Chair - Kathleen Dreessen 
Executive Director, Napa Valley Community Housing

Chair Kathleen Dreessen, Executive Director of Napa Valley Community Housing, has lived in Napa for 25 years. Her education includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from CSU Sacramento and a Master’s Degree in Management from CSU Sonoma. She is single and lives in North Napa with a crazy Australian Shepard.  Kathleen loves living in a community where non-profit agencies pull together to work for the common good. 

Vice Chair - Chuck Mottern
Program Director; Napa, Buckelew Programs

Chuck Mottern has been Program Director for Buckelew Programs in Napa since 2004, and has sat on the board of the Napa Valley Coalition of Non Profit Agencies since 2009.

Treasurer - William Krimm
Director, Alternatives for Better Living

Secretary - Margaret Farman
Executive Director, United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay

Margaret Farman has served as Executive Director of United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay since November 2006.  Her career in the field of developmental disabilities has spanned 31 years – developing education, employment, recreation, housing, and supported living services.  She has also served on numerous community advisory boards – advocating for the rights of people with developmental disabilities and coordinating services with state and local agencies.  

Under her leadership, UCPNB has experienced rapid growth with the development of Cypress School, WineBev Services, Gone for Good, and Recreation Services.  Cypress School serves students ages 5-22 with autism and other developmental disabilities. WineBev Services and Gone for Good employ adults with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities – paying them market rate wages that help to create economic self-sufficiency.

Dana Codron
Executive Director, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Community Outreach

Dana Codron is the executive director at Queen of the Valley Medical Center’s Community Outreach Department, a position she has held for the past three years. She has been with Queen of the Valley, which is owned by St. Joseph Health System, since 1984 as a registered nurse in a variety of positions. Ms. Codron’s experience in home health began in 1995, when she shifted her focus to the CARE Network, a community-based chronic disease management initiative at the hospital. During her tenure with the medical center, the CARE network has expanded to combine case management strategies, utilizing registered nurses, social work, behavioral health and spiritual support services. Over 300 patients were served in 2010. In her position, Ms. Codron also oversees the Community Outreach Department, which includes a mobile dental clinic, a school-based childhood obesity prevention initiative, and a post-partum depression program, among others. She is a board member for the Napa Valley Hospice and Adult Day Services, the Parent Child Advocacy Network and the Napa Valley Coalition of Nonprofit Agencies. Queen of the Valley awarded her with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Nursing in 2008.

Diana Dorame
Executive Director, Legal Aid of Napa Valley

Diana Dorame has been Executive Director/Supervising Attorney of Legal Aid of Napa Valley since March 1, 2006. She joined Legal Aid as Supervising Attorney in July 2005, and served as the principal staff attorney for the Baseline Legal Services Program. Diana was formerly senior attorney with the Napa County Department of Child Support where for 12 years she handled a variety of child support, establishment, modification and enforcement cases. She is the past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the State Bar of California. Prior to moving to Napa, Diana was in private practice in Los Angeles and Orange counties, handling family law, immigration, civil litigation, personal injury and transactional matters. A graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, Diana was previously an officer and trustee of the Los Angeles Mexican Bar Association and an extern with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Diana is bilingual/bicultural.

 
Saanen Kerson
Program Director, Vine Village, Inc.

Joan Lockhart
Executive Director, ParentsCAN