It's time we did away with the policy preventing food stamp recipients from purchasing hot food. From an energy standpoint this is wasteful because people have to reheat the food. From a social standpoint there are rising numbers of homeless people who have nowhere to heat the food. This is an ill conceived practice.

State and private health care organizations are poorly funded and often their mission is mis-understood, e.g. prejudice, lack of knowledge of the service population. Funding should be increased for proper care!

I have not been able to chew on the on one side of my face for several years now. Due to cut backs on the dental benefits from medical and medicare. Cut backs from the previous governor. I am on a fixed income like many people on social security. According to the news we now have extra monies for programs. Why not filter some monies back into to the dental benefits for seniors over 55 to help with bridges or dentures, etc... I have talked to many other seniors like me in the same situation who expressed fears of choking because of missing teeth which they can not afford to replace.

Here is our story.. November 2007, Sherri Ray and Kevin Query were expecting a little girl, and that’s where the drama began. Sherri Ray was in jail at the time Shayla Ray Query (my sister) was born. In order to keep her from going to foster care, the courts and my father decided that it was in the best interest of Shayla to be placed with a family member. Shayla was placed at 4 days old in the care of Melissa Query May; Her aunt, my fathers sister. Our father completed his parenting classes and was reunited in custody with Shayla. Being that Shayla had grown to know the household as home, Kevin left her in the care of Melissa – He would visit all the time, take her to the park, give her anything she needed. She had the best of both worlds. Living in a happy healthy home, while still seeing and spending time with Daddy as she pleased. Sherri was released from jail and NEVER completed her parenting classes, or anything else that she was ordered to do in order to get custody of Shayla back. She didn’t really care. Sherri has 7 other children – I believe most of them were taken from her as well – by the state of Florida and by family members. Sherri Ray cannot seem to stay out of trouble or lay off the alcohol and drugs long enough - Arrest records show at least 27 arrests from the time Shayla was born until today. On May 11, 2012 our father passed away unexpectedly. As soon as Sherri Ray found out that our Daddy died, the threats to take Shayla began. So Melissa May contacted Dept of Children and Families – followed all of their instructions and was awarded temporary custody. Sherri Ray is fighting us tooth and nail trying to rip this little girl from our lives – and the state of Florida is going to allow this. I understand giving a mother her rights to a child…. But not a MONSTER mother who has never been a part of her daughter’s life because she was too wrapped up in her alcohol and drugs. Shayla is currently living in a home where there is no violence, drinking, or drugs. Nothing but pure love and happiness and within 90 days, she will be living in pure hell with an alcoholic and drug user who is very abusive. Yes, that’s right. She has a domestic battery history going back to as far as I can remember. How can the State of Florida take a child away from the only home she has ever known and place her in a home full of hate, and abuse (substance, physical, alcohol)??? Shayla cries when she has to go to a visit with Sherri – She doesn’t want to – She wants nothing to do with her biological mother. Sherri has made it very clear in emails that once she is awarded custody of this beautiful baby girl, that her siblings and everyone else in her life will no longer be allowed to see her. Anyone in their right state of mind, with a clear conscience would agree that the home environment that Shayla currently lives in is where she belongs and should stay. It is in the best interest of the child. Sherri has had 5 years to make better choices and do right by ALL of her children, and she seems to like the jail environment better. Even throughout this custody battle we are currently in, she has been arrested at least 5-7 times. Why take a child from no violence to full of it. What will happen when Sherri gets arrested again? Because she will… Watch and see… Then what happens to Shayla? She will be scared and helpless. Why risk it? Can you please help!?? We are asking for your support to ensure that this does not happen. Please aid us in our fight to save Shayla Ray Query. Please Sign and Share every signature counts

Kids are being negatively effected by social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) everyday. I am a guidance counselor and I see students everyday who are harrassed or made to feel less than they are on these sites. Kids under 16 are not emotionally equipped to deal with these pressures and the negativity they are faced with on these site. Many parents do not monitor their own child's sites for appropriateness and children can easily be publicly humiliated. It is heartbreaking to see children in the news who commit suicide due to online bullying. These sites need to be regulated like alcohol and driving. It is a danger to our young kids well being and self esteem.

It is my experience since my university days at St Louis University, I have deal personally with the homless, speaking with them and offering alternative resources if applicaable...

Our aging Baby Boomers are facing urgent issues from unemployment to housing to healthcare and more. There are no resources for LGBT aging and no local research has been done in the greater Sacramento area. To provide our elderly LGBT citizens with a safe and lovinig place in a final destination would promote self-empowered dignity and improve lives by the development of a Gayborhood-friendly Freedom Village.

My sister is a hearing impaired adult, her hearing aides are broken beyond repair and medicaid refuses to replace them and she can't hear a car coming!

The ticket to work progam Highly Solicited and Highly promoted thru the SSD/SSI program is Misleading...the SSD/SSI information and pamplets promote that persons that go to work thru this Ticket to work program WILL NOT LOOSE any Benifits while doing this program During the TRIAL period and that Earnings WILL NOT affect their benifits! However this is NOT a Government program despite the Misleading information it is a FLORIDA STATE program...Individuals that take on employemnt thru this proagram WILL LOOSE ANY AND ALL BENIFITS that they recieve from the STATE of FL. I took on a 10 hour a week job and immediately LOST my food stamps, Extra help with my perscriptions and my Share of cost jumped up to $1001. a month. I was forced to quit my job for medical reasons and due to All the benifits I was loosing...then after quitting my job My Monthly benifit from SSD was dropped from $855. a month to $467. starting next month...due to I now owe Back Medicare premiums for the months I worked. I had a total of 9 days notice of this action and when I called SSD they informed me there was NOTHING that They could do as this was NOT a federal program...this was a STATE of FL. program. I have No right to appeal and when contacting Dept of family & services they refer me back to SSD. in the meantime I am being victimized Not only financially, but emotionally and phsyically as well by this. When contacting Governor Rick Scott with my letter...he simply FORWARDED my complaint letter and was NO HELP AT ALL. I wonder Just how many other SSD/SSI recipients are being affected by this? NO ONE SEEMS to Care...I tried to do the right thing and help my financial situation and it only caused me MORE financial Hardship, emotional stress and now I will not even be able to afford my mortgage...Now what? I Feel this is Not only Misleading...but it targets those of us on SSD/SSI for Victimization by our OWN STATE OF FL.

Please increase the funding levels of tested programs addressing homelessness in Minnesota and administered by the Department of Human Services.

years ago i was an eligjble receipient of HHA; my 4 children and i were able to move into a 3 bedroom apartment and with assistance from the state and a part time job i paid $320.00 for our unit. our family decided to let their dad back into our family; so we reported HIS income, and relinquised financial assistance from the state; so with HIS income and my part time income our rent was raised to $730.00- still cheap; but we felt it unfair that other families in the same housing area;drove nice cars; wore nice clothes and had more people in their units then allowed-probably didnt report income changes. there should be an annual mandatory re-eligibilty for HHA. and add a back to work program for ALL adults tenants. today our family is renting in the private sector and struggling but paying monthly rent of $2500.00 for a 5bdrm 3 bath home

years ago i was an eligjble receipient of HHA; my 4 children and i were able to move into a 3 bedroom apartment and with assistance from the state and a part time job i paid $320.00 for our unit. our family decided to let their dad back into our family; so we reported HIS income, and relinquised financial assistance from the state; so with HIS income and my part time income our rent was raised to $730.00- still cheap; but we felt it unfair that other families in the same housing area;drove nice cars; wore nice clothes and had more people in their units then allowed-probably didnt report income changes. there should be an annual mandatory re-eligibilty for HHA. and add a back to work program for ALL adults tenants.