"Family Services of Metro Orlando helped me be a child when I needed to be a child. And they’re helping me become an adult now that it’s time for me to be a man. They haven’t let me down and have been a blessing in my life."
–JK, age 18.
"There’s always room for hope in a child’s heart and that child always needs that room to be filled. "
–CJR, age 16.
"Without Family Services of Metro Orlando being there for me, I’d probably be in the streets, you know, selling drugs, being in jail, probably dead."
–JA, age 20
"I didn’t always have somebody to take care of me so I really want to say that being in foster care kind of gave me an opportunity to go back into my childhood a little bit and then redevelop myself into an adult. "
–JK, age 18
"[Home is] somewhere I can hope and dream and be thinking of the future. It means I get a family and I can see the world the way I always wanted to."
–CJR, age 17
"If people take the time and choose carefully, they’ll pick me."
–AL, age 14
"I see souls in these pictures. These are our children. They belong to this community."
–Dick Batchelor