TheraYouth Board

Irina Marcoff DPT, is the founder and board president of TheraYouth Foundation. Dr. Marcoff started her career as a pediatric physical therapist in the New York City Department of Education. There, she provided physical therapy services for students in underserved communities. She worked with children who suffered from various congenital and acquired disabilities. Dr. Marcoff possesses the knowledge and the understanding of the struggles that the families in low socio-economic communities experience. She is aware of the challenges these families face in accessing the care their kids so desperately need. Dr. Marcoff went above and beyond to offer support to these families, but was also restricted by the system. School based therapy is not designed to address the medical needs that the children in her care needed most.

For the past nine years, Dr. Marcoff has been living in New Jersey. Here, she continues to witness the growing gap in access to therapeutic care between the families of various communities. In 2021, she founded TheraYouth Foundation, with the hope of  diminishing this inequity by providing pediatric therapy services to families in low income and racially diverse communities.