Sofia entered foster care when she was just eight years old due to family violence. As an adolescent, she started hanging around with the wrong crowd and was in and out of juvenile hall.

Vicente’s mother struggled to take care of her son as she found herself lost in a cycle of abusive relationships, and Vicente was removed from her care right before his fourth birthday. Despite their tumultuous life, Vicente missed his mother immensely.

Following her parents’ alcohol-related, fatal car crash, Ebony moved in with her grandmother who loved her very much, but was frail and didn’t think she’d be able to care for Ebony much longer.