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There’s a house on Lincoln Avenue in Napa that’s much more than a home. It’s become a true community center and the rallying point for services that support and nurture youths who may have had little support growing up. With the sweat equity of...
The number of children who are abused, neglected or taken away from families unable to give them adequate care is staggering. The Judicial Council of California reports that there are nearly half a million reports of child abuse and neglect each...
As executive director of the Napa-based nonprofit On the Move, Leslie Medine is an authority figure who isn’t afraid of challenging the status quo.
Through On the Move and its affiliates — On the Verge, VOICES, the McPherson Neighborhood Initiative...
Daisyann Larkins was placed in the foster care system at 3 years old. For the next 15 years, she was shuffled through multiple foster homes and separated from her siblings. As she tells it, some foster parents were kind, others abusive.
“You...
[ Volunteers young and old worked together to upgrade the city's only service center for teens and young adults transitioning out of care programs. (I was one of the old ones.) ]
I'm typing this column with paint-covered fingers and a goofy grin on...
Jynessa Lazzaroni was 9 years old when her mother gave up on parenting and gave up all three of her children to foster care.
Lazzaroni is now a precociously wise and sympathetic woman of 20 who expends little energy dwelling on years of ricocheting...
They may have looked like typical construction workers swinging hammers and laying down 2-by-4s to build a new deck, except this group was anything but.
More than 40 employees of Texas-based Alcon Laboratories descended on two VOICES sites in Napa...
VOICES Sonoma was featured as "La Voz" newspaper's Personajes del Mes (People of the Month) for July 2010. Read the article, "'VOICES' means empowerment," by Mehroz Baig, in English or Spanish at "La Voz"'s website.
"La Voz Bilingual Newspaper" is...
Beginning this month, about a dozen energized young people will spread out over Napa neighborhoods, knocking on doors with a ray of hope.
The 17- and 18-year-olds wearing bright blue polo shirts will offer homeowners information about the benefits...
VOICES youth center is on the move, as the agency for emancipated foster children packs up to relocate to a new home on Lincoln Avenue in Napa.
The organization will move from an Oak Street home, where its lease is expiring, to the former home of a...
