Lori Carraway, Child and Family Issues Extension Faculty, provides Snohomish County residents with educational programming in human development areas including parenting, aging, and childcare staff training. She works with local agencies to teach parenting classes for Navy families and other groups.

Lori’s interest in childcare provider training helped launch WSU’s childcare training efforts and the 20-hour BASICS curriculum. As an approved Washington STARS trainer, Lori offers training for childcare providers and trains trainers on the BASICS curriculum. She writes feature articles for local childcare publications and a childcare newsletter entitled Building on Basics. Lori also writes Prime Time Focus, a supplement to Health Talk, which addresses quality of life and grandparenting issues for limited income elders in Snohomish County.

E-mail: carraway@coopext.cahe.wsu.edu