ACAP looks for new home; leader resigns

Big changes are under way at ACAP Child and Family Services.

Big changes are under way at ACAP Child and Family Services.

Once again, the 41-year-old nonprofit organization has to fold its tents and find a new home, just short of two years from the time it left its longtime spot adjacent to Les Gove Park and moved to White River Presbyterian Church to make way for the future Auburn Community Center.

Board members said ACAP needs to move because the leadership of Pyung An Presbyterian Church, 526 12th St. SE, Auburn (formerly the White River Presbyterian Church) needs the wing it now occupies.

Board members said ACAP had found a site, but they did not elaborate.

On the heels of that news came the unexpected announcement that Largo Wales, ACAP’s chief executive, had resigned. Wales explained some of her reasons in her letter of resignation to the ACAP Board of Directors on Aug. 20.

“I am sure that you understand the strength of my passion for ACAP, its mission and our wonderful board, but as an organization we have positively evolved beyond [what] I can provide for leadership,” Wales wrote. “I am submitting my resignation (effective) Aug. 20 and want to thank each and everyone for all that you do.”

Board members said the parting was amicable. Wales told the board that she had other things she wanted to accomplish and her reasons for leaving were personal.

ACAP’s new director will be Donna Dussault- Walker, who served as principal of Lea Hill Elementary from July 1999 to June 2006. Neither Wales nor Dussault-Walker were available for comment.