Deborah Jackson is the Clinical Training and Development Specialist for JRI.  She received her Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan and has an LICSW.  Ms. Jackson started as a clinician at ICS, a JRI program in Rhode Island, and over the course of 13 years rose to the Program Director position before joining the corporate training department.  Ms. Jackson is intensively trained in DBT and the Skills System.  She has extensive knowledge in working with adolescents and adults with sexually inappropriate/offending histories and individuals with Intellectual Disabilities.  Ms. Jackson also holds an adjunct faculty position at Simmons University and a lecturer position at University of Rhode Island.