Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E®,

Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E®,

Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E®, is originally from Ecuador. She is the Director of the Center of Excellence in Immigrant Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and the Boston Site Associate Director of the Early Trauma Treatment Network at Boston Medica Center. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, a Child-Parent Psychotherapy National Trainer, and an expert faculty of the DC: 0-5 Training. She is a co-developer of the Diversity-Informed Tenets Initiative, the BMC Family Preparedness Plan for Immigrant Families and of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-informed Care: Principles of An Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization. Her work has focused on understanding the impact of historical trauma, displacement and colonization in young children in immigrant families and implementing interventions tailored to their unique strengths, needs and socio-cultural-historical, racial ethnic and linguistic contexts. She is committed to addressing the intersection of systemic inequities and secondary traumatic stress in the workforce via promoting diversity-informed reflective consultation/supervision, skills training, Radical Healing strategies and organizational accountability. At the NCTSN she is a member of the Steering Committee, a core faculty of the Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-Informed Care Initiative, and co-chair of the Latin American Families Collaborative group. Carmen Rosa has contributed to the literature in infant mental health, diversity-informed reflective practice and immigration and has culturally validated and translated materials for Spanish-speaking communities.