Yvonne Mbewe-Palmer

Yvonne Mbewe-Palmer is the Supervising Family Social Worker in the Family Case Management program. In this role, Yvonne provides case management services, individual and family therapeutic counseling sessions, facilitates bi-weekly support groups, conducts intakes of new clients, as well as supervises the family case management team.

Prior to working with ASC, Yvonne worked extensively with both adolescent girls who were victims of sexual human trafficking with Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) and young adults in the juvenile justice system with Esperanza, NY. Yvonne is committed to working with young adults coupled with women's rights on both a domestic and global level. To that end, she spent considerable time in both Zambia and Ghana to work on issues such as commercial sexual exploitation of children, sexual abuse & rape, and HIV/AIDS. Yvonne is originally from Lusaka, Zambia but was raised in New York City. She received her BA in Political Science from Hunter College, CUNY and her MSW from New York University's Silver School of Social Work where she interned at both the In-Patient Pediatrics Department at Harlem Hospital Center and Harlem United Community Aids Center.