Jana Woodiwiss

PhD Student

ABD

Jana Woodiwiss

PhD Student

ABD

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Jana Woodiwiss, LMSW, is a 5th year PhD Candidate (ABD) at the University of Georgia School of Social Work. She is a Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and Dianne C. Davidson Fellow. Ms. Woodiwiss serves as a Consultant to the Child Welfare League of America, specifically on the National 21st Century Research Agenda. She is also an Advisor to the DNA Bridge Consortium, a 501C-3 organization which works to reunify families using DNA. Her research is focused on the impact of family separation among Latin American immigrant families.

Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, she obtained her Associate of Science degree from Georgia Perimeter College in 2013. She went on to obtain her bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University, where she began research internships with both the social work and economics departments at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. She obtained her MSW degree at the University of Georgia, where she served as a research assistant, and also took part in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program. The program’s training was specifically geared towards working with children and adolescents at risk for developing behavioral health disorders, and their families. Ms. Woodiwiss has clinical experience in the areas of medical social work, foster care, adoption, hospice, and child sexual exploitation intervention services (C-SEC).

She is currently working on her dissertation prospectus under the tutelage of Dr. Harold Briggs, Pauline M. Berger Professor in Family and Child Welfare at the University of Georgia.

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