Jill Holmes Brown, MSW, LCSW
Chief Operating Officer
Jill Holmes Brown is a licensed Clinical Social Worker has been working in Health Care and with Children & Adolescents for over 25 years. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Social work from Western New England University and her Masters degree from the University of Connecticut. Her experience with crisis and families in both inpatient and outpatient led her to pursue a career in School Based Health where she opened the first Elementary School Based Health Center in East Hartford CT in 1998. In 2006, she was hired to serve as the Director of the SBHC Program that managed a three-quarter-million-dollar Department of Public Health Grant. Ms. Holmes Brown was part of the team that developed Integrated Health Services a nonprofit to take over the operation of the grant.
Ms. Holmes Brown oversees SBHC and Nursing Services at Goodwin University Magnet School System as well as the Goodwin Counseling Center. Under her direction, a full self-sustaining dental restorative program has been implemented.
Ms. Holmes-Brown sits on many boards to name just a few are the CASBHC (Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers), and The Goodwin University Early Childhood Education Advisory Board, School Readiness council and was appointed by Senate President Martin Looney to sit on the Behavioral Health Partnership Oversight Council, and most recently was named the Government Liaison and Advocacy Chair for the Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers.
Ms. Holmes Brown has a passion for wellness and addressing barriers to care. She strives to ensure that ALL students and scholars have their complete medical, mental health and dental needs addressed and met. Healthy students make better Learners!
