Ric Estrada, Metropolitan Family Services

Brought to you by ubackforgood.com. Today we catch up with Ric Estrada, CEO of Metropolitan Family Services – an organization that has empowered families to learn, to earn, to heal and to thrive since 1857. MFS works with 72,000 families across the Chicagoland region providing financial aid, counseling, workforce, education and legal services. Ric has nearly three decades of leadership experience in human services, philanthropy and government – including appointments to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Selection Committee for the Emerging Leaders Program, and Board of Directors at the Woods Fund of Chicago. In this episode, we learn about: MFS’ programs and growth, along with increased services to Latino families across Chicagoland; opportunities to support the emotional wellness of working families; the importance of facilitating leadership, as well as continuing to innovate and build; and Ric shares insight on the great possibility that exists in Chicago and ways to get engaged in creating opportunity for families across the city.

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Ric Estrada, Metropolitan Family Services is an episode from Latino in Chicago by Eric Lugo.

This episode is 00:32:35 long.

This episode was published on Nov 7, 2016.

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