| Dee H. |
Motivational speaker Dee Hankins has devoted his gifts, skills, and talents for the sole purpose of helping people reach their goals and achieve individual success. I was 2 months old when I was placed into the foster care system. My biological mom had taken me to the hospital one night when she noticed I wasn’t breathing properly. ...  |
| JAMES G. |
Hello my name is Sir James Gipson. I am a 23 year old former foster youth who came out of the system with a business idea, healthy cupcakes. I have leveraged a hand full of corporations, and non-profit organizations that have helped build ... |
| JOHNNY M. |
Stanford senior nabs prestigious Truman Scholarship
Johnny Madrid, an undergraduate majoring in urban studies who has lived much of his life in the California foster care system, is one of 77 students selected ... |
| JOSE O. |
For many of us emancipating from the foster care system means “leaving home again.” I left home four times over again. In 1985 I migrated into the United States with my biological family from Michoacan, Mexico after I experienced my initial years ... |
| LEMARQUE M. |
I am former foster youth from Los Angeles. I had a happy but not easy child hood. I was in foster care from the age of 16 to my 20th birthday. I began working part time at the late age of 15. I loved the game of basketball. As I got better at ... |
| MELISSA H. |
My experience in foster care was an experience that helped mold me in who I am today. I became apart of the system of foster care soon after I was born. My mother was diagnosed with a severe psychological disorder, which made her incapable of ... |
| ONITSHA T. |
Hello, my name is Onitsha Thompson and I am your LA County Youth Development Services Ombudsman. I am here to assist you and make sure that you receive the services in which you are eligible. I was placed in foster care at age 11 due ... |
| REINA V. |
I am Reina V. I am 18 years of age and I have been in the foster care system since I was 12. It was extremely difficult for me to be separated from my mother and placed in the foster care system. Although my life with my mother wasn't a healthy situation ... |
| SIMONE H. |
According to the U.S. Census Bureau there are 308,745,538 people in the United States and out of that number there are 38,929,319 African Americans. In 2009, 3,111 African Americans obtained a bachelors degree and 1,215 received a master’s ... |
| BRIAN W. |
I am the fourth oldest of 7 children and it all started when I seen my mother's left breast taped up and I asked her what is the matter and she told me bluntly that she was going to die and I told her that she wasn't this occurred when I was 6 years ... |
| DERRICK D. |
Eighteen years old, senior in high school, on track to graduate and it felt like life was just beginning for me for this was a day I would always cherish. One hundred and one of the best and brightest foster youth in all of L.A. County were brought ... |
| SONYA L. |
I didn't enter the foster care system until I was 13, and when I did the only thing I could think about was the stigma that goes along with being a foster kid, which was definitely a negative outlook. My father was killed when I was 3, and living ... |
| VICTOR A. |
"I went to school but caused trouble. I was rebellious and really didn't care, and then I realized I could do better. I started making plans," Alveno said. ...
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