Michelle Pelan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is currently the Interim Project Director at the Center for Justice Innovation’s Manhattan Justice Opportunities. She graduated from the Silberman School of Social Work at CUNY Hunter College in 2012 and has worked in forensic social work since that time. She previously worked at the Center’s Brooklyn Justice Initiatives in an alternative to detention and incarceration program for individuals with behavioral health issues, and with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Co-Response Team, which provided crisis intervention and connection to services for individuals experiencing behavioral health crises in the community.
Michelle Pelan
Interim Project Director of Manhattan Justice Opportunities