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]]> Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:59:51 UTC 21960174 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17474594?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:07:46 UTC 17474594 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8981106?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:50:53 UTC 8981106 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7342831?utm_medium=rss I am a current foster parent and would like to see this pass into legislature, as I believe this would be a positive opportunity for the young adults who are "aging out" of the system.

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:29:50 UTC 7342831 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6148261?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Sep 2009 01:11:54 UTC 6148261 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5796465?utm_medium=rss I own TutorTutor, a tutoring service in San Diego, California. I believe that every child deserves a chance to have an education and to learn sound job skills. Many foster children are bounced from home to home, for most of their lives, never experiencing the concept of continuity and unconditional love. Their education and self-esteem suffers along the way.

]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:07:38 UTC 5796465 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5717320?utm_medium=rss I grew up in a neighborhood with 3 foster homes in it and I saw first hand the challenges these kids face.

]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:29:27 UTC 5717320 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5240341?utm_medium=rss At this precarious time in our nation's economy, we need to give foster children the best start in life they can constantly get. Please help them continue to have a stable family home like other children. This can increase the chances of college education, job placement, and avoidance of drugs. All of these things are so necessary to have a successful life.

]]> Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:15:02 UTC 5240341 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5237504?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:10:56 UTC 5237504 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5159156?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:36:51 UTC 5159156 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5144533?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:17:39 UTC 5144533 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4974439?utm_medium=rss If I could have stayed in foster care until 21, it would have been a good thing.

]]> Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:21:26 UTC 4974439 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4973832?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:15:40 UTC 4973832 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4939716?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:16:35 UTC 4939716 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4721347?utm_medium=rss I have foster child about to turn 18 and graduate from high school this year. Because of her past, she never got to experience a childhood. Since being in foster care, she has regressed to a little girl and has been maturing to a teenager. She is in no way, ready to be an adult. She's the first one to admit that to anyone. She's not ready to grow up and the future terrifies her.

]]> Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:40:04 UTC 4721347 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4701028?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:51:24 UTC 4701028 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4472210?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:10:34 UTC 4472210 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4337396?utm_medium=rss This is a vital issue in american life today. I am a former foster child who's succeeded and at the price of a lot. I know what it's like to be challenged by life and live under the burden of people believing you wont succeed and not having people there to guide you but know this, those in, and coming from, foster care have the resolve and determination to do many great things and they will. We just have to give htem the chance to shine.

]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:36:21 UTC 4337396 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4337219?utm_medium=rss Raise the age!!! Raise possibilities! And Raise Awareness.

]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:32:27 UTC 4337219 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4336374?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:39:36 UTC 4336374 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/3609709?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 May 2008 10:30:59 UTC 3609709 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/3503245?utm_medium=rss Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:55:50 UTC 3503245 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/3405544?utm_medium=rss As a foster parent, I wholeheartedly agree that we need to raise the foster care age to 21- many 18 year olds (esp. foster children!)are not even out of highschool when they age out the system - this is wrong.

]]> Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:42:35 UTC 3405544 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2802532?utm_medium=rss I aged out at 19 and was placed in adult foster care, where I promptly signed myself out to be homeless. I just got my GED at 24 and have still never had a job. I cant imagine what a difference a couple years would have made, and where I'd be today if I'd had the chance to get on my feet before being dumped out alone into the adult world without the support or skills necessary to succeed. I fully support raising the age to 21.

]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:00:02 UTC 2802532 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2788422?utm_medium=rss Mon, 7 Jan 2008 04:45:48 UTC 2788422 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2750082?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:42:57 UTC 2750082 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2749870?utm_medium=rss As A Alumni Of The System I Find It Would Be Bennifical To Us To Have Stayed In Care Until The Age of 21 Although I Have Become A Productive Member Of Society And Almost Have My LBSW I Still Beleive It Would Have Helped Me To Stay In Care .

]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:10:26 UTC 2749870 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2657872?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Dec 2007 04:08:37 UTC 2657872 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2644759?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:03:46 UTC 2644759 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2462297?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:42:13 UTC 2462297 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2462165?utm_medium=rss Became ward of the court when I was almost seventeen, 7 placements in two years - group homes, childrens shelters, foster homes, hospitals for almost two years - then I aged out at almost 19. Moving every couple of months and trying to graduate from high school and trying to understand what had happened - there was no time to learn to learn "lifeskills" - or even what it meant to live.
Almost two years later, and still struggling.

]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:34:15 UTC 2462165 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2402527?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:44:48 UTC 2402527 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2247348?utm_medium=rss This is a very worthwhile cause, and I think that kids like us should be given every possible opportunity that we can get. They took the position as our care givers, and that does not stop the day that you turn 18. Good for you for raising awarness to such a worthy and needed cause.

]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:08:38 UTC 2247348 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2138059?utm_medium=rss I agree with this whole heartedly! I was in foster care and it is true that when you get out of the system you are completely on your own because as in my case and many other childrens case you do not have any family of any kind to turn to!

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:02:37 UTC 2138059 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/2007299?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:20:38 UTC 2007299 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1967830?utm_medium=rss We just fought this hard in RI and Won!

]]> Sat, 9 Jun 2007 09:38:49 UTC 1967830 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1964490?utm_medium=rss I was released from from foster care at age 19, and even then I wasn't ready. I really struggled with figuring things out that I wasn't taught while in care. I'm 24 now and still on Social Security dissability as a means of surviving. I only just graduated high school this week (GED). I'm a complete supporter of raising the foster care age to 21.

]]> Fri, 8 Jun 2007 02:03:52 UTC 1964490 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1841023?utm_medium=rss Those of us who grew up in care need some of those privileges that usually come from families--like a place to go when we have none, someone to call to celebrate or commisserate about life's ups and downs, skills to be successful on our own. Help us make this happen!

]]> Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:48:29 UTC 1841023 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1823392?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jun 2007 01:20:17 UTC 1823392 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1792008?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 May 2007 10:39:17 UTC 1792008 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1790758?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 May 2007 07:28:20 UTC 1790758 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1708190?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 May 2007 02:06:34 UTC 1708190 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1690100?utm_medium=rss Being in the foster care system is extremely challenging and a lot of these young adults would benefit for a longer duration of guidance and support. As a twenty year old myself, I feel strongly for this position in order to make the communities I live in and the foster care system as a whole a better place to benefit not only my future but the future of all young adults in America.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2007 07:17:14 UTC 1690100 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1652959?utm_medium=rss Mon, 7 May 2007 03:13:45 UTC 1652959 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1560952?utm_medium=rss I know in my heart if some of my foster children had been allowed to stay in my home until they were 21, they would have not lost their own children to CPS, and wouldn't be on drugs, or in jail.

]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:53:23 UTC 1560952 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1560018?utm_medium=rss Everyone deserves a chance, despite their age.

]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:22:15 UTC 1560018 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1542467?utm_medium=rss I was in the foster care system and was adopted at 16....I am extrememly fortunate....if I had continued going from horrible foster home to foster home and then being dropped at age 18, I don't know if I would still be here. I would not have had the strength to live a good life because the effects of my abuse would have hindered me. I need people who were going to teach me and help me.....18 is too young to be on your own without a family.

]]> Sun, 8 Apr 2007 10:08:56 UTC 1542467 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1529375?utm_medium=rss The foster care system needs to be reformed. This is one of the most important steps.

]]> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:04:10 UTC 1529375 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1488203?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:13:07 UTC 1488203 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1475436?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:19:24 UTC 1475436 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1471279?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:58:20 UTC 1471279 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1470017?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:55:04 UTC 1470017 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1469631?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:21:45 UTC 1469631 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1469345?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:01:08 UTC 1469345 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1467332?utm_medium=rss Guide our most important resource in our country, Our Children becoming Adults..

]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:11:01 UTC 1467332 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1466928?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:50:16 UTC 1466928 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1466194?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:08:51 UTC 1466194 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1466191?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:08:27 UTC 1466191 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1466188?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:07:48 UTC 1466188 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1465175?utm_medium=rss Some states do already extend care until 21 however, I feel that it is important that this occur in all states. The Education & Training Voucher program and the Orphan Foundation of America are both great programs/ organizations that offer former and current foster youth hope, the ability to learn important skills, and prepare them for a life out in the real world. Rock on foster youth of America! Let's change these depressing statistics and show them who we really are!

]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:39:12 UTC 1465175 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1464344?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:38:04 UTC 1464344 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1464259?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:19:33 UTC 1464259 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/1462009?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:05:44 UTC 1462009