Debrah Constance

Debrah Constance is the founder of A Place Called Home, a South Los Angeles youth center that provides at-risk children, ages nine to twenty, with a secure, positive family environment where they can regain hope and belief, earn trust and self-respect and learn skills to lead a productive life, free of the gangs, drugs and poverty that surround them. J.I. Kleinberg is a California-based freelance writer.