Membership
The Child Care Planning Council (CCPC) serves as a forum to address the child care needs of all families and all child care programs in Sonoma County. The Council is composed of up to 35 individuals who represent one of five categories as mandated by law: child care consumer, child care provider, public agency, community member, and discretionary. All voting members are appointed jointly by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and Superintendent of Schools. The CCPC provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ethnic group, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability, age, or any other unlawful consideration.
The Council meets monthly to help develop ongoing comprehensive planning for child care needs in the county and to provide greater coordination of and advocacy for child care services. All meetings are open to the public.
Child Care Consumer Representatives
Kathleen Kelley, Early Learning Institute
Carli Ortiz, CPA, Linkenheimer LLP
Lorie Siebler, Parent Voices
Dagny Thomas, Community of Santa Rosa
Child Care Provider Representatives
Teri Clark, North Bay Children’s Center
Missy Danneberg, Extended Child Care Coalition
Teri Porter, YWCA A Special Place
Cathy Vaughn, Montessori School of Sonoma/PACE
Terry Zeigler, Mt. Taylor Children’s Center
Public Agency Representatives
Chiara Bacigalupa, Sonoma State University
Debbie Blanton, SCOE Special Education Preschool
Elisabeth Chicoine, Sonoma County Public Health Department
John Eberly, Santa Rosa Junior College
Gabe Kearney, City of Petaluma Councilmember
Tamara Larimore, Sonoma County Human Services Department
Community Representatives
Melissa Black, Community of Rio Nido
Melanie Dodson, Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County
Bobby Ewell, Community of Santa Rosa
Amy Howder-Thompson, League of Women Voters
Jynx Lopez, River to Coast Children’s Services
Melita Love, Farm to Pantry
Marianne Schwarz-Kesling, SRJC CalWorks
Discretionary Representatives
Rebecca Hachmyer, Community of Petaluma
Michael Mendoza, Cloverdale Rancheria
Michelle Nardone, PACEAPP
Ofelia Ochoa-Morris, CAP Sonoma County/Head Start
Heather Sweet, COTS
Margie Vondrak, Community of Rohnert Park
Current Vacancies
Child care consumer representative
Child care provider representative
Discretionary representative
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Planning Council, please read the membership information sheet (pdf), fill out the application form (pdf), and mail it to the Child Care Planning Council of Sonoma County, 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403. The form may also be faxed to 524-2666 or emailed to csimmons@scoe.org.
Advisors
The following individuals serve as non-voting advisors to the Child Care Planning Council of Sonoma County.
Joanne Brion, Brion & Associates
Maddy Hirshfield, District Director for Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro
Lara Magnusdottir, Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County
Emmie Morgan, Field Representative for Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey
Ed Sheffield, District Director for Senator Noreen Evans
Sandra Torres, Torres Family Child Care
Pam Turner, Sonoma County Office of Education/CPIN