Silvia Juarez-Marazzo, LCSW, NCPsyA is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Nationally Accredited Adlerian Psychoanalyst. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia fell in love with young children and their inner world when she began to work as an educator for young children with unique emotional needs in vulnerable and rural communities of Buenos Aires, forty years ago. Her work as an educator, psychotherapist, and social worker has been centered on the core belief that there is no such thing as a child: there is a child, his caregiver(s), and their community Silvia was a Senior Clinician and Supervisor for Child First Yale-Bridgeport Hospital and Senior Faculty for Child First, Inc. from 2005 to 2016. Child First is an evidenced based early intervention home based program that uses a two prone approach of Child Parent Psychotherapy and reflective care coordination to address the mental health needs of children 0 to 5 and their caregivers in the State of Connecticut. From 2016 to 2017, Silvia joined the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership at ABH, Connecticut, bringing Infant Mental Health to the Early Care and Education Settings through her role as Assistant Program Manager. Silvia joined Chances for Children in 2018 as Clinical Director and was promoted to Co-Executive Director Clinical in 2020. With more than twenty years of solid outcome evaluations, Chances for Children has provided free clinical group and dyadic services for parents and caregivers with children 0 to 5, strengthening understanding, enhancing sensitivity, and nurturing early relationships. Silvia has been an Adjunct Faculty for the Master Program in Social work at Southern Connecticut State University since 2001. She was invited as Core Faculty for the Early Relational Health Fellowship at UMASS Chann Medical School (former Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts) in 2016. Silvia joined the faculty at Brooklyn College’s Department of Early Childhood Education and Arts Education in 2019. In 2010, Silvia discovered, through the deeply transformative experience at the Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, led by Dr. Ed Tronick, that creating “cuentos,” or short illustrated stories for children, can help scaffold the integration of the Latino-American immigrant mothers’ experiences about their journey into motherhood as a new avenue for both self-discovery and therapeutic action. Silvia’s illustrated children story books for immigrant families, "¡Mamá Cuéntame Como Viniste!” (2013) and "¡Mamá Cuéntame Por Qué Viniste!” (2014) were invited the 2018 and 2019 International Book Fairs in Beijing, Bologna, Frankfurt, and Guadalajara. Her third cuento, “Mommy, why daddy say that I am a superhero?” expands on the stories of immigrant parents during the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Silvia has been a finalist illustrator at the Bologna Book Fair for three consecutive years (2021, 2022, 2023). Silvia was the Connecticut Infant Mental Health 2014 Jane C. Award recipient for Excellence and Exemplary Service to Young Children and their Families in the Field of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health