Released on = January 10, 2007, 9:51 am

Press Release Author = RELATIVE CARE GIVER FOUNDATION GILCREST COUNTY

Industry = Non Profit

Press Release Summary = RELATIVES HAVE NO RIGHTS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA BUT THEIR
ARE STATUES PUT TO PLAY FROM WASHINGTON THAT ARE THERE TO PROTECT YOU .YOU JUST NEED
TO KNOW ABOUT THEM.

Press Release Body = RELATIVES ALL ACROSS FLORIDA HAVE STEPED IN TO RAISE ANOTHER
GENERATION OF CHILDREN ,KIN .SERCOMSTANCES SUCH AS
ABUSE,ABANDONMENT,AIDS,DEATH,DIVORCE,INCARCERATION,NEGLECT,MENTAL ILLNESS,PHYSICAL
INCAPABILITY,SUBSTANCE ABUSE ,TEEN PARENTING,SOME FROM FAMILIES MURDERED.THE FAMILY
IS ALREADY IN EMOTIONAL STRESS COPING WITH A NEW GENERATION TOTALLY TRANSFORMED EVEN
WHEN OUR CHILDREN GREW UP.BIG CITIES YOU CAN NOT SEE THE HIGH AMOUNT RELATIVES
RAISING CHILDREN.RURAL COMMUNITIES IT IS VERY VISABLE.ACCORDING TO THE 2004 CENSOR
THERE ARE 16,024 POPULATION GILCREST 50 % THEN WERE RELATIVES RAISING CHILDREN .THAT
NUMBER BEING MUCH HIGHER YET DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS RIGHT AWAY DCF INVOLMENT.RELATIVES
HEADING UP HOUSEHOLDS ARE ILL INFORMED OF THE RESOURSES AVAILABLE TO THEM.IN THE 8TH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MANY CHILDREN IN RELATIVE PLACEMENT LACK A GAURDIAN ATLITUM. THIS
IS DO TO IT IS NOT MADE LAW IN LEGISLATION THAT EVERY CHILD HAS A RIGHT TO A
GAURDIAN ATLITUM.THIS IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT A CHILD IS CONSIDERED SAFE IN RELATIVE
PLACEMENT.THE CHILDREN AND THE RELATIVES ARE THE ONES WHO SUFFER FROM LACK OF
REPRESENTATION IN THE COURT SYSTEM.RELATIVES HAVE NO HELP TO NEGOTIATE THE CONFUSING
LEGAL SYSTEM AND ARE OFTEN UNAWARE OF COURT DATES PERTAINING TO THEIR CHILD\'S
CASE.THE CHILD ALSO HAS NO VIOCE AT THE VARIOUS COURT DATES SO THEIR BEST INTEREST
IS NOT SEVED OR REPRESENTED.THERE IS A TREMENDOUS LACK IN FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR
RELATIVES RAISING CHILDREN;OFTEN THEY DO NOT RECEIVE ANY BACK CHILD SUPPORT,EVEN
MONIES THAT WERE OWED TO THEM BEFORE ANY PUBLIC ASSISTANCE HAS BEGUN BEING
PAID.RELATIVES ARE MADE TO FEEL THAT IF THEY ASK FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE THEY RISK
HAVING THE CHILD PLACED IN FOSTER CARE BECAUSE THE CASE WORKERS FEEL THEY ARE UNABLE
TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THE CHILD. SOME CASE WORKERS THREATON THIS.CREATING A
SITUATION IN RURAL COUNTIES WORSE RELATIVES ARE RAISING THESE CHILDREN ON THEIR
MEAGER INCOMES.BORDER LINE OF ANY HELP,YET STRUGGLING WITH MANY ADVERSITIES.ANOTHER
PROBLEM FACED IN RURAL AREAS IS THAT MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT ADEQUATELY LITERATE.THIS
SITUATION MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR RELATIVES TO UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS WHEN HAVING TO
RESEARCH AND READ THEM ON THEIR OWN;IT IS ALSO MAKES IT NEAR IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOME
RELATIVES TO BE ABLE TO PROPERLY COMPLETETHE LEGALISTIC PAPERWORK INVOLVED WHEN
TRYING TO OBTAIN UNDS THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE TO THEM.THE REASONS FOR SO MANY CASES OF
RELATIVES RAISING CHILDREN IN RURAL AREAS AS WELL AS CITIES ILLNESS,DEATH ,DIVORCE
AS WELL AS MANY OTHER TRAGEDIES MENTIONED ,CAN LEAVE A CHILD BEING PLACED IN
RELATIVE CARE,BUT ONE REASON CAN OFTEN BE TRACED BACK TO THE EARLY LIFE OF THE
PERSON LOSING CUSTODY OF THE CHILD. MANY DISABILITIES AND LEARNING DISORDERS ARE NOT
UNDERSTOOD IN THE RURAL SCHOOL SYSTEM AS WELL AS DOCTOR SERVICE .YOUNG PEOPLE DO NOT
GET THE EDUCATIONAL TRAINING THEY NEED.AS WELL AS TEACHERS ARENT HOLDING HIGHER
DEGREES STILL PRACTICING THINGS OLD METHOD.THIS LEADS TO LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND OFTEN
THESE YOUNG PEOPLE DROP OUT OF SCHOOL. MANY OF THEM GO ON TO MINIMUM WAGE JOBS,WHEN
CHILDREN COME INTO HE PICTURE POVERTY PLAYS A MAOR ROLE IN NOT BEING ABLE TO
PROPERLY CARE FOR THE CHILD.OFTEN RELATIVES THEN HAVE TO BECOME THE PRIMARY CARE
GIVER OF THESE CHILDREN.WHEN RELATIVES STEP INTO BECOMING THE GAURDIAN OF THE
CHILD,THAT RELATIVE SHOULD BE WELL INFORMED OF ALL THE AVAILABLE RESOURCES.THERE
NEEDS TO BE CHANGES IN THE WAY RELATIVES ARE VEIWED WITHIN AS NOT HAVING ANY RIGHTS
IN FL SO THEY HAVE NO RIGHTS TO THE INFORMATIN AS WELL AS SOME ARENT AWARE OF THE
RIGHTS A RELATIVE DOES HAVE.THE MANY CHILDREN IN THE SYSTEM BEING CARED FOR BY
RELATIVES STANDING IN NEED OF CARING PEOPLE TO BE THEIR VOICE.I HAVE EXSPERIENCE
THIS FIRST HAND MYSLF ALL IMFORMATION FROM LIFES EXSPERIENCE. I URGE YOU TO HELP
RELATIVE CARE GIVER FOUNDATION AND MAKE A DONATION WE ARE OUT OF REGION FOR ANY
GRANT WRITING ABILITY AND SEARCHED FOR FUNDING FOR TWO YEARS. WE SERVIVE ON THE
GRACES OF GIVING AND GOOD WILL .GOD HAS LEAD A PATH TO REACH THESE FAMILIES THROUGH
IMFORMATIONAL PACKETS AS WELL AS SCHUDULING EVENTS OF FUN ,OUTINGS.WEPREPARE FOR
CHRISTMAS SPREADING GODS LOVE TO THE MANY NEEDY FAMILIES IN OUR COMUNITIES. IF YOU
WISH TO MAKE A DONATION R/C/G FOUNDATION P. O. BOX 274 BELL FLA. NO AMOUNT IS TO
SMALL .CONTACT KIM WEISE DIRECTOR 352 535 7748. GET CONNECTED TO THE KINSHIP
WARMLINE IF YOUR A RELATIVE RAISING CHILDREN 18006406444 KNOW ALL THAT IS OUT THERE
FOR YOU. TELL THEM RELATIVE CARE GIVER FOUNDATION GILCREST COUNTY SENT YOU. YOU CAN
EVEN CALL FOR ANOTHER STATE ALL STATES HAVE A KINSHIP WARMLINE . CONTACT US A
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Contact Details = RELATIVE CARE GIVER FOUNDATION INC.
P.O. BOX 274
BELL,FL.,32619
FAX 3869352525 CELL 3525357748