Meeting Date, Time & Place
The Board meets bi-monthly, the first Monday of each month at 3:30 p.m. Contact us for additional information.
The Monterey County Child Abuse and Prevention Council is a county and community Council of local leaders who support CAPC.
In its role as the role of catalysts convener and coordinator for program planning, support and oversight for local prevention of child abuse efforts.
Priority will be given to members representing personal life experiences, local clergy, victim serving and family serving entities.
Greater Bay Area CAPC
VISION:
Empowering children and families to thrive free of abuse and neglect.
MISSION:
A strength-based collaborative lifting all voices to bring resources, including education, outreach and advocacy to empower all communities in Monterey County to keep children and families safe and thriving.
CORE VALUES:
Integrity, Collaboration, Empowerment, Equity, Passion
ROLE:
Catalyst, Convener, Coordinator
CAPC works in partnership with the California Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP) in local, regional, and statewide prevention efforts.
The Monterey County Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC) is the local entity to the state of California Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP).
The local CAPC Board is made up of appointed county representatives along with 4-6 appointed citizen-at-large representatives. The Monterey County Board of Supervisors created the Monterey County CAPC on June 10, 1986.
Public agencies which were identified by the BOS at CAPC’s inception internally nominate one member and alternate. This is an ongoing appointment. For citizen-at-large representatives the appointment is four years. Priority for these appointments will be given to members representing personal life experiences, local clergy, victim serving and family serving entities.
Monterey County’s Child Abuse and Prevention Council Director
Ginger has been involved in various child welfare-related positions in California and played a key role in establishing local and state programs such as Wraparound, The Epicenter, Family Ties, and California’s work on AB 12, which aimed to provide foster care supports and services to youth up to age 21.
In 2018, Ginger Pierce assumed the role of Monterey County’s Director of the Child Abuse and Prevention Council. Early in her career, she worked in Washington DC with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and was the original Independent Living Coordinator for the City of Alexandria.
Ginger holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Missouri – MIZZOU and an MSW from Loyola – Chicago. She actively volunteers in the community, having served as the Secretary of the Salinas High School Boosters, President of the Salinas Elementary Education Foundation for Art in Schools, as well as a mentor for Hartnell’s Women’s Education and Leadership Institute (WELI). Ginger is passionate about her work with CAPC and its community-wide efforts.
For many years, Ginger has been inspired by this quote from Desmond Tutu: “There comes a point in time when we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”