A Project of Hope

indigenous peoples of Africa and the story that is uniquely their own.  Though she was later evacuated from Zimbabwe, she later returned to spend the next two years in southern Malawi; then, two more in the Caprivi Strip of Namibia; and then most recently, two and a half more in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  

Jan received her doctoral education at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in the United States where she was educated as a research psychologist specializing in the analysis of educational methodologies. She completed all of the requirements for Ph.D. at the University of Florida with the exception of a dissertation and currently holds Bachelors and Masters of Arts degrees. 

She has worked with disadvantaged groups all of her professional life including developmentally disabled and emotionally disturbed children, adolescents and adults.  She is an experienced child and adolescent therapist and learned about wrap-around planning strategies in Georgia where she trained and supervised field case managers working with families with special needs.  She was a Director of a Therapeutic Foster Care Program, a Model Approaches to Partnerships in Parenting instructor, and was in fact, a therapeutic foster care mother herself. 

Although Jan lived and worked in Addis Ababa for the past two and a half years, she makes Atlanta her home while in the U.S.  Jan has been a member of the North Decatur Presbyterian Church since October 1998 and was a co-facilitator of the Faith & Issues Sunday School class when she was called to her present mission.