Lori Wymore-Kirkland

Lori has more than 30 years of experience working with families and children. She has witnessed first-hand the importance of supporting healthy parent-child relationships through adopting a trauma-informed approach to human services. Lori has worked with children as a mental health specialist, as a social worker in Texas and New Mexico, and in early education running childcare programs in Maryland and Virginia.

Since 2007, Lori has been the program developer and manager of the Stronger Together Supervised Visitation and Exchange Center for the Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Over the years Lori has taught parent education classes, worked with domestic violence programs, program development, grant funding, and court-wide family engagement initiatives.

On a national level, Lori serves on the Supervised Visitation Network as a board member. Locally, she is an active member of the Fairfax County Domestic Violence Network and collaborates on multiple Fairfax County teams. Lori is strongly supported through the local Fairfax interagency and community Advisory Board developed to support responsive community services for supervised visitation.