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• 12.21.11 Daily News: Dennis McCarthy: Social Worker Got Start as Abused Child
• 12.14.11 Daily News: Postal Service Continues Santa Tradition
• 11.20.11 L.A. Times: Children, new families celebrate on special day for adoptions
• 11.20.11 KPCC: National Adoption Day marks 10 years finding children homes
• 11.20.11 ABC7: More than 100 foster kids formally adopted Friday in L.A. County
• 11.02.11 NY Times Story - "In the Company of Animals, Healing for Humans"
• 11.01.11 Glendale News Press: Feinstein honors La Crescenta man for adoption advocacy
• 10.25.11 L.A. Now TV: A local teenager overcame severe abuse and neglect at home and is now headed for Yale University. Another success story for County social workers and the foster care program (segment begins 4:37 minutes into the video)
• 10.18.11 L.A. Now TV: Beating cancer and graduating at the top of her high school class are among the many milestones for one local girl connected to DCFS (segment begins 4:46 minutes into the video)
• 10.13.11 Noticias Univision: Mother completes DCFS parenting program and get her children back (video)
• 10.13.11 Primer Impacto: A New Life (video)
• 10.13.11 La Opinion: Voluntad y trabajo para recuperar a sus hijos
• 10.13.11 La Opinion: With Will and Effort to Recuperate her Children (Link Above Translated to English)
• 10.13.11 ABC7: Parents monitored by DCFS get a second chance
• 10.13.11 Altadena Patch: Reunited Families Celebrate at Five Acres
• 08.18.11 County Digest: Giving Foster Youth an Education Advocate
• 06.19.11 NBC California Nonstop: Wanted: Gay Dads (video)
  
• 06.11.11 Whittier Daily News: Foster care teen from Pico Rivera earns honors, scholarships
• 06.09.11 L.A. Sentinel: Amazing Kids Foster Amazing Results
• 06.07.11 La Opinion: Muy Especial Su Graduacion (Spanish)
  
• 06.07.11 La Opinion: Muy Especial Su Graduacion (Video)
• 06.07.11 ABC7: 180 Foster Kids Receive College Scholarships (video)
  
• 12.20.10 LA Times Editorial: An open-and-shut case (PDF)
• 09.01.10 Read the audit report by the Office of Independent Review (PDF)
• 08.27.10 L.A. County's Leak Investigation Is About The Law, Not Publicity
• 03.19.10 Family Reunification Newsletter
• 03.19.10 Long Beach Press Telegram Article: Child Welfare Workers Laud Reunited Families
• 03.19.10 Daily News Article: Rejuvenated Lives on Display
• 03.19.10 Antelope Valley Press Article: Two Mothers Nearly Lost Their Kids to Addiction
• 03.19.10 89.3 KPCC Article: L.A. County Celebrates Family Reunification Week
• 03.19.10 L.A. Watts Times Article: L.A. County Celebrates Family Reunification
• 03.19.10 Family Reunification Week - Interview on Pacifica Radio-Nationally Syndicated
• 03.09.09 DCFS Social Workers featured in L.A. Times articles - L.A. Times Audio Slideshow