Denise Rosario

Denise Rosario is the founding executive director of the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, a community-based organization serving over 3000 Latino children and families in North Brooklyn and Queens since 1990. Ms. Rosario has been a visionary and a risk taker in creating programs for Latino families developing services that include foster care, mental health, HIV/AIDS support and prevention, fathering and parent development, as well as after school and youth development. She has over 30 years’ experience in mental health services to children and families of color in urban communities. She has served as a consultant to non-profit organizations in the development of needs assessments, supervision, training, cultural competence and program development.