Orangewood Foundation has been a leading provider of services to foster and community youth in Orange County for over 34 years. Its comprehensive programs focus on basic needs, housing, life skills, education and employment.

Orangewood programs are designed to meet the variety of needs of these youth to prepare them to reach their greatest potential. Mark, for example, is a former foster youth who was homeless when he turned to Orangewood. The housing program gave him the stability he needed to focus on school.

Soon, Mark will be the first in his family to graduate from college. “Orangewood to me is like a family,” Mark says. “They are the real home I never had. My life before Orangewood was dark, and full of sadness. Now I have lightness, happiness, a supportive foundation, and most of all, hope.”

You can help Orangewood make the holidays brighter for the nearly 2,000 youth they serve by donating an item from their holiday wish list at www.OrangewoodFoundation.org/HolidayWishList, or by making an online donation at www.OrangewoodFoundation.org/times.