Nicole Keller, LMSW

Nicole Keller is the Director of Project SPARK (Supporting Parents and Resilient Kids) at The Retreat, Inc., a nonprofit comprehensive domestic violence services organization located on Suffolk County Long Island Suffolk in New York. Ms. Keller currently manages a program that consists of counseling services provided free to children/youth impacted by family violence and their non-offending caregivers. The program delivers evidence-based primary prevention programming that works to change social norms and develop policies that protect communities. Ms. Keller has extensive experience in creating community-level change projects using a public health model that focuses solely on the primary prevention of sexual violence within high-risk populations. Ms. Keller worked to create and manage innovative projects including, Long Island Safer Bars. A leader and advocate for victims impacted by violence with 15 years of experience in delivering services to individuals across demographics/socioeconomics, Ms. Keller has been dedicated to working on projects that will reduce the prevalence of power-based violence that affects different populations. Ms. Keller has spent more than ten years of her career in direct service work in the areas of child welfare, primarily child sexual abuse and family violence using trauma-informed practices. Ms. Keller earned a Bachelors degree in Social Sciences with a concentration in Early Childhood Development from the University of Buffalo in 2006 and earned her Masters of Social Work at Adelphi University, class of 2022.