Success Stories

Learn what is it like in the child welfare system directly from foster children.
Jill's Story

Destiny,Dillon, and Derek's Story

Kristin's Story

Misha

In November of 2009, Misha’s grandmother learned about the Children’s Law Center through a support group for grandparents raising their grandchildren. Misha and her two half-brothers were removed from their mother’s care after being abused and neglected by their drug-addicted mother. Their grandmother agreed to raise them, the oldest being six-year-old Misha. For more than a year, the entire family thrived. . . >> read more

Sam

Sam has been through more in his short life than most of us will endure in a lifetime. At the tender age of eight he was removed from his neglectful birth mother and placed in a treatment facility. . . . >> read more

Sally

When Sally was two years-old her mother abandoned her to a neighbor. Jane took the girl in and never alerted Social Services. Nine years later, Sally’s older sister visited Jane and asked if she could take in Sally and care for her. Jane agreed and the little girl completely lost touch with the only mother figure she ever really knew. Six months later, Sally was removed from her sister’s home and placed in foster care. >> read more

Ally

In November, police raided a motel room and discovered four adults using crack cocaine and a five-month-old girl named Ally sleeping in a car seat with several baggies under the car seat. She was immediately placed in foster care . . . >> read more

Anna, Beth, & Caitlyn

Kerri took her clients Anna-10, Beth-7, and Caitlyn-6 to a Rockies game on a very crisp Colorado day early in the Rockies season. The three little girls were so excited. It had been a very chaotic few months. They recently moved to their grandma’s house because their mom was an abusive alcoholic. . . . >> read more

Maria

Maria’s mother became addicted to heroin soon after Maria was born. When she was just two years old, shots were fired in their apartment during a drug dispute and the police raided their home. They placed Maria into foster care . . . >> read more

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