Darcy Olsen always wanted to be a regular mom. Then came the call: newborns were being warehoused in city shelters during the opioid epidemic. Would she open a crib?

She said yes.

In time, ten children came into her life the same way—through crisis, with no one else to catch them. Up close, she saw the system’s failures: abused children left to stand alone in court, years lost cycling in and out of foster care, and some who simply did not survive.

Out of that heartbreak, Olsen founded the Center for the Rights of Abused Children to unite Americans to do more, be more, and change more for children.

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