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Dotty Lillo is the Director of the Western Dairyland Child Care Food Program and the Child Care Partnership Resource & Referral. Check the directory below to determine which of our staff members should be called upon to help with your personal child care request. Please call Dotty (extension 180) about any other child care related issue! Together, we can strive to make child care work using the following premise:                  “Is it good for the children?”
Renee Ernsting is the Program Manager for Quality Child Care Connections. The programs provide technical assistance, business start-up, and training to child care providers. It also offers curriculum units, books-in-a-bag, a laminator, bookbinder, and an Accu/cutter for provider use. Renee also administers environmental rating scales to assist providers in setting up appropriate environments and develops trainings. In addition, she writes the Child Care Partnership newsletter. Please feel free to contact her with any information you would like to have published in the newsletter. Extension 186
Gale Holliday is the Child Care Food Program (CCFP) Coordinator. Her responsibilities are to direct, plan, monitor, and evaluate the operation of the CCFP. She writes the CCFP newsletter, develops and implements training sessions, provides technical assistance to providers, and directs the CCFP monthly claims process. Extension 185.
 
Sandi McMahon is a Child Care Food Program (CCFP) Specialist. Her responsibilities are to conduct home reviews of providers in St. Croix, Pepin, Pierce, Buffalo, Trempealeau, La Crosse, and Eau Claire counties. She provides technical assistance to providers, conducts training sessions, and monitors the monthly CCFP claims process. Extension 181.
Cindy Halvorson is a Child Care Food Program Specialist. Her responsibilities are to assist in the monitoring of the CCFP. She conducts home visits in Trempealeau, Clark, Jackson, Monroe, Vernon, and La Crosse counties, provides technical assistance to providers, and monitors the monthly CCFP claims process. 800.782.1063 or 715.985.2391,
Extension 216.
Cathy Meindel is a Child Care Food Program Specialist as well as our
Training Coordinator. Her responsibilities are to conduct home reviews
of providers in Polk, Barron, St. Croix, Dunn, Chippewa, Clark, and Eau
Claire counties. She also coordinates the trainings for day care providers
in the ten counties served by CCPRR. Extension 183
Bethany Wuerch is a part-time Child Care Food Program Specialist. Her responsibilities are to conduct home reviews of providers in Eau Claire county. Bethany also helps in the office with the checking in and cleaning of the curriculum units and other library materials. She handles phone referrals and many other office duties.
Stephanie Ahrens is a Child Care Resource & Referral/Child Care Food Program Data Specialist. Her responsibilities are to update provider program changes, recruit new providers, and provide parents with a current child care listing to help them find quality child care. Extension 188.
 
Elizabeth Moua is a part-time Child Care Resource & Referral Hmong Bi-lingual Specialist. Her job is to provide enhanced child care referrals for limited-English-speaking Hmong parents and W-2 parents; to attend CVTC child care classes with them; to assist in the regulating of Hmong providers, to assist in the regulation process, to arrange trainings, and serves as interpreter. Extension 184.