Dr. Shannon Poe, LCSW currently serves as the Director of Programming and Services for Life After Hate where she coordinates the culturally competent referral network of mental health providers and conducts risk-of-harm screenings for all participants. She also provides training to practitioners in the field and further develops the Exit team through the professional development of case managers and exit specialists employed by Life After Hate.

Since 2010, Shannon has worked in violence prevention with both community-based and local government-based violence prevention and intervention efforts. She has worked specifically with reducing shootings and murder rates around gang involved individuals by providing social service model interventions as an alternative in New Orleans and Chicago. She also worked with school aged youth to reduce violence and drug use among school-aged children.
Shannon has done both qualitative and quantitative research in the areas of resiliency, community services for gang involved and returning citizens, and substance use among youth. She also consults with various organizations in the United Kingdom on the topics of gang and youth violence prevention.

Shannon currently is an LCSW specializing in trauma, grief, and loss. She focuses on the Mind- Body connection and has advanced training in EMDR, Clinical Hypnosis, and Advanced Mind-Body Medicine. She holds a Master of Social Work from Tulane University and a Doctorate of Social Work from the University of Southern California. She is also a yoga teacher and holds a Certificate in Mindfulness and Wellbeing from the United Nations Centre for Peace. For fun, Shannon loves to travel, play competitive skee-ball (yes, that is real), and sing along to the entire Hamilton soundtrack.

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