"Fostering the future"

Go to http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=3143&year=2009 and you can see the bill.

A note from past FPAWS Presidents, Danielle and Steve Baxter

I hope everyone received this and understands what this can mean. Without specific funding, the privatization of foster care can be stopped. In this time of budgetary crisis, I think it will be extremely hard to pass a new budget item of an experimental nature (demonstration sites) when all the current evidence <other states that have done this> shows this will harm our child welfare system.
Please ask your Reps to support HB 3143. I’m sure most of the paid CWAC members will be against it because they are funded by agencies that want privatization. Remember that privatization has never saved money nor improved services in any state that has tried it. In fact, it has done the opposite.
Please also call Reps Haler and Goodman and thank them for boldly taking a stand for our families and children.
 
You can easily find all Reps at: http://www.leg.wa.gov/house/Pages/default.aspx
or your own District at:  http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx
 
Only one person out of 19 speaks up. Your call or email will speak for 20 people.
 
Thanks for the work you do for children and families. It’s not the football stars; you are the real heroes everyone should be cheering and applauding.
 
Steve & Daniele