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@fosteringhopeok
Don’t give up yet. You seem like a wonderful parent. As a person that might go into foster care soon, I hope I end up with someone like you. I wish you luck, hopefully it goes better once all of this quarantine stuff is over.
Thank you sweetheart! I hope things work out for you hon
I don’t know if I can keep doing this.
They said no to letting M move in with us...
My cousin and his husband started the process to foster last month. On Monday, a home finder came out for his first walk-through of their house in middle America. He gave them a list of things that have to be done and told them to get to work on it immediately because he was marking their paperwork as ‘yes’, so they could expect to get placement requests as early as this week.
Y’all. They’d completed most of the paperwork and those requirements (physicals, etc), but hadn’t even been fingerprinted when the home finder visited and marked their home as open. Crazier still? They haven’t had a single MAPP training hour yet (!!!). Apparently the MAPP class is being thrown together in a virtual format, but their home can be open before they even start them.
Their county is desperate for homes. My cousin’s will be a good one, but I heavily encouraged them to work on the trainings as soon as they’re available. There’s a reason MAPP trainings are required.
These are strange times.
Wow, that’s crazy...
Guess who might have gotten exposed??
This DHS worker...
How to Make a Face Mask for Hospitals and Medical Centers
Hospitals and medical centers across the country are asking sewers to make face masks to protect out health workers. You can google “how to sew face masks for hospitals” to find out where fabric masks are being requested.
Stillwater Medical Center is asking sewers to follow the face mask pattern from buttoncounter.com here.
From Deaconess Health System:
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Citing shortages, Deaconess Health System, including Henderson’s Methodist Health, has asked the public to sew face masks for staff fighting coronavirus.
“This does follow CDC protocols that you can find on their website that if all other supplies are not available, that handmade masks that meet certain criteria are acceptable,” Deaconess spokeswoman Becca Scott said.
The release with the video, pattern and instructions was posted to the Deaconess Facebook page Thursday morning and is available at www.deaconess.com/masks. A PDF of the pattern is available here and embedded at the bottom of this article.
Deaconess has “a sample video” about how to make the masks, which Scott said will be sterilized when they come in.
From Forbes here:
Additional Resources for Open Source or Volunteer COVID-19 Projects:
One of my favorite how-to sites is Instructables. The DIY Cloth Face Mask has almost 100,000 views. It is a step-by-step instruction for those who need it. Kudos to ashevillejm.
In 2006, CDC released a Simple Respiratory Mask design using heavyweight t-shirts in its Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. More of an academic post, but some ideas in it.
A Facebook group was formed last week: Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies. It is worth a visit — in just a few short days there are 20,000-plus members and volunteers.
If you are looking for some research and street-level testing of various materials for DIY mask-making, this post from Smart Air Filters is exceptional: What Are The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks? It also includes a few great links at the end of it.
Make sure you double check regulations at your local hospital! Some won’t be accepting these while others may have different requirements or needs for sizes
^^absolutely check with your local hospital or health department, and with local mutual aid groups to see if anyone is already coordinating mask-making efforts. In my area, they are setting things up so that people can come to a sterile space and sew there with materials provided by the hospital; they aren’t accepting anything made at home.
If your hospital won’t take them, I’m SURE your Child Protective Services will!!
Learn from home resources
Reblog with links to your favorite virtual learning resources. Let’s help each other stay sane 😊
Google doc with virtual field trips (all ages)
Scholastic free school closure resources
NYC Schools Learn at Home (early childhood - HS)
PBS Kids for Parents activity finder (ages 2-8)
Big list of teacher resources (all ages)
12 big museums offering virtual tours
So my oldest has a friend who got drunk at a party and a guy had sex with her. She is scared she pregnant and scared her aunt will kick her out if she is.
So we went to Walgreens yesterday and got a three pack of tests. I think it’s too early to get a positive one, as it happened a week ago.
The test was negative. She’ll come over again next week to take another test. She knows she isn’t ready to be a parent, but isn’t sure what to do. She has no money for an abortion, and they are $100ish here. She isn’t sure how to make sure the baby goes to a good family if she decides not to have an abortion.
Part of me wants to offer our family to take the baby if she wants. C has always wanted a baby, but can’t carry one herself. But we’re trying to bring M home and I dunno if that would fuck things up.
Life’s Lil Pleasures Vol. 1 & 2 by Evan Lorenzen
I just can’t understand
Met a kid today who’s adoptive parents DROPPED HER OFF at a shelter and said they were done with her.
I’m sorry what?!
Would you have dropped your bio kid off at a shelter for acting out and being defiant?
FYI
This is the kid we should be bringing home soon ;)
URG things are taking SO long on this front? We told people after Christmas we wanted to bring M home, and they still haven’t gotten the paperwork finished...
I just can’t understand
Met a kid today who’s adoptive parents DROPPED HER OFF at a shelter and said they were done with her.
I’m sorry what?!
Would you have dropped your bio kid off at a shelter for acting out and being defiant?
FYI
This is the kid we should be bringing home soon ;)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
They are send out our resource so we can open our home up again!!!
Creating Change
On my way to a conference with my Equality Center. They paid for me and the other leader of Alphabet Soup to go. I’m stressed and tired. I feel like things are stressed and tense and I’m being... railroaded by the other leader? I feel like she’s started treating me with some disrespect. Some of the kids told me she is saying that it’s her group and and I don’t have any say in what’s going on.
I’m in a van on the way to the conference with everyone. And she gave me the perfect opening to talk about it, but she shut me down and said it was something we should talk about privately if it was anything “inflammatory”.
-sighs-
C SAID YES
That kiddo might be moving in!!
Big heart
So there’s this teen I’ve been mentoring and taking to group and stuff. And I think she’s be a great addition to our family, but my wife C has such a hard time being a parent and parenting two kids. I can’t bring another in. So I’m trying to find other people to build a relationship with her and maybe find her a home that way.
She has SO much trauma though? I’m worried a new foster parent won’t be able to handle her... -sighs- I’m going to see if we can at least take her out to dinner for her one year sober anniversary....
So it just hit me for like the thirtieth time this year that in ten months i’ll officially be out of foster care and out on the streets all alone and i’m freaking out again
The closer it gets,the darker the thoughts in my head get and I’m starting to doubt I’m strong enough to fight them
There are aging out resources in most states! Feel free to message me what state you’re in and I’ll reach out to my friends to find resources for you!
Affirming your child's gender identity is NOT child abuse
So the oldest had a rough day today. Lots of bullying and people touching him and making fun of him. He really wanted to self harm, I came up with the idea to dye his hair instead.
...then used the rest on myself??
