Kerry Moles, L.M.S.W.

Kerry Moles, LMSW, has 20 years’ experience working in domestic violence and child welfare services. She has served as Director of the Family Wellness Program at the Children’s Aid Society since the program’s founding in 2001. The Family Wellness Program takes a holistic approach to working with families struggling with domestic violence, particularly those involved with the child welfare system, offering a wide range of services to each family member. Services include individual and group counseling, case management and advocacy for survivors of domestic violence and their children; assessment, case management and intervention with abusive partners; and specialized prevention and intervention programming for teens in or at risk of abusive dating relationships. The Family Wellness Program is contracted by the NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to provide training and technical assistance on domestic violence to all NYC providers of foster care and preventive services.

Also in her role as Director of the Family Wellness Program, Kerry serves as chair of the NYC Coalition on Working with Abusive Partners (CoWAP). She is an active member of the ACS Commissioner’s Advisory Board’s subcommittee on domestic violence, which she co-chaired from 2005-2010; the Upper Manhattan Domestic Violence Services Collaborative; and the Manhattan Borough President’s Domestic Violence Task Force. She has presented at many national and international conferences on issues related to domestic violence, child welfare and teen relationship abuse.

Prior to joining the Children’s Aid Society, Kerry worked in a variety of positions in domestic violence and child welfare in Los Angeles, Austin and New York. These included training and volunteering as a crisis counselor on rape crisis and domestic violence hotlines; volunteering as an educator in teen dating violence prevention programs; working in a domestic violence shelter and a children’s shelter; residential treatment for emotionally disturbed children, and foster care. She developed and implemented teen dating violence prevention programs in several residential and community-based settings and served as a Coordinator for a NYC Relationship Abuse Prevention Programs (RAPP). Kerry also consults and trains independently on issues of domestic violence, teen relationship abuse, anger management and youth development.

Kerry is the author of The Relationship Workbook, The Teen Relationship Workbook, and Strategies for Anger Management and the article Bridging the divide between child welfare and domestic violence services: Deconstructing the change process (Children and Youth Services Review, 2008, Vol. 30 (4).)

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