Suitcase program brings dignity to foster children
Note: Bullshit.
Thousands of children in foster care as well as those in institutional care must carry their worldly belongings in a black garbage bag as they move from home to home.
Note: They shouldn't be moving them from home to home. That causes RAD, PTSD, etc. A suitcase isn't going to help.
I had one come with stuff in boxes, (he'd been in the county emergency shelter facility - not a home - for 2 weeks) he left with some of those portable dressers to live with his grandma (which the agency delayed doing) after a failed adoption (sibling sexual abuse on him) in another county.
ReplyDeleteThe agencies should provide plastic or cardboard dressers for each child. Then when they go home or to a relative they can just be loaded into the vehicle with the child. As it was he left several small toys he'd been bought while with us because he didn't put them away. But he did leave with a used bike that he didn't have when came 3 months earlier.
But usually they just come in trash bags, and you can't tell which clothes are dirty and which aren't. Suitcases aren't going to help (and they're more expensive and less useful).