“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...

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....

Each May, we share our ideas about how you can learn more or get more involved. If you have a few minutes: Shop for culturally relevant and foster care related books for our clients from our wish lists. Follow EBCLO on Facebook and Instagram and then follow...

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...

By Cristina Quiñónez The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Ma’khia Bryant and Breonna Taylor and the countless other Black men and women who have lost their lives to senseless violence, shook the nation. At EBCLO, we recognize that a majority of our...