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Across Southern California, foster parents take in children from foster care to give them a loving, safe and comfortable home. Some of those children…

In this heartwarming story, Shivonne Costa, a child therapist, blogger and foster parent, shares her experience of becoming a foster mother to a sibling set of two, who were later diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD).

Carlos and Gail Remis have been on the front lines caring for foster children for the last 20 years, providing clean beds and hot meals, taking in large sibling sets, and emphasizing to children the importance of higher education. In their own words, they share their experience of fostering and adopting youth, and later training parents.

Scott Sparks & Wilber Rubio are two proud dads who fostered-to adopt three siblings from Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization, RaiseAChild. Read their inspiring journey to starting a family and how they navigated the foster care process.

In 2006, I began the process as a single woman, clear that my desire was to offer an African-American boy a permanent, loving home. I knew that African American boys were often the hardest to place and they face the most challenges, but that didn’t deter me.

Miranda and Alex opened their homes and hearts a couple years ago to three girls, all under the age of three. Two of the girls are Latina and one is African-American. Today, they say their transracial family gets plenty of questions from people who are confused by their family makeup, but they are happy to answer if it means one more kid can get help in the foster care system.

In foster care, family comes in all shapes and sizes. Four years ago, when Marcy Valenzuela was only 24, she decided to take in two of her eight siblings. For years, the nine Valenzuela children had been in and out of foster care, returning to their parents when mom and dad sobered up, only to re-enter the system when the parents relapsed again.

Single foster mother, Estrellita “Essie” Bradic, is a long-time elementary school teacher and advocate for foster children. Despite the year and a half of hurdles and setbacks she experienced while finalizing her foster/adopt license, she kept going until she found her perfect match in December 2016.

Erin and Tony Kim have a blended family, with two birth kids and two foster-adoptive kids who range in age from to 9 to 15. In their inspiring and heartwarming story below, they share how fostering has helped them expand their family, their hearts, and their perspective.

In her own words, Dee Delara shares her inspiring foster-to-adopt story.

Triumphs and failures have been woven into Southern California’s aerospace industry since the beginning, but the risk-taking attitude and forward-thinking culture of the region continues to pull them into this historic region.

In 1970, President Richard Nixon gave Apollo 11 lunar samples to 135 friendly countries and U.S. states. Now, many of those samples are unaccounted for.