Board of Directors
Yolanda Jordan
President
Yolanda Jordan, MSW, LCSW, has an extensive background in abuse/neglect issues in the field of child welfare. As a placement manager with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, she is responsible for managing supervisors who are responsible for children who are placed in the foster care system. Yolanda is also a practicing psychotherapist and has been in private practice for the past ten years. Services are provided to children, couples, and families with a special emphasis on relationship issues that African American women face.
Yolanda is a graduate of Western Illinois University where she received her bachelor of arts in mass communications and master of arts in public communications human relations with a minor in African American studies. Due to her extreme love for people and having the heart of a servant, she continued her education and received a masters in social work with an emphasis on child and family practice from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Jane Addams College of Social Work. Yolanda has been an active member of the NASW Illinois since 1996 and enjoys the work of advocating for the profession of social work and the community that social workers serve.
