CDA Renewal - Home Visitor, Part C

Charlotte Hendricks
PhD

Nancy Nathenson
RRT

Nancy Nathenson is a respiratory therapist with over 35 years of clinical experience in the ICU and rehabilitation, providing education and training in disease prevention, respiratory programs, and personal wellness. Nancy builds connections between healthcare and communities locally, regionally, and nationally. She is also a Community Asthma and COPD Expert with Allergy and Asthma Network.

Dana Staser
BA

Dana Staser is the Founder/President of Dana Staser Consulting, LLC. She is a workforce and leadership development expert with over 15 years of experience in providing coaching and consultation to early care and education agencies nationally. She has worked with various early care and education agencies across the country to increase high quality service delivery to children and families by increasing staff and leadership skills and capacities. She is an advocate for innovative, intentional, and meaningful professional development for staff and leadership to impact outcomes for the children and families they serve. Dana has facilitated workshops, trainings, and is a national conference speaker on workforce development and leadership capacity building to increase high quality and sustainability in programs.

Christine O'Brien
BS, MS

Director of Workforce Development and Training

Christine has over 25 years of experience in the Early Care and Education field. She is the Director of Workforce Development and Training at Parent Possible in Colorado. She has had much experience in the field, including teaching, coaching, training, and mental health consultation. She has spent her career advocating for young children and those who work with children. She earned her BS in Early Childhood Education at Towson University in Maryland and a Master of Science in Applied Behavioral Science, with an emphasis in training at Johns Hopkins University.

Natasha Crosby Kile
MS

Natasha Crosby Kile, MS is the Early Childhood Education Coordinator for the Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, AR, and works as a certified trainer, writer, coach, and consultant for both the University of Arkansas and Arkansas State University. Natasha has over 27 years of experience working in the field of Early Childhood as a teacher, supervisor, trainer, and mentor. She holds a Bachelor's of Science in Child Development from the University of Arkansas and a Master's of Science in Childhood Services from Arkansas State University. Natasha has served as a leader in many areas including serving on the board of the Arkansas Early Childhood Association. Natasha has a passion for training early childhood professionals and finds herself right at home in a group of 5 to 5,000 teachers that are eager to facilitate the growth of young children and support their families. She is a distinguished expert and was named Arkansas Early Childhood Professional of the Year in 2012.

Rebecca Reynolds
MA, EdD

Dr. Rebecca Reynolds began as an Early Childhood teacher with a love for low-income families of Federal Head Start. She directed Head Start and Early Education programs and taught Russian-speaking Kindergarten children. She also taught a mixed-aged classroom of children with Down Syndrome. With a 25-year career in Early Childhood/Special Ed, she inspires adult learners in workshops and college classes to think strategically to inspire their own students, while also traveling worldwide giving workshops inspiring other educators to keep motivated with a positive attitude. Dr. Rebecca earned her BA of Applied Behavioral Science at National Louis University, her MA of Early Childhood Education–Special Ed at Roosevelt University, and her doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of Phoenix.