Date: 02/11/11
To: 1311 Students
From: Tiffany Gailey
The peace organization I chose is Peace4Kids. This organization specializes in helping kids in the Los Angeles area who are in the foster care program. They help kids stay off the streets and off drugs. Peace4Kids offer four programs to help the children, the Saturday program, the teen program, the emancipation services program, and the mentor program. The Saturday program gives the kids an education, trips, life skills and mentorship opportunities for over 200 kids ages 5-18. The teen program focus’ on kids between the ages of 13-19 to help them with independent living skills, emotional and behavioral intelligence, economic literacy, dream discovery and goal setting. The Emancipation services program helps those kids who are about to age out of the foster care program, aging out means that they will no longer belong to anyone but themselves if they have not yet been adopted. The Emancipation services program helps them transition into adults and help them to better understand the process they are undergoing. Last but most definitely not least the Mentor program is most likely related to the Big Brother Big Sister program they link foster and at-risk kids with caring adults who have made long term commitments to mentorship. I was adopted when I was younger which is why I believe in this organization and others like it.
I didn't know there where still organizations like this one, last time I heard about this sort of service was about the eighties for research paper. I good to know people are still aware of the increasing number of children abandoned by careless parents. Those kids deserve to have a loving experience to fully develop in good citizens, just as all other kids. The fact that there is a great amount of kids in fosters should also lead to some kind of regulations or consequences directed at the parents, even in if the mother is a victim of rape and is a teen herself, someone should take responsibility,I'm not saying that she should but things could be done before she gives birth or right after the crime. Anyway that is just one case, on the others most of the involved could face serious consequences for abandoning those kids. Let at least that's what I thing. Thus by lowering the rate of abandonment the impact on the economy would be positive, of course this wouldn't be the solution for all economic problems or poverty but something is something.
ReplyDeleteIve actually heard of this program. I think that the United States needs more programs such as this one to focus more on those who in youth face great pain and seek comfort.
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