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"DON'T SEND ME HOME" Its takes something extraordinary to make a child say "Please don't send me home." But that was Ben's request. And for good reason. For this helpless 6-year-old, home was a place where, day after day for years…

The child welfare system is designed to keep kids out of harm's way but was never intended to raise children or equip them for life. Because of this, thousands of young people are thrown back into the world as soon…

At the age of 9 Andrew was in a gang and addicted to methamphetamine. He felt trapped in a cycle of abuse and abandonment and didn’t see any better vision for his future aside from what was happening around him.…

Born with Downs Syndrome and a heart condition, Sammy relies on a permanent IV to his heart that supplies him with essential medication. Water can damage the IV and put Sammy at risk, so he’d never even been able to…

James was in second grade when he first went to live with a safe family. At the time, his mother, Sandra, was having difficulty making ends meet and navigating some complex stressors of life such as unexpected tax payments and…

Having lost both their jobs due to COVID in 2020, with 3 kids at home, and resorting to alcohol to numb destructive patterns of anxiety, the Davis family needed help—but had no one to depend on. Within months, this already fragile family found themselves…

Seven-year-old “Sam” was neglected, physically and emotionally abused, and exposed to domestic violence. In October of 2020, Sam was removed from his home by Child Protective Services. His grandmother, in her loving desire to help Sam, came forward and was…

“I had no place to call home, no connection... I was truly alone." Teresa and her six siblings all grew up in the foster care system. Being moved around from home to home, until at age 18 when she aged-out of…

James was removed from the only home he had ever known and placed into the foster care system at the age of 8. Once in “the system” he was placed in one home after another. And so it went for…

Angelica wants to be a hairdresser someday. But due to a life of turmoil that led her into foster care, Angelica’s literacy skills were extremely low, making it very hard for her to succeed academically.Upon entering Olive Crest’s program for…