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Madeleine Dorval-Moller
DirectorCenter for Benefits and Services
212.614.5474
mmoller@cssny.org
Madeleine Dorval-Moller joined CSS in the summer of 2010 as the Director of the Center for Benefits and Services (CBS). The Center provides technical assistance on government benefit programs to social service providers through its Benefits Plus publications, trainings, and consultation services. Benefits Plus is its premier publication, providing information and resources on federal, NYS, and NYC public benefit programs. Another component of CBS is its Services to Families and Individuals, which provides emergency assistance to help prevent eviction and alleviate other family crises. CBS also addresses barriers to employment for low wage New Yorkers by forging partnerships with workforce development and educational programs, by providing financial assistance to participants enrolled in the partner agencies’ programs.
Prior to joining CSS, Madeleine served as the Executive Director of the North Brooklyn Coalition Against Family Violence (the Coalition), an organization that provides a variety of services to women and their minor children who are experiencing domestic violence, in the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Greenpoint. At the Coalition, Madeleine partnered with St. Nick Alliance and Los Sures to organize an annual vigil to remember those who have passed-on as a result of domestic violence and to commemorate domestic violence awareness month. This vigil brought local police officers, local elected officials, and the community together to denounce violence against women. At the Coalition she continuously forged partnerships with various local organizations, local schools and churches to raise awareness of domestic violence. Before her tenure at the Coalition, Madeleine served as domestic violence Shelter Director for two separate programs at Safe Horizon, including Sage House, where she was the founding director. Madeleine also worked for Queens Child Guidance Center (now The Child Center of NY) as a psychiatric social worker, where she provided psychotherapy for children in foster care and worked in a pilot Birth Mothers program that sought to bring birth and foster mothers together for the purpose of shortening the length stay of children in the system.
For four years, Madeleine was a board member of Dwa Fanm, a women’s rights organization that provides services for (primarily) women and children of Caribbean descent. She helped Dwa Fanm develop Tonel Lavi, a residential program for survivors of domestic violence. Madeleine served as panelist and guest lecturer at local colleges on topics ranging from the Impact of Domestic Violence on Children, to Spirituality and Teen Dating Violence. Madeleine holds Masters’ degrees in both Social Work and Public Administration, with a focus on social welfare policy, from Columbia University.