Membership

Membership Application

Council Members

Members & Appointing Authority Member composition:20% Child Care Consumer – a parent or a person who currently is using or used child care or center based care).

20% Child Care Provider – a person who provides child care services in Kern County (family child care or center based care)

20% Community Representative – 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 California Department of Education to provide child care and development services

20% Public Agency Representative – a person who represents a city, county, city and county, or local education agency and who funds, regulates, or monitors the delivery of child care services

20% Discretionary Member – appointed from any of the four above categories at the discretion of the appointing agencies.

Executive Committee

Chair – Mike Bledsoe
Vice Chair – Amanda Tumblin
Secretary –Christine Lollar
Treasurer – Betty Phillips

Members

Child Care Consumers

Vacant
KCSOS appointment

Jennifer Slayton
District 1 appointment
Parent/Lamont School District Pre-K Program
www.lwfrc.org

Rosita Curry
District 2 appointment
Parent/Community Action Partnership of Kern

Vacant
KCSOS appointment

Child Care Providers

Mike Bledsoe
District 1 appointment
Delano Union Elementary School District Child Development Programs

Lisa Brum
District 3 appointment
Small Steps Family Child Care

Alesha Hixon
KCSOS appointment
Lost Hills Family Resource Center/Paramount Child Development Center

Yolanda Gonzales
District 5 appointment
Community Action Partnership of Kern

Myetta Beavers
KCSOS appointment
Child Haven Preschool

Vacant
KCSOS appointment

Community Representatives

Vacant
District 1 appointment

Carrie Eveland
KCSOS appointment
Clinica Sierra Vista, Adolescent Family Life Program

Christine Lollar
District 4 appointment

Carlos Lara
KCSOS appointment
Family Strengthening Trainer

Manpreet Kaur
District 5 appointment

Kevin Bartl
KCSOS appointment
First 5 Kern

Public Agency Representatives

Vacant
KCSOS appointment

Jo’L Jackson
KCSOS appointment
Bakersfield College

Andrya Salazar
District 4 appointment
Kern County Department of Child Services

Shannon Oastler
District 3 appointment
Kern County Department of Child Services

Shirelle Perez
KCSOS appointment
Community Connection for Child Care
http://kern.org/cccc/

Maria Aleman
District 2 appointment
Kern Behavioral Health & Recovery Services

Discretionary Members

Megan Gretona
KCSOS appointment
California Preschool Instructional Network

Meghan Hall-Silveira
District 4 appointment
Taft College Children’s Center

Vacant
District 3 appointment

Vacant
District 2 appointment

Betty Phillips
KCSOS appointment
Retired Pre-K Teacher

Amanda Tumblin
KCSOS appointment
California State University, Bakersfield
http://www.csub.edu/sse/teacher_education/