Our Team
Manager: Alex Arcila
OCBS is founded by Alex Arcila. He has been serving about 20 years working with families with developmentally disabled individuals. Alex started his career in 2001 as a direct care staff in a level 4i group home working with young adults coming out of Kern County Juvenile Hall. One year later he took on a new opportunity at an Adult Residential Facility (ARF), which is a 4-bed home, for adults with behavioral and self-care issues coming out of the Porterville Developmental Center, which was opened in August 2002.
After six months, he was appointed to be a house manager at Bakersfield’s first crisis home for children. In 2004, Mr. Arcila became ARF certified by the State of California and was promoted to Administrator for a 3-bed ARF facility. In 2005, Mr. Arcila passed the Group Home Administrator exam of the State of California and became a group home administrator for a level 4i 4-bed facility. In addition, he managed a day program facility for 6 months during this period. In 2009, he moved to Orange County, and was promoted as the Administrator Director in Orange County. He worked in this field for 8 years, managing the OC crisis home in Costa Mesa.
In 2016, Alex founded OC Broad Services and was vendorized by the Regional Center of Orange County to provide respite services in 2020. In his career Alex worked successfully with some of the most behaviorally challenging children and adults in the state of California. He continues to work closely with families to ensure their needs are met in any way, shape, or form.
Director of Operations: Judith de Kort
Judith worked most of her career in Customer Services. She obtained a bachelor in Hotel Management in the Netherlands and has worked and lived in multiple countries around the world before settling down in Orange County.
In her capacity as a Director of Customer for an International Au Pair Agency she helped families and their live-in au pair overcome and embrace cultural differences to ensure high quality childcare, optimize the cultural exchange and customer satisfaction.
Judith is passionate about cultural exchange and customer services. She took on a language teaching job, teaching children and adults the Dutch language. In 2020 she joined OC Broad Services and she is responsible for the overall operations.
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Office Manager: Lauren Holcomb
Lauren spent most of her adolescence volunteering for community services, which fostered an interest in focusing her education and career on helping others. During college, Lauren volunteered for various non-profit organizations with an emphasis on educational, artistic, and mental/physical health resources. In 2021, Lauren graduated from Chapman University with a B.S in Business Administration, and a minor in Psychology.
Post-graduation, Lauren discovered a love for assisting individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in getting the services they need to thrive. Previously, Lauren worked at an Adult Day Program where she served as the Administrative Assistant, gaining experience helping individuals with IDD, while also strengthening her administrative knowledge.
Lauren has enthusiastically joined the OC Broad Services team as a Schedule Coordinator/Office Assistant , eager to broaden her experiences in providing services to people of all ages, backgrounds, and disabilities. Soon thereafter got promoted to Office Manager overseeing scheduling and assisting supporting overall operations
Services Coordinator: Katherine Wicker
Kate began working with individuals with developmental disabilities while in college, providing in-home care, community networking and supported employment services to adults and children.
After graduating with her bachelors in Music Therapy and minor in Psychology Science, she went on to hold clinical positions in in-patient mental health and adult day program settings and administrative roles in licensed care facilities.
She is excited to continue serving this community and connecting with clients, families and staff through direct scheduling with OC Broad Services.
Administrative Executive: Bradleigh LaBruna
Bradleigh has spent most of her work career in the International Ocean Freight Industry. Working as a line manager with customer service being her strength.
She loves people and enjoys serving in whatever capacity she is needed. Bradleigh has always had a heart to serve, and has spent a lot of time in different community outreaches and non profit organizations.
She enjoys learning new things - which brought her to OC Broad Services. Her desire is to make people feel valued, seen, noticed and tended to... which she is able to do working in our office. She currently handles payroll and billing, which she loves because it allows her to interact with clients and caregivers.
Admin: Daniella Arcila
Daniella is currently a student at New York University. Both of Daniella's parents have worked with behaviorally challenged individuals their entire life and she has grown up learning about their professions within that environment.
As it is her first time stepping into the industry, Daniella feels confident that she will be able to emulate the hard work and diligence both her parents carried with them. Daniella is passionate about caring for others and building relationships with clients. She is hopeful to provide the same outstanding service that her father does.