Foster care mentoring turns into 20-year relationship
‘Justin was one of the few adults that showed that he was there for me’
MIKE SMITH was 5 years old when he met Justin Pasquariello and Vanessa Fazio. Pasquariello, then 22, had started a Boston-based mentoring program for kids in foster care, and Fazio was a college intern there. Smith, who was living in Dorchester, had been in foster care since he was three. Smith remembers Pasquariello taking him to(...)