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Opportunity for All Children

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Some children in the United States have many opportunities, which is part of life in America. Although, life in the United States is full of obstacles and threats for millions of immigrant children and children of color.

Opportunity for All Children

That’s the finding of a new report — “2017 Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children.” Released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the report “explores the intersection of children, opportunity, race and immigration.”

The report notes that many immigrant children live in low-income and poor families whose median income “is 20 percent less than U.S.-born families.” Specifically:

• more than half of children in immigrant families are low income

• one in four children (4.5 million) are poor, and

• children of immigrants account for 30 percent of all low-income children in the United States, even though they only make up 24 percent of the country’s 74 million children

Children of Color

For children of color, a daunting challenge is living with dizzying layers of disadvantages in “communities where unemployment and crime are higher; schools are poorer; access to capital, fresh produce, transit and health care is more limited; exposure to environmental toxins is greater; and family supports and services are fewer.” 

These factors “prevent children from accessing the network of institutions and resources that make prosperity possible. Like the power grid that delivers energy to every home within its network, this ‘prosperity grid’ provides critical links that help children succeed.”

All these childhood inequities shred the country’s social and economic well-being.

“For America to reach its full economic, democratic and moral potential, all children must have the opportunity to grow, develop and thrive,” the report says.

What Can You Do?

What can the country do? Race for better results, as the report’s title suggests.

“The nation’s vitality and prosperity depend on the success of every child in this country,” Casey Foundation president and CEO Patrick McCarthy says in a statement. “Like generations before them, immigrants have helped further the nation and its economy. We will lose a great deal if policymakers don’t expand existing policies that work and implement new legislation to support children in immigrant families, as well as millions of U.S.-born children of color.”

Much of what’s needed is, the report says, well-known:

“We know what children need: strong families; environments that support healthy early brain development; and the opportunity to develop social and emotional skills. We know from decades of work in foster care and juvenile justice that children have a better chance to succeed when families stay together. And we know children need financial stability, which requires an inclusive economy that allows parents to secure meaningful work; to earn a stable and adequate income; to build assets and savings; and to balance work and family responsibilities.”

The report’s recommendations call for:

• keeping families together and in their communities

• helping children in immigrant families meet key developmental milestones, and

• increasing economic opportunities for immigrant and low-income parents

Tackling Unfair Situations

In addition to the report, a series of Casey Foundation case studies offer guidance on tackling unfair situations.

As the Casey Foundation points out, protecting all children promises to protect the country’s future. The report concludes:

“For everyone’s benefit, our country needs to take an effective, data-driven approach when developing policies that affect all children, and that includes children living in immigrant families. All children are our children, and all our children will play a role in our future. We must create a better future for them — and for the country’s prosperity.”

Thank you for taking time to support all children!

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This information was provided for your benefit by the: Annie E. Casey Foundation   aecf.org

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Hope for Children Foundation Lifts Up Families in Florida

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The children and families in Florida are lifted up by Hope For Children Foundation.  No amount of words can comfort the family of those who lost children or other loved ones in the  Florida school shooting.

We are grateful for those who came to the rescue of the children and adults in Florida, needing protection from the evil actions of a very disturbed person. We believe the people of Florida will stand strong to seek and implement better protection for children and school staff now and in the future.

We have faith and believe the people of Florida will overcome this tragedy.  It is difficult to stop thinking and praying for the innocent children and staff who lost their precious lives.

Hope For Children Foundation has been providing free training to people throughout Florida via the Internet for many years now. Our training is intended to reduce crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence against children and adults. We are concerned for children in Florida who are abused and neglected.

Hope For Children Foundation’ board of directors believe finding support for those affected by abuse is necessary whether they are families in Florida or in another state. Here is information where victims and/or their families of all races, age, economic standing, religion, marital status, national origin, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, sexual orientation, and sex, may obtain information to find assistance and can work at establishing an abuse free life. Florida support for victims and survivors is available. Most of Florida’s cities have support for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, although not limited to these cities: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Hialeah, Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale, Port St. Lucie, and Cape Coral.

Florida is situated strategically in such a place for perpetrators of human trafficking to get in and out of the airport and the ports along the shorelines. Human trafficking is an issue of state, national and international importance, affecting millions of individuals each year. Florida Support for Victims and Survivors – Hope For Children Foundation – According to the Palermo Protocol, human trafficking, or “trafficking in persons,” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.

Hope For Children – Access Resources for Florida

To access the resources available concerning victims of crime for families in Florida, please click on the URL address of choice below. A list of contacts should be available for your access and helpful within your state within charities for children.

https://www.fcasv.org

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Contact the Attorney General’s Office

To help prevent child abuse or to adults of families in Florida, and report activity that you suspect is related to human trafficking, contact the Attorney General’s Office division, or call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center’s 24/7 hotline at 1-888-373-7888. Exploiters and pimps target vulnerable youth, many of these children have histories of abuse and neglect. The numerous children who run away from home frequently fall prey to the lure of love and security offered to them by perpetrators of child abuse. These type of child abusers labeled as exploiters and pimps, falsely promise innocent children security, only for the child to experience repeated abuse. Ultimately the child is manipulated as they develop a strong sense of loyalty to the exploiter or pimp, then the intense fear of violence often blinds the child from seeing themselves as a victim which usually prevents the child victim from seeking help.

Free Services for the General Public Intended to Reduce Child Abuse

These Internet services are provided by Hope For Children Foundation, intending to help stop child abuse; the corporate headquarters are located in Dallas, Texas. The entity located in New Jersey does not have our permission to use our name. No other entity in the United States or outside the United States have permission to use our name. We have filed for the Trademark of our name since we are the first entity existing in the United States who absolutely originated the name Hope For Children Foundation, on April 2, 1998.

Please do not be tricked by fraudulent activities of another entity fraudulently using our name, Hope For Children Foundation, who’s attempts are clearly to cause damage to our organization. We are one of many real child abuse charities.

I cannot thank you enough,

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Character Building Education Can Help Our Children and Families

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Character building education can help our children and families. This is a teaching and learning method which fosters the development of ethical and responsible individuals by teaching them about the good values people should exhibit and implement daily. It teaches one the values of caring about other people, honesty, responsibility, and other important traits that make for an upstanding and honorable citizen. Research conducted on the subject reported schools implementing character building education have fewer incidences of disciplinary referrals, truancy, and suspensions. The positive environment impacted the students significantly. The student attendance increased and has also brought about significant improvements in academic performance of the students.

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Character Building Works in the Lives of Children

Character Building Education – Does It Work?

Character building education has been and will be useful to children and adults as they engage and interact with other people in society. We all need to know the proper way to treat other people in order to become honorable members in our community.

Collective Action Needed in the United States

Much of the mistreatment of one another within our families and communities across the United States can be corrected with the right preventive actions. The findings from various reports evidence how sexual violence, inappropriate sexual conduct within educational institutions and the workplace, stalking, and domestic violence are taking a toll on children and adults throughout the United States. Collective action is needed to implement prevention approaches, ensure appropriate responses, and support these efforts.

PROGRESS!

Much progress has been made in the prevention of violence. There is strong reason to believe the application of effective strategies combined with the capacity to implement them will make a difference. Prevention efforts should start early by promoting healthy, respectful relationships in families by fostering healthy parent-child relationships and developing positive family dynamics and emotionally supportive environments. These environments provide a strong foundation for children, help them to adopt positive interactions based on respect and trust, and foster effective and non-violent communication and conflict resolution in their peer and other relationships.

It is equally important to continue addressing the beliefs, attitudes and messages that are deeply embedded in our social structures and that create a climate that condones sexual violence, stalking, intimate partner violence and domestic violence. This can be done through various changes, changing policies and enforcing existing policies against violence, and promoting bystander approaches to prevent violence before it happens.

Dangerous

According to the U. S. Department of Human Services, about 5.8 million children are abused each year in the United States. Yes, our nation is in a mess to the detriment of our nation’s children. Further, the FBI reported 97% percent of abused children reported to the legal system are not protected by the legal system.

What Could Help Correct The Problems

We must make changes to give children a voice and a chance in life to live without abuse. We ask you to unite with us to help stop these horrendous acts committed against our nation’s sons and daughters. All children and adults deserve to feel confident and better protect themselves from abuse throughout their lives. These are the reasons we offer and recommend the integration of training focused on prevention of abuse and character building into the national academic curriculum. While the specific details of the curriculum’s implementation will need to be worked out with various stake holders, teachers, parents, legal authorities, we suggest thirty-minute daily classes from kindergarten through university level students to effect a the decrease of violent crime and enhance the life of each person trained. These changes will absolutely improve the lives of our children throughout the United States.
We believe many people understand the present and future well-being of a society requires and involves, caring, citizenry with good moral character. In general, people do not automatically develop good moral character. Therefore, conscientious efforts must be made to help people learn values and abilities necessary for moral decision-making and conduct through character building.

Proposed Course Curricula Objectives

Hope For Children Foundation believes learning and implementing positive character attributes in today’s world is just as important as children being taught reading, math and other standard educational subjects in school. Implementing important lessons of character building into academic institutions include but are not limited to these course objectives: instilling respect for self, friends, family, teachers, coworkers, neighbors and the general public; responsibility; fairness and honesty; caring and kindness; demonstrating compassion and empathy for others and self; cooperation; anger management; citizenship; resolving conflicts; equip students to recognize and respond to signs and symptoms of sexual assault and domestic violence; provide how to skills about healing and recovery from abuse; educate students about how to recognize, prevent and respond to substance abuse; and empower children as well as adults to make educated and informed decisions.

Classroom character building education helps students know what’s expected and learn to abide by those standards so they have little room to misbehave or make learning difficult for teachers and peers.

Teaching children and adults to live life exhibiting good character and responsibility is an important part of what should be taught in our homes, public, and private educational institutions. It is so important for all of us to understand and act upon the importance of doing our part, admitting when we are in the wrong, practicing self-control, and maintaining good character.

Most parents want the best for their children and for them to grow up into well-mannered individuals and give the proper respect to other people. This is the reason why character building education should be an important part in one’s studies, since success in life does not always rely on academics.
Isn’t it true the main reason you enroll your children into a school is to learn about academic subjects like math, history, science, and so on? These subjects are not the only things children need to learn in order to become successful. Character building education gives one the necessary tools and skills to succeed in life more so or just as important as material covered in standard school subjects.

Character Building Benefits of Proposed Curricula

Parents are not the only ones that should be concerned in developing a child’s character, the school and community should also have a role in supporting children. Together, working and providing appropriate support and education to a child can lead to lifetime benefits for all involved. Often in America, both parents may decide to work outside of the home. Unfortunately, in some cases, the children are left alone with no one to guide them until their parents arrive home. Upon arrival the parent(s) may be too tired from working all day to take the leadership role necessary in being the effective parent the child is needing.

In addition, young people these days are exposed to literally thousands of negative influences daily through television, the Internet, and other media. Do not let me forget to mention their peers who are sometimes negative. When you add these elements to the sad fact that some parents are spending less time with their children, the life of a child can be overwhelming and where can they go for positive reinforcement? Children and adults need to know how to handle daily pressures. Character building education can help achieve these goals.

Let’s face it, none of us are perfect. Imperfections in our daily lives seem to abound, often preventing children from learning all of the life enhancing skills and character building traits at home. Hope For Children Foundation believes the answer to many problems facing children, families, communities and in society today is found by implementing character building education within educational institutions, starting from kindergarten and continuing throughout the universities.

Why Do We Need Character Building Education in Today’s
Private and Public Educational Institutions?

Hope For Children Foundation believes, since students spend most of their time at school, it is the perfect place to instill moral values and character building. A quality sustained process of teaching students, where the student is learning and being shown examples of good character daily, together with role playing, interaction and constant practice of what is learned, should instill good character traits in the student.

Teaching good character building traits helps prepare students to face the many opportunities life offers and have a better understanding of how to avoid the dangers of today’s society and/or deal better with choices should danger be present or in front of their face. Character building education gives the students the knowledge required to know what these dangers in society are and deal with them properly.

Does Character Building Education Help in Academics?

Yes, character building education can seriously help students with their academic subjects. Responsibility, tenacity, diligence among other traits are some of the main core values taught in character building education. Hope For Children Foundation believes, students will learn how to focus on their studies, interact properly with their teachers and fellow students, and more importantly they will develop confidence to do well and perhaps master all academic subjects before them. Ultimately the benefits of learning character building traits turn classrooms into better learning environments.

Help a child know, understand, and believe good choices are available to them. More importantly help children know you will stand up for them to protect them now and in the future. Please show you really care by joining us.

Character Bulding Education is One of Our Recommendations to Reduce Violent Crime

We firmly believe our nation’s children are worth every effort in creating a better future for them!

According to the U. S. Department of Human Services, about 5.8 million children are reported abused each year. Please unite with us to protect our most vulnerable treasures! All children and adults deserve to feel confident to better protect themselves from abuse throughout their lives. We recommend the integration of training focused on prevention of abuse into the national academic curriculum.

While the specific details of the curriculum’s implementation will need to be worked out with various stake holders, teachers, parents, legal authorities, we suggest thirty-minute daily classes from kindergarten through university level students to impact the decrease of violent crime. We would also offer similar criteria curriculum to adults.

These classes would address:

  1. Building character, including respect for self and others;
  2. Signs and symptoms of sexual assault/domestic violence and what to do if you

suspect someone being abused;

  1. Awareness and prevention of mass violence.

Children – using proven age appropriate developed curricula in school through university level.

Adults – similar curricula offered to businesses, churches and interested community entities.

Course objectives

  • Build Character;
  • Instill respect for self, friends, family, teachers, coworkers, neighbors and the general public;
  • Equip students to recognize and respond to signs and symptoms of sexual assault and domestic violence;
  • Educate students about how to recognize, prevent and respond to substance abuse;
  • Teach students about healing and recovery from abuse;
  • Teach citizens of all ages how to respond to mass violence, including attacks at schools;
  • Empower children as well as adults to make educated and informed decisions.

Some programs making a positive impact on Americans are reference on CDC’s Web site: http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/childmaltreatment.Bottom of Form

I cannot thank you enourgh for reading this information,

Most Respectfully,

 

Hope For Children Foundation Board of Director Members

 

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Former Teacher Sentenced

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Former Teacher Sentenced

Federal Prison for Child Pornography – One More Perpetrator of Child Pornography Crimes – Away From Our Precious Children

A former teacher sentenced to federal prison for child pornography, had taught with the Canutillo Independent School District in El Paso, Texas.  It was reported this month, June 2012, the 46-year-old former teacher was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography plus a $2,500 fine in which United States Senior District Judge David Briones ordered he pay. Now, one more perpetrator of child pornography crimes are placed far away from our precious children.

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Pleaded Guilty

In January 2012, he plead guilty to the charge after agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at the defendant’s residence in 2008, seizing three home computers and electronic media. The forensic examination of the seized materials revealed close to 600 images depicting child pornography.

Successfully Prosecuted!

Thank you FBI for your thorough investigation, reporting and testimony; and we recognize and thank the United States Department of Justice U. S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Texas for prosecuting this case!

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The Importance of Connecting with Your Child’s Teacher

Many child experts believe, connecting with your child’s teacher is one of the most important activities that you may do for your child. The reason being is that, if a positive partnership is developed between you and the person that educates your child, it will contribute to the student’s overall level of success in school. Numerous studies indicate that, outside of the immediate family, a child’s teacher is the second most important individual within the life of your child. By making an effort to personally connect with the educator, you are setting the stage to develop a positive relationship with the teacher, and helping your child develop a strong and rewarding relationship with their teacher.

Some say when you have a positive relationship with your child’s teacher, it helps your child in numerous ways. First, it makes them feel good about attending school. Second, it motivates them to achieve higher levels of success at school. Thirdly, and most importantly, it shows your child you completely trust the teacher they have. They too will trust their teacher in most situations. All in all, this connection is highly rewarding for all in involved and the child is sure to feel as if everyone that they interact with each day is working together because they truly care about them. This will make the youngster feel very important, which does wonders for their self-esteem AND their academic success.

Relationship Between Parent, Teacher and Child

 

As trust develops in a relationship between the parent, teacher and the child, remember who is the parent, you are. Always keep in mind no matter how much you trust a teacher in the classroom, we recommend never to allow your child to be alone with their teacher. We like to think most teachers are honorable with their intentions with your child(ren), although, many child sexual abuse offenders select careers in which they can easily access children and attempt to win over the trust of the parents and the child, intending to eventually get the child alone.

We would not recommend you allowing a teacher to come into your home. Keep your home safe for your child. Children are able to learn just fine in the classroom without the teacher coming into the home of the child. Friendliness is important, although, we have found it better to encourage parents to keep teachers in the classroom where they belong. It maybe difficult to turn down an offer from the child’s teacher of taking the child for an ice cream after school, especially with a parent’s busy schedule.  If someone is going to take your child for an ice cream cone, let that person be you.

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