by thevclf | Nov 16, 2017 | Columns, projects
Home 9 Category: Columns CASA: Reuniting a Child with His Mother by thevclf | Jan 30, 2018THE MISSION OF CASA OF LOS Angeles is to improve the lives of children in the dependency system by pairing them with trained volunteer advocates. CASA seeks to reduce and...
by thevclf | Nov 16, 2017 | Columns, projects
Home 9 Author archive for thevclf ( Page 2 ) On December 19, 2015, SFVBA members, staff, and their families handed out 1,400 blankets to local homeless and battered women shelters at LA Family Housing in North Hollywood. In addition to distributing boxes of...
by thevclf | Nov 16, 2017 | Safe Passages
DOWNLOAD ARTICLE October 2016 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF LISA HERNANDEZ HAD AN IDEAL CHILDHOOD, surrounded and cared for by loving parents. She attended college where she majored in business administration, and soon found herself with a rewarding...
by thevclf | Nov 16, 2017 | CASA
DOWNLOAD ARTICLE August 2016 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF WHEN ROBERTA BLOOM met Miguel in foster care, he was somewhat unique: he had actually chosen to be there. Miguel had come out as gay and quickly found his home life too toxic because of his newly...
by thevclf | Nov 16, 2017 | Boys and Girls Club
DOWNLOAD ARTICLE January 2017 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF JANNYDA SRE FIRST participated in the Boys and Girls Club of Pomona Valley the summer before her freshman year of high school and has been intimately involved ever since. She attributes the life...
by thevclf | Nov 16, 2017 | CASA
DOWNLOAD ARTICLE June 2016 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE just going to see a baseball game. But when six-year-old Jayden and his newly adoptive mother, Shellie, arrived at the minor-league Kane County Cougars’ ballpark in Geneva,...
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