M.A.S.H. of Bluegrass / Life-OnPurpose Announce OCTOBER Child Action

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) August 23, 2011 -- Contact: Rebecca McCleery / Social Director Falon Curtis
Ph:859-254-2501
Email: faloncurtis@mashbluegrass.org
don hall Life-OnPurpose
Ph:859-312-4168
Email: dr123hall@gmail.com

Two local organizations have announced vital and encouraging news for kids who want to step above abuse, abandonement or learn to avoid being trafficked.

M.A.S.H. and Life-OnPurpose encourage Local and National artists to provide works for resale and auction, the proceeds will direct the funding directly into teaching principles through art immersion activity and education. and encouraging a musical or art oriented career for their clients.
Life-OnPurpose encourages their futures by helping introduce kids who have been taken, often illegally and against their will, back into society.

MASH Services of the Bluegrass has provided a safe place for at-risk youth for nearly 35 years and is the only youth shelter in Central KY that serves ages 0-21 at no cost to the family or child. MASH is also the sponsor shelter for Project Safe Place, a national program that originated in Louisville KY that partners with local businesses to offer youth easier access to help when in danger or facing a crisis. Aside from basic youth shelter services, MASH also offers an afterschool program for middle and high school aged youth as well as a fairly new Street Outreach Program that takes our services to the streets. Over the last 2 years MASH's street outreach program has placed our staff in parks and on the streets to offer survival aid, referrals, food and advocacy services to runaway, homeless and at-risk youth. MASH takes pride in serving at-risk, runaway and homeless youth and has recently taken on the task of assisting youth who have faced the tragedy of human trafficking. MASH believes that every youth deserves a safe place in which their basic needs are met, human rights are respected and their voices heard.

October is target release date for classrooms education, discussion, flyers and demonstrations across the Bluegrass and eventually across the nation via the efforts of M.A.S.H. and Life-OnPurpose.

The UN proclamation has been taken very seriously by over a majority of the voting members of child's rights.12-1 of the Convention of The Child states, States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.

We propose to the courts worldwide to adopt a set of rules that exclude judges from proffering opinions of may constitute the broad standard now used in courtrooms across the U.S.A. "best interest of the child" without a definition they are free to rule as they please.

Kentucky Proposal Courts and Social Services - Child Rights Begin Here - Right Now

Primary Considerations
1. The benefit to children of meaningful relationships with both parents

2. The need to protect children from physical or psychological harm(from being subjected to abused, neglect or family violence).

ADDITIONAL Considerations:

1. The Child's own view and factors that might affect those views such as the child's maturity and level of understanding,
2. The Child's relation with each parent and other people, including grandparents and other relatives,
3. The Willingness of each parent to support a close relationship with the other parent,
4. The likely effect of the child of changed circumstances, including divorce, separation from parents of nuturing value, including grandparents or other relatives,

5. The parents ability to care for the child's needs,
6.The attitude of the parent toward the child,
7. The responsibility exhibited by the parent in regards to the child's welfare,
8. Any family violence orders involving the child,
9. Any family violence orders affecting the child,
10.The background of the child's parents and the current maturity, sex, lifestyle and characteristics of a child in regards to a healthy, normal home environment.

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