Patricia McKernan - COO
Pat McKernan serves as a Chief Operating Officer for Volunteers of America Delaware Valley. She came to Volunteers of America as a Facility Director of a residential program for men in 1996. She was promoted through the agency and her duties currently include the supervision of Re-Entry Services and the Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Divisions, as well as the Administrative Divisions supporting agency operations.
Pat has been a social worker in Camden, NJ since 1990. She has been in a leadership positition with the Coalition of Community Corrections Providers of New Jersey for the past 10 years and is once again the President. She is a 2006 Leadership New Jersey Graduate. Pat also serves at a Regional Vice President of the International Community Corrections Association, and as a board member of the New Jersey American Correctional Association and the New Jersey Association on Correction.
Pat has promoted the professional development of corrections practitioners through her efforts in coordinating the 2005 ICCA conference in Atlantic City NJ; the International Association of Re-entry’s Second Working Summit in 2007 in Baltimore MD; and the Coalition of Community Corrections Providers of NJ’s Re-entry Conference in 2007 and 2008. She has been a certified Field Instructor for the Rutgers University School of Social Work since 1998 and a certified trainer for Reasoning and Rehabilitation Cognitive Skills Training Program for Offenders since 1999.
Pat is a licensed Social Worker and earned her Bachelor of Arts from Trenton State College in Psychology and Sociology, and her Master's in Social Work from Rutgers University.