Rena Mohamed

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Rena Z. Mohamed serves as the Evidence-Based Practice Implementation Specialist with the Innovations Institute. In her role, she is working with State Agencies and local jurisdictions on identifying and implementing evidence-based practices across the State of Maryland.  Ms. Mohamed provides technical assistance and support to local counties as they work to bring evidence-based practices to youth and families in their communities.

Prior to this position, Ms. Mohamed served as the Interim Director of the Child and Adolescent Services at Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc., the core service agency for Baltimore City.  In this position she worked with local child serving agencies and local mental health providers to ensure the availability of high quality mental health services to all Baltimore City children and families eligible for public mental health services.

Ms. Mohamed began her career with Baltimore City Head Start.  First as a mental health consultant and then an Education Coordinator, Ms. Mohamed worked with Head Start staff and families to develop skills to support the development of young children enrolled in the program.  Following her work with Head Start, Ms. Mohamed moved to working with elementary schools with the Success for All Program, a whole school reform model designed to develop and disseminate research-proven educational programs to ensure that all students, from all backgrounds, achieve at the highest levels.  As a Family Support Trainer, Ms. Mohamed worked with school administrators and support staff, families, and local communities to implement a process to assist those children who were having the most difficulty achieving success in school.  Ms. Mohamed provided training and technical assistance to elementary schools in a variety of states across the country, including New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, Hawaii, Ohio and Washington, D.C.

In 2000, Ms. Mohamed returned to Baltimore to serve as the Early Childhood Mental Health Coordinator at Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc.  In this role, she worked with early childhood leaders to develop a system of care for young children in Baltimore City.  She developed the Baltimore City Head Start Mental Health Project which places licensed mental health clinicians in participating Head Start programs.   By housing mental health clinicians at the Head Start program, children, families, and staff to have access to the full array of mental health promotion, prevention, and intervention services on-site.  This project began with 6 Head Start Programs and is now serving 12 Head Start Programs in Baltimore City.  In addition, Ms. Mohamed developed the Early Childhood Mental Health Training Series to increase the pool of mental health professionals in Baltimore City trained to provide early childhood mental health services.  This training series continues to be offered and has also been developed into a certificate course at the University of Maryland.   Ms. Mohamed received her Masters of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology at Loyola College in Maryland.