CL22 - II-A2, Intermediate-Level: Infusing Radical Healing In Diversity-Informed Training And Consultation For IECMH Providers Serving Immigrant Families

Michelle Saulnier, MS, is a doctoral candidate in Child Development at the Erikson Institute and Loyola University Chicago. She is currently co-investigator and project coordinator on the Supporting Immigrant Families Project and the Illinois Child Parent Psychotherapy Learning Collaborative. Michelle has a background as a pediatric occupational therapist with experience in public schools, pediatric hospitals, and outpatient clinics.

Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E® is originally from Ecuador where she trained and practiced as a clinical psychologist. In the United States she obtained master’s degrees in social work and in early intervention. She serves as the Child Trauma Clinical Services and Training Lead and the Boston Site Associate Director of the Early Trauma Treatment Network at the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, a Child-Parent Psychotherapy National Trainer, an expert faculty of the DC: 0-5 Training. She is also 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. As a clinician, supervisor, trainer and consultant Ms. Noroña’s work has focused on understanding the impact of historical trauma, displacement and colonization in young children in minoritized families and implementing interventions tailored to their unique strengths, needs and socio-cultural-historical, racial ethnic and linguistic contexts. Ms. Noroña is also 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. Ms. Noroña has contributed to the literature in infant and early childhood mental health, reflective supervision, diversity and immigration and has adapted and translated materials for Spanish-speaking families affected by trauma

Ivys Fernández-Pastrana, JD, is the Program Manager for the Supporting Immigrant Families Project at Boston Medical Center. Previously she worked along a team of Family Navigators and Community Health Advocates in the Department of Pediatrics addressing social determinants of health and barriers to care and also assisting families whose children were diagnosed with autism. She is an attorney by training. Her background in the fields of special education, autism spectrum disorders and family supports include working with parents and families to help them to navigate and access community resources as well as governmental entitlements and benefits. Currently, Ivys is also the co-investigator and co-founder of the EASE Clinic which focuses in providing support in primary care to families facing challenges to access special education services and provide support to primary care clinicians through consultations and lectures. She also co-authored the Family Preparedness Plan for immigrant families facing detention or deportation due to their immigration status.