Sharon Taba

President & Resource and Referral Representative

Sharon Taba is currently President of the Board of Directors for the Good Beginnings Alliance and has served on the board for the past six years.  She is committed to developing integrated community systems of care in early childhood including health, education and family support.

As a parent, early childhood teacher and director, school-aged director, children’s program administrator, project director of several federal and national foundation grants, Sharon’s career spans nearly four decades, progressively promoting early childhood and the Medical Home.  Sharon actively worked at the local and national level with pediatric leadership to implement Medical Home models of care for children who are at risk for environmental, biological and developmental delay.  Ms. Taba has particular interests in advancing early childhood systems of care and understands the complexities of building integrated systems of early childhood health and education and family support through the culmination of experiences in bottom up and top down approaches. 

Recent publications: Medical Home & Early Childhood Development: Advancing New Systems of Care (Monograph with Calvin C. J. Sia, MD, and Lynn B. Wilson, 2006, Department of Pediatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Medical Home Family Stories (Co-Producer, Video DVD, 2005, Hawaii Medical Home Implementation Project); and, Early Child Development in Primary Care (International Conference Report, 2003, Department of Pediatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa). 

Sharon applies her new passion producing educational media to build training capacity for inter professional collaboration toward increasing positive child and family outcomes.  She co-produced the Medical Home Family Story Series 2—“Social and Emotional Issues in Early Childhood” (Video DVD, 2007, Medical Home Works! Community Pediatrics Institute, Department of Pediatrics, UH John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa).  Sharon is currently involved in several training contracts including Healthy Child Care Hawaii, Hilopa`a and the Community Pediatrics Rotation promoting the Medical Home. 

Sharon serves on several early childhood health and education state, national and international initiatives including P-20 and P-3, Center for Social Emotional Foundations in Early Learning Leadership Team, Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Strategic Management Team, and the Asian-US Partnership Conferences in Early Child Development in Primary Care Planning Team. And she has served on several early childhood boards including People Attentive to Children (PATCH), Seagull Schools and past president of Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children.