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They are wrenched from abusive homes, uprooted again and again, often with their life’s belongings stuffed into a trash bag. Abandoned and alone, they are among California’s most powerless children. But instead of providing a stable home and caring family, the state’s foster care system gives them a pill.
With alarming frequency, foster and health care providers are turning to a risky but convenient remedy to control the behavior of thousands of troubled kids: numbing them with psychiatric drugs that are untested on and often not approved for children. Click here to read more.
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Laptop drive collects computers for foster kids By KTVA CBS 11 News 6:38 PM December 18, 2014 ANCHORAGE – This holiday season, an Alaska group is stepping forward to help give local foster kids a leg up on their education.
Facing Foster Care in Alaska — an organization comprised of youth and alumni of the state’s foster care system — recently launched its “Laptops 4 Foster Youth” drive, which aims to provide donated laptops to as many of Alaska’s 2,400 foster youth as possible. The computer drive is supported by the office of Anchorage Rep. Les Gara, which partners with FFCA to match laptop donations. Click here to read more. |
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