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WEB PAGE
http://www.utexas.edu/ssw/faculty/jones/
BIOGRAPHY
Jones is co-director of the Institute for Grief, Loss and Family Survival in the School of Social Work. Her social work practice experience has included 15 years as a clinical social work with homeless, runaway adolescents, bereaved parents, grieving children and children with life threatening illnesses. She also has been involved in community organizing and policy work around HIV/AIDS, victim services and health care needs of children. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life Care and has written articles on the needs of children and families at the end-of-life. Her most recent project is a study of the meaning of surviving cancer for Hispanic/Latino adolescents funded by a grant from the School of Nursing. Read more about her work with young people who've been treated for cancer in the feature story " Stepping Stones."
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Media Relations CONTACT
Tim Green
512-475-6596
timgreen@mail.utexas.edu
EXPERTISE
Pediatric palliative and end-of-life care, grief and loss, childhood cancer survivors, hope and resiliency, spirituality and international social work
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