| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 3501 | Andrea Hawkins | I'll do whatever it takes to save a child's life |
| 3502 | Sheryl Kershaw | DO NOT STOP THE SUBSIDY |
| 3503 | Wendy Hedeen | |
| 3504 | Anonymous | |
| 3505 | Lucillr Blais | Abused and neglected children should not continue to suffer once they have come into the care of nurturing Foster Care.
Please consider stpping cuts that will harm these children the rest of their lives.. |
| 3506 | APRIL WILLIAMS | THIS MAKES NO SENSE TO ME NOR THE VULNERABLE CITIZENS THAT I WORK WITH AND FOR EACH DAY. |
| 3507 | Anonymous | |
| 3508 | Livia Del Guidice | |
| 3509 | Anonymous | |
| 3510 | Anonymous | |
| 3511 | jaime mendoza | The children need homes not foster care |
| 3512 | jaime mendoza | The children need homes not foster care |
| 3513 | jaime mendoza | The children need homes not foster care |
| 3514 | jaime mendoza | The children need homes not foster care |
| 3515 | Lia mendoza | The children need homes not foster care |
| 3516 | Katee mendoza | The children need homes not foster care |
| 3517 | sara sarris | PLEASE HELP these children!!!!!!!! |
| 3518 | Judaon Daley | Please do not cut services to abused children. |
| 3519 | Liana | Help the kids |
| 3520 | Lynda Lyle | Please look into your heart and pray and make the right decision for the children and our future. |
| 3521 | Helene gilbert | Please do not cut the budget that helps me keep children safe in Pensacola. I am a protective service counselor and abuse/neglect is increasing...how can we keep down the rates and ensure each child a safe life if you cut the funding??? |
| 3522 | Deanna Tucker | Cut the budget somewhere else. Our children are our future. |
| 3523 | Cary Szymborski | |
| 3524 | Lynda Saffell | |
| 3525 | Loni Phipps | |
| 3526 | Margaret Dick | |
| 3527 | Maggie Haggerty | |
| 3528 | Anonymous | Please continue to support the children who cannot protect themselves. God is watching! |
| 3529 | Rai Smith | These kids are our future
DO UNTO OTHERS |
| 3530 | Laura Striby | |
| 3531 | Thinh Rappa | |
| 3532 | Thinh Rappa | |
| 3533 | Jason Rappa | |
| 3534 | Kahjeelia Pope | |
| 3535 | Chris Chretien | |
| 3536 | Barbara J. Fox | Please don't stop budget cuts to abused children. I am the relative caregiver to my 9 and 11 year old grandchildren who had been abandoned and placed in foster homes before they were 9 months and 2 years old. |
| 3537 | Anonymous | |
| 3538 | Brittany Jones | |
| 3539 | Jim Pearce | |
| 3540 | Anonymous | |
| 3541 | Anonymous | Let's take care of the ones that need the most! |
| 3542 | Vicki Hummer | I am an adoptive and foster parent and child welfare professional. These cuts will effect my four boys on multiple levels. Were it not for the commitment of our family, all could be either homeless, in jail, or bouncing through foster care like the circumstances of many of their friends. Independent Living funds and adoption subsidies have helped to keep these outcomes from being realized. |
| 3543 | Noel Kohr | Good morning. This email is being sent to stress the importance of the need for the Adoption Subsidy Program to continue and not be cut from the proposed Florida budget.
My husband and I adopted a child from D.C.&F., in 2002, age 9. Due to events that are too many to account for here, we have had to place her in a program for "at risk teenage girls" for a minimum of one year. The Subsidy we receive, a whopping $304.00, is used to assist in the monthly payment ($1,800.00) for this program.
We knew going into the adoption process that there would be challenges and unforeseen events. We never anticipated the bundle we received. We have been grateful for the little we have received from the Subsidy.
We have sustained other cuts, including those of counseling and pay for those out of are own pocket.
We have taken a child from the system in the hopes of providing her with a better life and love that she may not have received before. At every turn we face more and more being taken from us and her. The challenges we face on a daily basis due to abandonment, neglect, attachment, etc., do not go away once an adoption is finalized. The subsidy we receive is vital to us providing the care, counseling, etc., necessary to assist us in turning our daughter into a productive, well adjusted adult in our society.
Please do all you can to ensure the Adoption Subsidy Program continues.
Thank you for your time,
Sincerely,
Noel and Jay Kohr
1167 Trotwood Boulevard
Winter Springs, Florida 32708-5175
407-696-2595 |
| 3544 | Jeff Hawkins | This would be a total dis service to the kids. With so many other programs that benefit corporations and special interests why not cut that funding. |
| 3545 | Lisa Chilano | If we can't get services to the less fortunate families and implement services for those at risk youth, this will insure more crime and crowded prisons. |
| 3546 | THERESA ROSENBERG | In this economy how are families who are struggleing already going to make it possible to add another financial responsibility to their budgets by adopting another child. The subsidy is less that keeping the child in foster care which is where the child would stay if families like mine could not afford to add another child to their already streched budgets. Please reconsider your decision to with hold adoption subsidy. My husband and I adopted a 15 yr old boy last year and without that subsidy it would be a financial hardship. We are in the process of adopting another 15 year old boy but without this subsidy it becomes a burden rather the the joyful experience of united a family. |
| 3547 | Brenda Settle | |
| 3548 | Lisa Stable | |
| 3549 | Charles Sincell | |
| 3550 | Irene T. Brown | I am an adoptive parent and a foster mom and see the needs of these children every day. Please do not abandon them. |