By: Beth Logan
Growing up in the Klamath Falls area of Oregan, Mark Ekstrom had a tumultuous childhood. At four years of age, he recalls a car pulling into his driveway and instinctively understanding his days in that home were over. He and his three siblings grasped that “it was always a ‘hurry-up-and-clean-up-the house situation’ [when case workers] stopped by to make sure things were clean and organized. But that day, they said we were going with them.”












