Joshua D. Alvarez has been in the education field for over 30 years. Twelve of those years, directly in the classroom and thirteen of those years in administration as a Child Development Supervisor, Area Supervisor, Education Coordinator, Parent Involvement Coordinator and Program Director. He has also been a bilingual (English/Spanish) Education Consultant for the past 25 years. With an emphasis in Early Childhood Education, TK, Parent Engagement, Father Involvement and family support. He also has Elementary education experience. He has a M.A in Early Childhood Education, is CLASS Certified/ Reliable and is a Multicultural Certified Trainer.

He has given training locally and nationwide from California to New York, from Texas to Puerto Rico. He has consulted and trained educators from Resource and Referral Agencies, Delegate Early Head Start and Head Start/State Preschool Agencies to School Districts, Home Educators, Providers, parents, families, Government Air Base and Navy Base Child Care Programs and National conferences to regional conferences. He has trained administrative staff and educational staff of Los Angeles County Office of Education Grantee Office, Pomona Unified School District Head Start Staff, Community Action Partnership of Kern Staff, Kern County Association for the Education of Young Children and the Child Care Alliance of L.A.

He is also knowledgeable and has extensive experience with Early Head Start and Head Start/State Preschool Performance Standards, Curriculum, Frameworks, CLASS, Transition to School, Environmental Rating Scales, Desired Results, Ca. Learning Foundations and The Competencies.

He is the president for the Los Angeles County Fathers and Families Collaborative. He was a member of the Los Angeles County Office of Education Policy Council and was a member of The Los Angeles County Office of Education Collaborative Task Force on Education and the Los Angeles County Office of Education Business Round Table for Education. He is an “On Air” consultant for Public Television Series “A Place of Our Own/Los Niños en su Casa” and an approved trainer for the California Registry.

As an Education Consultant and a Territory Manager, he works very closely with Delegate Agencies, Child Care Programs, Home Care Providers, Resource and Referral Agencies, School Districts, First 5 Santa Barbara, First 5 Ventura Co., First 5 L.A., CAPPA, Every Child CA, NHSA, HSCA, CAEYC, NAEYC, Kern Co. AEYC, CALTECH, OC Office of Education and the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

He has trained: The Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE Grantee) Fatherhood Conference, Los Angeles County RTT Coaches, Human Services Association, Mexican American Opportunity Foundation, Hawaii HS, CDR Ventura RR, CALTECH STEM Conference, HSCA, NHSA, CAPPA, NAEYC, Mountain View SD, Plaza De La Raza HS, Region IX HS, So. Cal. Kindergarten/TK Conference, CQEL, OC Office of Ed. and The Washington D.C. Capitol Education Conference and more.