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Sonia D. Worcel, M.A., M.P.P.
Research Associate and Grants Manager
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Sonia Worcel, Grants Manager and Research Associate at NPC Research, has more than 10 years of experience in research and policy analysis in the areas of early childhood, child welfare, prevention and intervention programs for families and youth, juvenile and criminal justice, and substance abuse treatment and prevention. She has expertise in project management, budgeting, research design, database development and management, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
Ms. Worcel serves as NPC’s Grants Manager. In this capacity, she oversees the budget component of all grant applications, coordinates the contracting process with clients, maintains and updates all project budgets, and facilitates any necessary contract or scope of work amendments.
In addition to her Grants Manager duties, Ms. Worcel currently serves as Project Director for evaluations of two child care quality improvement programs in Oregon. Ms. Worcel also serves as Project Director of a 3-year National Institute of Justice-funded study of substance-free transitional housing services for adult offenders. Ms. Worcel previously served as Project Director for a national evaluation of family treatment drug courts, a federally funded, 4-year study investigating the treatment and child welfare outcomes of families served through family treatment drug courts as compared to traditional case processing. Ms. Worcel also was Project Director of a cost analysis of Minnesota’s drug courts. Her duties include project management, staff supervision, overseeing administrative and field-based data collection, data analysis, and report writing.
Ms. Worcel holds a Master of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy.More information on Sonia Worcel
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