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Community Awareness Award
Gail Fisher
The Los Angeles Times
"Crashing Into Adulthood"

 

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"Emancipation Dance" With her fiery-red dyed hair and skin tight dress Janea gyrates on the dance floor at a graduation party. She is one of the hundred or so Orange County's newest foster-care graduates. Declared unadoptable, she spent the last six years of her life in and out of group homes, mental hospitals and lock down facilities.
 
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