Missouri Prevention Science Institute

Lou Ann Tan­ner-Jones has worked in men­tal health since 1980. She began her career in a pri­vate school and has worked in a res­i­den­tial facil­i­ty, a hos­pi­tal, a pri­vate clin­ic, in near­ly all Colum­bia pub­lic schools, and has taught at the uni­ver­si­ty lev­el. She has worked with infants to elders, and with indi­vid­u­als with the most pro­found dis­abil­i­ties to those who are high­ly gift­ed. She has been a direct care work­er, a behav­ior spe­cial­ist, a
psy­cho­log­i­cal exam­in­er, a school psy­chol­o­gist, and has held sev­er­al admin­is­tra­tive posi­tions in dif­fer­ent orga­ni­za­tions. She has a Ph.D. in School Psy­chol­o­gy from Miz­zou and is a Nation­al­ly Cer­ti­fied School Psy­chol­o­gist. With 35 years of work behind me, I retired from the Colum­bia MO Pub­lic Schools where I was the Direc­tor of Spe­cial Ser­vices and Sec­tion 504 Coor­di­na­tor. She is cur­rent­ly the Co-Direc­tor of the Boone Coun­ty Schools Men­tal Health Coali­tion and an Assis­tant Clin­i­cal Professor. 

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