Barbara Baldwin
Regional Parent Engagement Advisory Co-Representative of PACTL
Pasadena / Altadena, CA
Barbara Baldwin has an extensive career spanning over 30 years of experience in Mental Health, Social Services, and the Management field including: School Base Family Resource Center Director and Health Start Director and Community Based Capacity Builder for the Northeast Valley Best Start Partnership. In the nonprofit sector, she served as a program director, volunteer director, and fund and resource development coordinator. She was a member of the Northeast Valley Best Start Community Leadership Group that advocates, develops, and implements community activities to strengthen families with children 0-5 based on the First 5 Strengthening Families Model. In 2017, Ms. Baldwin received the “Community Leadership Award” presented by Valley Care Community Consortium in reorganization of her dedication to the betterment of the lives of children and families in the San Fernando Valley.
Throughout her career Ms. Baldwin has been an active member and leader of various collaboratives including, Children of Attention Deficit Disorder (Ch.A.D.D.): Hotline volunteer, group facilitator, educator and presenter; H.O.P.E. Best Babies Network and L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services Community Network Collaborative member; and past board member of Valley Care Community Consortium and the Resource Coordinating Council of LAUSD, Local District 2. Currently, Ms. Baldwin is an Officer for the Child Abuse Prevention Council for the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys; and a board member of Parents as Transformative Leaders.
Since 2000, Ms. Baldwin has been a community advocate for the Northeast Valley San Fernando Valley and involved in processes to strengthen and support families by building upon their assets. She has also worked with school-based, faith-based, profit and nonprofit organizations to benefit children, their families and the communities where they live. She has managed the oversight implementation of innovative services as mobile parent education program; prevention education services for child abuse, drug & alcohol, and domestic violence; and family support services including case management, mentorship, training the trainer.
Having worked with more than 75,000 parents and their children, Ms. Baldwin has provided education, mentoring and support to myriad families. Through these efforts, she has encouraged the positive development of collaborative partners to team with parents to fulfill the vision and mission of helping children be the best that they can be.
“Family is a unit of people who have bonded together either through blood or through their hearts where over time the importance of values and rituals deepen and each member helps to make is richer.”