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

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant

Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E® is originally from Ecuador. She is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Immigrant Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and the Boston Site Associate Director of the Early Trauma Treatment Network at Boston Medical 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 the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-informed Care: Principles of An Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization. Ms. Noroña’s 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. Ms. Noroña 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. Carmen Rosa has served as an infant and early childhood mental health consultant in TEAM UP since its inception.