"When my children arrived and each one of them had a trash bag, I knew we as a society failed ... Ashley Baker grew up in ...

Giving foster kids a real bag, not a garbage bag, is such a simple and eminently ... a child has a real bag when they’re removed from a home. “I am not aware of any offices that keep a trash ...

"When my children arrived and each one of them had a trash bag, I knew we as a society failed ... Ashley Baker grew up in more than a dozen Pennsylvania foster homes and attended seven high ...

Scheer also worked to get the trash bag ban passed. It requires new luggage for children when the enter, exit or move between homes in foster care. Comfort Cases provides the bags to kids to make ...

“We strongly believe in ensuring that children in foster care are not using trash bags as they move from one home to another,” Blackmon said in a statement. A spokesperson for the Virginia ...

New York City received none, despite being home to over half of the foster population ... New York City took a measure to ban trash bags to protect the streets from unsightly black trash bags. Our ...

READ ALSO: Oregon Senate passes bill expanding foster children's rights SB 1016 now clearly states, "The department may not use trash bags to transport a foster child’s personal effects." ...

Like many other children in care, Sokolosky used plastic bags to carry her belongings when transitioning to a new home. "In the beginning, when I'd be moved around in garbage bags, I always felt ...

She was going to foster ... other foster kids wouldn't suffer that same indignity. Still, there aren’t enough donated bags in a state where 9,623 kids were removed from their homes last year.