Rachel Ramirez, LISW-S, RA, is the Founder and Director of The Center on Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury, a project of the Ohio Domestic Violence Network. The Center provides statewide, national, and international leadership to raise awareness on the emerging area of brain injury caused by domestic violence. The Center increases collaboration among systems, and provides training, technical assistance, consultation, research, and resource development for researchers and direct service providers.
For the past 13 years at ODVN, Rachel has led multiple initiatives on trauma-informed approaches, mental health and substance use, with a recent national focus on partner inflicted brain injury. She co-authored Trauma-Informed Approaches: Promising Practices and Protocols for Ohio’s Domestic Violence Programs, which was originally published in 2010 and revised in 2019, as well as peer reviewed academic journal articles in the Journal of Family Violence and the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma. Rachel is a bilingual licensed independent social worker with graduate degrees in Latin American studies and social work and is a registered advocate with senior standing in Ohio.