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For general questions and inquiries about Group Facilitator certification or to schedule a Group Facilitator speaker for areas where Group Facilitators are not currently located, please contact PTC.
CONSULTANT Selena Dyke has a B.A. in Psychology and Social Work and is a Certified Life Skills Coach. Selena was a Guidance Counselor in Jamaica, working with children, adolescents and parents at a private school. She recently moved to the Bahamas to accept a position as a parent educator. Selena also offers teacher professional workshops in classroom and behavior management . Cambra Mockabee, LSW, is a certified Parent’s Toolshop "Group Facilitator" instructor with nearly ten years experience in parent education. Beyond Cambra’s expertise in general parenting issues, she helped develop a parenting curriculum for prison populations that has been adopted statewide and has experience assisting parents and children through remarriage and step-family issues. Linda Rubino is a Florida State University Ph.D. Candidate and Certified Family Life Educator, a credentialed educator and aspiring entrepreneur who specializes in family life topics. As a teacher, she worked with children and families in middle school and high school. She also has taught education, human development, child development, and individual and family development courses in higher education. As a certified Parents Toolshop Group Facilitator, she teaches the principles of The Parents Toolshop and enjoys the challenge of being creative with the tools to address other life events. Deborah K. Ruscitelli, MS, LPC, CCDC III-E is a therapist at the Miami Valley Family Care Center in Dayton (OH), where she enhances parent-child relationships through counseling and custom-designed topic presentations using Parents Toolshop teachings. Deb has worked in the counseling field since 1988 and chose to become certified as a Parents Toolshop instructor because it reflects her own counseling style. She was awarded the "Outstanding Group Facilitator of the Year" in 2004. Melissa Sanders, B.A. is a Case Manager for Drug Court youth in Montgomery County (Dayton, OH). There, she counsels and supervises drug-involved youth from various socioeconomic backgrounds. Melissa uses Parents Toolshop as a resource guide when working with the families. ASSOCIATE Leslie Foss is a parent educator in the Family Life Dept. at Everett Community College. She also directs a low income preschool, providing parent education for the families in the school. With her professional partner, Joy Knight, she provides training in the community where she lives. Leslie also has a rich, interesting past, with experience as a certified mediator and as the District Court Judge in a rural Alaskan community. Joy Knight has been a parent educator with Everett Community College for 28 years. She teaches both adult learners and provider training programs for early childhood educators. Joy also directs a preschool and parenting program for income eligible families. Joy facilitates training programs throughout Western Washington in brain development of young children. Jean Muransky-Doran, PhD, is the Parenting Coordinator at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio. Ms. Muransky-Doran teaches several parenting classes to the male inmates housed at the facility, including: Introduction to Parenting, Fatheread, and Being and Effective Father. She also is the coordinator for the Reading is Fundamental, Inc. Program. Sharon Pierce has her bachelor's degree in education and is a parent counselor at Okaloosa-Walton Child Care Services in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. She has been working with parents and their children for over 5 years as a counselor and a teacher — and now a Parents Toolshop Group Facilitator. Spierce@ParentsToolshop.com Clara Pittman, M.S. has a Bachelors degree in Home Economics Education and Masters Degree in Family and Child Development. She taught at Jacksonville State University for two years and taught high school home economics for 25 years. Presently, she is an Early Childhood Program Specialist for Okaloosa-Walton Child Care Services and a certified Parent’s Toolshop Group Facilitator. Iris Strunc, M.S. is a teacher trainer/advisor in the Adult Education department at Okaloosa Walton College in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. There, she teaches a college success class for incoming freshmen, where she comes in contact with students from varied backgrounds and constantly uses tools from the Parent's Toolshop. SUPPORTING Mary Ann Mochan is the Early Childhood Specialist for Okaloosa-Walton Child Care Services in Florida and a Parent's Toolshop Group Facilitator. She has worked with children and their families for over 13 years in centers, promoting quality child care as a preschool teacher and a program coordinator. Lynn Stephens, BA, MEd., is Chief Operations Officer at
Okaloosa-Walton Child Care Services, a Child Care Resource and Referral
Agency, in Ft. Walton Beach. Florida. There, she supervises a team of early
childhood professionals who provide child care resource and referral
information and eligibility services to families and training and technical
assistance to early childhood programs. Lynn also has taught Early Childhood
courses at Okaloosa-Walton College and serves as a CDA Representative. She
is the recipient of the "Outstanding Parent's Toolshop Group Facilitator of 2002"
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