Executive Director's Message:

In her recently published memoir Three Little Words, former foster child Ashley Rhodes-Courter recalls her advice (at the age of thirteen) to a social work administrator, “Children need families, not programs.”

Since 1992, California Family Life Center has been a family to abused and neglected kids of all ages who are trying to grow up surrounded by drugs, alcohol, violence, crime and gangs. Drug addicted newborns, sexually abused children, runaway teens and unemployed high school dropouts are all finding a family at CFLC.

CFLC counselors and foster parents know that our youth homes, foster homes, job training centers, in-home pre-schools, help for grandparents raising grandchildren and other services are successful only because of their own personal passion and commitment. They treat these kids as if they were their own. They understand the “power of the normal environment” and strive to provide every child and teen with all the encouragement, support and opportunities they deserve.

CFLC’s partnerships with public and private entities and donors these past twenty-five years have been crucial to these efforts. Your support has provided homes, childhoods and careers for kids who never dreamed they could have a normal life.