homeless children | Trauma-ties

I still have not heard what congress is doing about the no-eviction order. I am very worried about what is going to happen to the children. We know that homeless teens are suffering, resentful of adults, and authorize personnel who actually want to help them and get them off the streets.

Those teens are distrustful. They are children who are suffering and in pain, because of some trauma they are going through or have gone through. There are many resources they can utilize and shelters they can assist with other programs to get help, even if the home is not an option.

Can you imagine what a female teenager is going through right now? It’s cold outside, shelters are packed with other homeless. They don’t want to go home to an angry parent /parents, who right now have other mouths to feed.

Moms boyfriend is not a safe person to trust right now. Sometimes the shelter homes will assist you with a program to help you get off the streets.

Now, the eviction ban program is coming to an end and many Landlords are ready to have people evicted. Because they need to make payments on their property or they too will lose their livelihood support as well.

How about our children, those young ones who don’t have any control over anything? What a time to lose a home, it winters today, but it has been cold for a long time now, since September and it has gotten colder. Doesn’t it feel like no one cares? Like the Government who started all this “stay indoors control gatherings, wear your Masks.” What is a person to do? Do what they say.

This reminds me of the depression in 1929 and continued until 1933. Others are saying this is how things will be. The Spanish influenzas started in 1918 and lasted until 1920.

Today, we have COVID-19, which started I believe in 2019. I believed I caught it during a time my immune system was low, as I laid in a hospital bed. After I got home from the hospital, that same day, I woke up with a really bad cold, I had a high fever, my body ached with pain, and I was having trouble breathing.

My chest hurt. I recovered within a month at home. I felt like I had shortened my life span. I was very weak afterward. Today, I feel back to my old self again. Healthy, vibrant, and energic. I am grateful to be here today.

I worry about the children and how all this will affect their little lives. Will they be traumatized? Will they be OK with all this? Children are so adaptable in many situations. It starts from a strong parent, a survivor themselves. A survivor who refuses to be a victim, but a survivor.

When I was talking to one of my children. She stated she had survived because of how strong I was during the bad times. I thanked her for that, I was feeling so guilty about the trauma I placed them through, by making bad choices.

As parents, we must forgive ourselves. I finally did as I write this book of survival. Some children will pull through. Some will have a rough start; some will make something of themselves. For their instincts, tells them to survive.

May God bless them, and continue to protect them.

Now What is next? Could you imagine how our country is going to look like after this date? The Federal eviction protection order will be over, supposedly, the Landlords will be able to evict those who are not able to pay their rent. More homeless, or will the Federal eviction protection order be extended? If not, there will be millions of people out of their homes. Now homeless.

Will there be more programs for people to get to more resources? Pay the rent, get to a job, with what gas money? Will there be a community of “Tent Cities”. Our children are no longer attending schools, they got lab tops to do their homework on but, you have to have internet.

Now what? There are a lot of questions. Due to many many things, standing in a way of housing, food stamps COVID-19, no schooling in the school building, parents looking for work, children been left with other families, maybe by themselves, meanwhile, parents, work, standing on corners begging for money, The suffering could just be too much.

If you get evicted, where are you going to put your furniture, your personal treasures, it takes more money just to store it in a place like the U-Haul place. I placed all my furniture in storage and I pay close to 500.00 dollars a month and pay rent on top of that. It is going to be hard when this time comes. Hopefully, since the COVID-19 is still here, they will probably extend this order longer.

Could you wonder though, how this pandemic has affected everyone like the younger generation and the children? It is already hard to be able to talk to and control the teens. They are angry, some are on drugs and their behaviors are hard to deal with even if they are not on drugs. Some moms and dads feel like their hands are tied.

I have seen much more teens on the streets, begging for money on the corners of the roads. They are the least able to work and care for themselves. But how about the younger children. They are been left out in the cold. According to the Department of Health and Welfare, tells us that there are 65% of teens are homeless and, on the streets, maybe more by now.

Their families do not want to be bullied by some and can not help them. Some say they rather just leave them alone and kick them out of the house for the “sake of peace.” The other children need more attention and this one is a bad influence on my other children. I will have to do something.

I have a client who is fighting for custody for her kids, according to my Client, they are so badly ill-mannered by their other parent. Suddenly, her 14 years slapped her mother on the face so hard she left a handprint on her face.

The client stated Child was hoping that she would lose it and hit her back, but, she didn’t she said it was really hard, but she kept her cool. Tried to talk to her instead.

If we do not get our expansion on this order, what are parents to do. According to Fox News, we are getting another 600.00 stimulus check of 600.00 dollars. Not much, but it counts as something.

The compromise COVID-19 relief bill in Congress is expected to have $25 billion for emergency rental assistance and could extend the CDC order through, if not pass, January 2021.

Please let me repeat this again. The CDC is expected to have $25 Billion for emergency rental assistance.

Housing advocate, Yentel says that’s a good thing. The rental assistance is desperately needed and the CDC order is protecting many people. But she says the order itself also needs to be beefed up because there are many other cases where it’s not working.

Landlords are saying they do not have to obey those orders because it is really not a banning order and it does not apply to them. They evicted tenants and nothing has happened to them. Some Police and judges agreed with the Landlords.

“One of the flaws is that it’s not automatic, and so renters need to know that the protection exists and they need to know what actions to take in order to receive that protection,” housing advocates Yentel says.

The order is also being treated differently by judges around the U.S., so outcomes vary completely, depending on where people live or what court they end up in. I re-searched how many states out of the 50 states complied and 16 other states did not agree with the Federal eviction protection order and did not hold the utility bills until the COVID-19 19 would clear…

People’s utilities would be shut off if arrangements were not made before the shut-off moment. Employees of the electricity company were directed to offer people choices and in this way, they would make sure they were recorded, so no allegations could be made to the electrical agencies. They in many cases offered alternative choices to pay the electrical bills to their customers.

How reasonable is our Government, we shall see? Meanwhile, God Bless us all.