Rebecca Evans Ford-paz PhD

Rebecca Ford-Paz has nearly 20 years’ experience in community/school mental health. Her work focuses on reducing health disparities by increasing access to evidence-based and culturally attuned prevention/treatment interventions, building the capacity of community-based providers, and conducting community-based participatory research. Dr. Ford-Paz has a longstanding interest in Latinx mental health, and engages in clinical work, research, and advocacy with Latinx and immigrant/refugee populations.

Dr. Ford-Paz specializes in culturally attuned cognitive behavioral therapy and is a certified therapist for the Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents. She is the founding co-chair of the Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition’s Committee for Refugee and Immigrant Children and Trauma as well as the Mental Health and Wellness Subcommittee of the Chicago is With You Task Force in the Mayor’s Office of New Americans.