Forum focuses on temptations in Napa

Saturday, April 12, 2008
By NATALIE HOFFMAN
Register Staff Writer

By David Ryan
Napa Valley Register
Monday, February 04, 2008

Napan Pete Burns knows surfing. Surfing couches.

By NATALIE HOFFMAN
Napa Valley Register
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Flying feline
McPherson kids meet big cats during after school event

Napa Valley Register
Thursday, January 24, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE EDITORIAL

Closer to home - and to each other
A community rallies in Napa to help construct a new center for foster youths

Friday, November 23, 2007

To an outsider, California's foster care system can seem like an intractable cause for despair: so many kids, so many problems, so little money.

Napa foster care group builds a dream house

By DAVID RYAN, Register Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

At 1801 Oak Street in Napa, the children of the foster care system are finally getting a home of their own.

Voice Our Independent Choices for Emancipation Support, a local nonprofit group that helps local foster care youths on the road to adulthood, kicked off a campaign to address the physical and mental health needs of its clients.

Three Napa men earn props for giving back

In early 2004, Wendy Enright's grandchildren were in crisis.

Enright's daughter had a drug problem, and lost custody of three daughters and a son.

Enright, a Napa resident for 40 years, decided to adopt two of her granddaughters through Napa County Child Protective Services. Then, she had to deliver the big news to Gregory Sutton, with whom she had recently begun a relationship.

"I went to Greg and told him what I was going to do and told him that he should 'run, not walk, as fast as he could to the nearest exit,' because our life as we knew it was about to change forever," Enright wrote in an essay. "Greg chose to stay, stepped up to the plate, and has been 'Papa' to these little girls in every way since the day I got them. He has also given me lots of love and support."

Former foster kid draws on his past to help others’ futures

By NATALIE HOFFMAN, Register Staff Writer

Monday, June 11, 2007

The world of foster children is little understood. Young people shuttle from family to family and home to home — sometimes with stops in the juvenile justice system or in the care of the county.

Verger, Michelle Williams, was recently highlighted in several publications for her work as Executive Director of the Arts Council of Napa Valley. She is leading the effort for cultural planning in the county: