JAN HOPPE
Director
The REACH Project
As Director of the REACH Project, Jan Hoppe
provides oversight to the Project's activities throughout rural
communities in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.
A licensed Minnesota educator, Jan holds a bachelor's degree in
education from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls and has
extensive post graduate work in education and psychology,
supervision and management. She was a public school teacher for
over ten years, during which time she was honored as an
Outstanding Educator in America. Jan is also a professional
writer, working initially as Senior Editor for an educational
publishing company and later as a freelance writer for a variety
of Minnesota and national publications.
Jan has eight years of experience as a treatment foster parent,
kinship and respite provider. Since joining the PATH staff in
1988, her work has included serving as PATH Education Coordinator,
Director of the PATH Education Institute and REACH Education and
Support Director. Through the Minnesota Child Welfare Training
System and PATH, she teaches a wide variety of workshops on topics
including foster care and adoption, cultural diversity, attachment
and separation, child welfare, abuse and neglect, permanence for
children, non-violent crisis intervention and independent living
skills.
Jan lives in Maplewood, MN. Her office base is at PATH's National
Support Center in Minneapolis.
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