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2003 MLFCCA
Week of the Provider Conference & Banquet
-Advocate of the Year-
Barbara O’Sullivan
MN Department of Human Services
Child Care Division
444 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155-3860
651-582-8422
barbara.osullivan@state.mn.us
MLFCCA is pleased to announce that Barbara O’Sullivan is our 2003 Child Care
Advocate of the Year.
Barbara was nominated by Deb Fitzwater-Dewey and is currently an Early Childhood
Specialist at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Barbara has her
degrees in psychology and early childhood education which shows her early
commitment to the field (BA Psychology, SUNY/Binghamton and Masters in Early
Childhood Education, Towson state University). In the early childhood field
since the 1970s, Barbara began her career working in a migrant child care
program in New York. Since then she has been involved in training, program
operations, child care consulting as well as her in-depth involvement at the
Minnesota Dept of Human Services and the former Department of Children,
Families, and Learning.
Most
recently she has been involved in many projects including the School Readiness
Study, grants coordination, research and evaluation, and early childhood
education. Barbara has done so much to enhance quality, through Project
Exceptional, Infant - Toddler grants, training opportunities with the "Ounce of
Prevention", and other initiatives. Barbara has also enhanced quality through
the ITTI project and her representation of child care on the Governor's
Interagency Coordinating Council for Children with Disabilities. She is always
looking for opportunities and has always made sure that representatives from
MLFCCA and family child care are represented at any project that she has been
involved in. She is a strong advocate for early childhood professional
development and adequate compensation for the work that we do.
Barbara
has also been directly involved with the Minnesota Association for the Education
of Young Children (MnAEYC). She has been the President of our Board of
Directors and has received our prestigious Evelyn House Award (1999). During
the past three years, she has been instrumental in assisting MnAEYC to develop a
renewed professional development program and is one of the founding contributors
of the Minnesota Professional Development Council. Currently she is serving as
a co-chair for our Midwest Regional AEYC Conference to be held in April, 2005.
Barbara is also a member of MECSATA (MN Early Childhood & School-Age Care
Trainers Association) and child care WORKS.
Barbara
is very worthy of the MLFCCA Child Care Advocate of the Year and we would like
to thank her for the work she does for all early childhood professionals and the
children and families of Minnesota.
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