Christy Olenik Lynch, MSW, PhD
Dr. Lynch is the founder of Partners in Evaluation &
Planning and has been working with human service and health
organizations for over 15 years. Starting out in direct service
and moving to program management and evaluation, she has worked in a
variety of service areas, such as, juvenile justice, child abuse
prevention, homelessness, youth development, teen pregnancy, and job
training and placement. Dr. Lynch's expertise includes process and
outcome evaluation, focus groups, developing measurement tools, and
writing research reports. Dr. Lynch has a Master of Social Work
degree, and a Ph.D. in social work.
Kathleen Dowell, PhD
Dr. Dowell has over 15 years of
experience in all phases of evaluation, including research design, data
collection, data analysis, and report writing. Dr. Dowell's areas
of interest include adolescent pregnancy prevention, sexuality
education, substance abuse treatment, and child abuse and neglect
prevention. Having worked in both the public and private sectors,
Dr. Dowell brings a broad range of experience and expertise to her work
in helping community-based organizations and government agencies
increase their evaluation capabilities. Dr. Dowell has a Master of
Arts degree in clinical psychology and a Ph.D. in policy sciences.
Consultants
When projects require, Partners in Evaluation & Planning turns to a well-qualified group of consultants who have
expertise in evaluation, data collection, data analysis, or specific content/knowledge areas.
