Maribel Marin is the Executive Director of the 211 service in Los Angeles County.
Did you know you can call 211 from your home or cell phone and ask for help with almost any life-circumstance difficulty you are having? You will reach a service associate who can find an organization which helps people with your precise problem. They’ll tell you who to contact, how to reach them, and what to do to get the best results.
Press play to view Maribel’s introduction and brief description of the Los Angeles County 211 services.
Lyz Melendez is a senior resource advisor with the Los Angeles 211 service. She is experienced at helping people from all over the county find assistance providers that can help them get out of a bind. Hear Lyz talk about 211 here.
Watch more from Maribel and Lyz!
Maribel and Lyz were guests at KVCR for it’s one-hour call-in program in which host Roger Bowman asked Maribel and Lyz, and the other regional 211 directors, questions about the foreclosure crisis. Both also answered caller questions. View the entire episode here [you can also navigate directly to It's Your Call, June 12th, in the menus above].
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- If the video is choppy or stutters, click pause and wait 5 or 10 minutes for the video to buffer. It should play smooth thereafter, assuming a moderate Internet access speed.
Wed, Jun 10, 2009
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