Board

FIRST 5 Siskiyou Children and Families Commissioners

First 5 Siskiyou (formerly Siskiyou Children & Families Commission) was first formed and began meeting in April 1999.

Seven Commissioners, appointed by the Board of Supervisors, meet monthly on the 4th Wednesday. Commission meetings are open to the public, and are held at the Behavioral Health Department, Red Oak Room, 2060 Campus Drive in Yreka or other locations as posted, from 8:30am to 11:00am.

Commissioners

Kermith Walters
Siskiyou County Superintendent of Schools
Kermith Walters was elected Siskiyou County Superintendent of Schools in June of 2006 taking office on January 8, 2007. He jokes that his first job in education was as a young kid helping his grandfather, who was in charge of maintenance and operations at Montague Elementary School, clean the firebox of the school boiler. He was the only one small enough to get inside the firegox and clean it out. Then he moved on to mowing the lawns. Who have guessed that 30 years later Kermith would be the Superintendnet at that very school? Kermith has worked in both the agriculture and logging industries. He has taught Kindergarten thru 8th grade. Since beginning his career in education, the positions he has held have ranged from a teacher, a district superintendent/principal and for 5 years superintendent of the Shasta Valley Consortium. Those were big jobs, but some of his most challenging school experiences have been as a cook, bus driver, custodian, coach, referee and school secretary. He says, “Each role has been a piece of the whole that has made my current job possible, and a position that I am most honored to have – that of County Superinetendent of Schools.” Kermith is eager to have the opportunity to have a positive impact on the students of Siskiyou County. He supports early childhood education and is working to improve and increase the current level of services available in Siskiyou County. As a district superintendent he was able to institute two exemplary preschool programs and an infant and toddler

Michael Noda
Director of Siskiyou County Human Services
Michael is Director of Siskiyou Human Services Department and has over 30 years of experience in the Social Services system. He worked in many of the small counties of California and was the founder/director of a non profit organization that provided contract social services to counties. He considers his most important credential that of being a father of three wonderful daughters and the accomplishment of having raised them in our modern culture. He credits them with having a strong influence in his education of being a father, a professional, and a contributing community member.

Stephen Perlman, MD
Public Health Office
Dr. Perlman has been a resident of SiskiyouCounty over thirty years. He served as Emergency Department Director at Mercy Mt. Shasta for ten years while residing in McCloud. He currently lives in Scott Valley and practiced at the Scott Valley Rural Health Clinic for eight years. He is presently Public Health Officer of Siskiyou County as well as ER physician at Fairchild Medical Center. Dr. Perlman and his wife Melinda have five children – two girls and three boys – ranging in age from twenty-three to twenty-eight. His interests include back country skiing, gardening, biking and exploring the wilderness.

Ingelore Weinberg, MFT
Private Family Therapist
Ingelore obtained a BA in Sociology and Anthropology, graduated the School of Education, Alternative Ed. summer program, received her MA in Psychology and holds an MFT License.   She has worked for a Private Social Agency, the Department of Social Welfare in New York State and Siskiyou County, Shasta Head Start as Child and Family Counselor, Siskiyou County Office of Education, Special Education, taught in elementary schools and has been a Private Family Therapist for 20 years.  She states that Shasta Head Start had marvelous training opportunities where she learned to know Magda Gerber who taught a philosophy that she had learned from her child’s pediatrician in  Budapest, Hungary.  Ingelore visited Dr. Emmi Pickler, founder of an orphanage after WW2, which became the demonstration child rearing institution in Hungary.  After that visit she attended educational sessions in the United States.  She feels that experience taught her to see infants and young children, their nature, as well as parenting, in a very different and positive way, especially after observing infants as a part of the sessions for 350 hours.  All of the above she brings to the position of First 5 Commissioner.