Development Training

PETER ERNEST HAIMAN, Ph.D.

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EDUCATION, SERVICE, RECOGNITION, and APPOINTMENTS

PH.D. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, 1970

CLEVELAND, OHIO.

Selected member of a presidential delegation from the United States to visit Cuba. This effort

was authorized in 1999 by President Clinton to reach out to the Cuban people through

humanitarian efforts. The delegation represented the professions of psychology, child

development, and early learning. (2001)

Received national recognition for the development and administration of a Parent and Child

Center in Cleveland, Ohio. This program demonstrated innovative and effective strategies for

improving the child rearing of economically disadvantaged parents. It also developed the

individual and group self-advocacy of these parents. This program pioneered innovative

strategies for the education and health care of children under three years of age. The Cleveland

Parent and Child Center was used as a model by the United States Department of Health and

Human Services for the development of education and social service intervention programs.

(1966-1971)

Appointed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to write the national

Head Start Parent Involvement Program Performance Standards. Appointed to several task

forces that created national program policies and evaluation designs for Head Start and other

federally funded programs serving children and families throughout the U.S. (1969-1990)

Directed research on racial segregation in public schools in Cleveland, Ohio. The results of this

study were heard by the United States Supreme Court and contributed to school desegregation

rulings made by the Court. (1964-1967)

President, National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) San Francisco,

CA chapter 1977-1978 and South Carolina chapter. (1974-1975)

Appointed to California Senator Robert Presley s Senate Select Committee on Children and

Youth. (1983)

Presented an award by the United States Coast Guard for Educating Educators and Leading

Leaders. (1984)

Selected by the California Department of Education to serve on a task force that developed a

parent education curriculum for students from sixth grade through high school in public schools

throughout California. Designed and helped write the curriculum. (1994)

Appointed to governing boards of foundations and educational and social service agencies.

(since 1969)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1962-Present CHILD/ADOLESCENT REARING CONSULTANT Berkeley, CA

Diagnoses the cause(s) of the behavioral and developmental problems of children and

adolescents. Recommends appropriate interventions to parents with child-rearing problems.

Presents lectures and conducts workshops that focus on parenting and child rearing. A feature

article about these workshops was published in Straight From The Heart Berkeley Voice,

March 5, 1987 and Parents Get Together to Support Each Other: Group Helps Parents of Teens

Cope, by Dawn Frasieur, Berkeley Voice, April 2, 1992, pp 3 and 12.

1992-Present EXPERT WITNESS FOR FAMILY COURTS Nationwide

Provides testimony and writes legal declarations for courts that respond to child custody and

visitation disputes and petitions. Provides expert consultation to parents in custody and visitation

disputes.

1985-2007 PSYCHOTHERAPIST Berkeley, CA

Provided individual psychotherapy to adults and adolescents. Provided couple therapy. Provided

family counseling.

1985-1998 INSTRUCTOR Albany Adult School, 601 San Gabriel Avenue, Albany, CA 94706

Taught courses for parents that focused on the developmental needs of children and adolescents

and the resolution of parent-child/adolescent conflicts and communication problems.

2002-2004 INSTRUCTOR School of Education, Saint Mary s College, P.O. Box 4350 Moraga,

CA 94575-4350

Taught graduate courses that addressed learning, development, and psychology applied to

teaching secondary school students.

1999 AUTHOR AND TASK FORCE MEMBER Contra Costa Child Care Council, 1035

Detroit Avenue, Suite 200, Concord, CA 94518

Provided training to the directors of day care centers. Wrote child-rearing pamphlets published

by the Contra Costa Child Care Council. Served on a Community Service Needs Assessment

Task Force.

1969-1996 NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CONSULTANT AND ADVISOR to The

Administration for Children, Youth and Families, United States Department of Health and

Human Services, Washington DC

Field tested and created the national Head Start Parent Involvement Program Performance

Standards published by the national Office of Child Development in 1970. Advised Senator

Edward Kennedy and his Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion. The advice

influenced the Head Start Quality Improvement Act passed by the United States Congress in

1994. Created national program policies and evaluations designs for Head Start and other

federally funded programs that serve children and families in the United States. Provided training

that addressed the national Head Start Program Performance Standards, program administration

and management, the psychology of parenting, adult behavior change, and early childhood

development and education to administrators, parents, and staff throughout the United States in

the following programs: Project Head Start, the Indian and Migrant Program Division, Parent

and Child Centers, Early Learning Centers, the Basic Educational Skills Program, Home Start,

the Child and Family Resource Program, and the Child Development Associate Program.

Appointed by the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health,

Education and Welfare to design a national training workshop and a national training and

technical assistance plan for Parent and Child Centers. Developed a formative, summative, and

longitudinal evaluation design for Parent and Child Centers in the United States. Developed a

bibliography of bicultural and bilingual curriculum resources for the Indian and Migrant Program

Division of the national Office of Child Development, Department of Health, Education and

Welfare. Initiated the conversion of the Aiken County and Edgefield County, South Carolina

Head Start Programs from half-year to full-year programs. Planned and coordinated the

conversion. Project Advisor to the Chattanooga County and Whitfield County, Georgia Parent

and Child Centers. Created, directed, and/or participated in numerous national, regional, and

local training conferences.

1986-1987 CHILD DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT Department of Community Care

Licensing, State Department of Social Services, 744 P Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

Presented training to the licensing staff that provided the skills necessary to evaluate whether the

developmental needs of preschool children were being met in day care settings.

1986-1987 EXPERT WITNESS Legal Affairs Division, California State Department of Social

Services, 744 P Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

Provided testimony about the definition and effects of child abuse for the state of California to

use in child abuse trials.

1983-1987 TRAINER OF TRAINERS U.S. Coast Guard Training Center, Petaluma, CA and

adjunct faculty member, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

Trained all training staff at this center. This effort converted the instructional approach used at

the center to a competency-based training program. As a result, this U.S. Coast Guard Training

Center received national awards for excellence.

1984-1985 TEACHER/COUNSELOR Parental Stress Service, Inc., 103 E 14th Street,

Oakland, CA 94606

Provided instruction and ongoing consultation to groups of parents with severe child-rearing and

parenting problems. A feature article about achievements with parents was published in the Tri-

Valley Herald, November 7, 1984. Created and implemented innovative and effective

approaches to working with abusive parents.

1976-1985 INSTRUCTOR Educational Administration and Elementary Education, San

Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Taught graduate courses in the administration and coordination of early childhood education

programs, parent involvement in early childhood education, and educational psychology.

Supervised student teachers in elementary education.

1983-1984 COORDINATOR, TRAINER, AND CONSULTANT, CALIFORNIA STATE

HEAD START PARENT AND FAMILY INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM The Training and

Technical Assistance Office, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Analyzed organizational problems, developed remedial strategies with administrators, and

conducted team-building training for program administrators and middle-level managers.

Designed and conducted conferences that developed the training skills of middle-level managers.

Trained Head Start staff throughout California to understand and employ theories of adult

attitude and behavior change and to develop practical strategies for involving low-income

families. Presented lectures and workshops that addressed the roots of parental anger and the

reduction of violence when parenting. Provided ongoing individual and small group consultation

to low-income parents with severe personal and/or child-rearing problems. Provided political

action training to low-income parents in California.

1983-1984 CONSULTANT Oakland Public Unified School System, Oakland, CA

Worked with Oakland secondary school administrators to reduce vandalism and improve

relations between teachers, students, and administrators. Created a puppet play, The Vandal

Scandal, that was funded by the Oakland Public Schools and presented to students in district

secondary schools. Wrote a teacher s guide to accompany the puppet play and trained teachers in

its use.

1982-1983 VISITING LECTURER University of California at San Francisco, Graduate

School of Nursing, Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112

Taught courses about the psychosocial development of young children.

1979-1981 SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Department of Human Development, Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and

Development, 1855 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Assisted in the creation and development of the department. Wrote proposals that were funded to

support various human development projects. Authored a report on the effectiveness of various

participatory field-based research, development, dissemination, and implementation programs.

This report was based upon participatory theories of adult attitude and behavior change evaluated

in my doctoral dissertation research. Provided training and consultation to Head Start Programs

in Erie, Pennsylvania and Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Designed and conducted research and

helped write a monograph for working mothers with preschool children.

1978 INSTRUCTOR Department of Teacher Education, California State University at

Hayward, Hayward, CA

Taught graduate courses in the psychological development of young children.

1976-1979 DIRECTOR Resource Development Center for Federal Region IX (Arizona,

Nevada, California, and Hawaii), Development Associates, Inc., 693 Sutter Street, San

Francisco, CA

Administered a $700,000 Head Start training contract for Region IX of the United States

Administration for Children, Youth, and Families. Conducted training conferences for Head Start

staff and parents, published newsletters and journals, convened task forces, provided consultants

in nutrition and handicap services, and developed other resources for Head Start grantees in

Federal Region IX.

1973-1975 TENURED CHAIRMAN AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Department of Early

Childhood Development and Education, University of South Carolina, Aiken Campus, Aiken, SC

29801

Established and developed the department. Taught graduate and undergraduate courses about

child growth and development and early childhood education. Created close ties between the

university and local schools and child development programs. Created and directed the Augusta

Children s Theater. An article about this effort was published in the Aiken Standard, March 3,

1975, p 5.

1971-1973 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AND SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT

Department of Education, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH

Taught graduate and undergraduate courses about adolescent growth and development and

educational psychology to prospective secondary school teachers. Created and directed a

privately funded tutoring program that employed college students as tutors of local secondary

school students with academic deficits. An article about this effort, Program Reaches

Out To Average Students, was published in The Telegraph, May 23, 1973, p 18.

1968-1971 PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR

Cleveland Parent and Child Center of the Family Service Association of Cleveland, OH

Directed a multidisciplinary staff in an adult and early childhood education, social service, and

health program for low-income parents and their six-month- to three-year-old children. This

program, grounded in theories of maternal behavior and attitude change tested in my doctoral

dissertation research, gained national and local recognition for its achievements with

economically disadvantaged urban families. The program was used throughout the United States

as a model for working with low-income families. Planned and directed innovative satellite

programs that coordinated the efforts of the Center, local public secondary schools and social

service agencies. Chaired the Staff Orientation Committee of the Family Service Association of

Cleveland, Ohio.

1967-1968 FACULTY MEMBER Department of Education, Case Western Reserve University,

Cleveland, OH

Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the social and historical foundations of education.

Supervised student teachers at the secondary level. Chairman of the committee for the

development of an experimental college. Initiated and developed a working relationship between

Case Western Reserve University, the Office of Economic Opportunity in Cleveland, Ohio, and

the United States Office of Child Development. This led to the creation and funding (initially

$175,000) of a Parent and Child Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Selected by the national Office of

Child Development to form and chair the Planning Committee of the Cleveland Parent-Child

Center. This Committee included members from various departments and schools at Case

Western Reserve University. This Committee formed the basic program structure and process.

The Committee included potential program participants in all phases of the planning; broadened

the program design to include the provision of social services; and focused most of the

programmatic activity on the parent.

1966-1967 TEACHING FELLOW Department of Education, Case Western Reserve

University, Cleveland, OH

Taught undergraduate courses in the history, philosophy, and sociology of education in the

United States. Received outstanding ratings by students, published in the The Student Guide to

Faculty and Courses. Created and received private foundation support and directed a Parent and

Child Center. This center was visited by staff from the national Office of Child Development of

the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Designed and conducted

research to test the hypothesis that role playing theory could be applied in an effort to alter lower

class mothers verbal styles and attitudes toward parenting (Ph.D. dissertation research).

1964-1967 DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH United States Commission on Civil Rights study of

Racial Isolation in the Cleveland Public Schools in Cleveland, OH

Directed the gathering and analysis of data about the extent and effects of racial segregation in

the Cleveland Public Schools. Created and implemented strategies for obtaining significant

information despite opposition from the Cleveland Board of Education. The findings from this

research and those of six other city public school systems were used by the United States

Supreme Court to support school desegregation rulings made by the Court.

1965 HEAD TEACHER/DIRECTOR Community Action for Youth s Head Start Program,

Cleveland, OH

Taught four- and five-year-old economically disadvantaged children. Administered the program.

1964-1965 ENGLISH TEACHER John Adams High School of the Cleveland Board of

Education, Cleveland, OH

Taught secondary students from the inner city. Developed curriculum and taught delinquent

adolescents who were on probation from Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Periodicals and Books

Haiman, P. E. (1999). Developing a sense of wonder in young children. Brown University Child

and Adolescent Behavior Letter, 46(6), 52-53.

Haiman, P. E. (1998). The case against time-out. Mothering Magazine and reprinted (1999) in

Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, (1999) Working Mother magazine, and

(1999) Connections: the threads that strengthen families, by Jean Illsley. Hazelden, Center City

MN, and other national and foreign journals and magazines. Quoted in The Power of Loving

Discipline by Karen Miles, Psychology Today and Penguin Books, (2006).

Haiman, P. E. (1998). How programs can involve parents. Brown University Child and

Adolescent Behavior Letter.

Haiman, P. E. (1997). Cooperation will make it happen: A proposed alliance on behalf of

children and families. The Journal of Psychohistory, 4(4), 370-376.

Haiman, P. E. (1994). How children handle frustration. New Beginnings, 11(5), 132-135.

Haiman, P. E. (1994). Protecting a child s emotional development when parents divorce. New

Beginnings, 11(1), 4-7.

Haiman, P. E. (1991). Developing a sense of wonder: There is more to early childhood education

than cognitive development, Part II. Young Children, 46(6), 52-53.

Haiman, P. E. (1988). Tools critical for the success of homeschooling. Skole: The Journal of the

National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools. 4(1), 38-40.

Haiman, P. E. (1988). Philosophy of education. Home Education Magazine,. 5(4), 8-9.

Haiman, P. E. (1989). The self-disciplined child. Mothering Magazine, 52(2), 98-103.

Haiman, P. E. (1989). Birth trauma for the young child? In M. A. Jensen & Z. W. Chevalier

(Eds). Issues and Advocacy in Early Education. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Haiman, P. E. (1986). Birth trauma for the young child? Co-operatively Speaking, 16(3), 6.

Haiman, P. E. (1986). There is more to early childhood education than cognitive development,

Part 1. In J. B. McCracken (Ed.), Reducing Stress in Young Children s Lives. Washington, DC:

National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Haiman, P. E. (1984). There is more to early childhood education than cognitive development,

Part 1. Young Children, 40(1), 1.

Haiman, P. E. ( 1978). Fathering: Shared beginnings. New Dimensions in Head Start: A

Resource Journal for Head Start Region, 9(3),5.

Haiman, P. E. (1977). A series of articles presenting approaches that Head Start staff can use to

involve parents in Head Start programs, published in Families, a monthly Head Start newsletter,

March, April, and May.

Pamphlets and Newsletters

Haiman, P. E. (1999). Reduce discipline problems. Concord, CA: Contra Costa Child Care

Council. Quoted in The power of loving discipline, by Karen Miles, Psychology Today/ Penguin

Books, (2006).

Haiman, P. E. (1999). Alternatives to hurting your child. Concord, CA: Contra Costa Child Care

Council.

Haiman, P. E. (1994-1996). A parenting column for the monthly newsletters of The Diablo

Valley Montessori Preschool, Neighborhood Moms, East Bay Moms, and Changing Time (of the

ABC Diaper Co).

Haiman, P. E. (1977). Soul mother (series of booklets for low-income Black parents, sold

nationally). Chicago, IL: PAR Leadership Training Foundation.

Haiman, P. E. (1972). Keep babies busy. Cleveland, OH: The Press of Case Western Reserve

University.

Haiman, P. E. (1972). Kids copy their parents. Cleveland, OH: The Press of Case Western

Reserve University.

Haiman, P. E. (1972). Soul mother. Cleveland, OH: The Press of Case Western Reserve

University.

Haiman, P. E. (1972). When kids fight over toys. Cleveland, OH: The Press of Case Western

Reserve University.

Technical and Research Reports

Haiman, P. E. (1981). Eagle Butte, South Dakota Basic Educational Skills Project program

description. San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and

Development.

Haiman, P. E. (1981). Erie, Pennsylvania Basic Educational Skills Project report. San Francisco,

CA: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development.

Haiman, P. E. (1980). Eagle Butte, South Dakota Basic Educational Skills Project report

program description. San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and

Development.

Haiman, P. E. (1980). Erie, Pennsylvania Basic Educational Skills Project report program

description. San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and

Development.

Haiman, P. E., & Lally, J. R. (1981, November 30). Basic Educational Skills Project final report.

San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development.

Haiman, P. E., & Lally, J.R. (1980). A Study of Participatory Research, Development,

Dissemination and Implementation. San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory for Educational

Research and Development.

Articles Citing Professional Contributions

Frasieur, D. (1992, April 2). Parents get together to support each other: Group helps parents of

teens cope. Berkeley Voice, 3 & 12.

Sense of self helps kids behave well. (1990, August 30). Berkeley Voice, 3.

Straight from the heart. (1987, March 5). Berkeley Voice.

Class can get parents through early ages. (1986, August 27). The Pittsburgh Post Dispatch, 3.

Helping mend family fences. (1984, November 7). Tri-Valley Herald.

Drama important in childhood development says USCA professor. (1975, March 3). Aiken

Standard.

Program reaches out to average students. (1973, May 23). The Telegraph, 18.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Psychological Association, 1988-2005

California Head Start Association, 1998-2005

La Leche League, 1988-1998

Coordinator, Family/Parent Involvement Committee of the East Bay Chapter of The

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 1981-1986

The American Orthopsychiatric Association, 1977-1980

Editor and Co-editor of the monthly Bulletin of the Northern California Association for

the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 1977-1980

Board Member, Northern California Association for the Education of Young Children

(NAEYC), 1977-1978

President, San Francisco Association for the Education of Young Children, a chapter of

the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 1977-1978

Appointed Representative at Large to the California Association for the Education of

Young Children from the Northern California Association of the Education of Young

Children (NAEYC), 1976

Director of the Central Savannah River Area Young Child Committee, 1974-1975

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