Council Membership

The Orange County Child Care and Development Planning Council (Council) consists of approximately 40 members appointed by the Orange County Board of Supervisors and the Orange County Superintendent of Schools. Council members serve a two-year term and may serve more than one term. Membership applications are kept on file and reviewed each spring to fill open vacancies. For more information, contact Susan Shepardson at sshepardson@ocde.us .

Applications will be reviewed, and membership appointments will be selected based on current Council vacancies.

LPC New Membership Application 2022.pdf

(right-click the link to "Save Links/Target As" and open in Adobe Acrobat to complete and submit the form)

The state statute provides guidelines for the composition of the LPC membership and how appointments are made. The statute specifically requires that every effort should be made by the appointing agencies to assure that the ethnic, racial, and geographic composition of the LPC is reflective of the population of the county. Members shall be appointed from each of the five following categories of representation:

20 percent consumers, defined as a parent or person who receives, or who has received within the past 36 months, child care services.
20 percent child care providers, defined as a person who provides child care services or represents persons who provide child care services.
20 percent public agency representatives, defined as a person who represents a city, county, city and county, or local education agency.
20 percent community representatives, defined as a person who represents an agency or business that provides private funding for child care services, or who advocates for child care services through participation in civic or community-based organizations but is not a child care provider and does not represent an agency that contracts with the CDE to provide child care and development services.
The remaining percent (20%) are discretionary, appointed from any of the above categories or outside of these categories at the discretion of the appointing agencies.

Membership 2021 - 2022

Tiffany Alva First 5 OC, Children & Families Commission Public Agency Representative Member, Steering Committee Co-Chair, Membership Committee Co-Chair, Emergency Child Care Task Force	Janet Anderson-Deusenberry Holy Family Catholic Preschool Child Care Provider Representative Member, Workforce Development
Penny Andrews Brea Olinda Unified School District Consumer Representative Member, Workforce Development	Sandy Avzaradel Charitable Ventures / Early Childhood OC Community Representative Member, Workforce Development Member, Emergency Child Care Task Force
Scott Ayres Spectrum Montessori Child Care Provider Representative Member, Emergency Child Care Task Force Member, Workforce Development
Dolores Barrett Community Action Partnership of OC Community Representative Member, Strategic Planning & Evaluation	Chris Becerra Chris Becerra Consulting Consumer Representative Second Vice-Chair Member, Membership Committee Member, Steering Committee
Sue Bierlich Retired Preschool Director Discretionary Representative Member, Workforce Development	Seon Chun-Burbank Vanguard University of Southern CA Discretionary Representative Member, Strategic Planning & Evaluation
Julie DeLorenzo Irvine Unified School District Consumer Representative Member, Membership Committee	Wendi Evans The LGBTQ Center of OC Community Representative Member, Inclusion Collaborative
Maureen Fitzpatrick Retired Professor Discretionary Representative Co-Chair, Strategic Planning & Evaluation Member, Steering Committee	Dr. Elida Garcia Orange County Department of Education Public Agency Representative Superintendent of Schools Liaison Member, Steering Committee
Fritzi Gragg Catalyst Family, Inc. Child Care Provider Council Chair Co-Chair, Emergency Child Care Task Force Member, Steering Committee	Nadhira Hathotuwegama Little Scholars Academy of CA Consumer Representative Member, Workforce Development
Darcie Kass A Child's Place Learning Center Child Care Provider Representative Co-Chair, Inclusion Collaborative	Jenn Kinkel Fullerton College Discretionary Representative Co-Chair, Workforce Development
Kathleen Leary Newport Mesa Unified School District Public Agency Representative Member, Workforce Development	Janneth Linnell Rancho Santiago Community College District Child Care Provider Representative Member, Workforce Development
Lee Lombardo YMCA Community Services of OC Community Representative Member, Inclusion Collaborative	Yessika Magdaleno Little Flowers Family Child Care Child Care Provider Representative Member, Workforce Development
Bertha Manzanares Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Public Agency Representative Member, Emergency Child Care Task Force Member, Inclusion Collaborative	Kathleen McFarlin Regional Center of OC Community Representative Member, Inclusion Collaborative
Diane Montano California State PTA Discretionary Representative Member, Strategic Planning & Evaluation	Bryan Nguyen Parent/Consumer Consumer Representative Member, Strategic Planning & Evaluation
Misael Hernandez County of Orange, Social Services Agency Public Agency Representative Board of Supervisors Liaison Member, Strategic Planning & Evaluation	Valerie Padilla Orange County Head Start Community Representative Council Vice-Chair Co-Chair, Strategic Planning & Evaluation Member, Steering Committee
Deanna Parga Help Me Grow Consumer Representative Co-Chair, Membership Committee Member, Steering Committee Member, Inclusion Collaborative	Megan Pritchard Parent, Consumer Consumer Representative Member, Workforce Development
Yumi Ramirez Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove Child Care Provider Representative Member, Workforce Development Member, Inclusion Collaborative
Amanda Selogie Inclusion Education Project Discretionary Representative Member, Inclusion Collaborative	Lisa Stambolis Families Forward Community Representative Member, Workforce Development
Traci Stubbler The City of Irvine Consumer Representative Council Parliamentarian Co-Chair, Inclusion Collaborative Member, Steering Committee Member, Emergency Child Care Task Force	Laura Vidal CA Early Childhood Mentor Program Community Representative Co-Chair, Workforce Development Member, Steering Committee
Scarlett vonThenen CA State Council on Developmental Disabilities Public Agency Representative Member, Inclusion Collaborative