You Cannot Therapy Your Way Out of Poverty With Rosita Marinez, MS-NPL, ADV-CSW, MSW

Rosita Marinez has over two decades of experience specializing in operations management, fiscal management, project management, program development, and executive leadership. Her focus areas are mental health, substance use disorder, HIV/AIDS, and housing. Rosita is the Senior Vice President of Supported Housing at the Institute for Community Living (ICL). She oversees the nation's most extensive NY OMH housing portfolio for individuals with Serious Mental Illness and co-occurring disorders in supportive housing. Throughout her career, she has been part of different initiatives in housing, HIV/AIDS, and workforce development, which include Robin Hood: AIDS for AIDS International: New York Immigrant Program and Robin Hood: SEEDCO: Single Stop Initiative- Earn Benefits. Rosita is a published award-winning author for Latinx/e Social Work Vol 2. She has received awards from the Latino Social Work Coalition Scholarship Funds, Marquis Who’s Who, and Manchester’s Who’s Who. She is a board member of Siembra Today and Housing Solutions of NY. Since 2022, Rosita has been an executive mentor of the Supportive Housing Network -RELISH Program. Rosita has a Master of Science in Non-profit Leadership from Fordham University and a Master of Social Work from The Silberman School of Social Work. She also has a postgraduate degree in advanced clinical Social Work from Silberman and a SIFI from Columbia University. She is a distinguished George and Belle Strell Executive Leadership fellow at Silberman. She is also a John Hartford Scholar from the Silberman School of Social Work, a nationally recognized geriatrics program. Rosita joined the podcast to discuss the importance of accessibility of mental health services, the impact that poverty has on access to therapy, mental health needs of BIPOC communities, and how the mental health field can be more accessible to the needs of marginalized communities. You can connect with Rosita on Instagram @rosita.marinez and LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rosita-marinez-a1443966. For Podcast updates follow @healingcornerwithnat