Chi Connie Park, Ph.D., M.A.
Senior Research Associate
Chi Connie Park has nearly 20 years of experience in applied social science research design, program evaluation, and capacity building in the areas of child welfare, child and family development, mental health, systems of care, fatherhood, and community and organizational development. She has expertise providing technical assistance in the areas of cost analysis, social network analysis, qualitative and multivariate data analysis, evaluation design, performance measurement, and evaluation reporting.
Currently, Park supports fatherhood, tribal, home visiting, and child welfare programs, and leads cost study design and evaluation capacity building efforts at JBA. She serves as project director for the Strengthening Paternal Engagement in Florida’s Child Welfare System Through Father-Informed Solutions project funded by the Florida Institute of Child Welfare. She also serves as deputy director for the Building Evidence Technical Assistance project to support the development of a logic model, theory of change, fidelity tools, and evaluation plan for an intervention that promotes responsible parenting for child welfare system-involved fathers.
Park is a data technical assistance specialist for the Tribal Home Visiting Resource Institute for Excellence supporting tribal home visiting programs. She also provides cost study technical assistance and support for the Cross-Center Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative and the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance Resource Center. She previously served as a technical assistance liaison to tribal grantees on the Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families-Child Welfare Coordination Data Capacity Building project.
Park received a Ph.D. in community psychology and an M.A. in psychology from Wichita State University.