About UFC
United Friends of the Children is dedicated to the premise that foster youth deserve a successful adulthood.
Through our Housing and Education Programs, foster youth are provided with the opportunity to graduate from high school, attend and graduate from college, get a job, find housing and have a support system that moves them gradually towards independence.
Our goal is that the youth in our programs not only survive, but that they thrive.
Chief Operating Officer + Legal Counsel
e. dorsey kleger-heine
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., Women's Studies, Yale University
Dorsey Kleger-Heine joined United Friends of the Children in November of 2011. Dorsey’s professional background spans both the public interest and for-profit fields. Her experience in the non-profit sector includes service as the Program Director of the Child Welfare Initiative, as a Deputy Public Defender with the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office and as the Director of the Resource Center for Preschool Education in León, Nicaragua. Dorsey also worked for five years as a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP. After graduating from law school, Dorsey served as a law clerk for the Honorable Arthur L. Alarcón in the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Dorsey is also the President of the Board of Directors of the Inner Circle Foster Family Agency and on the Advisory Committee of the Roosevelt High School, School of Law and Government.
Board + Staff
I can honestly declare that the staffs’ genuine compassion makes UFC what it is: a haven and a family for thousands of children and youth.”
UFC Staff Member + College Sponsorship Recipient