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Kristian Jones

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work

Firearms and violence prevention, Mental health, Race, equity and identity

Expertise: Youth mentoring, community-based interventions, Black youth, gun violence, adolescent mental health

Kristian Jones studies how youth mentoring can be utilized to promote positive outcomes for young people, with a focus on community-based interventions such as mentoring programs. He is the Director of the Community Core at the University of Washington in the UW’s Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, and is interested in how community-based mentoring interventions may reduce firearm violence.

He has worked as a behavioral health counselor and foster care counselor.


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