Lorraine Correa is a Counselor Advocate for the Sexual Violence Project at the Violence Intervention Program in New York City, a community-based, non-profit organization partnering with Latinx and immigrant communities to end domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence. Lorraine has extensive experience providing trauma-focused counseling and case management services to populations in underserved and marginalized communities. She has worked primarily with survivors of gender-based and community violence as well as with individuals with mental health diagnoses. She also has experience providing multilingual services to Latinx communities. Lorraine has also worked as a Senior Case Manager at Safe Horizon, providing counseling, case management and crisis intervention to survivors of various types of trauma and has provided grief counseling to families who lost loved ones to violence. Lorraine has gained experience working with at-risk families, volunteering at a research laboratory in Bellevue Hospital, dedicated to enhancing parent-child relationships through interventions that support early development in children.
She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from CUNY Brooklyn College and a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Pace University. She is a member of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens Sexual Assault Taskforce, a coalition of agencies empowering providers in cross-discipline collaboration and cultivating survivor-centered approaches to prevent and respond to sexual assault. She is a member of the NYC Denim Day Committee which brings awareness to the issue of sexual assault and helped to organize their 2020 virtual campaign and rally. She is passionate about social justice issues and mental health advocacy, especially among communities of color. As the daughter of an immigrant woman from Colombia, she hopes to continue to empower and uplift these communities, bring awareness and prevention to sexual violence, and to help survivors through their healing journeys.
