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Kanye West's 'Runaway' 34 Minute Video

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Kanye West Runaway Video

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Homeless Teen Caught in the System Part 3

So this Story Comes From the following 2 other threads i posted.

http://current.com/technology/92550118_homeless-teens-caught-in-the-system.htm
http://current.com/technology/92553486_homeless-teen-caught-in-the-system-part-2.htm

Today was a good day i was able to leave a message with his Case Worker and also as well find out he was doing ok at the shelter (I did not get to talk to him yet) but i found out he was at Day Camp for the day so he must be doing ok.

The state is very out-dated i must admit since it took over 20 phone calls in the same building or main building to figure out what the number for his case worker was since she had changed locations (organizations with the state) and the so called Case Tracking System still had old records since 2003 i find that very disturbing and pretty sad.

There was this really nice lady who helped me with all this process with the DCFS and her name was miss walkins she was the biggest help and she told me i should get on to Kenneths Visitor Listing so i can come visit him in the shelter. So i left a voice mail with the Caseworker and also as well i left a voicemail with the Supervisor to call me and also i sent a email to the main mailbox of the organizations website so sooner or later someone will contact me i hope.

I am going to speak to a lawyer in the morning to see if i could somehow get guardianship of kenneth if he wants to live with me and my partner and get out of them foster care units, group homes or shelters

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You are probably asking Why am i doing this for when i am not related or family? Since there is still nice people in this world who care for people and not everyone is going to harm a child physically, mentally or sexually. I have this bond with Kenny since i have known him for a few months in my area of town and seeing him every other day on the streets and giving him food and hanging out with him. I think of him as my little brother or kid.

I feel sometimes people are connected in this world for a reason and i think my reason was to help kenny get off the streets and be there for him. But me and my partner wants to go thru all the legal channels to help him in this process since we do not want to harbor a runaway but also we do not want to see a 15yr old kid out on his ass on the streets and i really do not want to see him in a group home or shelter so before saturday i had made a judgement call to allow him to sleep on our couch and be normal for a couple days before me and him went to the police department so he could re-surrender himself back over to state custody.

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The DCFS system sometimes sucks since there is so much Political and Red Tape and from what i have heard it takes about 3-6 months before your application is even approved and well i hope with the help from this local Lawyer and also talking to kenneth and his caseworker it will be a much faster process if he wants us to take care of him. Otherwise i will be just as happy to be on his Visitor List and visit him in the shelter and be a friend.So this Story Comes From the following 2 other threads i posted.... more

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Homeless Teen Caught in the System Part 2

This is a update from my previous Thread
http://current.com/technology/92550118_homeless-teens-caught-in-the-system.htm

On saturday Me and Kenneth went to the Chicago Police Department and he turned himself back into state custody since he was wanted on missingkids.com and also as well a runaway from the Chicago Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), also he was only 15 years old.

Now there was nothing me and my partner could really do to help him in the long run for now until we speak to his caseworker on monday and also i am going to meet with a foster care and adoption lawyer on tuesday. I was thinking if he is going to keep running away from group homes and shelters why not just get guardianship of him and me and my partner can take care of him instead. Since i know kenneth (Kenny) from the streets in my area of town if he ever runs again he will just run back to the area here and well there is probably a 100% chance he will end up back at our place. I thought he was just a teen homeless person before doing research on him on the internet and found out the Missing Kids Poster and also as well talking to kenny about his whole ordeal the next day it was in our best interest to try and get him back into state custody.

Sure it sucks since the shelters are not really all that great, everyone is treated like a ID number and a Source of Revenue for the state of illinois based on how many kids they got into the system or in different group homes across the city it is sort of depressing in all aspects of the situation. I was homeless at 1 time myself but i was not a runaway and well i was almost a legal adult anyways so my circumstance is a bit different then his but he is just younger.

He was getting bullied and messed with by other people either older then him or around his age and he did not want to be in that type of environment so that is why he always ran away he told me and also he is not in the greatest part of town i must admit a lot of gangs, drug dealers and other interesting things happen over on 50th st and michigan ave in chicago.

Also due to his lifestyle (he is a gay teen) that does not help him in some of these group homes or shelters that have people who might be against GLBT Youth who are homeless in the system as well. From what i have gathered he has been in state custody for about 7 years now with a short break around age 14 when he lived with his sister and she was going to move to colorado and gave him back up to DCFS Custody, also found out she never moved so it was mostly just a drop off to state custody, i must admit very sad your own family member would do that to you. But like everything you hear there is always parts of the story that is left out so there might be some things even kenny has not told me and i will find out later in time.

I had Met Kenneth (Kenny) walking around my area of town around 3am a few months ago and he was just wondering spaced out looking so i known right off the bat he was homeless since he was hanging out with some regular street people i have seen many times in the area. So i bought him food pretty much everytime i seen him and hung out with him on the streets until i got tired enough to go home but never invited him over to our place. I have known kenny for about 3 months now and the other day i seen him during the daytime on Thursday and it was a very HOT day so i invited him over to relax and eat some food and watch some movies or play some video games. So he came over had a nice meal, he was able to get his clothed washed he had a nice shower, and played video games ALL day and watched a few movies, so the time was getting to be around 10pm so i just told him to sleep on our couch. So i started doing some online research on kenneth and found the missing person poster and contacted missing kids to let them know he is safe and fine and i would be talking to him about turning himself back into the state. so by Saturday we went down and took care of business and i am just stressed out since i have to wait until later today to find out how he is doing.This is a update from my previous Thread... more

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Man who caught runaway tram could face jail

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Number of runaways grows with worsening economy

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Runaway Cow Caught in New Jersey

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345 arrested, kids rescued in prostitution busts

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Life on the street gets tougher for runaways

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