Anneliese Sheahan, Licensed Family CF Child Care Gladstone, OR. Specializing in infant and toddler care for children under 2. In the early childhood field since 1994. Graduate of UWSP. Opened my first licensed family child care in 2002. Advocate at the state and federal level since 2004. I moved to Oregon in March of 2016, and was the staff rep for the local for just over 3 years before transitioning back into owning a licensed family child care. My passion is helping family child care providers -- any way I can! Please give me a call anytime -- I am always here to chat, to assist, to provide training, to lend an empathetic ear and do whatever I can for my fellow family child care providers. I have been a child care union member of CCPT in Wisconsin and Oregon since 2005. I believe a strong child care union makes a significant impact in our lives, our businesses and our child care industry -- it is because we have a strong child care union that we have a strong family child care workforce. 

My name is Shanna Aldis-Rose I am a Certified Child Care in Salem since 1995.  I started volunteering in 2005 from the beginning to fight for our rights to form a child care union in Oregon.  When we won and became a local I was voted in to become the Valley Regional Director and currently still hold the same position.  I am very proud to be a part of this union.  Because of all the staff and volunteers working together in the union, I have seen the child care field being thought of as just babysitters to Professional Educators and business owners.

My achievements include receiving my Infant/Toddler and Preschool Completion of Certificates from Chemeketa Community College.  I have also achieved Step 10 on the Oregon Registry and Star 3 in the SPARKS Program.  I am continuing my education to receive my ECE Associates Degree. 
In my personal life my husband and I enjoy spending time with my 7 adult children and my many grandchildren.  We like to go camping, BBQing, going to the grandchildren's sporting events, and spending time with our church family.  I believe it is very important to be a strong committed person in my family as it is in my child care families to help with our families futures.

Hola, my name is Heather Schones. I have been a child care provider for 8 years. I am a step 10 in the Oregon registry and working on my bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education at OSU. I run a dual language certified in-home childcare is South Salem and am 5-star rated. I work with Early Head Start and Preschool Promise.

I became a child care provider to be able to stay home with my children and over the years the business has continued to grow. I have 4 children of my own ranging from age 19 to 3 years old. I love watching them play sports. My son is actively involved in football and my baby is soon to start sports. My oldest has finished school and is working and my 16-year-old is working on her IB level classes before she heads off to college. I volunteer at my children’s school and enjoy helping out in the class.

I joined AFSCME to be a part of the change. To work with amazing people that go to work every day to better the lives and careers of childcare providers. They help fight for our rights and wages to make a living taking care life’s greatest treasures. Over the last few years we have made progress by leaps and bounds, and I am honored to be a part of it.

Autumn has been a child care provider since 1996 and runs a certified child care home in Salem. In 2003, she received her Associate of Applied Science degree in Criminal Justice. She thought she would want to go into the Criminal Justice field after graduation but was mentored by another provider to grow her child care business which she decided would be my a life-long career. Like many in the field, she enjoys being a provider because she is able to be with her child care children as well as her own grandchildren in care.

Autumn has a husband, four children and six grandchildren. Her husband is from the Pacific Islands and their family plans and participates in Pacific Islander cultural events in the community.

As the President for AFSCME Local 132 Child Care Providers Together, she participates in many State level meetings to provide the voice for her fellow providers and keep up to date as to what is going on in our field. She has mentored many providers to grow their business and grow their professionalism. Her program is Spark 5-Star rated and a Preschool Promise site. She has an Oregon Registry step 10, a Director Credential and is a Master Trainer.

Autumn joined AFSCME because she had experienced first hand how much our union helped providers. She loves being part of our union because of the support and sense of solidarity. Autumn believes it is important to be involved and to know what is going on it the child care field. Our union is the strong voice that directly impacts her business. 

Aimee Olin is originally from New England and moved to Portland OR in 2007 to become the Northwest Regional Director of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a membership organization of low and moderate income working families working to improve access to housing, healthcare, quality education and basic needs. As an organizer with ACORN, Aimee worked with the leadership and members to win key victories including preventing $4 million in cuts to early learning, nurses, and guidance counselor programs in schools in Providence RI and the passage of a consumer protection law in Oregon giving more rights to families who were struggling with mortgage default and foreclosure. Before joining AFSCME Council 75, Aimee was the Community Engagement Manager for 211info where she conducted community presentations to service providers and community members on how to find resources, programs and services for individuals and families in need in Oregon. Before moving to the Northwest, Aimee worked and volunteered in a childcare center and a family based childcare home. Aimee is excited to join all her past experience and put it to good use recruiting new members to the child care union and supporting childcare providers in the region.

Aimee joined AFSCME in 2018 as a community organizer whose role was to recruit new members to our Child Care local, identify and develop new leaders and turnout members to events. Last year she became the staff representative for CCPT as well adding to her role assisting members with any issues they have with state agencies and working on overall policy changes that are needed to support all family child care providers. She has over ten years of experience as a community organizer. As a Regional Director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), for nine years, she has built and been part of several community-labor coalitions that served both rural and urban communities in states that include: California, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah and Washington. Nine years of experience in legislative policy work in Oregon and several other states, counties and municipalities. Thirteen years of field work experience including legislative and political campaign coordination, door-to-door canvassing and member recruitment. Most importantly, she is committed to developing autonomous community groups led by the people affected by the issues they choose to address.