Jessica Strolin-Goltzman
Professor
Program Coordinator, Resiliency-Based Approaches Certificate of Graduate Study
85 South Prospect St
539C Waterman
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
- Ph.D. in Social Work from SUNY Albany
- M.S.W. in Social Work from SUNY Albany
BIO
AS a social worker and implementation scholar, Dr. Strolin-Goltzman focuses on interventions to improve the resilience and social and emotional wellbeing of children, youth, and families across child welfare, mental health, and school settings. She has served as Principal Investigator on several comprehensive implementation research grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Her work in public child welfare has included a focus on trauma-informed organizational interventions, systems change, and uplifting voices of children and families involved in the system.
Dr. Strolin-Goltzman teaches courses on trauma-responsive, resilience-oriented, and collaborative practices through a social justice, equity, and inclusion lens. She currently serves as the Director of Evaluation for the Child Welfare Training Partnership. Her clinical practice experience includes child welfare and adolescent substance abuse treatment incorporating, therapeutic use of the wilderness, narrative, and adventure- expressive arts modalities. She spent much of her younger life in Mexico and Latin America and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia.
Along with her colleagues Dr. Shana Haines, Strolin-Goltzman received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to address the shortage of special educators. Cultivating Collaborative and Resilience-Oriented Practices in Special Educators (C-CROPS) will provide tuition and innovative programming for graduate students to become licensed special educators prepared to serve students with high intensity social-emotional-behavioral needs and emotional disabilities. The project will also create a network of educators working collaboratively to sustain their engagement in the profession.
In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, kayaking, and skiing with her family in the Vermont and Adirondack mountains.
Courses
- Comparative education and social services in the Azores, Portugal
- Promoting well being for children and youth who have experienced trauma and
- Social Work Practice (MSW)
- Social work research methods
- Trauma-Informed practice in child welfare, mental health, and schools
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- Joseph Abruscato Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, College of Education and Social Services, University of Vermont
- American School Health Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics: Top Paper of the Year
- National Institute of Drug Abuse: Inductee to the National Hispanic Science Network
- New York Foundling’s Vincent J. Fontana Center Dissertation Fellowship
Area(s) of expertise
- Addictions/substance abuse
- Child and family welfare
- Implementation research
- Organizational development
- Research methods
- Social work practice
- Trauma and resilience
Bio
AS a social worker and implementation scholar, Dr. Strolin-Goltzman focuses on interventions to improve the resilience and social and emotional wellbeing of children, youth, and families across child welfare, mental health, and school settings. She has served as Principal Investigator on several comprehensive implementation research grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Her work in public child welfare has included a focus on trauma-informed organizational interventions, systems change, and uplifting voices of children and families involved in the system.
Dr. Strolin-Goltzman teaches courses on trauma-responsive, resilience-oriented, and collaborative practices through a social justice, equity, and inclusion lens. She currently serves as the Director of Evaluation for the Child Welfare Training Partnership. Her clinical practice experience includes child welfare and adolescent substance abuse treatment incorporating, therapeutic use of the wilderness, narrative, and adventure- expressive arts modalities. She spent much of her younger life in Mexico and Latin America and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia.
Along with her colleagues Dr. Shana Haines, Strolin-Goltzman received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to address the shortage of special educators. Cultivating Collaborative and Resilience-Oriented Practices in Special Educators (C-CROPS) will provide tuition and innovative programming for graduate students to become licensed special educators prepared to serve students with high intensity social-emotional-behavioral needs and emotional disabilities. The project will also create a network of educators working collaboratively to sustain their engagement in the profession.
In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, kayaking, and skiing with her family in the Vermont and Adirondack mountains.
Courses
- Comparative education and social services in the Azores, Portugal
- Promoting well being for children and youth who have experienced trauma and
- Social Work Practice (MSW)
- Social work research methods
- Trauma-Informed practice in child welfare, mental health, and schools
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- Joseph Abruscato Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, College of Education and Social Services, University of Vermont
- American School Health Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics: Top Paper of the Year
- National Institute of Drug Abuse: Inductee to the National Hispanic Science Network
- New York Foundling’s Vincent J. Fontana Center Dissertation Fellowship
Areas of Expertise
- Addictions/substance abuse
- Child and family welfare
- Implementation research
- Organizational development
- Research methods
- Social work practice
- Trauma and resilience