About Juan Ortiz

Juan Ortiz is a man who has discovered the blessings in adversity. As a child, each day he would face the challenges of his father's verbal and physical abuse fueled by the use of drugs and alcohol. As the eldest of six children, Juan became a support for his mother and a father figure to his siblings. Desperate and filled with despair, Juan looked at life as a teenager with no hope for the future. He decided it was not worth going on with life. If it were not for the example of courage and ...