Jennifer Nevers, MSW, LCSW, is the Subject Matter Expert Office Lead for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this role, she provides strategic oversight of military behavioral health faculty utilization, assignments, and workload management across the Center, ensuring alignment between faculty expertise, training priorities, and organizational needs. She also assists in implementing and expanding the Star Behavioral Health Providers (SBHP) program, where she trains and consults with civilian behavioral health providers to enhance their clinical competence in working with service members, veterans, and their families.

Jennifer is a Major in the Indiana Army National Guard, serving as an embedded Behavioral Health Officer (BHO). In this role, she supports Soldiers across Indiana by providing consultation, coordination, and linkage to behavioral health services, with an emphasis on readiness, resilience, and access to care. She also has extensive experience supporting Indiana’s State Partnership Program, where she has collaborated with partner nations to strengthen behavioral health systems of care.

Before joining CDP, Jennifer worked with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the Veterans Justice Outreach Program. Jennifer has over 10 years of experience providing clinical services to veterans with co-morbid mental health and substance use disorders. She worked as a liaison with problem-solving courts with the goal of increasing access to care for justice-involved veterans.

Jennifer received her Bachelor of Social Work from Indiana University in 2008 and her Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. Jennifer later received a postgraduate Certificate in Program Evaluation from Washington University in St. Louis in 2021. Jennifer specializes in addressing the unique needs of service members and veterans using evidence-based treatments such as Cognitive Processing Therapy, EMDR, and Written Exposure Therapy.