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Dr. Wojciak has developed a robust research program in improving outcomes for at-risk youth and families with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) through interventions that are designed and evaluated across family, foster care, school, and youth camp formats.

Her scholarly work has been published in Children and Youth Services Review, the Journal of Social Work, and Journal of Family Issues, among others. She has contributed chapters to six books on issues around youth in foster care and ACEs.

Wojciak was a founding member of the multidisciplinary team who create the inaugural “Building a Resilient Iowa” workshops for educators, health care, public health, and community agencies to build trauma informed care systems across Iowa’s care systems.  

Nationally she has presented at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy annual meetings, the Society for Research on Adolescence, National Council on Family Relations and Society for Prevention Research.  She has served as the associate editor of the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy and on the editorial boards of the aforementioned Journal and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.

As CFT Program Director, Wojciak is responsible for the future direction of the accredited Couple and Family Therapy Program, teaching and advising students, and providing clinical supervision as a couple/marriage and family therapist.