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<span class="emkr_big"><br />Say, “YESâ€ to a Journey of Healing!</span>
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<strong>Mission Statement</strong>
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Angel Faces is a non profit organization whose mission is to provide healing retreats designed to inspire adolescent girls with severe facial disfigurements, to achieve their optimal potential, develop meaningful relationships for themselves, their families, and their communities.
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<img src="/assets/images/lesia-and-daughter.jpg" alt="Lesia Cartelli" /><br />
<p><span class="emksp_sm">Lesia Cartelli<br />
Founder and Director of Angel Faces</span>
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<p>Established in 2003, Angel Faces is an innovative healing retreat for adolescent girls with facial disfigurements. This unique retreat focuses on the healing process within a holistic framework of mind, heart and spirit. The end result is a new and hope filled start for the girls who leave the retreat with skills and tools to create the life they want and to over overcome the challenges of living with a facial disfigurement.
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<p>Adolescent girls with facial differences often live a life of rejection, staring, teasing in school and unwanted questions? Many children with facial disfigurement are socially stigmatized, ostracized and shamed because the disfigurement in their appearance.</p>
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<p>Lesia Cartelli endured a serious burn injury over 50% of her face and body from a natural gas explosion at the age of nine. Growing up and dealing with the resulting disfigurements were the catalyst for her insight to the founding and directing of Angel Faces.</p>
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Launching her career in 1991, as Director of Support with the Burn Institute, Lesia developed and directed the first retreat for burn-injured children in southern California. She later moved on to become the Community Relations Representative with University of California San Diego, Regional Burn Center, and was then named Executive Director of the Orange County Burn Association. Throughout this 16-year career-span she developed and directed after-care programs for burn-injured children, and adults who have endured serious burn injuries. Lesia also founded the first national retreat for adults who are victims of from severe burn injuries.</p>
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Lesia has also served as a member on the founding task force that implemented the Trauma Intervention Program for the San Diego Fire and Rescue Department, Urban Search and Rescue, TF -8. She also became the family support coordinator for the Critical Incident Stress Management Task Force after the 911 attacks.</p>
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<h4>Angel Stories</h4>
<p><strong>Thoughts from a few Angels</strong>
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<em>My experience in Angel Faces this time was incredible, I always enjoy going every single year to learn more and reinforce what I learn the years before. We can never get enough of all those tools you teach us each year. Every time when I go there I forget and disconnect from my own world with problems with the way I look. I love to meet new people and make new friendships. Thanks you a lot for that great experience that I have. It was amazing!</em><br />
<strong>- Ana, age 14</strong></p>

<p><em>I had labeled myself a burn victim. It was who I was, and it was who I was always going to be; no one would ever see anything but my scars. I saw myself as living my life alone, and dying an old maid because there was no one that would ever love me for me, scars (both physical and emotion) and all.
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Well, all of that is perfect rubbish of course. I may have never come out of that self-esteem funk if not for the Angel Faces retreat. Being around amazingly strong girls and women who have gone through very similar circumstances and have come out on top helped me to realize that I was just pitying myself. I realized that I am not a burn victim: I am a young woman who happens to have some scars. I know that I can go out in public in a bikini and not even notice an entire room of people staring at me because I'm different. I am now in a place where I know that when a guy is staring at me, it's because I am beautiful, inside and out, and not because he thinks I'm a freak.
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Thanks to Angel Faces, I am through with shrinking into a corner when a set of eyes rests upon my face. Instead, I smile, and know that I am someone special because I have survived something that very few people could have with as much grace and dignity.</em><br />
<strong>- Calais, age 17</strong></p>

<p><em>A lot has changed for me since Angel Faces. It has taken me 16 years to find out the true me. I am so happy with myself and finally love me. I used to cry and say how much I want to change how I look, and get rid of my scars and the person that I am but I am happy in the skin I’m in and I would’nt change it for the world. I finally realized that life is too short to be unhappy and to stress over how I look…so now I just wear what I want to wear look the way I look and If I am happy with it that is all that matters. Since Angel Faces I have also finally realized that I need to let my guard down and trust people.
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Also, if I don’t feel comfortable I have boundaries and I can speak up and say what I want to say. I have finally found my voice in life. I love life and I am so happy I finally can be the person I want to be. Since I returned home from Angel Faces and started school; for the first time ever people said they have seen a change in me and I got new friends. Friends who love and enjoy life as much as I do an who like me for me an want to help me through anything. In school I feel so different and since the retreat I had the guts to finally take a speech and debate class. Now I find getting up an talking to big groups of people so much fun I just had to get over my own self consciousness. My life has been flipped for the good. THANK YOU ANGEL FACES!</em><br />
<strong>- Crystal, age 16</strong></p>

<p><em>What I most liked was the meetings. Lesia and Diane shared with us their stories, and it made me realize that my lip compared with all they've been through is nothing. Also hearing the experiences of the other girls gave me strength. On one meeting they helped us to create responses when someone asked us what we had, etc. and that was very helpful because I froze every time someone asked me something or stared at me. And well, everyone was very nice and kind with me. It was a great experience. I am sooo grateful and what I learned at Angel Faces will be with me forever; and now every time I feel sad because of a stare or a question, etc. I will remember Angel Faces and I know that will put a smile on my face.</em><br />
<strong>- Michelle, age 14</strong></p>

<p><em>What I learned was to be outgoing the first time that I meet someone. I feel more self confident and more happy to be alive. The first year I went and came home I saw a big difference in myself. This year was so assume, I made so many friends. All of the staff was so wonderful and so helpful. I was so happy to see you all again.</em><br />
<strong>- Stacy, age 18</strong></p>

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