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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