Homeless Crisis!: Abandoned Babies,,,,,,,,,,,,(sigh)

We are considering the addition of an additional responsibility to Straight Ahead Outreach-Taking Back your life activities, as it has been placed in me to do so.

We would love to hear your feedback on this, so please feel free to leave a comment or email me at straightaheadlwg@gmail.com

In light of the newborn baby who was recently abandoned 6/16/2009 and left for dead near Middlebrook Pike & Glenn Ave, we are considering adding the responsibility of a new program to "STA" activities which will assist the Mothers of these newborns in giving up their newborn child as a last resort under the Tennessee Safe Haven Law passed 7/1/2001 under Tennessee Code/TITLE 68 http://www.shelbysafehaven.com/tca.asp instead of abandoning them.

What happens here is most definitely related to "STA" and how we do what we do.

A young Mother abandons her baby within 72 hours of being born.
The newborn is now "homeless"
The newborn becomes "prostrate" without shelter, medical, physical or nutritional necessities
The newborn dies
The Mother is now a criminal

What STA's position would be would be to assist the community, to prevent this ugliness from even happening.

To prevent an extremely unnecessary death
To prevent another homeless account
To prevent another young Mother from being a criminal And to possibly prevent the Mother from giving up the newborn at all. To help her open her eyes.
To give the young Mother direction and hope.
To facilitate the Mother and newborn to a medical facility, ambulance or police personnel so she may give the baby within the legal structure if she so decides to do so within this 72 hour period.
The goal however will be to get her to "Take Back Her Life" and the babies life and keep the newborn if at all possible and feasible.

Many times, as we are sure you can imagine, these young Mothers across the country are abandoning their newborns because they are afraid. Can you not picture a young Mother being afraid of the following:

Hospitals: Intimidated, embarrassed, afraid, they feel they will be made to feel horrible. Hospitals: We have a tough enough telling our doctors the easy stuff about us, how can we expect these young Mothers will tell a medical professional "I want to abandon my baby?"
Police: Very Intimidated,,,self explanatory.
Fire House: A group of 5-10 men, even in a firehouse can be very intimidating to a young mother who is scared no matter how nice the men might be.

We will work tirelessly to alleviate this transition and calm the Mother so she can face these entities and her situation. We will succeed. I feel it. Eventually I see "STA" being country wide and even assisting other organizations globally. I have already began making global contacts with other organizations about "STA".

Thank you very much to all of you. I hope you have a great day. :-))!

Lance Greene- "STA" - Straight Ahead Outreach(Taking Back Your Life)
Cell: 865-964-1461
Email: straightaheadlwg@gmail.com
Web: http://sites.google.com/site/straightaheadoutreach/Home
Blog: http://homelesscrisis.blogspot.com/

My hopes for you today: That you take time to laugh. That business or work has been good for you today. That someone has made your day enjoyable.