Rochelle Macer is a founding member and currently serves on the board of NYS-AIMH. She feels strongly about the mission and has worked to promote infant and early childhood mental health and build multidisciplinary professionals’ competencies since its inception. She has spent her professional career developing and directing services that address the health and well-being of children and their families. Currently, she is the Director of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Initiatives and Docs for Tots, overseeing projects that support adults who care for infants and young children and that build infant and early childhood mental health treatment capacity.

Rochelle has held numerous leadership positions in New York City, overseeing services for children and families at Bellevue Hospital Center and Kings County Hospital Center, within Behavioral Health and Pediatrics. She also served as Director of Mental Health Policy and Planning at the NYC Administration for Children’s Services, and as a Consultant to the NYC Administration for Children’s Services Early Care and Education, focused on child and caregiver trauma, professional development, and technical assistance for NYC Early Learn programs.

Before joining Docs for Tots, Rochelle was a Health Services Manager at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, supporting the Bureaus of Children, Youth, and Families and Early Intervention. Rochelle received her BSW and MSW at Adelphi University and was an Early Childhood Mental Health fellow at JBFCS.