On this week’s episode of The Imprint Weekly Podcast we are joined by Brandon Nichols, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, and Victor Dominguez, CEO of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. They recently partnered to guarantee a YMCA membership to every older youth in foster care, as well as former foster youth up to age 26.
We talked about how the partnership came together, what youth can get out of a Y membership, and talked a bit about how the frenetic things in Washington, D.C. are impacting their respective organizations.
Brandon Nichols is the director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. In addition to his child welfare career, Nichols served as the executive director of the county’s Jail Closure Implementation Team.
Victor Dominguez is the CEO of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. Appointed to the role in 2022, Dominguez has been an executive with the organization for two decades and helped launch the Cradle to Career initiative as well as the Achieve LA program.
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Free YMCA LA Memberships for Youth in Foster Care
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