i was put with my mom because my dad went to prison for ten years for child abuse and attempted murder. and my mom did jail for stabbing her husband after my dad 47 times in the back, so i was in a place called meadow oaks and i was there for nine months. after meadows i went to a place called best care, and after that, i was put in a foster home. i was in a foster home for two years until i got arrested, came here. i have been here for four or five years. >> by the time we're trying to make a difference in the lives of the kids that we have at this facility, they have been through an awful lot. they have been through years and years of bad influences, bad role models, and you're trying to turn around their entire life. you get frustrated and you try to figure out what can we possibly do to make a difference to keep this kid from ending up in the adult system, but you don't ever give up because you