CASA and the VCLF

CASA and the VCLF

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...
Blanket the Homeless

Blanket the Homeless

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...
Miguel: Out of the Shadows and Proud

Miguel: Out of the Shadows and Proud

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...
Rising to New Heights

Rising to New Heights

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...
Helping Jayden Find Family

Helping Jayden Find Family

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,...