Juanita E. Blount-Clark has over 25 years experience in public service at the state and national levels. She has served as an Agency administrator, health and human services program development consultant, and coordinator for strategic planning and collaborative development for comprehensive community building initiatives.

She received her educational training at Spelman College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. Upon completion of her studies, she joined the staff of the Georgia Department of Human Resources where she has served as a public health consultant, director of the Offices of Human Resource Development and Personnel and Minority Health within the Division of Public Health. She provided strategic planning direction to Governor Zell Miller’s Initiative for Children and Families, The Family Connection, and The Georgia Policy Council for the Children and Families. Governor Roy Barnes appointed her as the Division Director for the Division of Family and Children Services in December 1999. During her tenure as Division Director, she completed a seven-month assignment as Acting Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Human Resources.

She is currently adjunct public service and outreach faculty at the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government and the Fanning Institute. She also lectures at the School of Social Work on analysis and creation of public policy, poverty as an issue of justice, and the role of social work in comprehensive community-based initiatives. She continues to provide consultation and technical assistance at the national, state and local levels in the areas of organization and community capacity building strategies, strategic planning, not for profit board development, team building, and child serving systems reform.