| Collado New President of AHMHP |
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| Written by Fred Scaglione |
| Monday, 29 March 2010 07:33 |
Carmen Collado, LCSW, has been elected President of the Association of Hispanic Mental Health Professionals. Collado is Director of Public Policy and Legislative Affairs and Director of Immigrant Services and Latino/Hispanic Services at Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services. She was officially inducted as President at AHMHP’s Annual Meeting and Awards Reception on March 5th. Collado was also be honored on March 27th in Washington, D.C. at the Annual National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Conference for her leadership in advocating for access to health care for Hispanics and the underserved. The Association of Hispanic Mental Health Professionals (AHMHP) is a nonprofit organization that brings together mental health professionals from a variety of disciplines to fill in the serious gaps in the mental health systems affecting the Hispanic community. Together, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals use education as a multipurpose tool in their goal of nurturing the mental health of the Hispanic community by educating the community on mental health issues, educating our leaders about access to mental health services, and mentoring young people to become future leaders in the field of mental health. Collado’s public policy work includes collaboration with elected officials, key policymakers and coalitions (e.g., Human Services Council, Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies) to support mental health and social services. She co-chairs, with Michael Friedman, the Latino Geriatric Workgroup, a collaboration among Association of Hispanic Mental Health Professionals, New York Mental Health Alliance, New York City Department for the Aging, and New York City Department of Mental Health. Collado is also a Boardmember of Salud Mental/Mental Health News. She is a member of the NASW/Puerto Rican Family Institute joint Latino Social Work Task Force. Ms. Collado received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Queens College, and her Master’s in Social Work from the New York University Ehrenkranz School of Social Work. She holds a certificate from the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management for Jewish Communal Service of Wiener Educational Center of UJA-Federation of New York and Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She was honored for Promoting Latino Leadership by the Puerto Rican Family Institute in 2005 and 2006, and for Providing Quality Services to the Multicultural Communities of Queens by the Queens Borough President’s Office in 2003. Collado is also past Director of the JBFCS Foster Care Initiative, a pilot project/study to provide on-site mental health services to children at two foster-care agencies, in collaboration with the agencies, that reduced both disruption of foster-care placement and time spent in care. |
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