Local Services

Voices for Children

45 Years of Impact Article by Hannah Cole There is a nine-year-old boy in Riverside County who painted his future self as a soccer player who helps the homeless at night. There is a teenage girl who handed her CASA volunteer a chapbook of poems she'd been quietly filling with her pain, her grief, and her determination to heal. There is a 12-year-old who wouldn't make eye contact, wouldn't say a word — until the week his advocate found a shelter for his abandoned dog, and something in him...

Life + Culture

Built on Belief

Margaret Rich and the Mission That Keeps Growing Article by Hannah Cole Last year, Margaret Rich paid for the school buses herself. Not because she had to — because she refused to let the funding gap become the reason these kids didn't come. This year, the buses rolled back through the gates of Green Acres Interactive Therapy Ranch, and Margaret was there to meet them, same as before. Same dusty boots. Same open gates. Same unshakeable belief that every child in this community deserves a...

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Futures for Families

SAFE Family Justice Centers Is Building a Safer Temecula — One Family at a Time Article by Desiree Allen | Photography by Monica Kirkland This spring, at the SAFE Futures Celebration Casino Night at Monteleone Meadows, SAFE Family Justice Centers presented the Temecula Valley Woman's Club with the 2026 Dan Atwood Legacy Award — the organization's highest honor, reserved for those whose commitment to survivors has gone far beyond expectation. Twenty-seven years. Through funding, advocacy, and...

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She Threw the Party.

Then She Changed Lives. Article by Hannah Cole | Photography by Time Stood Still Photography It started with a dress and a dream. Charity Prestifilippo had always wanted to attend the Oscars — the gowns, the glamour, the electric feeling of a room full of people celebrating something bigger than themselves. When that didn't pan out, she decided to do what she does best: create it herself. Then life handed her a better reason to throw the party. When her sister's lifelong best friend and her...