NYSPEP Member Spotlight: Patricia "Tricia" Colon

Patricia "Tricia" Colon

Tricia is an active member of NYSPEP’s Steering Committee. She recently applied for the Tier II Parenting Educator Credential. Her application portfolio will undergo panel review and is pending approval.

Tricia started her career as an Elementary Education teacher. In 1993, she became a new mother and quickly grew her family to five children. Like many of the parents she observed while teaching, Tricia also sought guidance, direction, and support from her children’s teachers in order to raise her children in the best possible way.

In 2013, Tricia served as a Leave Replacement High School Counselor. Once again, she witnessed parents looking to school professionals for help in raising their teenage children. Through these experiences, decades of conversations with parents, and an awareness that loving a child and rearing a child are not the same, Tricia has developed a passion for supporting parents in raising healthy children through positive parenting.

Tricia holds a Master of Science in School Counseling from Long Island University and Master of Arts, Elementary Curriculum and Design from Columbia University. She has a conversational knowledge of Spanish and previously served as a substitute bilingual high school counselor in Huntington, NY.

"All my roads have led me to emphatically learn about raising healthy children and positive parenting so I can be a role model for others."