Attachment and Trauma workshop my social justice event

   If your ultimate goal was to have us attend a workshop about injustices well this one was just that and even better this was not just a workshop this was my life. Welcome to foster care a world so often swept secretly under the rug because excuse my language but it is blatantly  a fucking disgrace. I'm sorry but the injustices of foster care have literally no ending and may any of you ever come across a child in foster care please do understand that child has in one way or a another suffered. Let's just begin with the basics regardless of all circumstances entering foster care is done abruptly so one day your home the next day you with your trash bag are sitting in a strangers house with people you don't know separated from your family. Told you are not yet allowed to make phone calls because they haven't yet Been "cleared" and you will get your belongings eventually. Now that is just the basic and none of the circumstances that are often so horrifying that landed children in the "system". Now to talk about the injustices foster children are over medicated immensely they are diagnosed left and right while they grieve http://abcnews.go.com/US/study-shows-foster-children-high-rates-prescription-psychiatric/story?id=15058380 <please read

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/15/changing-normal-for-foster-cares-used-and-abused-children/ they are also a favorite among sex traffickers because get this when a foster child goes missing there is no amber alert there is no turn to ten news... no one looks... they get a wayward stamp on their file end of story This reminded me of the silenced dialoge by Delpit. This group of people couldnt be any more silenced than they are,

When I went to the workshop I had a general idea of what I was walking into the same old foter youth are traumatized faster youth need help. I was hoping that by 2014 thought would have more solutions however I can't tell you how pissed off I left that that meeting. I actually at one point spoke out. I am so sick if hearing all the negatives associated with foster youth. Like as soon as you enter care that it your officially worthless. All anyone has to talk about is how broken they are foster care Isa joke it literally takes kids from one traumatizing situation and puts them in another. The event was mostly geared towards foster parents in an attempt to inform them the best ways to handle the behavioral problems often attached to foster children. How to handle all the trauma part of it was about the best ways to allow youth to use social media. Unfortunately many people after felt as if the event was a flop because it talked about how to deal with these issues with the "family". Many social workers left one had spoke out because she said "Many of the youth  I take care of are not with their families and may never go back with their families. How do I help those kids" In which case the speaker said "This workshop may not be for you". Although in the same room as all these people I felt like I was "on the other side of the fence....alone" they were are talking about foster kids and the trouble they have with them, and the difficulties, like there wasn't any in the room, it frustrated me. I was waiting for the positive the "my youth are great at this..." nooopppeee. I'm probably pretty bias I will admit my experience in care was nothing to write home about, some of my peers have had better luck in more structured group homes. Even in them though youth have strict rules, many of them are not allowed the simple privilege og playing a sport because no staff can be there for them. They are not allowed friends over or to go to friends houses a basic right of their peers. They may not go for walks, ride bikes, or leave the yard. Every phone call is screened and timed. There is very little that is normal about it, or helpful to youth who would do anything in the world to kbow what "normal was like" This reminded me of the reading on power and privilege. how the people in power continue to take any funds allocated towards this population and how they have no idea how privileged they are to have a family.