Taylor M., Philadelphia, PA
"I was working full time, still enrolled in school, and constantly worrying about whether my mom was dead or alive."
Chekesha Ellis., Willingboro, NJ
"At age 27, I had a great job as a social worker in Philadelphia and I fell down some steps at my job. I needed to have surgery for a torn meniscus. That work-related injury would change my life forever."
Codi H., Lancaster, PA
"Police officers, military personal, all of us have deep-rooted issues that we need to fix. It takes a lot of courage to see that in ourselves, and it takes a lot of empathy to see that in somebody else."
Richard Levitt., Imperial, PA
"The way I have dealt with this grief is to speak and try to help other kids and parents who have been affected by this disease."
Rev. Jessie Alejandro., Philadelphia, PA
I also taught them that some people will reject you and people push you to the side, but we can never do that to anybody. We want to make sure that we always embrace people, no matter how they look or what's happening.
