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March 26, 2021

Foster family told to vacate Washington home to make room for migrant children

Unprecedented humane treatment for these innocent, unaccompanied children. Thank you, Mr. President!



A plan to house migrant children from the surging crisis at the US-Mexico border will leave a Renton foster family with no place to call home.

Edmundo Serena Sanchez said he and his wife were notified in February that they would have to vacate the Renton house where they have nurtured and raised Washington state foster children for nearly seven years.

"It was just senseless. Everything they did was irresponsible", Serena Sanchez said of the move-out order that came after a year of lockdown from the coronavirus pandemic.

The couple have fostered about 20 children over the years in the spacious house along Lake Washington.

The house is part of a campus of facilities owned by the Friends of Youth, a non-profit based in Kirkland with a 70-year history of providing services and housing for homeless and foster youth.

"Friends of Youth has reviewed our organizational goals this past year, and we have chosen to pursue a different strategic vision", stated a January 29 letter from the organization.

The letter said the house would be used "…to provide a different scope of services in support of unaccompanied youth".

DeAnn Adams, chief program officer for Friends of Youth, told KING 5 the organization saw a new funding source with the federal government's Office of Refugee Resettlement and decided to use the Howard's House – where Serena Sanchez and his foster family now live – as housing for undocumented immigrant children.

Serena Sanchez said the decision had a devastating impact on the four children in his foster care who will likely be required to move to new foster homes.

He says one child has been to the hospital with panic attacks. Another teenager ran away and has not come back.

"I worry very much about him because he's 16 …17 years old and he doesn't have a job", said Serena Sanchez.
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