First In-Person Event in 18 Months Will Feature Soccer Hall of Famer Cobi Jones
The nation’s premiere law enforcement/community relations behavior change model will conduct its first in-person event in over a year and a half when Major League Soccer (MLS) team Los Angeles Galaxy, in partnership with the ASCSC Foundation, hosts Game Changer 120 on Friday, August, 20, 2021. The LA Galaxy will be the first MLS team to take part in the formal training of police officers in the state of California.
Tamala Lewis, Senior Director, AEG’s Dignity Health Sports Park Community Affairs and Foundation, ensured that event 120 would take place at Dignity Health Sports Park by donating suite space, dinner, and game tickets to community nonprofits representing the LA Galaxy Academy Youth, Brotherhood Crusade Youth, and the Eastside Rider Youth. Special guest speakers are elected officials Jawane Hilton (Carson City Council) and mike Gipson (California Assembly).
Sports legend, broadcaster, Olympian, Hall of Famer, and former LA Galaxy player and champion, Cobi Jones, will headline the training event that provides CA Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and CA Standards and Training for Corrections (STC) continuing education training hours to members of law enforcement representing the LA County Sheriff Department (Carson Station) and the Inglewood Police Department.
Up until this event, COVID-19 has prevented the 4.5-year-old model from conducting in-person operations, which trains members of law enforcement and community residents through moderated focus groups that typically occur three hours before the start of collegiate and professional sporting events.