Julia Jean-François, LCSW, PhD, is Co-Director of Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, where she oversees family counseling and foster care, a community resource center, employment services and cooperative business development. Before joining CFL, she was Director of Operations at the Puerto Rican Family Institute. She has extensive experience in child welfare and mental health services, and she teaches research methods and ethno-cultural methods in social work practice at the New York University School of Social Work and Rutgers School of Social Work and statistics at the University of the People. She received her MSW from New York University and PhD from the Columbia University School of Social Work.