This is a tuffy – My wife & I have been foster parents for many years – we have shared our home with 36 foster kids and have adopted 4 children out of the system.

Last night we got a call from CPS to see if we could help with a 16-year-old girl.

I normally don’t share these stories but we never had one like this before.

The young lady & her dad have been homeless since last June. Living in the river bottoms. The dad took amber to school & signed her up for home school. Amber has her schoolwork completed thru February!

Now with winter setting in & the cold weather (cold for our area) & living in a tent without electricity it has just over whelmed Amber’s father. He sent her to the store. When she got back to their shelter her dad wasn’t there but he had lift her a note.

He told her he loved her but he just couldn’t deal with life anymore & told her he was going to commit suicide. He told her to take the note to a police officer & that they would see that she was taken care of.

The police haven’t been able to locate her dad, we can only hope they can find him alive & get him the help he needs.

Amber is a very polite young lady. She wants to be a social worker when she grows up.

Most foster kids are in the system because their parents have turned to drugs but in this case it not drugs. Lots of folks out there loosing their homes or not able to pay the rent.

Damn we need to take this country back!

Tom Hudson
Foster Parent

 

Very sad,I hope you can help,and thanks for what you do,that is very unselfish.

 

Tom - although your thread will likely get moved to OT, I'm glad to have seen it -- I sure do feel for the young lady and am wondering how the Corvette community can help you - and her.

 

That is a wonderful thing you do and I hope the father is found before he follows through with his intent.

John

 

Thank You!! for all that you have done. I was a Foster child when I was young.

 

I wish there were more people like you, who are willing to help others out, especially children.

 

Heartbreaking story, Tom. People like you and your wife are pure gold. Angels.

I hope, like you, that they find her father in time.

--Wag--

 

Damn Tom....that is a tough one. I hope the young lady gets her dad back and him the help he needs. And I agree with you...we do need to take this country back! The sooner the better.

Merry Christmas

 

Damn we need to take this country back!

Tom Hudson
Foster Parent



Tom, if there were more people like you in this country there would be no need to take it back. Sounds to me like this young lady is in a better place under your care, for now at least. God bless you and your family sir

 

I feel for that young girl arriving back at the site to have to read a note like that and how she must of felt so alone....thanks Tom...the world needs more like you and your wife.....we all need to get more involved and help out the unfortunate.....peace

 

For Amber's sake I hope they find her dad in good shape....It would mess her up emotionally/mentally if he makes the suicide mistake.

Hoping everything works out for the best.

 

Does Amber drive a C5?

Seriously though, I hope that they find her father alive for her sake, and good for you for all of the differences you've made in childrens' lives over the years.

 

i was going to post it in OT - my bad - hell to get hold - tom

 

God bless you Tom, Your "Father" in heaven knows what you are doing and is very pleased with you.
The world needs more people like you friend!

 

Stories like this poor child, she doesn't need to read something like that. I can only assume what a weight that puts on a young child like Amber. Today these kids are showing up in droves. The urban family is gone. Kids are raised by grand-mothers, aunts and sometimes, by themselves. I don't know when we as a people will wake up to this hole in the fabric of our society. I don't know what you can do. I hope her dad found so solace and will realize there's still going to be a new sunrise and he has a new day to make something of.

 

Well, you can let this young girl know she now has a whole lot of friends here on the forum and we're all wishing her the best. She ever wishes to ride in a Corvette, I'm sure any of us would be proud to offer.

 

Sad story.

 

Sad story but thanks for sharing and for you and your wife's dedication for helping those in need. Hopefully this will turn out to be one of those Christmas stores of the father and daughter being reunited and that the dad gets the help he needs.

 

Keeping my fingers crossed that her father comes to his senses.