39 Years Experience in Human Services
	Neighborhood Youth Worker (for the Catholic Archdiocese in Chicago)
	Psychiatric Hospital Direct Care Worker while majoring in math at Lakeland College
	Child care Worker for two Residential Treatment Centers in Upstate New York for a combined 29 years filling the roles of a senior Worker, Child Care Supervisor, Director of Child Care and Director of Campus Life for the entire agency.
	Serving as the Coordinator of Professional Staff Development for Abbott House - a residential Treatment Center located in Irvington, New York for the past 7 years.

	Cornell University’s Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Trainer since 1983
	S.C.I.P-R Certified Instructor since 2002
	Staff Development and Training Program Design
	Development of unique curriculums 1. C.A.P. 2. “Thinking Out of The Box” (a creative problem solving curriculum) 3. “The Ever-Changing Rules of Development”

	Serving on the Board of Directors for The Mid-Hudson Coalition and Conference Chair for 5 years
	Serving on the Board of Directors of IACC (The Inter-Association of Child Care in Valley Forge P.A.)
	Staff Development for the Paul Newman Hole in the Wall Gang Camps since 1987.
	Kibble School of Glasgow, Scotland – C.A.P. Training
	1999 – 2007, 6 trips to South Africa with American Youth. These youth have been trained here in The States, to present at Residential Treatment Centers including the National Association of Child Care Workers Conference.  When visiting South Africa we are considered “Ambassadors” and we are the guests of The NACCW (National Association of Child care Workers) and UNISA (The University of South Africa)
	2008 Awarded the “Best Practices Award”. This Award was presented to only 15 staff for providing Best Practices in The Human Services Field for the State of New York.

Iris Crawford Long – Executive Director, Lead Trainer and Co-Founder of T.O.O.L.S. Training Associates, LLC.

	38 years Experience in Public, Private and Special Act Schools
	Master of Arts in Human Resource Development
	Master of Science in Adolescent Education, Grades 7 - 12 with Certification in Students with Disabilities
	Classroom teacher in middle and high schools in Massachusetts, South Carolina and New York State for 12 years
	Building and District level Administrator/Supervisor responsible for Curriculum and Instruction, Staff Development, and Gifted and Talented Education
	Consultant for a leading provider of teacher development programs
	Serving as the Coordinator of Curriculum and Staff Development for a Special Act School on the campus of a Residential Treatment Center in southern Westchester County, New York for the past 9 years

	Plan and instituted a series of teacher development programs, upgraded methods and practices, enhancing the quality of teaching and learning, ensuring compliance with State Learning Standards
	Customized programs for schools to accommodate all target groups, including building administrators, teachers, teaching assistants, volunteers, parents and school boards
	Designed curriculum, pacing guides, lessons to accommodate adolescents with special needs
	Building Blocks To Differentiated Instruction
	‘It’s not how smart you are, it’s how you are smart “, based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence
	“Thinking so the Brain Can Learn”, Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
	Teaching to the learning styles of youth
	Use of Brain research to enhance teaching and learning
	“Culturally Competent Education”
	“Circle of Courage” Curriculum

	Member ASCD, National and New York State Chapter
	Who’s Who in American Education
	Staff Development for the Paul Newman Hole in the Wall Camps in Florida, New York and North Carolina
	National Association of Child Care Workers Conference, South Africa. “Youth to South Africa Ambassadors. Guest of UNISA (The University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa)