Lisa Gilmore, LCPC, M.Ed.

Lisa is the Senior Strategy and Capacity Building Manager at ALSO and a team member of its Underserved Technical Assistance Project, funded by the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). In this role, Lisa specializes in capacity-building for OVW’s Outreach and Services to Underserved Populations Program grantees. Lisa provides tailored technical assistance to assigned grantee organizations, develops and delivers training programs, facilitates peer-to-peer learning initiatives, and collaborates to offer other responsive services to grantees.

Lisa’s experience includes serving as a Senior Consultant for a national consulting firm specializing in organizational and resource development, as well as working as the Director of Education and Victim Advocacy at Center on Halsted in Chicago. During her tenure at the Center from 2005 to 2013, Lisa provided victim services and guided the work of the Anti-Violence Project, Legal Program, professional training and technical assistance, and the implementation of the Center’s formal systems-level advocacy efforts. Additionally, Lisa has several years working with adults dually diagnosed with developmental disabilities and mental illness. Lisa is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and has provided individual counseling, group support, or crisis counseling to hundreds of survivors and witnesses of domestic, sexual, hate, police, and HIV status-related violence.