| 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. |
I glanced down at the hundreds of pulsing moon jellies to the right, then thousands more to the left, an endless gaggle of fringed, see-through flowers packed so tightly together they changed the texture and color of the bay in the silvery glare of the ... |
| 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. |
I can't believe after everything I have been through I am still standing and still giving GOD all the praises he deserves. I entered the foster care system at the age of 2 and transitioned out of care at the age of 18. I had both good and bad experiences in ... |
| 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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