Neal Horen

Neal Horen, PhD
Director
Early Childhood Division, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development

Dr. Neal Horen is a clinical psychologist who has focused on early childhood mental health for the last 20 years. He is the Director of the Early Childhood Division for the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development. Neal has worked closely with numerous states, tribes, territories, and communities in supporting their development of systems of care for young children and their families. He is the co-director of mental health on the Head Start National Center on Health. In that capacity, he has delivered approximately 200 trainings across the country and has co-led development of numerous materials related to infant and early childhood mental health. More recently, he has co-led efforts at building on-line professional development curricula on infant and early childhood mental health consultation. Dr. Horen is the Georgetown lead for the HV-ImpACT TA Center for MIECHV grantees, the lead for early childhood for SAMHSA funded system of care sites, the TA Director for the National Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, the PI for a Robert Wood Johnson funded study of Mental Health in Family, Friend and Neighbor Care. In addition, Dr. Horen has helped to develop many of the seminal materials related to infant and early childhood mental health consultation, including training guides, evaluation guides, and monographs. He also continues to be active in providing mental health consultation as part of his clinical practice. Neal continues to spend time working in direct clinical care including development of social skills interventions for young children, and he is director of the HOYA Clinic, which offers therapeutic and assessment services for young children and families.