WORK EXPERIENCES
 
2010 – present, Volunteer  as Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA).  Serve as advocate to very young children who have been removed from their families as result of abuse & neglect.
 
Nov. 2003- June 2009:  Personnel Development Coordinator for the Family Infant 
Toddler Program (FIT), New Mexico Department of Health, Developmental Disabilities Supports Division, which provides early intervention to infants and toddlers with and at risk for developmental delays and disabilities and their families statewide.
Responsible for a comprehensive system of staff development for all Early Interventionists working in Part C, IDEA programs; promoted the needs of the FIT Program in the higher education arena; provided technical assistance to initiative and collaborative projects within the FIT Program.
Provided numerous relationship-based workshops and trainings on topics of infant mental health, home visiting, infant behaviors and cues, etc., to a variety of audiences including nurses, early childhood students and teachers, child care providers, Head Start staff, early intervention Part C staff.   Retired June 2009.
 
1994 –2002:  Home Visiting Coordinator for New Mexico Department of Public Health, Family Health Bureau.  Health Educator for home visiting, early childhood and family support programs.  Promotion of healthy infant attachment through publication of Day One, Day Two booklets and ad campaign involving billboards and television infomercials.  
 
1992 – 1993:  Coordinator for Health Families Santa Fe Program;
Supervisor of Home Visitors in Family Support Program for new parents and infants.  
 
1979 – 1992:  Coordinator of Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program, Santa Fe, NM;  Supervisor of Adult Volunteer matches with children, ages 6-16.   Trained Volunteers, conducted home visits of families and volunteers;   responsible for case reviews, staffing,  pre-match training, workshops, and interagency referral activities, community presentations.
 
1978 – 1979: French Teacher, Santa Fe Preparatory School,  Santa Fe,  NM.
 
Summer, 1978:  Research Assistant,  Adelante Youth Center for substance abusing teens.
1977,  Substitute Teacher,  Santa Fe Public Schools,  NM.
 
1976 – 1977:  Instructor of English as Second Language, University of Denver,  Colorado,  and in Aurora Public Schools, Aurora, Colorado.
 
1974 – 1976:  Teacher of English as Second Language in adult program at Cardinal Cushing Center for the Spanish Speaking,  Boston,  MA.
 
1971 – 1974:  French Teacher, Webutuck Central High School, Amenia, NY.
 
1970 – 1971:  VISTA volunteer in inner city of Cincinnati, Ohio.
 
1969, Summer:  Teacher Assistant in Head Start, Peoria, Illinois.
 
1968 – 69:  French Teacher at Academy of Our Lady High School and Spaulding Institute, Peoria, Illinois.

 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 
 
Jan. 2012 – present:  Provide monthly reflective group consultation to Family Infant Toddler Supervisors, a contract with Center for Development & Disability, Early Childhood Learning Network. 
 
Mar. 2011 – Nov. 2011, Center for Development & Disability:  Revision of existing of Individualized Family Support Plan (IFSP) Technical Assistance Document.
 
Feb.-June, 2010, Central New Mexico Community College, Provide consultation services to develop Family Infant Toddler online courses for early childhood education degree.
 
Nov. 2010 – May 2011, Central Consolidated School District, Shiprock, NM, Parents as Teachers Program: Provide monthly reflective group consultation to early childhood leadership staff.
 
October, 2009, contract with Center for Development & Disability:  Provide FIT Core Module trainings, topic, Family Visiting, Natural Environments.
 
Nov. 2009, BVH Consulting Services, Parent-Infant Study Center:  Provided one day training on “Keys To Caregiving”.
 
Sept. 2009 – May 2010, Las Cumbres Community Services, Early Childhood Mental Health Training Institute:  Provide tutoring, reflective mentoring & training to institute participants.


 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 
2011- present, Board Member of National Association for Early Attachments (NOEA), infant mental health home visiting, subsidiary of Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.

 
2005 – 2011: Founding Board Member of New Mexico Association for Infant Mental Health; Endorsement committee member and chair.
 
2011- Present: Member of New Mexico Association for Infant Mental Health; Endorsement committee member.
 
1998 – 2002:   Advisory Board Member of TOUCHPOINTS  project in Gallup, NM, with Indian Health Services and Head Start.
 
1999, 2000:   Co-author of Day One, Your Baby Knows, and Day Two: booklets
printed through the New Mexico Department of Health focusing on social/emotional
development of infants & toddlers.
 
1998,  Faculty of Healthy Families America Train the Trainers Institute, Chicago.
 
1998 - 2006:  Volunteer MENTOR (Wise Men, Wise Women, Los Sabios), Santa Public
Schools.
 
1997:    Member of Primary Writers team for creating Health Families America Facilitator’s Guides for Home Visiting Training.
 
1996 – 2002:   Member of New Mexico Child Fatality Review Team.
 
1994 – 1999 Member of TOASTMASTERS International, 
Advanced Toastmaster Bronze Certificate, 1999
 
1989 –2000:   Board Member of Prevent Child Abuse Santa Fe.
 
Summer, 1973:  Experiment In International Living, Saintes, France;  group leader of American and French High School Students.

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES/CERTIFICATION

 
License Baccalaureate Social Work, New Mexico, November, 1990 - present
 
Healthy Families America Home Visiting Program, National Trainer, Family Assessment, January, 1994
 
NCAST (Nurse Child Assessment Satellite Training) certified, November, 1995
 
NCAST Instructor Certified,  April, 1997
 
Certified Teacher with BABY TALK, (Nov.1996), Dr. Berry Brazelton’s TOUCHPOINTS project with Decatur, Illinois Public Schools and Health Providers
 
Developmental Specialist II, 2005, Family Infant Toddler Program NM Department of Health.
 
Endorsed Infant Family Specialist, Infant Mental Health Endorsement, 2007, by Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health., and New Mexico Association for Infant Mental Health.
 
Teaching, Secondary, French,  State of Pennsylvania,  May, 1967
Teaching, Secondary,  French, State of Massachusetts,  March, 1971
 
Teaching, Secondary, French,  State of New York, September, 1971
 
Teaching, Secondary, French, State of Colorado, May, 1976
 
Teaching, Secondary, French,  State of New Mexico,  July, 1977