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The Difference That Makes The Difference

Donna (CEO) has a dual BA in History and English with a minor in Anthropology. She brings a vast amount of childcare and development, management and community service experience to NTLC™, community, clients, families, and children which includes the following current and previous experience (partial listing):

 

· Early Head Start Grant reader.

· Approved Head Start consultant.

· Early Childhood Education and Development, Parenting, Family Child Care, Preschool and After-School Provider Trainer and Consultant.

· Adjunct faculty, San Bernardino Valley College (Teaching Child Development courses).

· Parent Education Facilitator for San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC).

· California Senate Bill 1703 Coordinator for San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools.

· School Readiness Coordinator for the San Bernardino County First 5 Commission.

· Program Administration Scale (PAS) evaluator and trainer.

· Adjunct faculty, University of California, Davis, Family Childcare at its Best.

· Trainer/Facilitator for the California School Age Consortium (CalSAC).

· Results Based Accountability (RBA) Facilitator/Trainer.

· Member of the Parent Committee for Head Start of  San Bernardino County.

· Member of the Childcare Advisory Committee for the National Academy of Sciences.

· Child Care Coordinator, Children's Network, County of San Bernardino where her efforts and guidance increased the available licensed childcare in the country from less than 12,000 licensed home childcare slots to over 20,000 quality home childcare slots.

· Director of Community Services, Arrowhead United Way, San Bernardino County.

· Publisher, Fontana Herald News, Fontana, California (one of a handful of female publishers in the United States).

· Chair, Inland Empire Welfare Coalition, Child Care Subcommittee.

· Member, Little Hoover Commission on Child Care.

· Member of AAEYC, CAEYC, NAEYC.

· Member of the City of San Bernardino Child Care Task Force.

· Member of the Working Women Child Care and Development Advisory Board.

· WestED PITC Trainer.

· Certified Post Secondary Education instructor in Child Development.

· Grant Writer with a tremendous grant award success record (over 96% as of July 2010).

· Grant Reader for the State of California.

Unique tools for child development from the child’s perspective make The Difference That Makes The Difference.