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Success Stories

Reuniting Children With Their Families

Read more about the children we serve and their stories:

Hannah's Story

Her loneliness ended, Hannah welcomed home by her extended family just in time for the holidays.

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Hannah's Story
Savannah's Story

Savannah's Story

Foster Mom Holds, Heals Broken Child

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Patrick's story

Patrick's Story

Hollygrove and Mentor Turn a Boy's Life Around

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Sheila's Story

Nursery Eases the Guilt, Worry and Strain.

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Hernan's Story
Julios's Story

Julio's Story

State Funding Helps When Boy is Scared, Lonely

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Angela's Story

Angela's Story

Family Finding Connects Lonely Foster Teen

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Dean's Story

From 'born to be in jail' to success in life...

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Dean's Story
Antonio's story

Antonio's Story

Antonio was on the road to kindergarten when his teacher became concerned that he was frequently absent.

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Bryan's Story

Bryan's Story

Bryan was just 7 years old and already angry. At school, he was using profanity, getting into fights and failing most of his subjects.

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Confidentiality of EMQ FamiliesFirst children and families has been preserved
through the use of models. Some stories may be composites of multiple cases.

Preserving the family, healing the child

At EMQ FamiliesFirst we believe children need families, not institutions.Our Wraparound program is an innovative family-centered, community-based program, serving children who have been, or are at risk of being, removed from their family because of serious emotional and behavior challenges. EMQ FamiliesFirst works to keep these families together—providing support to build safe and healthy family connections, while teaching new approaches to solving problems. EMQ FamiliesFirst is the leading provider of children’s mental health and social services in California, helping more than 18,000 children and family members annually. Our mission is mission is to do whatever it takes to help children, strengthen families, build communities and advocate for change.

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We need to help the children and change the system so that these children—our children—can grow up with a brighter future.

– David Pelzer,
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Of children who age out of the foster care system at age 18, up to 37% are incarcerated and up to 35% are homeless within 12 to 18 months.
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