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,...
Going From Survive to Thrive

Going From Survive to Thrive

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE April 2016 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF RUBY ANTOSH COMES FROM a troubled past, to be sure, but her future is brighter than ever, thanks to the Boys and Girls Club of the West Valley, and support from local attorneys through the Valley...
Amanda: A Victim No More

Amanda: A Victim No More

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE May 2017 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF THE VCLF IS PROUD TO support Save Passages and their empowerment of victims of domestic abuse. Breaking free of the chains of domestic abuse is not an easy thing. Long after the source of physical,...
An 18 Year Old’s Inspirational Journey toward Independence

An 18 Year Old’s Inspirational Journey toward Independence

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE April 2017 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF THIS STORY IS ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN overcoming the odds—with the help of the wonderful advocates at CASA, a grant recipient of the VCLF—who has been able to find peace as she embarks on her next...
A Little Help Goes A Lifetime…

A Little Help Goes A Lifetime…

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE April 2017 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF AS A CHILD, MARGO AKOPOV admits that her father’s world of addiction and abuse were something she was blind to “for only in my lacerated memories do I recall the welded stench of toxic, sweat, and...

De’Shan Jones: An Inspiration of What Is Possible

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE November 2016 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF FOUR YEARS AGO, DE’SHAN Jones, then 15, didn’t think much of school. “I don’t know how I graduated eighth grade, but I did,” he remembers. “Going into high school, my mindset was ‘I’m just going...