Jolanda Sallmann

Jolanda Sallmann is an Associate Professor and BSW Program Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay within the College of Health, Education and Social Welfare. She joined the faculty in Fall 2004 and holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, alongside an MSW from UW-Milwaukee and Wisconsin state certification as a Social Worker.

• Education:
  • Ph.D., Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MSW, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Certified Social Worker – Wisconsin

Her research focuses on violence against women across the life course, intersecting with mental health, substance use, criminal justice systems, and socioeconomic marginalization. She investigates privilege/oppression dynamics, consumer empowerment, recovery perspectives, community organizing, and qualitative research methodologies.

Notable contributions include co-developing the Women and Mental Health Study Site (WMHSS) in Dane County – a federally funded needs assessment for women receiving mental health/substance use services – and founding the New Partnerships for Women (NPW) curriculum development project. She also participated in creating Wisconsin’s first consumer-oriented outcome instrument for mental health services.