Barbara Pierce Parker, M.P.P.M.
Managing Associate
e-mail: bpierce[@]crjustice.org
tel: (617) 482-2520
Barbara Pierce Parker joined CJI in January 2008 and focuses on data system design, enhancement and reporting, measurement of organizational performance, and evaluation. In the State of Connecticut she is facilitating the implementation of a risk reduction benchmarking project among the Judicial Branch’s Court Support Services Division’s contracted providers, utilizing the Results Based Accountability framework. She is also assisting the Division in the implementation of a Contractor Data Collection System, serving as a consultant, business analyst, trainer and quality assurance coordinator. Ms. Pierce Parker is leading a multi-year evaluation of Roca, Inc.’s Intervention Model in Chelsea and Springfield, Massachusetts. In this role, she provides evaluation planning and oversight, technical assistance on data collection and analysis, and oversees research staff and consultants in an effort to improve the prospects of disconnected and disengaged young people and to share practices that show promise among this at-risk population. Ms. Pierce Parker has participated in the examination of offender re-entry practices at the state and county levels, provides technical assistance to local communities to plan for and implement effective correctional practices, and is trained in the administration of the Correctional Program Assessment Inventory-2000 and the implementation of Results Based Accountability.
Prior to joining CJI, Ms. Pierce Parker spent 5 ½ years as a Project Manager with a private consulting firm. In this position, she led large scale evaluations of SAMHSA-funded substance abuse prevention and mental health initiatives in Maine. She also oversaw a quality assurance contract focused on improvements to state and county adoption practices across Ohio. Ms. Pierce Parker’s criminal justice experience ranges from corrections officer and then teacher at a county jail in Maine to oversight of the budgets for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections and Department of Children, Youth and Families, under which juvenile corrections falls. She also worked as an Inspector for a federal law enforcement agency. Ms. Pierce received her Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine.
