As Executive Director, Andrew provides leadership and oversight of all programs and services and is responsible for the consistent achievement of the Center’s mission and financial objectives. Prior to joining the team at Pat’s Place, Andrew served for more than five years as Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass in Lexington, KY. During that time, services provision increased by 70% and revenues increased by more than 60%. Previously, Andrew served as Executive Director of Sunflower Kids, Treatment Director for Necco Therapeutic Foster Care, and as an adjunct faculty member of the University of Kentucky College of Social Work. He is a member of the Mecklenburg Child Fatality Prevention and Protection Team and Children’s Alliance, and is the former board president of the Kentucky Association of Children’s Advocacy Centers.

Lori joined the Pat’s Place team in November 2015 after spending almost 13 years with LIFESPAN in Charlotte, North Carolina. Lori brings over 16 years of experience that includes fundraising, building community relationships and advocacy efforts.

Prior to joining the staff at Pat’s Place, Ann spent 10 years as the Coordinator and Interviewer for the greater Hartford area (Connecticut) MDT/CAC where she was also active in numerous statewide efforts to further the CAC mission. Prior to that Ann held positions serving children & families in various mental and physical health care settings, schools and private practice.

Prior to joining Pat’s Place, Heather worked at Council for Children’s Rights for seven years protecting the individual rights of children who had been abused and neglected, students with disabilities and special education needs, and children with persistent and severe mental health needs. She has led efforts in the community with the Charlotte-Metropolitan Human Trafficking Task Force, Child Fatality Intensive Death review team, and Juvenile Court Model Courts initiatives. Prior to working at the Council for Children’s Rights, Heather worked for mid-size Charlotte law firm on the commercial real estate and financing team. She has been published in social work journals for work pertaining to the HIV/AIDS population and served as an adjunct lecturer for UNC-Charlotte.

Markia joined the Pat’s Place team in 2013 and has over ten years of experience working with victims of crime.  Her work began at a domestic violence center in South Carolina.  She then transitioned to serve child victims when the agency opened a child advocacy center.  Markia has also traveled internationally to serve children and is passionate about issues of social justice.

Jenny Cianciolo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with close to twenty years social work experience, fifteen years’ in the field of mental health and seven years specializing in childhood trauma.  At Pat’s Place, Jenny supervises a team of trauma-informed therapists and provides individual and group trauma-informed psychotherapy with children, teens, and families.  Jenny is trained in and utilizes various treatment modalities including TF-CBT, AF-CBT, play therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), SPARCS group therapy and Childhood Problematic Sexual Behavior (CPSB).  Jenny facilitates regular local and national trainings related to trauma, childhood sexual development, and childhood problematic sexual behavior. Prior to coming to Pat’s Place, Jenny worked as a Child and Family Therapist at the ChildSafe Center – Child Advocacy Center in Winchester, Virginia.  Earlier in her career, Jenny held clinical and supervisory positions in North Carolina, Alabama and Virginia in various mental health settings to include adolescent and adult community-based mental health support services, elementary school-based therapeutic day-treatment, and inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities.