Dr. Amittia Parker (LMSW, MPA, IMH-E® Specialist) is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work from The University of Kansas in 2021. She has worked for 15 years as a mental health consultant across a variety of settings, including home-based services, childcare centers, school-based services, and health clinics. She provides training and technical assistance for the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety. Her research, scholarship, and service focus on advancing minority mental health and equity, particularly among families that are pregnant and parenting young children.
Dr. Rachel Brady (PT, DPT, MS) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Georgetown University (GU) Thrive Center for Children, Families and Communities and the University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. She is the Project Director of the GU Certificate in Early Intervention. She has been an early childhood intervention service provider since 1991 and has been a certified trainer for Routines-Based Home Visiting and Routines-Based Interviews. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Physical Therapy Association and the Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy. She mentors service providers across disciplines in providing contemporary early intervention practices and building relationships with families and early childhood educators to enhance service delivery. Her expertise is early learning and pediatrics.
Dr. Neal Horen is an Associate Professor and Director of the Infant and Early Childhood Development and Relational Health Division for the Georgetown Thrive Center. He is the co-Director of the Head Start National Center on Health, Behavioral Health and Safety, Director of the Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, the Infant Early Childhood Mental Health TA Center, co-Director of the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, and Georgetown lead for the MIECHV TA Center, the HRSA Evidence to Impact Center, and the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems TA Center. Dr. Horen has worked closely with all 50 states and numerous tribes, territories, and communities in supporting their development of systems of care for young children and their families. He co-leads work on developing early childhood systems in the Middle East and is currently leading a scan of early childhood mental health across Latin America and the Caribbean. His primary interest is early childhood mental health and the development of integrated early childhood systems.
