She is best known for her role in the development of the Community Readiness Model[1] and as co-editor of the legacy book Cherokee National Treasures: In Their Own Words.
The World Health Organization has also adapted the model to fund five countries to address the issue of child maltreatment.
Jumper-Thurman assisted the First Nations people throughout Canada to utilize the Community Readiness Model in various projects and worked with First Lady Laura Bush and First Lady of Ohio, Hope Taft, as a trainer on Community Readiness for the Helping America's Youth campaign and the Building Bridges campaign, respectively.
[citation needed] She has served as a member of the national Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Advisory Council[9] and Rosalynn Carter's Caregiving Panels and has served as Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigator for 18 federally funded grants and evaluated more than 100 federally funded projects throughout the United States.
Some of her publications are as follows: She has also created and produced 20 PSAs targeted at HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, and awareness while serving as the lead for the Annual Launch of National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day campaign,[10][11] and has held over 1,500 presentations, keynote speeches, and workshops in the U.S, the U.S. territories, Israel, Italy, Wales, Ireland, and Canada.