Ivonne Parra (she/her) | Researcher | iparra@omni.org

Ivonne is a Researcher supporting evaluation projects in the areas of Justice, Substance Use Prevention, and Community Health. Ivonne is the evaluation technical assistance lead for the Strategic Prevention Framework-Partnerships for Success (SPF-PFS) prevention grant in Wyoming

She provided evaluation technical assistance in Efforts to Outcomes and Facilicase systems for juvenile justice grantees. In addition, she provides evaluation technical assistance in the Performance-Based Prevention System operated by the Collaborative Planning Group for community service boards in Virginia. Ivonne also engages in community health projects that emphasize community engagement and qualitative data collection efforts and supports Spanish translations for OMNI.

Prior to joining OMNI, Ivonne worked as a Research Assistant at the Colorado School of Public Health in Aurora. Throughout her graduate education, Ivonne participated in evaluation projects for the Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club, Colorado Association of School-Based Health Centers in Adams County, and is currently a volunteer for the Colfax Motels Needs Assessment in partnership with Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Ivonne loves taking care of her indoor plants, seeing art in Santa Fe drive, visiting new areas in Colorado or elsewhere, and spending time with her family, especially her two nephews who are at the perfect age of everything being fun.

“Our work is contributing to social change and supporting projects with community meaning. A favorite project of mine was a project related to the city of Aurora; as someone who grew up in North Aurora, it was meaningful for me to provide a depth of information and tools to the Here Together in Aurora Foundation and Aurora key leaders”

CONTENT EXPERTISE

Behavioral Health

Juvenile Justice

Community Health

EDUCATION

Colorado School of Public Health
Master of Public Health

University of Colorado, Denver
B.A., Public Health

+ Certifications, Memberships, Awards, and Service

  • CITI Health Information Privacy and Security (HIPS), Collaborative Institutional Training initiative (2018)
  • EPIC PRD (Production) view-only training (2017)
  • Community Engagement Workshop, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (2017)
  • Endnote x7 Training (2017)
  • REDCap Database Management Training, REDCap, Colorado Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (2016)

+ Selected Presentations

  1. Parra, I., Griffin, E., Schweimler, T., & Winston, C. (October 2019). VASIS Dashboard. Presented at the annual 2019 Block Grant Evaluation Summit.
  2. Parra, I., Vigil, C. (May 2019). State Opioid Response Logic Model Webinar. Presented for Virginia prevention community service board staff.
  3. Parra, I., Simhai, J., Vigil, C., & Winston, C. (October 2018). Understanding & Sharing Data. Presented at the annual 2018 Block Grant Evaluation Summit.

What did you want to be when you grew up?
A McDonald’s employee (to get free Happy Meals) and a fashion designer

What do you collect?
Art with calaveras, indoor plants

What is your favorite thing to "nerd out" on?
Pop culture, make-up, environmental justice, and social and public health justice