Kathy Park

As CEO, Kathy Park provides strategic vision to Evident Change while overseeing programmatic and organizational operations. She has worked throughout her tenure in partnership with numerous state and local social services agencies across the United States and internationally to transform child welfare, juvenile justice, and adult protective services systems through an infusion of research-based and data-driven approaches to decision making.

Kathy came into the field of child welfare out of a desire to prevent youth from escalating within and across the child welfare, juvenile justice, and adult corrections systems. She began working as a child protective services front-line investigator with the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services. She went on to work in ongoing family preservation, in supervising a blended child and adult protection unit, and at the state’s protective services policy unit.

Kathy is a member of several nonprofit boards and committees. She has served as a peer reviewer, as a board member for the Wisconsin Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (WIPSAC), and as a mentor for the Boys and Girls Club.