Darlene C Sansone

Extension Educator
Food, Families, and Community
Expertise:
  • Kinship Care
  • Relatives as Parents Program
  • Smart Choice Smart Use Health Insurance Literacy
  • Financial Literacy
  • Family Strengths
  • Early Care and Education
  • Parenting Education for Custody, divorce, and Truancy
  • Strengthening Families: Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Work
  • Better Kid Care Professional Development for Early Care and Education
  • Mental Health First Aid for Adults Working with Youth
  • QPR Gatekeeper training- Suicide prevention
Contact:

PQAS Instructor/ Technical Assistant for Early Childhood with over 40 years experience. Former high school teacher and Childcare center owner.  Certified Instructor for Mental Health First Aid for Adults working with Youth, and QPR(Question, Persuade, Refer)  Gatekeeper Instructor.  Completed the University of Maine Certification in Grandfamilies Leadership coursework, have done kinship presentations and facilitated kinship family retreats.  Instructor for Insurance Literacy.  Over 20 years of experience in teaching co-parenting and anger management classes for the local court system. 5 years working with truancy court teaching parenting.  Previously a co-facilitator for a kinship support group.  Instructor for health insurance literacy and financial literacy.  Co-host for monthly kinship family forums and  thrive parenting discussions.  

 

Westminster College class of 1977- BA in Communications (Certification in High School Speech and English)
Early Childhood credits from Point Park University, Gannon and Clarion University
University of Maine Kinship certification