Jermaine was just 12 years old when his father abandoned him. “I was filled with bitterness and resentment toward him,” Jermaine says….

I like the person I am becoming—someone my mother can be proud of.  As the youngest of three children, Jose always felt like he was

Abandoned by his father as a child, Ronald used drugs and alcohol to mask his deep pain, but it only made his despair worse. “I lost everything, I had nowhere to go.”

Only a child when his father died, Michael turned to the streets for the fatherly guidance he lacked growing up. “I felt so lost and broken. Addiction took over my life.”

After losing her apartment, Debra had no one and nowhere to turn to for help. “Before I came to Wheeler Mission, I was hurting…”

When he found himself on the verge of losing his job, Shaen feared what would happen to him next. “I had hit rock bottom, and I was angry with myself…”