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Dr. Doreen M. DiDomenico
District 1
Vice Chairman
Dr. Doreen McAndrew DiDomenico grew up in the Greenville section of
Jersey City where she attended St. Paul’s Parochial School, and then
St. Dominic Academy. She attended St. John’s University where she
graduated summa cum laude in 1984 with a BS in Psychology and the
President’s Medal, and earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in
1995.
At present, Dr. DiDomenico is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist
employed by Rutgers University for the past 15 years. At Rutgers,
she serves as a Behavior Specialist with Project: Natural Setting
Therapeutic Management (NSTM), providing behavioral consultation and
training to care providers of individuals with developmental
disabilities and behavioral challenges. Through the Graduate School
of Applied and Professional Psychology, she provides training and
clinical supervision to doctoral students. She also serves as
consulting psychologist to several agencies for persons with
developmental disabilities. After becoming the parent of a child
with a developmental disability, she lectures regularly at
professional conferences locally and throughout the country on
issues related to parent/professional collaboration for special
needs children.
Freeholder DiDomenico is the Coordinator of the Child and
Adolescent Program at the Rutgers Anxiety Disorders Clinic, where
she also treats Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam and
Iraq veterans under a contract with the Veteran’s Administration.
She is an active member of several professional organizations,
including the American Psychological Association, the American
Association on Mental Retardation, and the Association for
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
She has been a Trustee with the Bayonne Board of Education since
2000, is a member of the Board of the Bayonne Community Mental
Health Center, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Windmill
Alliance as Chair of their Capital Campaign.
In her inaugural term on the Board of Chosen Freeholders, Doreen
DiDomenico was elected to the position of Chairperson Pro Tempore
for 2007 and serves as Chair of the Environmental, Health and Human
Services, and Women and Minority Issues Committees, and also
represents the Freeholders on the Meadowview Psychiatric Hospital
Board of Managers and on the Hudson County Planning Board.
Married to Jay DiDomenico, she is the parent of two daughters:
Wendy, age 15 and Jaime, age 8, both students in Bayonne public
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