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Dana Russo (photo: Orr Shalom) By age 6, Dana was spending time on the street, looking for anywhere to be but home. She was told that she was being beaten for being a bad child and she believed it. The change occurred upon joining one of Orr Shalom‘s Therapeutic Family Group Homes, where she discovered a new world and a different reality. Today Dana Russo is 22 years old and a counselor in one of Orr Shalom’s Family Group Homes – the place where she grew up and the only place she really calls home. “With the help of my close friends in the Group Home, I understood that this is my new home, and the ‘strangers’ trying to help me were now my ‘house parents.’ I feared that they could never understand me, or the violence I experienced. But they did understand, and in the second that I realized this, even if at times I did not agree with them, I truly felt that they were my new parents.” ....