If you could briefly introduce yourself, tell us how you became involved with Team Kids and what you saw in the work that made you want to become such a champion of it.

Sure.

My name's Lieutenant Steve Pena.

I'm a lieutenant at the Alliant Police Department, and I oversee our Youth Services Division, which is all our school resource officers, our youth programs, our Explorer program, Cadet program.

We're quite busy, to be honest.

I think it was three years ago, the Anaheim Community Foundation did a needs assessment in the community.

And one of the needs was for more positive police engagements within the community.

a role model, the adult connection that they can look to and know that there are such things as caring human beings out there.