Jean G. McAllister
University of Denver
Jean G. McAllister, MSW, has the privilege of working for more than 40 years to address and prevent trauma and interpersonal violence and provide support for people who address these issues in their work. She owns her own business, JGM Consulting LLC, providing training and consultation locally, nationally and internationally. She serves as an expert witness and has been qualified in municipal, county, state district, US district and military courts. Ms. McAllister is a member of the Innocent Justice Foundation’s SHIFT Wellness National Training Team, serving the Internet Crimes Against Children Commands throughout the US, and of Colorado’s Ending Violence Against Women Training Team. She is currently serving as Lead Consultant for the Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors Systems Improvement Project Grant for the WINGS Foundation. She is a member of Board of Directors for the Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center. She has served as adjunct faculty for the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado, Denver; for the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver; and the Community College of Aurora. Her leadership experience includes serving as Title IX Coordinator and Director of the Office of Title IX at the University of Denver, addressing gender-based discrimination, harassment and violence on campus; as Program Director for Health Bridge Alliance, assisting professionals who work with trauma in developing resilience; as the Executive Director for the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the statewide membership program for agencies working with sexual assault; as Program Administrator for the Domestic Abuse Assistance Program at the Colorado Department of Human Services, administering State and Federal funding for programs serving victims of intimate partner violence and their children; and as Program Administrator for the Sex Offender Management Board at the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice which was, under her administration, selected as a National Resource Site for Excellence In Sex Offender Management by the US Dept. of Justice and for the Domestic Violence Offender Management Board. Her direct service experience includes providing crisis intervention and co-coordinating the victim advocacy response for evacuees of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Colorado; working extensively with survivors of the Columbine High School shootings and criminal justice personnel who responded for the first year after the shootings; serving as a trauma focused psychotherapist with the Assault Survivors Assistance Program at West Pines Lutheran Medical Center, as Program Supervisor and initially as a caseworker for Gateway Battered Women’s Shelter, and as a child protection caseworker in Arapahoe County. Ms. McAllister was honored as a Change Maker by the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault in 2014. She was appointed to the University of Colorado Independent Investigating Commission in 2004. She received the Colorado Governor’s Star Award for Citizenship in 2000. Her Master’s Degree in Social Work is from the University of Denver, 1993, where she received the Dean Emil M. Sunley Award for contributions to the school and the profession of Social Work. Her Bachelor’s Degree is from the University of Northern Colorado, 1978.
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