Hello, I'm Tracy McCoy and first I want to thank amazing moms.com for the opportunity to share my story. I 've always wanted to be heard, for my life issues and striggles of a single mom to be understood by others so a change could come. I'm 33 soon to be 34 on the 22nd of September. I'm a divorced mother of 4 and I have been for the past 4 years. I've worked from the time I was 10 and know what hard work and determination can get you, only in my life right now I feel like it's getting me no where. I do believe in God and trust in his word but sometimes it's hard to keep pressing on. I have an issue with housing and childcare right now and for as long as it takes I will seek for assistance to help aide me along in the years I have to come in raising my children.
I applied for childcare and I'm on a 3 year waiting list , I was also advised to resign from my paraprofessional career and night job as a waiterss in suring that I could go apply for TNAF and that I'd recieve childcare in that way. Well I quit both possitions and I still didn't receive TNAF. I was told I get too much in child support to get any help. I hadn't received any childld support until this year 2008 but they said the total exceeded the amount of childsupport I could receive wtihout working. It seems like every road I turn down seems to give me hope for help but soon darkens the closer I get to an even plain. All I've asked for was help in some way from DHR of Ga was to help with child care or housing but they seem to want me foaming at the mouth before I get help. I'm an able body woman willing to do all that need to be done for my children and I feel like I'm begging at this point or being a bad mother because I can't financially provide for my family. I have tried school even online and circumstances of some sort has hendered that thus far. I need a break and opportunity to show that if given the chance, I know I can do great thing and become a better mother and person to society. I have come up with some childcare solutions that I think will be great to get started but it is truly a work in progress. I've been a foster child all of my life in the state of Ga so in a sense I've always depended on the system in some way or the other. For most of my adult hood I've been married and had a two income household and as soon as my marriage failed everything else in my life seemed to go right with. I'm not giving up, I can't give up but right now I'm not working , well I work two nights a week now as a waitress trying to make ends meet and getting know where with DHR. I've contacted Gov. Perdue about this issue and next more officials who actually set the guidelines and policies. If I never get the help I need for my family I'd like to atleast make a difference and be the voice for more single parents like me and get issues ressolved rather than keep us single parents in a world of hardship.
Thank you so much,
Tracy McCoy
678-562-2106
1631 Ga Hwy 212 # B
Conyers,GA 30094