PhD Candidate
Baylor University
Friendswood, Texas, United States
Jillian serves as a Doctoral Research Assistant at the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, Baylor University Houston campus working on the federally funded project, CHOICES-TEEN: Efficacy of a Bundled Risk Reduction Intervention for Juvenile Justice Females, at the Houston campus. She is a current Ph.D. student in Baylor’s GSSW online program and plans to graduate in December 2022. Jillian graduated from Texas A&M University in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in education and completed her master’s in social work at Baylor in 2018. Since graduating with an MSW, she worked briefly as a home developer at Buckner Children & Family Services in Dallas then as a per diem social work counselor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Most recently, she worked as an Advocate for Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth (CSEY) at Unbound Houston. Her current dissertation research focuses on determinants of workplace support for social workers during COVID-19. Her other research interests include program evaluation, scale development, at-risk youth, adoption and foster care, and family disruption.
Disclosure information not submitted.
Saturday, November 12, 2022
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM