Comments for Fostering Media Connections http://fosteringmediaconnections.org Changing the Narrative. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on In My Own Words by Brent http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2011/10/20/in-my-own-words/#comment-4533 Brent Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:45:32 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3192#comment-4533 You are all truly inspirational! I love to hear about the success stories of young people from care who rise against all odds and become great people...you are all great people!! Thank you for sharing your story. You are all truly inspirational! I love to hear about the success stories of young people from care who rise against all odds and become great people…you are all great people!! Thank you for sharing your story.

]]> Comment on Report Outlines Educational Opportunity and Obstacles for Children in Foster Care by learn violin http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2011/01/06/report-outlines-educational-opportunity-and-obstacles-for-children-in-foster-care/#comment-4523 learn violin Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:57:31 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=1487#comment-4523 Admiring the commitment you put into your blog and in depth information you provide. It's great to come across a blog every once in a while that isn't the same old rehashed information. Fantastic read! I've bookmarked your site and I'm adding your RSS feeds to my Google account. Admiring the commitment you put into your blog and in depth information you provide. It’s great to come across a blog every once in a while that isn’t the same old rehashed information. Fantastic read! I’ve bookmarked your site and I’m adding your RSS feeds to my Google account.

]]> Comment on California Juvenile Judge Says Courts Should Be Opened by SFCASA Blog » Blog Archive http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2012/01/17/california-juvenile-judge-says-courts-should-be-opened/#comment-4459 SFCASA Blog » Blog Archive Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:21:20 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3511#comment-4459 [...] Judge Teresa Guerrero-Daley, of Santa Clara Superior Court, discusses the benefits of having open courts, including demystifying the closed courts and increasing transparency while restricting the ways in which these hearings can be reported. The comfort and security of the child involved is also taken into consideration. She suggests this can all be accomplished with the help of the judge’s discretion and through an ethical perspective. To watch this interview with Judge Guerrero-Daley, click here. [...] [...] Judge Teresa Guerrero-Daley, of Santa Clara Superior Court, discusses the benefits of having open courts, including demystifying the closed courts and increasing transparency while restricting the ways in which these hearings can be reported. The comfort and security of the child involved is also taken into consideration. She suggests this can all be accomplished with the help of the judge’s discretion and through an ethical perspective. To watch this interview with Judge Guerrero-Daley, click here. [...]

]]> Comment on Juvenile Court Judge Shares Five Focuses For 2012 by Alumni in the News: Judge Teresa Guerrero-Daley « Lincoln Law School of San Jose Blog http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2012/01/09/juvenile-judge-shares-five-focuses-for-2012/#comment-4436 Alumni in the News: Judge Teresa Guerrero-Daley « Lincoln Law School of San Jose Blog Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:48:56 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3479#comment-4436 [...] Teresa Guerrero-Daley, a Lincoln Law School of San Jose alum, recently gave an interview with Fostering Media Connections about the 5 things juvenile courts across the nation should focus on in [...] [...] Teresa Guerrero-Daley, a Lincoln Law School of San Jose alum, recently gave an interview with Fostering Media Connections about the 5 things juvenile courts across the nation should focus on in [...]

]]> Comment on Educational Opportunity for Students in Foster Care by Weihnachtsmarkt http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2011/10/09/educational-opportunity-for-students-in-foster-care/#comment-4414 Weihnachtsmarkt Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:52:28 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3131#comment-4414 I was suggested this website through my cousin. I'm now not certain whether or not this publish is written by means of him as no one else recognize such detailed about my difficulty. You're amazing! Thank you! I was suggested this website through my cousin. I’m now not certain whether or not this publish is written by means of him as no one else recognize such detailed about my difficulty. You’re amazing! Thank you!

]]> Comment on Harvard Law School Student Joins FMC by Prof. Robert Fellmeth http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2012/01/04/harvard-law-school-student-joins-fmc/#comment-4404 Prof. Robert Fellmeth Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:55:31 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3453#comment-4404 Congratulations to Jamie. We are familiar with Daniel's work and you are in an important place. Take a look at our TLC plan at www.caichildlaw.org. Let us know how we can help out. -- Bob Fellmeth, Price Professor of Public Interest Law, and also an HLS grad from just a few years ago(32). Congratulations to Jamie. We are familiar with Daniel’s work and you are in an important place. Take a look at our TLC plan at http://www.caichildlaw.org. Let us know how we can help out. — Bob Fellmeth, Price Professor of Public Interest Law, and also an HLS grad from just a few years ago(32).

]]> Comment on Educational Opportunity for Students in Foster Care by Beverly Tran http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2011/10/09/educational-opportunity-for-students-in-foster-care/#comment-4394 Beverly Tran Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:52:34 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3131#comment-4394 Before any discussion on educational opportunities for children in foster care may commence, someone must speak the dreaded words which have allowed our children to be denied their right to be protected from harm. Those words are "fraud, waste and abuse". Child welfare is shrouded in the iron veil of secrecy, complete with immunity from prosecution in the act of filing false claims. As we have recently reviewed in a GAO report, far too often foster children are "illegally and wrongfully" drugged according to DOJ settlement agreements. This affects the education of a foster child. Poverty is codified as the crime of abuse and neglect for failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child and the child is viciously ripped from their original guardians and placed with strangers in foster care. This affects the education of a foster child. Building a special education funding pipeline for foster children will be futile if there continues to be no accountability and transparency. What one will find is there will be a mad scramble to make up for fiscal shortfalls by making more children eligible for the funding. Simply put, the number of children in foster care will significantly increase creating burdens upon existing child welfare programs. Why were there no original guardians at these discussions? Why was I not involved in these discussions? Allow me to participate for I am an original source. Before any discussion on educational opportunities for children in foster care may commence, someone must speak the dreaded words which have allowed our children to be denied their right to be protected from harm.

Those words are “fraud, waste and abuse”. Child welfare is shrouded in the iron veil of secrecy, complete with immunity from prosecution in the act of filing false claims.

As we have recently reviewed in a GAO report, far too often foster children are “illegally and wrongfully” drugged according to DOJ settlement agreements. This affects the education of a foster child.

Poverty is codified as the crime of abuse and neglect for failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child and the child is viciously ripped from their original guardians and placed with strangers in foster care. This affects the education of a foster child.

Building a special education funding pipeline for foster children will be futile if there continues to be no accountability and transparency. What one will find is there will be a mad scramble to make up for fiscal shortfalls by making more children eligible for the funding.

Simply put, the number of children in foster care will significantly increase creating burdens upon existing child welfare programs.

Why were there no original guardians at these discussions? Why was I not involved in these discussions? Allow me to participate for I am an original source.

]]> Comment on In My Own Words by Brandeis http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2011/10/20/in-my-own-words/#comment-4392 Brandeis Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:33:48 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3192#comment-4392 Mom, you are an inspiration to any walk of life. Thank you for the message. Love ya! Mom, you are an inspiration to any walk of life. Thank you for the message. Love ya!

]]> Comment on The Other One Percent: Foster Youth and the Occupy Movement by James McIntyre http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2011/12/07/the-other-one-percent-foster-youth-and-the-occupy-movement/#comment-4391 James McIntyre Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:22:57 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3396#comment-4391 you can also Visit my website that I have my story at. http://www.wix.com/mcintyrej321/jamesmcintyre you can also Visit my website that I have my story at.

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]]> Comment on The Other One Percent: Foster Youth and the Occupy Movement by James McIntyre http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/2011/12/07/the-other-one-percent-foster-youth-and-the-occupy-movement/#comment-4390 James McIntyre Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:22:00 +0000 http://fosteringmediaconnections.org/?p=3396#comment-4390 As a Current foster youth I have spoken with the local Occupy Movement about DCFS wards. They thanked me for telling my story and then they told my story to local media. Youth in Care are part of the 99%. Also have done independent research and found that there have been over 500 bills to help youth in care and protecting youth from Child Abuse proposed by the Federal Congress in this Congressional Year and a lot of them are still in committee. What will it take for these bills to be Voted on. Law makers have always stated that protecting children should be number one cause but they are not doing that much for them. This is why youth are suffering because law makers rather spend time arguing instead of FIXING. This is why I use my Voice and My Story to help other that are in the same spot as myself. That is why I will keep telling my story so that there is a face to the Cause. Thank You, James McIntyre As a Current foster youth I have spoken with the local Occupy Movement about DCFS wards. They thanked me for telling my story and then they told my story to local media. Youth in Care are part of the 99%.

Also have done independent research and found that there have been over 500 bills to help youth in care and protecting youth from Child Abuse proposed by the Federal Congress in this Congressional Year and a lot of them are still in committee. What will it take for these bills to be Voted on. Law makers have always stated that protecting children should be number one cause but they are not doing that much for them. This is why youth are suffering because law makers rather spend time arguing instead of FIXING. This is why I use my Voice and My Story to help other that are in the same spot as myself. That is why I will keep telling my story so that there is a face to the Cause.

Thank You,

James McIntyre

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