Meet our Communities - Early Adopters

Meet our Communities – Early Adopters

EDMONTON:

Brandene Lorrain
NICU at Stollery Children’s Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital

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Sara
GRIT

Jennifer
Edmonton Public Schools

Children Autism Services Edmonton

OT Group

L & D Clinic – parent curriculum

WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE:

Kevin O’Brien, LMFT, LCSW
Children’s Hospital

I am a Child and Family Therapist and Mental Health Consultant in the Early Childhood Mental Health Department of Children’s
Wisconsin. In this capacity I utilize the NRF to support child welfare, home visiting and early care and education settings. I am an Approved Supervisor through the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy since 2007, a trainer of facilitators for the Rogers In Health Compassion Resilience Toolkit, and completed a certificate in Infant / Early Childhood and Family Mental Health

Margo Camacho

Christy has over 35 yrs of experience in social work, concentrated in the Child/Family arena. She provided social work services in the Maternity Center at Providence AK Medical Center, primarily, in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. For the past 14 yrs, her work has concentrated on providing early intervention for infants/ toddlers at Programs for Infants and Children (PIC). It was there

Brian Myers
St A’s

LOS ANGELES COUNTY:

Charisse Pilar
Child and Family Services

Charisse Pilar has worked at DCFS for the past 26 years and is currently an Assistant Regional Manager at the Pasadena DCFS Office. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from California
State University Los Angeles and completed the Napa Parent Infant Mental Health Program theough UC Davis in 2016. Charisse is currently supervising the Emergency Response and Voluntary
Family Maintenance Units in the Pasadena Office. She is also the lead manager over the Young Children in Care Program, Family

Laura Andrade
KC Kids

Sara Rodas
Allies for Children

Sara is a Licensed Clinical Social worker. She supervises the Wraparound program at El Centro del Pueblo, has her own private practice in LA providing family therapy to infants, children, and adults that have experienced trauma. She is endorsed as an Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist and Reflective Practice Facilitator Level II. She is also a fellow graduate from the Napa Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship, happily married to her

Lauren Paremeter

Lauren is an LCSW who has worked in community mental health for over 15 years, primarily treating young children and their families. She earned her MSW from UCLA and has completed the UC Davis Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship. Her own personal involvement in the child welfare system fuels her passion for working in community mental health, but her transition into motherhood sparked an interest and ultimate joy for 0-5 work. As a clinical supervisor for a Wraparound program in Los

Leslie Ortiz

Leslie earned her Master in Social Work degree from the University of Southern California in 2017 and has been working with children
and families at a non-profit for the past five years. She started
her career working with older adults with memory impairment and chronically homeless individuals before focusing on the 0 – 5
population.