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Angels In Waiting 's Assembly Bill: AB1133

Linda West-Conforti RN — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:28:51 GMT

Our AB 1133

Assembly Bill 1133

How Many Angels Must We Send Back to Heaven, And How Many Billions Of Dollars Must California Spend?

Angels In Waiting (AIW), a 501c3 charity created by nurses, has been granted AB 1133 carried by Assemblywoman, Holly Mitchell, District 54, which encompasses UCLA. AB 1133, will implement AIW’s Nurse-Foster Parent Program throughout California. Our cost effective, innovative program literally has the potential to save the state of California Billions of dollars and Countless Childhoods! Your support for our AB 1133 will help us get this viable bill into law. Together, we can make a very significant impact on this rapidly growing and increasingly tragic problem. Plus, we will have the resources to recruit more qualified nurses, who have the homes and sensitive hearts necessary to provide the special nursing care and dedication needed to help California’s growing legions of medically- fragile, foster care infants and children so that they can thrive and succeed. During this year’s National Women’s Political Caucus in Sacramento, which two professors from UCLA and AIW’s team attended, we submitted our innovative and cost saving Nurse-Foster Parent program. Many of the Legislators displayed a strong interest in carrying our AB Bill. However, due to Holly Mitchell’s deep commitment to improving the foster care system and the fact that her district encompasses UCLA, we felt Assemblywoman, Holly Mitchell, would be the best fit for our Assembly Bill.

AIW Nurse-Foster Parent program offers a significant improvement in the delivery of healthcare to California’s high–risk, medically fragile foster care population, while offering substantial fiscal savings in comparison to institutionalized care settings, group homes or ill-educated, poorly supported foster care homes for the medically fragile. Please refer to the endorsement letter from Kern County Public Health Services.

Conclusion: The Future With Your Support

In the years since its inception, AIW has helped find permanent homes for 180 infants and children and has recruited 40 plus nurses who have medically fragile children in their homes, with approximately 15 nurses currently obtaining instruction from DFCS and or Medi-Cal. However, the licensing of these nurses has been held up in the process due to the prolonged wait for CCL to licenses our Nurse-Foster Parent homes. AIW is launching a campaign to duplicate our “Nurse Foster Parent" program throughout Los Angeles County and then into all of the counties of California and onto the nation. Together, “WE” have the ability to Save Countless Childhoods & Countless California Tax dollars, to the sum of Billions of dollars! AB 1133 will drastically reduce the hospital re-admission rate; and a preeminent saving in state funds will result from the fact that historically 90% of our nurses adopt the children that they have restored to health.

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The Warm Heart Of Winter

Tim Arnold — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:06:03 GMT

ON THE DOCTORS CBS THURSDAY, DECEMBER / 6 / 2012

THE WARM HEART OF WINTER ...

Angels In waiting fourth quarter report

Heart Of The Matter

As we approach the darkest day of winter, December 21st, and become enveloped in this heart of darkness, the interplay between light and darkness becomes quite apparent. This is indeed a time of renewal, but spiritual uplift cannot transpire without first going through a dark night of the soul. It is quite true that the heart is a lonely hunter and must find its own way through a time when light diminishes but presages a period of new illumination. Angels In Waiting finds itself in such a point in its arc through the year. We have recently found ourselves uplifted by great potentiality, but in our Icarian flight we have also seen our hopes melted by a number of obstructions. We do believe that we are on the verge of a number of exciting breakthroughs that will strongly impact a number of hearts and lives.

Doctors And Angels

Angels In Waiting completed filming of "The Doctors' Show" in November. The show will air on Thursday, December6th at 2 PM Pacific Time on CBS. The doctors on the show were quite receptive and very generous in their praise of the organization. They completely opened their hearts to AIW as did the people who were involved in the technical aspects of the show. We believe that the show will fill the wings of AIW and begin to give our organization the recognition that is essential in soaring to new levels of societal and financial receptivity.

Singing From The Heart

AIW also recorded a commercial last month that has several of the children singing. The producers of the commercial have stated that they plan to make extensive usage of this commercial that could play on prime time television. When this screening transpires, it will be excellent, additional exposure for our organization.

Village Apothecary

Our apothecary boutique in Lake Arrowhead Village continues to expand and has added new merchandise, including designer nurses scrubs that are becoming increasingly popular. We are also creating an ever-increasing following among the local residents.

The future will undoubtedly hold many exciting gifts for Angels In Waiting, and we thank again our "spirit of Christmas"benefactors for their marvelous generosity and holiday hearts.

OUR LITTLE ANGELS SINGING FOR A COMMERCIAL !

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Reflections In An Apothecary's Glass

Timotheus — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:30:03 GMT

Our nurse recruitment office & store front

Angels And Herbalism:

Angels In Waiting has focused over the summer months in expanding its herbalism-apothecary store in order to create a wider client base in our efforts to significantly increase the funds that will create a solid fiscal foundation for our organization. We continue to analyze new products that will assist in strengthening the immune systems of our clients and in reducing inflammation. We have also focused on the creation of a line of skin care products that utilize very rare and unique botanicals. Our mail order business is also expanding, and we invite all the fine people at Global Giving to explore our many potent products. We have experienced very favorable receptivity from both residents of the area and travelers from most of the states and a large number of foreign countries. They find our angelic apothecary-boutique to be charming and spiritually uplifting.

Public Relations Expertise:

This summer we have also been very fortunate to connect with a charming lady who is a recognized expert in marketing and promulgating start-up organizations to the next level of multifaceted success. She is working to arrange high-end fundraisers and television time for Angels In Waiting. AIW is quite excited about the potentiality to see our organization ride on the wings of newly envisioned opportunities.

CBS’s The Doctors:

We will keep you posted on our upcoming segment on CBS’s, “The Doctors,” Three of Angels In Waiting’s nurses and their adopted little angels will be spotlighted on The Doctors. We will keep you posted on the airdate once we are privy to the date our segment will be on-air.

Nurses In Waiting:

We continue to have many inquiries from nurses who come into the shop and who are interested in taking in these medically fragile infants. We are working to expedite the process through which they can become qualified to fulfill this extremely humanitarian undertaking.

We salute all our wonderful donors.

Timotheus

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THE HEALING POWERS OF A NURSE.

Linda West- Conforti RN — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:28:35 GMT

Angels In Waiting Store Front

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE HEALING POWERS OF A NURSE, BECAUSE MIRACLES DO OCCUR IN THE HANDS OF NURSES…

In an effort to create funds to sustain Angels In Waiting, an “Angels and Herbs” store was created in March in Lake Arrowhead Village, California. Our non-profit status enabled us to obtain excellent terms on the lease, and we have been very impressed at the generosity of the Lake Arrowhead Village Management. Residents of the area and vacationers have been very receptive to the mission of Angels In Waiting; Helping America’s underprivileged infants and children by utilizing Nurses to rescue our medically fragile foster care infant and children.

The store has also given us a considerably wider exposure to attract nurses into the organization. The fact is, we are overjoyed with the number of quality nurses we have and continue to recruit from our Angels In Waiting storefront located in the beautiful Lake Arrowhead resort known as The Village. The theme of our store is “Angels & Herbs”. As soon as you cross the threshold of our entry, we offer a touching angelic experience, by displaying touching stories and photos of the children we have restored back to health, intermingled with magnificent statues of angels. Angels In Waiting, offers a wide array of angel gifts and angelic art. We also offer a sound approach to the distribution of pharmaceutical grade herbs, nutritional supplements, vitamins, probiotics, teas and other Non-FDA regulated medications. We specialize in offering a bio–herbal treatment plan including a weighted and/ or compression vest curriculum for autism children. We also provide Advocacy services, to help the child in school to be able to receive the necessary educational services in order for them to reach their highest potential.

Our store within its short time of operation has contributed considerably to the funds and exposure necessary to make AIW a successful and economically viable organization. If any of our friends at Global Giving are vacationing in the Lake Arrowhead area, we would be thrilled if you would drop by the shop. Our number is (909) 336-3058. We also hope that you will pass on our web site to your friends and family: www.angelsinwaitingUSA.org.

With the deepest of respect, and gratitude, Thank You, for your donations and dedication to our noble cause.

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Veluntinus, Food For Thought

TIMOTHEUS ( Tim Arnold) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:07:53 GMT

MOTHER WOLF

LUPERCALIA: DAY OF THE WOLF

Valentine's day is a day of ribald revelry. It is day when crystalline champagne flows through the soul and creates an effervescence of the spirit. On this day legions of chocolate fountains pay homage to the great prophet Hershey, and untold millions of blood-red roses form a sanguine tapestry that celebrates the color of life. It is a day when lovers and lunatics come to crave the raging irrationality and forceful strength of love. The word Valentine itself derives from the Latin Valentinus and means literally strength. Valentine's day is strong meat, and the church's attempts to gloss over this fact have been futile. From a recent historical perspective, it was also the day when a dozen hoods bumped off a dozen other hoods in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The result was a dozen blood-red hoods. In truth, this day was intentionally chosen to carry out this hit as a sacrifice to the entity whom gangsters and plutocrats worship as their one true, sociopathic deity.

The truth about Valentine's day is that the name is quite apocryphal. The church fabricated a story about a kindly priest named Valentinus in an attempt to expunge the original celebration, which was the Bacchanalian Lupercalia, The Day Of The Wolf. The Lupercalia was part of the mythos encompassing the origin of Rome itself. The legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were said to have been born of the god Mars and the archetypal Vesta, the eternal virgin. Vesta feared that Romulus and Remus would be murdered, so she put them in a basket on the Tiber. The she-wolf, Reminus, found the infants and raised them. Their feral survival marked the beginning of the eternal city, Rome. The pre-spring rites of passion and catharsis came to be celebrated in honor of Romulus and Remus and the great wolf that raised them in the den of strength, the Valentinus. The Lupercalia was a prelude to the dance of spring, and it was filled with numerous rituals of blood and terror; rites that would seem incomprehensibly barbaric to the modern eye. However, they were attempting to purge their society of all the negative forces that plagued it, and such a titanic catharsis requires the invocation of The Great God Pan, god of primordial nature. This celebration was originally a week long Rite Of Spring but was later reduced to the evening of February 14th and the day of the 15th.

An element of this mythos that is particularly striking is the concept of a wolf raising human infants that had been abandoned by humanity. They had been thrown to wolves, and these wolves nurtured them. Over the ages there have been a number of fairly well-documented incidences of cast-off human children being raised by wolves. Possibly humanity can learn something about its own humanity from these wolves that would take in the defective children of humanity. In truth, the human race is tremendously indebted to these totem animals that taught our Paleolithic antecedents the art of the hunt and who showed them that passionate, primal nature was to be revered, which was the origin of the Great Lupercalia.

The recent donations to Angels In Waiting have been quite sterling and have enabled our organization to keep the wolf from the door.

--
Timotheus

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Cling To The Spirit of Christmas Present

TIMOTHEUS ( Tim Arnold) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:10:00 GMT

All proceeds go towards Angels In Waiting

By Tim Arnold,

Angels In Waiting is now soaring through the winter holiday season and approaching the winter solstice, when the sun is reborn. It is a time to recall that this titanic "Heart Of Fire" is born again each year and continues to radiate the warmth and illumination that make life possible. It is the true savior of humanity, sacrificing its essence so that human race can perpetuate itself and thrive. This solar force gives each individual the great expectation of being reborn with the sun and rekindling his or her own heart of fire.

This is, of course, the Dickensian time of the year. Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has become the archetypal fable for the holiday season; a great morality play that casts a dark light on the usurious character, Ebenezer Schrooge, and on the penurious plight of unwanted children. "This covetous, old sinner" only existed to extort usurious interest from the destitute upon whom he preyed. Marley, his partner, only came to realize after death that "mankind was my business." Vulturous money lenders like Schrooge were as numerous as old gin bottles in nineteenth century England, and they created usury addicts just like opium suppliers created laudanum addicts. As a youth, Dickens himself had been victimized by this loan shark horror. He was compelled to work seventy hour weeks in a boot black factory until he could buy his family out of debtors' prison. Characters such as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield were based upon these experiences. Additionally, the opium addicts spawned the premature, opium addicted infants. These are the children who cling to The Spirit of Christmas Present for protection because "humanity will not have them."

This nineteenth century dystopian horror is not dissimilar to our dehumanized twenty-first century in which toxic drug usage has proliferated and drug-addicted infants have increased like the interest on Schrooge's loans. In truth, the usurious banking system of our modern world is exponentially more horrific than Schrooge's quaint, little shop of extortion. Today's banks can lend out twenty times their assets, making credit addicts out of myriad more desperate people, who pay enormous quantities of interest on "money" that doesn't even exist. Usury originally meant charging any interest on money. Schrooge means literally "to squeeze," and these contemporary Schrooges have squeezed humanity to the point of desiccation. One percent of the interest collected by banks on phantom "money" could easily, fully fund all the humanitarian organizations in the world. Perhaps these modern money lenders might look to their souls before it is too late. Possibly their next incarnations might be as drug-addicted infants.

In the meantime, Angels In Waiting is looking toward a large, federal grant fund to carry on Its Spirit Of Christmas Present work. The grant is focused on reducing medical costs incurred by the government. Innovative programs are being sought after in order to diminish the horrendous impact of medical costs and the abominable health of a very significant percentage of the populace. In order to work toward creating solutions to this financial and physical dilemma, Angels In Waiting’s founder has created a cognate organization called Nurses For Safer Access, which is dedicated to using herbal decoctions to decrease the usage of potentially dangerous synthetic drugs. These drugs can have a gamut of adverse effects that potent herbal extracts can ameliorate. In this manner, the expense of treating a wide range of disorders can be significantly diminished, and individuals can gradually reduce the need for synthetic drugs.

The UCLA Medical Center is sponsoring Angels In Waiting in its efforts to restore methamphetamine and heroin addicted medically fragile infants and children to health and is working diligently with AIW to garner a significant share of this federal grant money. It is a very revealing comment on the culture of the United States that more funds will be paid to keep a person imprisoned than to restore the heath of a drug impacted infant.

We should take quite seriously the prophetic statement of The Spirit Of Christmas Present when he warns mankind to beware of the children clinging to his robes because they are "want and ignorance." A society where children grow up in extreme want and ignorance is a society that is precariously close to the black sun of oblivion.

TIMOTHEUS ( Tim Arnold) BIOGRAPHY

Timotheus has a background in theater and has been a professional actor and singer who has also written for the theater. He has composed a diverse array of articles, short stories and a novel.

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AN ANGEL FLIES INTO ACTION

By Jennifer Erickson — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:59:36 GMT

Like most mothers of a toddler, when Linda West plays with her adopted daughter, she models behavior, such as how to catch a ball, mixing instruction with congratulatory hugs and praise.

But there is nothing ordinary about their relationship. Three years ago, the four-month old preemie baby, a victim of her birth mother’s methamphetamine binges, became a ward of the state due to her mothers drug addiction and after the local authorities became concerned for the infants safety after learning her mother has a history of allegedly trying to sell her newly born infants in parking lots and off of the internet.

Thanks to the nonprofit Angels In Waiting, this little girl and other “medically fragile” foster children receive a chance to overcome physical and developmental obstacles in an unusual, government-approved placement arrangement. At-risk babies go home to the comforting and knowledgeable arms of licensed vocational or registered nurses like West, who are registered foster care providers and paid for their care-giving through Medicaid.

Just as a methamphetamine epidemic among young women is creating an ever-increasing number of fragile newborns in need of care, donations to Angels dropped by half during the recession, clipping West’s efforts to recruit other nurse care-givers.

Now, West is trying a different tack to help salvage her passion with another charity, Laguna Beach-based Nurses for Safer Access, 1968 S. Coast Highway. The storefront, which opens Sept. 7, will offer botanically-based health supplements to be distributed to customers under the supervision of a registered nurse where appropriate.

West sought natural remedies as substitutes for some of the myriad pharmaceuticals with their side effects prescribed for her own medically fragile children. The alternatives provided great results.

Now, West hopes to both raise funds for AIW and promote the use of herbal remedies with Nurses for Safer Access. Her 20-year-old nephew, local resident Blake Chapman, has joined her in launching the nonprofit to distribute herbs, nutritional supplements, vitamins, and teas costing from $6 to $100, which are largely unregulated by the Food and Drug Administration, including high potency supplements that are only sold to health care providers.

West and Chapman don’t wish aim to provide safer access to Eastern-style remedies where practicable. “I have no problem integrating Western and Eastern medicine as a nurse,” she said.

Currently, West’s Angels number 45 nurses, mostly in Southern California. They operate independently and have obtained credentials to provide in-home care to medically fragile foster children, an alternative to discharging tiny patients from ICUs to nursing institutions or group homes. So far they have cared for about 110 babies.

According to Terry Lynn Fisher, spokeswoman for Orange County’s Social Services Agency, even though the agency’s goal is to keep children with their birth parents whenever possible, they always have a need for more foster parents qualified and willing to care for medically fragile and disabled children.

Care by a single individual rather than a rotating staff fulfills a child’s need to bond, said consultant Jackie Peebles, also of Lake Arrowhead, an early intervention specialist, who established Special Discoveries Educational Services, Inc. in 2002. Infants deprived of nurturing may fail to thrive and face developmental challenges, she said.

For autistic children and drug-exposed babies, early and meaningful intervention will decrease negative behavior and increase developmental milestones, said Peebles, who works with AIW nurses. “We are able to mitigate a lot of the severe problems that these children have.”

Working in hospitals in San Bernardino County where meth addiction has soared, West and other nurses were frustrated that their work schedules didn’t allow time to hold and comfort the compromised infants. The mantra, “if only I could take you home…” was often wistfully uttered. Then West thought, why not? Why can’t we take them home?

Determined to find a solution, she unearthed a Medicaid program called “In Home Operations” created in 1967 so that infants would not be institutionalized. West figured out the process that allows licensed nurses to become credentialed as foster-care providers for medically fragile children and bill Medi-Cal for their nursing. She founded Angels In Waiting in 2005 to promote the concept.

Ninety percent of AIW-recruited nurses adopt, partly because they become so attached to their children and sometimes in part because they may have reservations about the quality of care they’ll receive in other homes, West said. Foster parents for medically fragile children receive a monthly stipend of $1,200 from California Children’s Services.

“Once they call you ‘mommy,’ it’s all over,” said West, who lives in Lake Arrowhead, with her daughter and her new brother Sammy, now 8, another meth micro preemie who West adopted at 22 months.

Nurses for Safer Access will initially be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week and can be contacted at 949 715-7757.

May-Day

Linda West- Conforti RN — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:58:53 GMT

Happy Mothers Day, To All Of Our Dedicated Mothers

The glorious month of May brings many blessings, warmer weather, the fresh smell of rain from May’s spring showers, the abundance of fresh new life growing all around us, blustering with the intent of meeting its God-given full potential. In addition, the month for May also honors Foster Care Awareness, Nurse Appreciation, and of course, the most important tribute- Mother's Day!

The correlation of all the events in May did not strike me as peculiar, until it was brought to my attention by an interview… I was nervously getting ready to do a live online interview for Angels In Waiting with a large, widely listened to online syndicated radio show called “Online with Andrea.” Andrea’s, special guests for her Mother’s Day Special included Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, and several other very high-ranking congressional–linked nonprofit organizations. Organizations who are reaching out to help address the issues within our foster care system, and other nonprofits helping the staggering number of, 163 million orphan children throughout our world…

163 million faces needing to find love, dedication, and a Mother. I was literally emotionally shocked, with that mine boggling statistics. Sicken to think, universally across our globe millions of women no longer value “Motherhood,” let alone the innocent and the precious lives they gave birth to.

I was pondering while I was also rehearsing for my “unknown questions and unpolished answerers segment” for the online interview: How and Why women collectively have lost their ability to properly “mother”? To effectively “mother” is any species most sacred possession for optimal survival… But then the musical intro for the online syndicated radio show; “Online with Andrea” started and these inspirational Mothers, gave me hope, and showed me motherhood is thriving, and the ability to deeply love, and lay down our life for our offspring or somebody else’s offspring …is alive and well! Happy Mothers Day! To All of The Nurturing, Loving and Dedicated Mothers! The Link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onlinewithandrea/2011/05/03/adoption-and-foster-care-with-congresswoman-michele-bachmann

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The Angel Who Inspired Angels In Waiting

Linda West — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:32:37 GMT

Sammy and Autumn

Sammy's Story

Sammy is a true medical miracle! Sammy is not my biological son. I know the deep piercing bond a son
from my womb can bring. I love my Sammy just as deeply.

Sammy was born a full four months early at the fragile weight of 17 ounces when his birthmother's placenta burst due to her addiction to methamphetamine s and landed her in the hospital. When he tested positive for
methamphetamines, Sammy was taken into the custody of Children's Services; his mother's rights suspended
until she tested negative for the drug. His premature delivery meant his organs were not developed enough
to sustain his life. His lungs were so underdeveloped; he couldn't take his first breath. His brain and nervous
system were so undeveloped they couldn't remind him he even needed one. He survived for the next 14 months in the hospital under the care of medical personnel utilizing mechanical ventilation and IV drips, while he fought his
mother's drug addiction. He rapidly produced hundreds of hemangiomas on the outside of his body and thousands more on the inside that impeded the natural function of all his organs. This subjected him to several years of chemotherapy.

To the amazement of hospital staff, he endured seven abdominal surgeries and survived four close-call
resuscitations. Sammy was continually pricked with
needles. He was so troubled he slept sitting up. Afraid to relax into dreamland, he posed for his next onslaught of cold painful medical procedures delivered by sterile hands and blue scrubs. (see Photo at web site http://www.angelainwaitingUSA.org)

Against extraordinary odds, Sammy continued to fight for his life, alone, without the emotional support of a
nurturing mother. The severity of his illness and grim prognosis prompted doctors to request a Do Not
Resuscitate Form be signed by the appointed court judge. Thankfully, the judge refused, and Sammy
continued to make use of the hospital's personnel heroic resuscitation efforts. Miraculously, and to the
continued amazement of the nurses, therapists and physicians charged with his care, he stabilized enough to be discharged from the hospital.

He was placed in a group home for medically fragile children where he was able to bond with other children who were fighting incredible fights of their own (see Alexia's Story from our web site). Six months later, after a long career in child care, the owner of the group home was to retire. She was frightened that if Sammy ended up in the local institution he was slated for, he would shrivel and die.

She called me on Thanksgiving Day when she'd heard I was a veteran NICU and pediatric nurse and now
certified as a medically fragile foster parent. Convinced Sammy wouldn't make it without a vital infusion of love and heartfelt dedication, she urged me to take him into my home. Several days later, he crossed the threshold of my doorway and into my heart, infusing me with the wonder of his survival.

In less than three years, Sammy has moved from indwelling catheters, feeding tubes and numerous daily
medications to being tube and medication free. He is a brilliant, cognitively gifted and active seven year old boy

who enjoys and celebrates,every aspect of his precious life Sammy has an exceptionally gentle soul.

In 2007, my husband and I adopted Sammy, securing his promising future and enriching our lives beyond
the expectations we mused over when we started this journey of safe-housing tender souls.

Sammy is doing Wonderful he will turn 8 years old on the 31, He is Happy and Healthy.There are so many other
little boys and girls just like Sammy. While we cannot adopt all of the little Sammy's in waiting, we have opened our home to heal as many and love as many as we can and help them move on to loving homes of their own; and so the birth of Angels in Waiting and our determination to affect as many lives as possible.

Thanks for reading.

Linda West Conforti RN ( Sammy's mommy)
Founder, Angels in Waiting
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Thank you for “Helping Save A Childhood”

Linda West-Conforti RN — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:12:50 GMT

An Angel In Waiting

Thank you for “Helping Save A Childhood”

The futures of our ANGELS IN WAITING program and the medically fragile foster care infants and children that we “Serve” is growing. We recently presented two large government grants to National Institute of Health, and recruited several more Nurses; moreover, we have over 10 Nurses waiting in the wings to be Foster parents for medically fragile foster care infants and children.

This means that many more medically fragile foster care children will have a childhood. These precious infants and children will benefit from having their own skilled Nurse as their foster parent. AIW Nurses make sure that their foster care infants and children’s best interests are well represented in the court, health care settings, and in the Department of Family and Children Services.

We are grateful to all our donors who have helped make this possible. Here are just a handful of the e-mails to Angels In Waiting from Nurses thought-out this Great Nation of ours…

Christina

Norwell, MA 02061

Comments = I would LOVE to be involved with your organization and

eventually become a foster Mom. I have been a NICU Nurse for 14 years and

have 3 children of my own. We have lots of room in our home and in our

hearts for another child / children. Please let me know how I may help.

Dawn

bybee, TN 37713

Comments = I am an LPN with vent, mental retardations, cerebral palsy,

downs syndromes, deaf and blind experience and my husband and I have finished

our PATH classes and are wanting to adopt a medically fragile child/sibling

group. Our home study is complete and we are located in Tennessee. Thank you for showing us nurses this venue of caring for America’s special needs pediatric population from the comforts of our own home, God bless your Charity, and the children it serves.

Christina

Pueblo West, CO 81007

Comments = Would your program have a need for me even though I live in Colorado? Or could we start a satellite of your program here? Thanks

Eric

I am a RN and a father of 2 little girls in Indiana. Ever since the birth of my first daughter, and recently my second - I am now of course a over protective father. :) The realization that the world can be cruel, especially to our infants and children, is so disturbing to me. My heart hurts to see other little ones in pain. I am writing because I stumbled across your site. And I wanted to say thank you for your compassion and god bless you for helping the forgotten little ones. I just wanted to say thank you with all my heart and let you know someone is thinking of you and your company today…One day, I too will be caring for medically fragile foster care infants and children from my home (once my daughters are older) you inspired my nursing career into this noble calling. Sincerely, Eric < > RN

Thank You For Helping Save a childhood!

Linda West- Conforti RN

Founder of Angels In Waiting

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How Many More Angels Must We Send Back To Heaven?

Linda West - Conforti R.N. — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:12:02 GMT

How many more Angels must we send back to heaven?

To Our Loyal and Dedicated Supporters,

In 2009, Within LA County Alone, More Than 268 Infants and Children Died in Foster Care, How Many More “Angels” Must We Send Back To Heaven?

Due to the shocking fact in the above statement, the founder of Angels In Waiting, Linda West- Conforti RN urgently sought the help from a well-known legal advocate for foster children within LA County. The activist was Linda Wallace- Pate, an Attorney at law who has represented foster children in LA County for over four decades. After she was privy to LA county's death toll for foster care infants and children. We quickly joined forces, and met with key people within the community to address these shocking statistics. Too many of these foster care infants, and children who were passed back into heaven, were special needs infants and children, these angels were placed into inappropriate foster homes, their foster parents were poorly trained and ill- equipped to address their special needs. They resided in neighborhoods that were greatly underserved by available county resources due to the new budget restraints. If Angels In Waiting’s Nurse program would have been utilized in LA County, the number of dead foster care infants and children would have been drastically reduced. Linda West -Conforti and Linda Wallace- Pate approached, UCLA, Charles Drew University and CDU School of Nursing with our lifesaving and innovative nursing outreach program. Both UCLA and Charles Drew University are now seeking federal grants, to implement our Angels In Waiting Nursing Recruitment Program into their community to address the dire needs of their forgotten population of foster care infants and children who reside in their own backyard. Please, continue to support our noble cause. Furthermore, please place our widget from Global Giving's website onto your social networking site to help support our cause. For our goal is to implement our lifesaving program throughout our nation. Please, Together We Can Save Countless Childhoods" by promoting Angels In Waiting's Widgets.

“How many angels must we pass back to heaven, when on this earth we can help transform their precious lives today?

Sincerely,

Linda West –Conforti RN

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Nurse foster mothers provide profound healing for fragile children.

Linda West -Conforti RN — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:43:32 GMT

Linda and Angels

To Our Loyal Supporters, Our foundation “Angels in Waiting,” was highlighted in November’s, Cover Story of “Advance for Nurses.” Advance for Nurses is a prestigious nursing journal that goes out to every licensed Nurse in California and Nevada. I'm happy to announce, my organization can barely keep up with the calls from experienced pediatric and neonatal intensive care Nurses who are interested in becoming “Foster Parents – Nurses”, for America's forgotten medically fragile foster care infants and children. Our mission is to move medically fragile foster care infants and children into private residences under the care of Registered and Licensed Vocational nurses as their foster parents. AIW helps to save a child and ensure a childhood by ending the child's time in the Foster Care System, finds permanent homes is for them, and paves the way to better lives with continued resources for these vulnerable little ones. Being spotlighted on the front page of a nursing magazine of this magnitude has helped launch our cause throughout California and Nevada. I could not have done this without your donations. Collectively, we have the capability of saving thousands of childhoods. Furthermore, I have been contacted by one of Hollywood's top producer, who is very interested in drawing attention to our cause, by putting a “sweeter face” to foster care children. We will be utilizing our Nurses’ adopted medically fragile foster care children to show America, how truly valuable and precious these children are, and hopefully inspire our country to care for and value “America's underprivileged infants and children”.

My organization's motto is: ~ We are all Angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another…, donors, thank you for lending me your wings ~

Please enjoy reading the article, the editorial is based on me- the founder. However, I would like for you to know, I have over 35 courageous and noble Nurses (and counting) who 2 4-7 render love, dedication and experience nursing care to America's forgotten medically fragile foster care infants and children .

http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Editorial/Content/PrintFriendly.aspx?CC=210878

Sincerely, Linda West- Conforti RN Founder of Angels in Waiting USA

Lexie

Sammy

I believe in a new spirit of helping

Linda Conforti RN — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:22:51 GMT

"The Wish"

Please help us if you can. I believe in a new spirit of helping our neighbors and "the most unfortunate among us" is re-awakening in America. One of America’s noblest foundations could use your help. Angels In Waiting has a growing network of dedicated nurses (35+) throughout California. Because of your gracious donations during these troubling times, Angels in Waiting (AIW) has expanded into other states throughout America. These dedicated Nurses offer vital love and support to America’s forgotten medically fragile foster care infants and children.

Please check out the newly published children's book called “The Wish.” AIW’s foster care infants and children are the inspiration for this tale. The Wish represents the emotions and desires of our abused, abandoned and forgotten foster care infants and children who have touched the lives and hearts of the Nurses who care for them. Our hope is that the irresistibly cute, lovable characters evoke sympathy as well as empathy for those less fortunate than ourselves, and desire to help the helpless. The moral of the story imparts hope, understanding, and the acceptance of our differences. Please check out the first edition family approved “Dove Awarded” children's book called “The Wish” on AIW’s website.http://angelsinwaitingUSA.org

We realize money is tight, and the vast majority of American’s do not have any unessential funds… If you can't donate money now, you could give some of your time to cast the net of awareness with an email to your friends and family. Angels in Waiting foundation truly helps save childhoods by moving America’s foster care infants and children from our CPS Offices, hospitals, group homes and nursing institutions into the homes of Register Nurses who nurture, heal and advocate for them- in the hospital's, classrooms and in Family Courtrooms across America. AIW helps to save a child and ensure a childhood by ending the child's time in the Foster Care System; finds permanent homes for them; and paves the way to better lives with continued resources for America’s vulnerable little ones.

Because of America’s growing economic crisis, job layoffs and housing foreclosures, too many of America's precious infant's and children are becoming medically fragile at the hands of their parents. Now, more than ever, America's foster care infants and children need your compassion and support. Thank you for your continued support of Angels in Waiting and your dedication to improving the lives of America’s foster children. Feel free to tell your friends about Angels in Waiting and their incredible work and please check out their precious and beautifully illustrated children's book. I guarantee you it will bring a joyful tear to your eye and fill your heart with pride.

Linda West-Conforti RN

No One cares to stop.

Some of AIW's Nurses

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Angels in Waiting