Grand Prize Jordyn Kuciera 5 years-old 1st Place 3-5 years old: Harley Veltz 6-9 years old: Ellyce Mares 10-12 years old: Zurie Joseph 13-18 years old: Senghar Joseph 2nd Place 3-5 years old: Lilianne Ramirez 6-9 years old: Maya Braslar 10-12 years old: Jaeson Kim 13-18 years old: Rosie Hasemeyer 3rd Place Jaden Orgaiton Giovanni [...]
My husband Eric and I decided to adopt little Levi after meeting him as a newborn. He was at a friend’s house that was an emergency shelter foster home where he was placed as a new born. His start in life was difficult since he was born drug-exposed, in a car to homeless parents, and [...]
Dear Caring Riverside County: Being a child in the foster system is scary, lonely, confusing and very traumatic. Over 500,000 American children are in our foster care currently with 1/5 of them in So. California along. They, along with our brave adult military spent the last holidays away from home, without the comfort of family. [...]
The Saturday morning call was unexpected. On the other end of the line was a young woman who introduced herself as a producer for the “Anderson Show,” the new talk show that featured Anderson Cooper highlighting topics of interest, stating that she had found our family story interesting and was wondering if we would like [...]
Anderson spends the hour discussing the power of love, and speaks with several families who have tremendously impacted multiple children’s lives by becoming foster parents. Anderson speaks with one family that has fostered more than 30 children and adopted more than 10, in addition to their biological three. Anderson also speaks with 20 other families [...]
Step out with us April 16th 2011! Walk to help Riverside foster children Save the date Saturday April 16th 2011 marks the day for The 7thAnnual Walk Your Talk Walk to raise money and awareness of the needs of children in the foster care system. All monies raised will benefit local programs that focus on meeting the needs [...]
About a month ago,my family and I had the best experience of our lives. We were asked to be on the Anderson Cooper’s new day time talk show. They heard about our story because we were on the Today show about a year ago. They wanted to do a story about loving families, and about [...]