Collaborative Leadership Council

The countywide home visiting field is supported and guided by the Collaborative Leadership Council, a representative body that performs ongoing monitoring, adjustment, coordination, and advocacy for the expanded system of home visiting in LA County and identifies opportunities to deepen the connections between home visiting and other prevention and family-strengthening work underway in the County.

| LA County Home Visiting System:

| Management Team

  • Sharlene Gozalians, DrPh, MPH, CHES

    Director, LA Best Babies Network

  • Diana Careaga, MPH, MA

    Director of Family Supports Team, First 5 LA

  • Melissa Franklin, EdD

    Director, LA County Department of Public Health- Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health

  • Ashley Skiffer-Thompson, MBA, CLE

    Director of Home Visiting Systems, LA County Department of Public Health

| Steering Committee

Lynnette Bello

Program Manager, Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach- Welcome Baby

Vynette Brown, PsyD, MA, LMFT, CLE

Maternal & Child Health Administrator, SHIELDS for Families

Diana Careaga, MPH, MA

Director of the Family Supports Team, First 5 LA

Sharlene Gozalians, DrPH, MPH, CHES

Director, LA Best Babies Network

Melissa Franklin, EdD

Director, LA County Department of Public Health- Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health

Victoria Bibby

Director of Direct Services, Antelope Valley Partners for Health

Ashley Skiffer-Thompson, MBA, CLE

Director of Home Visiting Systems, LA County Department of Public Health

Danette Lew, MSW, LCSW

Director 0-5 Programs, Foothill Family