TANYA STABINSKY, YBYCC FOunDer/Owner

Tanya has 30 years of experience teaching and directing in early childhood programs, including campus child care, community based programming and parent cooperatives. Before joining Yad B’Yad and returning to her passion for direct service with parents, staff and children, Tanya served as an Early Care and Education Inclusion Coach in central Phoenix. With a BS in Human Development and master’s work in counseling psychology, Tanya is also a parent of five and a graduate of two infant family mental health certificate programs, including being a Fellow of the University of Massachusetts Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Program in Napa, CA. Tanya endorsed as a 0-5 Transdisciplinary Mental Health Practitioner in California. Tanya’s professional endeavors include founding a model relationship based Early Childhood program, speaking both locally and nationally on hot topics in early care and education, being a mentor teacher for the California Early Childhood Mentor Teacher Program and being a parenting writer for Wear Your Voice magazine, an online publication promoting intersectional feminism. Tanya’s passion is reflective practice work with teachers and parents and her expertise is visionary leadership of LLCs and non-profits benefitting children and families through best practice. Whether inside or outside the classroom, Tanya’s role is to mentor parents and teachers with a balanced individualized approach. Her approach is based on what works best for communities of practice while capitalizing on inherent strengths of children, parents and teachers.