Kathy Bentley - Certified Trainer
E-mail: kathy@kathysparentingsolutions.com
Website: http://www.kathysparentingsolutions.com

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 Middle School Ho’ike, the State Foster Parent Conference, Pearl Harbor’s Parent Academy and Schofield Barrack’s Couples University . 

Kathy has experience working with children of all ages, incarcerated parents, foster parents, military families, and families involved with Child Protective Services. She presents workshops to preschools, elementary, middle and high schools, and other parent groups.  She has appeared as a parenting expert on numerous television and radio shows.  She has written articles for Hawaii Parent Magazine.  She is the mother of two daughters, one biological and one step.

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, the Waianae Neighborhood Place Advisory Board and the Hawaii Coalition for Dads Steering Committee.

She is a member of the National Parenting Education Network, the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Council on Family Relations.