Aimee was referred to The RightWay Foundation by Long Beach City College. She had recently emancipated from the foster care […more…]

Crystal was in the foster care system since she was a little girl, after being removed from her home due […more…]

Franco Vega knows the hardships kids in South Central Los Angeles often face, because he himself went through it. Growing […more…]

The Children’s Law Center of California is the nation’s largest nonprofit law firm exclusively representing children – including those who […more…]

By her own description, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie had a sheltered middle-class childhood in suburban Los Angeles. Her family ate dinner together […more…]

Since 1998, South Los Angeles nonprofit Peace4Kids has connected youth in foster care to a community they can count on […more…]

Inspired by their experiences adopting children and visiting Russian and Kazakhstani orphanages in the early 1990s, Randi Thompson and her […more…]

Janay Eustace found herself in the foster care system as a new high school freshman, juggling her duties as class […more…]

Margaret Coyne and Jan Sherwood were both attorneys working in California’s juvenile dependency system when they met in the early […more…]

When Friends of the Children approached foster youth advocate Thomas Lee for help launching its mentoring program in Los Angeles, […more…]

Former film executive and entrepreneur Romi Lassally’s children were in high school when she began envisioning a career mentorship program […more…]

“Helping kids in foster care reach their full potential.” The lightbulb went off, as it often does, during a walk. […more…]