Monday, April 8, 2013

NYSPEP MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: MARY HAUST

NYSPEP represents collaboration between qualified parenting educators and organization that employ, fund, and support the educators. NYSPEP applauds leaders in the field. Individuals who are new to or planning to enter the field are encouraged to join NYSPEP in preparation to become tomorrow's leaders. 

NYSPEP Member Spotlight: Mary Haust



Mary Haust currently serves on the NYSPEP Steering Committee. She previously worked in the Binghamton City School District for 23 years, retiring in 2004. In her tenure at the District, she served as Director of the PACT (Parents and Children Together) Program, Community Schools, Youth at Risk, Even Start, Healthy Families and Broome Community Partners.

Since 1993, she has been a National, International and State Trainer for Parents as Teachers National Center providing training to over 2000 parent educators. In addition to parent education training and technical assistance with a number of early education and parenting programs in New York State, Mary has served as a writer of training modules and parent education lesson plans for New York State’s Even Start program. She is also a contributing writer for Week by Week, Plans for Documenting Children’s Development, Sixth Edition by Barbara Ann Nilsen (2012), the Parent Guide currently being prepared for the NYSPEP New Parent Kit, and the recently released Texas Learning Pathways.

Ms. Haust served as a Middle States Commissioner of Elementary Education and continues to serve on the Middle States Early Education Advisory Board. In addition, she currently serves on the Steering Committee for Coalition for Family Engagement, an outgrowth of PIRC initiative in New York State.

She has received a number of honors including: "Friend of the Family", New York State Association of American Family and Consumer Sciences, 1995; "Friend of the Child Award", BAEYC, 1997, New York State Award; William J. Bub Award for Advocacy and Leadership, 1997; Binghamton University Alumni-in Residence Honor, 1998; Cindy Chaplin Award for Advocacy for Children, 1999; Binghamton City School District’s Distinguished Graduate Honoree: 2002. 

Mary is married…the wife of one, mother of four and most enjoyably, grandmother of ten!


1 comment:

  1. Mary is a dynamo! I worked with her when we had an Even Start Program and was trained by her as a Parents as Teachers parent educator/supervisor. Any organization she is affiliated with knows and benefits from her expertise, enthusiasm and passion. Love you, Mary, and keep up the good work.
    Lynn Baron

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