Leigh Anne Tuohy Headlines Shelter Network Benefit

for , the Burlingame-based organization that provides housing and homeless support to roughly 4,000 San Mateo County individuals each year.

Speakers included graduates of the program and keynote speaker Leigh Anne Tuohy, best known as the adoptive mother of the formerly homeless teen and current Baltimore Raven’s player Michael Oher. She inspired Michael Lewis’s book The Blind Side and was later portrayed in the movie version by Sandra Bullock.

“All we did was turn the car around and offered this young man hope and love and opportunity, which is what Shelter Network does every single day,” Tuohy said. “This is a young man society had deemed 100 percent valueless [...and] if you don’t think there’s Michael Oher’s right here, you are dead wrong. There are Michael Oher’s in every city in the United States of America, and all they need is a chance, and that’s what Shelter Network provides.”

In South San Francisco, residents in need can seek assistance at the  and the . 

For more about the Shelter Network benefit, .