Sister Rosario serves as director of the Louis Infants’ Crisis Center in Houma. Founded by her in 1979, the facility is a licensed child-care center that helps to prevent child abuse and neglect of children whose ages range from birth to 8 years. Under her direction, the center provides a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week emergency shelter to children of families in crisis. In her own words, Sister Rosario describes the center as “a step before foster care.” Her immediate goal is to prevent potentially dangerous situations from worsening and causing the involuntary removal of the child from the home. In a long-term sense, her goal is to use specific structured programs to teach basic parenting skills. When the Louis Infants’ Crisis Center was first established, it was contained in on the first floor of a two-story convent. Through Sister Rosario’s efforts, the center has since expanded to include three buildings that house an immediate crisis care facility and a long-term care facility for a total of 20 children.

Pastor of Annunziata Catholic Church in 1999, “Father Jim” has reached out to the marginalized and forgotten children and youth throughout his priesthood. In 1993, the seeds for Providence High School were planted after Morrison met with a distraught grandmother and her expelled granddaughter. He developed Providence High, an alternative school for at-risk, expelled students, using a holistic approach to education. Through 1999, more than 420 students had been given a second chance through Providence.

Babin’s connection to Girl Scouts goes back more than 30 years, and for the past 11 years she has served as troop leader for girls in every age group. Her tenure as Houma Service Unit manager has seen a steady increase in Girl Scout membership from this large, mostly rural area.

A child support intake caseworker by day, Duplantis continues her unwavering support for at-risk youth on her own time by volunteering to visit juvenile detention centers, bringing a positive mental message and a healthy physical workout to youth there. Duplantis was also nominated in 2005.

At age 9, Dunckelman began Project FAME (Fine Arts Motivating the Elderly), an intergenerational program bringing young children together with the elderly. Now 16, he has devoted many volunteer hours to other projects serving children, including fundraising efforts to aid area children following hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

Liner is a member of Bikers Against Child Abuse and spends many hours outside of his regular job as a child support enforcement officer helping abused children feel safe both in their homes and when they are required to appear in court. Liner is also a member of Louisiana's Blue Knights, an all-cop motorcycle organization that works tirelessly to help children through donations, fundraisers, child safety events and fingerprinting.

Born without arms, Navarre has devoted his life to helping disabled children, largely through his work with the Louisiana Lions Crippled Children's Camp in Leesville.

Charles Brown started The Learning Center for at risk youth as well as a youth orchestra and theater group.

Kathleen Gros is a long time community activist in Thibodaux. Two of her most notable projects involved establishing and huge annual community toy drive for needy children, and the development of a childrern's museum