Adults (With a message) Send the Proclaimation to your Mayor and celebrate National Parents Day as well. Or if anyone in your area would like to go to this event. There are links to ride-shares and charter bus trips on some of the sites (There is also a message of "going green") Please consider posting/brodcasting information about this. Geri M. - QcyMom@care2.com National Parents Day
PUT A SHOW ON FOR THE KIDS IN DC? PLEASE DONATE SERVICES , RIDES, SOUND, FOOD, WATER OR ANYTHING POSSIBLE TO HELP US PUT ON A FESTIVAL FOR UNITED STATES ABUSED CHILDREN AWARENESS. CAN YOU HELP IN ANY WAY? IF NOT DO YOU HAVE DISCOUNTS FOR NON-PROFITS ORGS? THOSE WHO CAN HELP WIL BE ADVERTISED NATIONALLY AND HELP A GOOD CAUSE. CALL 270-869-7290 OR EMAIL US FOR FURTHER DETAILS. TONY K
COME JOIN US DURING FAMILY PRESERVATION AND NATIONAL PRAYER WEEK BEGINNING JULY 18TH -JULY 25TH 2009. PLease pass this around! AWE PRO FILM COMPANY...... WWW.MYSPACE.COM/AWEPRO1 IS ALLOWING ALL VALID STORIES TO BE IN THE UPCOMMING FILM / DOCUMENTARY REGUARDING CPS AND JUDICIARY PROBLEMS. THIS FILM IS ALMOST COMPLETED AT 2 HRS LONG WITH IMPORTANT PEOPLE SUCH AS OBAMA AND OTHER POLITICIANS IN IT. SO PLS DIRECT ALL STORIES / FAMILIES TO CONTACT US IN ORDER TO BE ON THIS UPCOMMING FILM THAT WILL BE NATIONALLY PROMOTED. WE NEED TO SCHEDULE APPEARANCES NOW! AFTER SENDING STORIES TO OBAMA IN WRITING PLS REFER THEM TO ADDITIONALLY COME TO DC AND BE IN AWE PRO'S NEW FILM. Family Preservation Week
MORE INFO ON EVENT IS HERE: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/TKANDJPMUSICFEST P.S. THERE WILL BE OPENINGS FOR STAGE SPEAKING BEFORE CNN AND OTHER MEDIA SOURCES AT THIS EVENT.
