Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health

Speaker Bio's

	Rosemarie Allen, M. Ed Rosemarie Allen serves as Director for Division of Child Care at The Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Child Care, which is the State’s lead agency in planning and implementing public child care policy. The Division of Child Care is responsible for the licensing and monitoring of child care facilities; managing the child care assistance program; developing the criteria for educational requirements of early childhood professionals and administering child care grants and quality initiatives, and serving as the lead in implementing federal child care programs. Rosemarie brings a strong background in early childhood care and education with 30 years of experience in the field. She has served as the Director of the lab schools at Front Range Community College, Metro State and the Community College of Denver. She is an instructor of Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education classes, and served as a guest lecturer in the Buell Leadership Program at the University of Denver
	Sue Ammen, Ph.D, RPT-S, ECMH-SP III Licensed psychologist; registered play therapist & supervisor, endorsed as early childhood mental health specialist and reflective facilitator mentor in California, Professor and Director of Infant Preschooler Mental Health Certificates Program at Alliant International University, consultant & trainer with Aurora Mental Health’s ECFC, Instructor with Harris IMH Program, book chapters on EPT with young children.
	Barb Danis, Ph.D Dr. Barb Danis is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University. She is co-director of the Parents in Charge Program, at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Denver and was an Irving Harris Fellow at the UCHSC.
	Janet Dean, LCSW Janet Dean, L.C.S.W. is the clinical director of the Community Infant Program, a preventive-intervention service for infants and their parents in Boulder, Colorado. Infant mental health psychotherapists and maternal child health nurses provide the home-based services. Janet began her research and clinical work in the area of child abuse and neglect prevention, parent-infant attachment and home visitation in 1971 with Dr. C. Henry Kempe and colleagues at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. This pioneering research was focused on the prediction and prevention of child maltreatment. Janet has also conducted research in Great Britain, where efforts concentrated on understanding the effects of the Nurse Health Visitor system in preventing child maltreatment. Janet has authored articles, chapters and produced educational videotapes on the prevention of child abuse and neglect, sexual abuse and failure to thrive. She provides consultation and training on such topics as program development, reflective supervision and working with vulnerable families to multi-disciplinary audiences in the United States and abroad.
	Evelin Gomez, Ph.D Dr. Evelin Gomez is a bilingual/bicultural therapist who has been providing culturally appropriate services to a diverse group of children and families for 14 years. She has been trained in evidence based trauma treatments for young children. She is certified as a Behavioral Health Consultant, an Addictions Counselor, and EMDR.
	Susan Hepburn, Ph.D Susan Hepburn, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist with a specialization in early identification of autism and realated conditions. She is the Director of Research for JFK Partners and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado at Denver.
	Kim Kelsay, Ph.D Dr. Kim Kelsay is the Training Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Medical Director of Mood and Thought Disorders Clinic at The Children’s Hospital. She trained as a psychiatrist and pediatrician at Brown. She completed a Harris and DPRG fellowship with Dr. Harmon and Dr. Emde and is on the Editorial Board of Infant Mental Health Journal.
	Jon Korfmacher, Ph.D Jon Korfmacher, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Erikson Institute in Chicago, and the current President of the Illinois Association for Infant Mental Health. His research examines early childhood interventions and policies and practices in early childhood mental health. Before coming to Erikson Institute in 1998 he received postdoctoral training at the Harris Infant Mental Health program and was a senior instructor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
	Betsy Rogers, LCSW Betsy Rogers, LCSW, IMHE-IV: Betsy Rogers is the Program Director of the Early Childhood and Family Center at Aurora Mental Health Center. She is a Harris Fellowship graduate and recently received the Michigan Endorsement in Infant Mental Health – Level IV (Clinical Mentor). She provides supervision for clinicians, direct services to young children and their families and participates in group case presentations using this model with her team.
	Kelly Stout, LCSW Kelly Stout, LCSW, Kelly Stout is the Clinical Coordinator and a Child and Family Therapist of the Early Childhood and Family Center at Aurora Mental Health Center. She completed the Circle of Security training and provides services to young children and their families. She supervises students and participates in group case presentations using this model with her team.
	Jennifer Stedron, Ph.D Jennifer Stedron is the Executive Director of Colorado’s Early Childhood Leadership Commission in the office of Governor John Hickenlooper. Established in statute in 2010, the Commission is charged to identify opportunities for, and address barriers to, the coordination of policies that affect the health and well-being of Colorado’s children. Prior to this position, Jennifer served as a Program Director in the Education Program at the National Conference of State Legislatures, where she dedicated over five years to managing policy issues in early childhood, time and learning, school finance and special education. She is a founding member of the national Early Childhood Data Collaborative, which supports state policymakers’ development and use of state early childhood data systems. Ms. Stedron has written extensively in the areas of early childhood policy, assessments, and data systems and has published books chapters and journal articles in areas of cognitive neuroscience. She received her B.A. from Michigan State University and her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Denver in child clinical psychology with a specialty in developmental cognitive neuroscience.
	Claudia Zundel, MSW Claudia Zundel is currently employed by the Colorado Department of Human Services through the Divisions of Behavioral Health and Childcare as director of early childhood mental health programs. Claudia was the former principal investigator of several federal grants including Project BLOOM, a system of care grant from SAMHSA. She currently oversees the early childhood mental health specialist program and co-leads the Blue Ribbon Policy Council for early childhood mental health.