He was placed in foster care at 1 1/2, due to abuse and neglect, including a tumble out of a YWCA window, recalls his mother, Renee Crow, who adopted him in 2014. A year later came a diagnosis of an aggressive form of cancer, leading to months of chemotherapy at Seattle Children’s.
It was 30 stair steps from the door of the apartment to the street, and LaShawn Claiborne remembers counting each one, praying she wouldn’t trip, carrying her 8-month-old daughter in a stroller.
The person Keith Orchard sees most often is Fai Mathews, who comes by his small Seattle apartment every week. She’s always cheery and always asks how things are going.
Night has descended on Watson Manor, a small apartment building near downtown Kent for young mothers and children who otherwise would be homeless, and Erum Irfan’s day is coming to an end.
When Terricca entered Angela Adams’ classroom at Childhaven last year, the then-4-year-old barely talked. Things had happened in Terricca’s past, as they had with many kids in Childhaven’s classrooms, and the preschooler had been removed from her home and adopted by a relative.
Jorge Cuevas-Jimenez was terrified as he stood at the bottom of the rock-climbing wall. It was his first time at a climbing gym, and the 11-year-old was too scared to move off the ground.
Tayonna Gault has a plan.
The 22-year-old recently signed a lease on her first apartment. She just started teaching at a preschool in Belltown. And now, she wants to buy her first car before enrolling in beauty school and starting a cosmetology business.
KENT — Edward Henry remembers the Saturday when his life started to unravel.
Two winters ago, Setsuko Irei fell out of bed and spent days on the floor of her Burien apartment, unable to move. No one heard her cries for help.
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Alex Aguilar started whisking together eggs, milk, salt and sugar as his five children zipped around the living room. These are “French Toast Wednesdays,” Aguilar and his partner, Flor Palacios, explained, a special treat for the kids on the days they have tutoring.