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Monterey County

Monterey County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 415,057. The county seat and largest city is Salinas. Monterey County comprises the Salinas, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Please see our Guide to County Resource Organizations page a brief description of the following organizations.

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Regional Center

San Andreas Regional Center

6203 San Ignacio Avenue
San Jose, CA 95119
Phone: (408) 374-9960
Fax: (408) 376-0586
Website: http://www.sarc.org

Areas Served: Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties

Early Start Family Resource Center

Special Education Plan Areas (SELPA)

Monterey County: SELPA

P.O. Box 80851
Salinas, CA 93912-0851
Phone: 831-755-0342

Child Care Resource Referral Agencies

Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (Commerce)

5657 East Washington Blvd.
Commerce, CA 90040
Referral Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Referral Number: 323-890-1555
Fax Number: 323-890-1730
Website: http://www.maof.org/

Monterey County Child Care Resource & Referral (Monterey)

11 Quail Run Circle, Ste. 101
Salinas, CA 93907
Referral: 831-757-0775
Fax: 831-757-7549
Website: http://www.maof.org

Local Plan Council (LPC)

Monterey County Office of Education: Head Start & Early Head Start Program

901 Blanco Circle
Salinas, CA 93901
Phone: 831-755-0352
Fax: 831-755-6480

County First 5

County Office of Education

Early Head Start/Head Start

CA Teaching Pyramid Partner Site

Carmel Unified School District Child Development Program

Carmel Unified School District Child Development Program provides early care and education services to approximately 150 children and families in 13 classrooms across 3 sites. These services include full-day infant and full-and part-day toddler classrooms, and full- and part-day State Preschool and tuition-based preschool and transitional kindergarten options. The Child Development Program is an inclusive program—approximately 15% of enrolled children have active Individualized Education Plans.

The Child Development Program began implementing the Teaching Pyramid in 2013 and joined the Partner Site program in 2018. The program Leadership Team has built the Teaching Pyramid framework into their program in a variety of ways. They have an Authorized Trainer and an Authorized Coach on their staff to provide ongoing training and coaching for teachers. They have included regular Teaching Pyramid planning time as a standing agenda item in staff meetings and use the Classroom Pacing Guide to ensure maintenance of Teaching Pyramid lessons and activities. They conduct Teaching Pyramid for Families groups for parents each year, so that families can learn and use Teaching Pyramid strategies at home. They have shared their work in Webinars and in the annual Symposium. These efforts have paid off for their program. They report high levels of teacher buy-in and ownership and they have achieved very high implementation fidelity scores in Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool assessments in all of their classrooms and over time.