Jackie Edwards

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As Vice President of Strategic Engagement, Jackie Edwards utilizes her varied experience to design, initiate and maintain innovative systems that measure and evaluate how the Pascale Sykes Foundation’s Whole Family Approach impacts its grantees’ families. Edwards also works to disseminate data on the Whole Family Approach throughout the country in an effort to attract other funding sources, thereby sustaining both the approach and Foundation’s grantees.

Edwards’ career is dedicated to making the community a better place. With a deep understanding of the many challenges faced by disadvantaged, low-income families, she has been a steadfast and outspoken advocate for those within our society more than 30 years.

As the former Service Area Director for Community Services of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton, NJ, Edwards provided overall management and coordination of basic needs and self-sufficiency programs for needy residents in four New Jersey counties. She managed four of Mercer County Rapid Rehousing Programs, as well a pilot Rapid Rehousing Program in Burlington County.

Edwards serves on the Board of the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness; the Trenton/Mercer CoC; the Ocean County Ocean County Homeless Prevention and Assistance Coalition and its Executive Board.

Edwards has presented four times at national conferences hosted by The National Alliance to End Homelessness, and was a Keynote Plenary session panelist at its 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. 

Ms. Edwards served for 13 years as Associate Executive Director of Programs for Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey. She earned her Masters Degree in Human Services from Lincoln University and is certified in Addiction Services, Person-Centered Thinking, and Essential Lifestyle Planning.

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