Chris Kapp Email and Phone Number

Christina Kapp was born into a public-service focused family in a small village just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up doing disaster relief and community service work throughout the Midwest and Atlantic south. Kapp majored in radio broadcasting with a minor in community development at Mt. Vernon Nazarene University. After Mt. Vernon, she moved to NYC to continue her studies in theology and social practice at The Salvation Army’s College for Officer’s Training, where she graduated as a commissioned officer. While in NYC, she served as a first-wave first responder at Ground Zero on 9/11, serving the NYPD, FDNY, and other rescue workers after the attack.Following 9/11, she served in The Salvation Army for 12 years, focusing on marginalized youth, poverty issues, homelessness eradication, and food insecurity remediation. She has commanded homeless shelters, drug and alcohol halfway houses, and drop-in centers for the homeless, developed arts programming curricula for underprivileged youth, revitalized holiday assistance services, strategized and campaigned for community- and county-wide information sharing programs, and established a new Salvation Army chapter from the ground up in Central NJ.In 2011, Kapp settled in Carlisle, PA, where she spent several years working as a recreational therapist and chaplain, before taking a two-year long ‘private sector sabbatical’ to work for an international company as their national accounts manager, while still engaging as a social activist and as a non-profit coordinator.In December of 2017, Chris returned to the public sector as the coordinated entry regional manager, working through CCHRA. She has helped to implement one of the most substantial systems change strategies in many years, creating ‘one front door’ into the social services system and facilitating unprecedented inter-agency collaborative efforts to end homelessness. She also currently serves as the vice-president of the Cumberland-Perry LHOT.