Carmen Pacheco-Jones
Executive Director
cpachecojones@healthjusticerecoveryalliance.org
509.294.3892
Carmen Pacheco-Jones is the co-founder and Executive Director of Health and Justice Recovery Alliance and serves as Equity Strategist/Facilitator with DCYF (Strengthen Families), Empire Health Foundation (Peers at the Front Door Initiative) and Providence Health Systems (Reframing Service Delivery Models, Behavioral Health in the Black Community). Certified National Trainer Providing Peer Based Recovery Support Services for Pregnant and Parenting Families. Carmen also serves as a member of Spokane’s Regional Law and Justice Council as Chair of their Racial Equity Committee, other roles that Carmen is engaged in is as Board President of Northwest Justice Project, Legal Foundation of WA Race Equity Grant’s Advisory Committee, Board member of WA State Budget and Policy Council and Advisory member of Commit to Change WA, Washington Statewide Reentry Council Co-chair, Washington State Community Health Worker Advisory Committee, Board member of Family Impact Network, DSHS Basic Income Advisory Committee and Strategic Planning Council.
Carmen also formerly served as Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention Coordinator with Washington State University, State Certified Trainer in Diversity and Social Cognition, Certified Forensic Peer Counselor, Community Health Worker, Whitworth graduate and Masters Candidate in Education with Gonzaga University.
Carmen believes that it is critical to organize around the barriers that impact communities who have historically been excluded from accessing services, centering the expertise of lived experience in building innovative solutions that shift our communities from crisis to thriving.