#group homes

[turtley-ausome]

My group home bedroom the walls painted pink and purple yipeee!

[sakebytheriver]

I like my job, I might even go as far as to say I love my job, the people I work with are fucking amazing, my manager is literally the best manager to ever exist, and while the hours can be a lot considering I work the graveyard shift nine hours for four to five days a week since I work at a group home for teen moms I mostly just sit there while they sleep and I bring my laptop so I can do other things, most of the girls in my section are generally chill with cute babies not to mention the overnight shift allows me to have my days free in case I need to do anything else. I could sit here and list the postives of my job all day, but no matter how much you like your job, even if you have the best job in the world, it is still a job. And in my industry, because that's what it is we have turned teenage group homes into an industry, I have watched firsthand as these little girls who have nowhere else to go, who have been abused, who have been turned into a mother as a teenager, many of whom have been victims of child sex trafficking with babies whose fathers are men more than twice their age and I have watched them be turned into numbers and dollar signs. I have watched several girls fall through the cracks, because the people in charge of where I work care more about the money they make and keeping up squeaky clean appearances rather than do any meaningful work to help these teenagers with babies they barely know how to keep alive to get the care they need to lead a healthy, happy, and fulfilled life. I have had to sit by as a minimum wage worker with no degree in anything close to what these girls need me to have a degree in and watch as these girls go back out to walk the street, as they neglected their babies to the point of sickness, and then I got to see as my bosses all lied about the situations to cover their own asses when everyone who had been on the floor had been writing reports for weeks about the situation while also telling anyone who would listen that something needed to be done. Everything and everyone under capitalism becomes an amount of money, the girls at my work are the amount of money my bosses make, and I'm the amount of money my bosses have to spend. In the end, we've both been abandoned by capitalism, and my bosses would happily kill both of us if it meant they'd make more money than they do keeping us alive

[abandoned-accnt0]

TW : CHILD AB*SE

Please share this video, I beg of you!

The children is this video are foster child/ren stuck in an abusive group home. This sadly is more common than one might think and police rarely listen and rarely take the side of the kid in favor of the adults. From what was said in the comments along with the original poster on tic tok, the kid is now with his mother and a police report has been filed but’s it’s been said there’s been multiple cases such as this in this facility.

This place needs to be investigated ASAP!

https://www.facebook.com/CalvaryChildrensHome/

https://calvarykids.org/contact/

For those who need verification for stories like this, I am a former Foster kid (not the mentioned group home above though). I’ve been through a good amount of group homes in the south so let me tell you that this definitely happens far too often in group/foster homes. I’ve heard multiple stories that range from verbal abuse all the way to sexual and cult/religious abuse. I’ve known kids who’ve been dropped once they turned 18 and had to survived on the streets. I’ve known kids who’s only options was to run away from those placements to survive and more. I personally had to jump in between a grown man and a 13 year old girl when he whip his hat around and slapped her in her face with the plastic bit and left a giant red welt on her face, stretching from her nose to her temple. He apologized later to her privately after I walked with her to the supervisor to report this... Nothing happened. He still continued to work there long after I left and the poor girl accepted his apology with the welt still on her face and made me out to be dramatic because I denied his apology and wouldn’t let it go... Another thing, foster kids are doped up on medication, a lot of the times incorrectly and hazardously. It was so bad that it basically became unspoken rule that you had to be taking a least 2 different pills if you were a foster kid and to make it worse, if you weren’t in a emergency shelter, they wouldn’t even check to see if you actually took it or not! I had to have a fucking back up pile of BPD, Depression, and Anxiety pills for my roommate bc they would pick them up and later forget to take them which I guess also goes to show you that they don’t fucking check on the kids either! -I have so many more stories just for being in care for 2 1/2 yrs so imagine the ones I hear from others who’ve been in since they’re were babies.

[helloiamausacresfan]

Covid-19 kills hundreds in group homes for developmentally disabled in N.Y.

Since March 2,160 group home residents and 2,599 group home employees in New York have been infected with Covid-19, according to the State Office for People With Developmental

"...She declined to divulge her current pay rate, but People Inc. officials said direct support professionals, such as White, start out at the state minimum wage in upstate New York of $11.80 an hour. Sources familiar with group homes said most workers at homes run by nonprofit agencies make the minimum wage or slightly above that."We do get decent health care and other good benefits from People Incorporated, but even before the pandemic, we were underpaid," White  said. "We're responsible for other peoples' lives."People Inc. has given a $2 hourly raise to workers during the pandemic, said Rhonda Frederick, People Inc.’s president and chief executive officer.The pay rate for direct support workers is "woefully inadequate," Frederick said. She said her agency would like to pay more but is limited by Medicaid, its main source of funding..." "With family members barred from visiting group homes, they are less likely to learn about problems in the facilities, said Zoe Gross, operations director for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a national organization."

[clatterbane]

Fears grow for care homes as coronavirus cases rise across UK

Government urges care providers to take action to stop spread of virus among residents

[welcome-to-the-petting-zoo]

So there are a lot of these very rigid structures which are just there, because. And there's very little willingness to consider individual needs, and adjust the structures to the needs. They are always trying to adjust the people to the structures and I think that's a very universal situation in institutions.

@compassionatereminders about institutionalized life as a mentally ill person, from the podcast found at @welcome-to-the-petting-zoo

[inbtswethrrust]

i asked this a couple weeks ago but i think it got deleted when your askbox glitched out :( i haven't been able to find anything like this but maybe you have? do you know of any fics where the boys are in special ed or in a group home or anything like that?

i know one (1) but I’ll look for more!! Sorry that we keep missing your ask :((

An Inside Thing, Broken. by sunshineline

Group Home by Applesaucedip [Yoonmin, M, 23k]

that is all i can find, sorry :/

- N