Black History Month Book Drive

by | Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized

In her beautiful children’s book, Amanda Gorman writes, “I can hear change humming in its loudest, proudest song. I don’t fear change coming. And so I sing along.” In a world where police brutality took the life of Tyre Nichols, and Governor...

Proud Dads by Glen Riggs

by | Jun 17, 2022 | Uncategorized

“Do you want to adopt a little boy?”  That is how our journey started to becoming dads.  I remember laying in bed that night next to my husband, Keith – my mind turning.  We just had dinner with my visiting family, and they mentioned that one of our cousins, Bryan was...

On Being an Asian Foster Youth by Jessica Mi

by | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized

My name is Jessica Mi. I am a former foster youth, Stanford graduate, and between the ages of 14 and 21, I was a client of East Bay Children’s Law Offices. I am also Chinese-American, and while in foster care I was one of very few Asian-American youth in the system....

Know Your Rights Trainings

by | Apr 26, 2022 | Uncategorized

Thanks to UC Hastings Ralph Abascal Fellow CJ Connolly and UC Berkeley law students Betsy Marshall ’22 and Ben Sachrison ’24, EBCLO hosted its first Know Your Rights Presentation for foster youth in Short Term Residential Therapeutic Programs (previously known as...