"It has been a privilege to be involved with Olive Crest for over 20 years. My first experience was mentoring a 13-year-old girl who was living in an Olive Crest home. We have maintained a close relationship for 21 years,…
I grew up in a very quiet, lonely household with my dad who was a functioning alcoholic and suffered from mental illness. At 12 years old, I became uncontrollable and unsupervised, which I know now is a dangerous combination. As…
Olive Crest is dedicated to serving children and families in crisis One Life at a Time®. Over the last 50 years, Olive Crest has served more than 200,000 children and families in crisis. In the child welfare system, once a…
For the last five decades, Olive Crest has been dedicated to preventing child abuse by strengthening, equipping, and restoring children and families in crisis One Life at a Time®. In the United States, 1 in 7 children have been victims…
Olive Crest is dedicated to preventing child abuse by strengthening, equipping, and restoring children and families in crisis One Life at a Time®. Over the past 50 years, Olive Crest has served over 200,000 children and families. Child abuse and…
Linnea entered the child welfare system as a teenager and bounced around to multiple foster homes. At 15, she enrolled in Olive Crest's Independent Living Skills program. For the next several years, she continued to receive one on one mentor…
Every Christmas season Olive Crest launches their Be the Miracle campaign. Many children who Olive Crest supports have never experienced the joy of the season or had a Christmas tree, let alone had a loving home or experienced opening gifts…
This year Olive Crest celebrates their 50-year anniversary. In 1973, Dr. Donald and Lois Verleur founded Olive Crest in Orange County. The Verleur's recognized the problems of abuse and neglect in their community, and one day, they decided to do…
“My name is Holly, I am 15 years old, and I have been with Olive Crest for 2 and a ½ years. I was removed from my parents care when I was five or six because they were abusive to…
Blake was a scared little boy who lived under terrifying circumstances. At only 3 years old, he had gone through so much in his short life—he was physically abused by family, went days without a meal, and left alone for…