Right . You are with your friends very often and they walk by a homeless person and the first thing they do is pilaf ones peel off ones and you are like hey, youre not solving the problem. And you know that. With your acute knowledge that you have, we should be putting together policies and strategies to take care of atlantas homeless problem. Something happened. There were breakdowns along the way. We know that Substance Abuse is real. We know when Substance Abuse starts. We know it starts, for most people, in high school. The real hardcore ones, right around 11. For the most part, right around high school. And we know the people who are most susceptible to it. We know about their family patterns. We know all of these things. Yet we are not pushing for programs, the supportive programs to do it. So then our programs are these little programs. Well,d of us saying, Substance Abuse starts in the teens, typically. So we did some programming in the high schools. Not just the dont do drugs,
Have a younger girl cousin, you better be able to pull it back in. Otherwise you are in a heap of trouble. [laughter] what we have to do as social workers is we have to rally around the families who want to support these kids, both want to want to take them back and the one to are going to receive them and encourage them. We should be leading the charge. We should be encouraging people and providing support to the sounds to are from different ethnic groups sued the site to take an africanamerican child and support them. For the support around them and dont make them feel bad about the decision they have made. You have made the right decision. Particular, many of them need intense Mental Health support. Intense. They have some of the most acute issues of anyone you will find. Right . You have seen like i had seen, these kids find themselves in those situations have the most acute issues and they are the most challenging. They will need support. I thank you sincerely. I really do. Before
The ambassador wants a bigger latrine in his office, or we want 50 consular windows instead of five. That changes all the time. I mean, we saw it here today. It changed with Papua New Guinea. You had a plan to do something, all of a sudden the department says, no, we need more, for whatever reason. Theres right sizing that goes on constantly within the department. Theres the muchpublicized but im not sure how much its occurring, the pivot to asia. What does that mean for those embassies in asia . More people. Well, you know, five years from now it might be a pivot somewhere else. I dont know that were ever going to reach the perfect solution to say that we could build something thats good today and it will be good even ten years from now. Thank you. And mr. Chairman, i think the point that your research and what water hearing today is all about is that as you standardize and drive down the cost per square foot, the ability to build that few extra square feet and the flexibility is inhe
Please raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth . Let the record reflect the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. Please take your seats, ladies. Thats a formality we have to engage in you. Why dont we begin. Heather, why dont we begin with you and move this way. Thank you. Chairman ryan, Ranking Member van holland, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. My name is Heather Reynolds and im president ceo of catholic chair tizz ft. Worth. Let me get right to my main point. Poverty is complex and often cyclical. Poor parents have poor children, and poor children often become poor parents. The cycle continues unless it is broken. Case management is the critical element in moving someone from government dependency to selfsufficiency. That is why we believe that Case Management has got to be an integral part of the conversation on how we re
Information. 14 and above, theyre all fingerprinted. Those fingerprints are run against the databases here in the United States. So that if it was somebody a little bit older that had been deported or had been arrested or was involved in a gang. We need better cooperation, better communication with those other three countries to make sure the vast majority of what were seeing are not in that threat category, but we have to be very careful. Well, as has been reported and i dont have any personal knowledge of this, that the number of drug seizures on the border since this crisis has decreased because resources have been deployed to deal with the emergency of this crisis. Is that correct . The number of drug seizures has decreased in that particular sector, but a couple things. Actually having watched it pretty carefully for the five years i served as the president s drug policy adviser, those numbers fluctuate a lot. Now that we have two state where is you can grow your own marijuana, im