Temporary Placement

In the United States there are around 400,000 adolescents placed in temporary homes, people in the community are unaware of the temporary placement for these indivduals. A lot of the time going to school is a struggle with the rumros that have potential of going around. Most kids get a label like she is a “trinity girl.” My life has consisted of temporary placement at times. So that brings me to ask the question… why did I live in a girls home for five months?

When I got out of cedar crest on januaray 5th, 2015 I went back to live with my adoptive parents. In December on the 16th of 2014 at shoal creek I told one of the staff members there about being sexually abused. When I was living with my adoptive parents I recanted and said that none

Then for the first three years of my life he took care of me like I was his own. A few years later my mom ended up marrying billys best friend colin. Who I thought was my dad until I was like six years old. Billy always came to my house to see if I was doing alright and check on my siblings my parents and I. when I was first taken away by CPS in 2011 he tried to get custody of me but because my cousin(also my adoptive mother) was going to keep me and my siblings together the judge granted her custody. He tried to contact her and tried to help out and be apart of our lives but she wouldn’t let anyone from our past lives have anything to do with us. When I ran away in june of 2015 I was at my cousins house and I was panicking because I was scared that the police were going to take me to jail for running away, or take me back to Waco and I definitely didn’t want to be there; a man called my cousin and told her he wanted to speak to me and wanted me to come move in with him and his family. I asked who it was and she said “he said his name is William Hendricks.” At first I thought “I have no clue who this man is why is he trying to get me to live with him?” Then he told her that I might know him as billy Hendricks. That’s when it all clicked! He told me that if I wanted to get out of Waco I needed to turn myself in and then he would work on getting custody of me. So I turned

The staff members at Trinity might have gone through some things close to what we were going thorugh but they will never know the feeling of being a child and knowing that youre completely alone. None of the people that lived or worked there truly loved us. Although I was on my own mentally living there; going on college tours with other CPS kids from around Texas showed me that im not the only one in my situation. Unfortunately there are others like me. Going through what ive gone thrugh and seeing what ive seen has made me so determinated to do my very best and put 110% into everything that I do. My life will be so much better than what it has been. I will make sure my kids will never have to go through anything ive gone through. They will never have to worry about where they are going to lay their heads at night. Ive become so strong in myself and kept my faith through it all and I know that I know that I know that God will give me the very best from here on out. Maybe one day ill open my own girls home and I actually be able to relate to the children that come and