Presenter(s)

Julia Jean-François (L.C.S.W., Ph.D.) oversees the Center for Family Life's family counseling and foster care programs, community resource center, employment services, and cooperative business development. Before joining the Center for Family Life in 2003, she was Director of Operations at the Puerto Rican Family Institute. Dr. Jean-Francois has extensive experience in child welfare and mental health services. She teaches research methods and ethnocultural methods in social work practice at the New York University School of Social Work and Rutgers School of Social Work and has taught statistics and sociology at the University of the People. She received her M.S.W. from New York University and Ph.D. from the Columbia University School of Social Work.