Larry Menzie LCSWR
Co-Executive Director and Founder, Queens Counseling for Change (QCC); Co-Executive Director and Founder, New York Counseling for Change (NYCC)
2023
Larry Menzie, LCSWR, is the Co-Executive Director and Founder of two New York, Queens-based agencies, Queens Counseling for Change (QCC), and New York Counseling for Change (NYCC). Receiving his MSW from Columbia University in 1994, he is a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience. In 2003, he and a fellow social worker developed QCC, an agency specializing in treating individuals accused of or at risk of engaging in community/family violence. As Executive Director and a Clinician, Larry has been involved in the care of thousands of individuals attending services for problematic sexual behaviors, anger/aggression, bias, intimate partner violence, and/or community/family violence. In addition, Larry has worked with several City and State agencies assisting them in developing practices and procedures related to the treatment and supervision associated with preventing and responding to sexual violence. Prior to his QCC work with community and family violence, Larry was a NYS Parole Officer for 10 years, worked part time in a NYC Pediatric and Adult Emergency Room, developed a LGBTQI+ community-based youth program, and led a team providing services for formerly homeless individuals in one of NYC’s largest SRO’s. Larry holds several leadership positions in organizations dedicated to preventing violent behavior including President of the NYS Alliance for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and Executive Board Member of the State Chapter of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA).
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
