CPS dismissed the report I made, Should I keep trying?
I called CPS on my family because I feel like my home is very disgusting and neglectful, but cps didn’t do anything when they showed up
Here is some background on what my home life/ family is like: I am already in the foster care system, I live with my grandfather, and I’ve been living with him since I was 9 (I’ll be 17 in a week now) things were already bad at first, he wasn’t the nicest and yelled at us alot and didn’t talk to us unless he was angry, but he was home and cooked for us which was more then we were used to. Then things started spiralling down, first it was him being physically abusive towards the dogs we had gotten, then it was him working to the point that he’d only be home for a couple hours a day, and then finally when I was around 14 and my sister was like 11, he met his girlfriend and basically just left me and my sister on our own. He does show up to give us food every now and again but other than that we are completely on our own. I feel like I haven’t really been raised at all because I have no idea what to do, I had no idea what to do when I got my period, I don’t know how to drive, and I didn’t even know how to do my own laundry or clean until I looked up tutorials. And my sister is even worse!! And she has no motivation to learn, she’s obese because of the neglect and negative eating habits she was given, and now she is just so lazy to the point she won’t even take proper care of herself or her room, I try to motivate her and be kind because I know it sucks to feel like no one is there for you but I’m scared she’ll always be like this or take her own life, and everyone is just allowing her to get worse! She doesn’t even have any clothes it’s just two shirts and one pair of pants she has. And also my grandpas dog shits and pees on the floor and he just leaves it there for days, at first I would pick it up but he got mad at me for using the cleaning supplies and said “he’ll get to it when he gets paid”. So after a bunch of courage I had to muster up, i finally called cps earlier this year. They came and looked in my sister’s room and then left, they didn’t even talk to us! They apparently saw nothing wrong with how we were living. When I was in elementary and middle school, I used to ask the case worker that visited us for help but she would dismiss me every time I saw her until our case was closed and she was no longer required to see us. I don’t know what to do, and I’m scared even if we do get taken by foster care no body would want us.
Please pardon any grammatical errors, I am usually a very proficient writer, I am just really upset as I am writing this.