Thomas Lee’s career has focused on transforming child welfare systems into child well-being systems. In his decades of experience working with foster youth, Thomas has catalyzed providers and public and private funders to better serve transition-age youth. Before joining First Place for Youth, he launched and grew the Los Angeles Chapter of Friends of the Children to become the fastest-growing of 22 offices across the country, demonstrating at multiple regional sites how professional mentors can prevent child entry into the foster care system to help end multi-generational cycles of poverty and foster care. During his tenure, Friends LA offered an array of two-generation mentoring services for relatives caregivers, families noted to be at risk for entry into the foster care system, and Black boys in foster care.
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