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 bolster the message within the editorial. As a James Place volunteer and previously a houseparent on the Seattle Kids’s Residence residential therapy facility for weak youth, I’ve seen firsthand the substantial wants for assist when these youth depart 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 youngsters 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 weak youngsters and youth however a rebuke to our elementary values as a folks.
Douglas Alan Conrad, Seattle
