DENVER -- Leslie Farrell is the victim of domestic violence, which resulted in a traumatic brain injury. She is also a single parent of three daughters.

Her youngest daughter is 8 years old and has sensory integration dysfunction and Asperger's Syndrome.

After enrolling in and graduating from the Goodwill Industries challenge program, Leslie started her own business called Muttleysmaid. Muttleysmaid is a pooper scooper business that employs the disabled and helps them to re-enter the workforce. As a result of her injury, Leslie lives in chronic pain and has short term memory loss.

Despite her disability she manages to run a company, care for her children, and volunteer to help others in her community. Leslie is a volunteer for the Stevens Johnson Syndrome Foundation. After her injury she lost her job in the electrical industry along with her home. She has overcome adversity and made the best of a bad situation.

With our failing economy Leslie has lost a great deal of business. She is having a difficult time providing for her daughters. Leslie constantly helps her friends and family and now she is getting help herself.

Leslie is one of five Colorado winners who will receive $5,000 from ABC 7 toward their "American Dream." An additional $5,000 will go to the Stevens Johnson Syndrome Foundation, the nonprofit organization that Leslie chose as her charity recipient.

The Stevens Johnson Syndrome Foundation provides public and medical communities with information on adverse allergic drug reactions. Their mission is to create awareness on adverse reactions to drugs, allowing for a quick diagnosis, therefore halting therapy with the offending drug as soon as possible.

For more information on the Stevens Johnson Foundation visit SJsupport.org.