Kathy Bentley is a nationally recognized Parent Educator and the owner of Kathy's Parenting Solutions. She has her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and her Masters in Counseling Services. She is an annual presenter at the Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children and the Hawaii Baptist Early Education Association Conferences. She has presented at the Native Hawaiian Education Association Conference, Hawaii State Child Abuse Conferences, HAEYC's Leadership symposiums, the Hawaii Statewide Family summit, the Kamehameha Scholars Ho'ike, the Honolulu District PCNC staff development meeting, Pearl Harbor's Parent Academy and Schofield Barrack's Couples University. She presents workshops to preschools, elementary, middle and high schools, and other parent groups. She has appeared as a parenting expert on the Channel 2 Morning News, KITV 4 News This Morning, The Privilege of Parenting radio show and as a guest on Town Square on Hawaii Public Radio. She has written articles for Hawaii Parent Magazine.
In 2004 Kathy was selected as one of the 12 Outstanding Parent Educators in North America by Parenting Press.
Kathy is a member of the Kaneohe Community Family Center Advisory Board and the Waianae Neighborhood Place Advisory Board.
Kathy is a member of the National Parenting Education Network and the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Memory Ku - Coordinator for Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents, Facilitator/Coordinator for the Supporting Parents as First Teachers (SPAFT) Workshops, and Teacher for the Supporting Keiki of Incarcerated Parents (SKIP) parent-child interactive programs. Memory oversees and coordinates events, workshops and parent-child interactive programs at the Waiawa Correctional Facility and Women's Community Correctional Center. She also trains and match volunteer mentors with children who have a parent incarcerated and coordinates monthly events.
In Loving Memory
Carla is currently taking over the responsibilities of all aspects of research within Keiki O Ka `Āina's programs. She will be defining appropriate research methodology and specific assessments in order to insure that all program objectives are met and all goals are reached.
Cleda April Kalama is the Technology Project Coordinator for Keiki O Ka `Āina's new on-line data management (ODM) system. She is responsible for working with an in-house team of program and technology specialists to implement the new ODM. The ODM is mission driven and will provide us with immediate access to relevant data concerning KOKA-FLC clients and client services. April has earned her CDA, a B.A. in Communications, and a M.Ed. in Special Education, and has previous experience in computer related technologies.