Re: “Stop taking foster kids’ Supplemental Security benefits” (Oct. 19, Opinion):
As a volunteer in our group for YouthCare, and particularly for its residential facility (James Place Studios) for youth ages 18-24 in transition from homelessness, I’m writing to strengthen the message within the editorial. As a James Place volunteer and previously a houseparent on the Seattle Youngsters’s House residential therapy facility for susceptible youth, I’ve seen firsthand the substantial wants for help when these youth go away foster care.
Please, readers, rise as much as do as I’m doing, and write your legislators, within the phrases of the editorial, for the state to cease intercepting “about $700,000 in federal Supplemental Safety advantages meant for 750 foster kids who’ve disabilities, or whose mother and father have died.” To divert that cash as an offset to the state’s care prices not solely can be dangerous to a few of our most susceptible kids and youth however a rebuke to our elementary values as a individuals.
Douglas Alan Conrad, Seattle
