CQI is staffed primarily by consumers and family members of consumers.  We also have a pool of consultants who work with us on a regular basis.  Our staff includes:

Lisa Perry-Wood, MA
Interim Executive Director
lperry-wood@cqi-mass.org

Melissa Goodman, BA
Assistant Director
mgoodman@cqi-mass.org
 
Ryan Borg, MPH
Research Project Coordinator
rborg@cqi-mass.org

Lisa Perry-Wood, MA, is a principal in Clarity Consulting Partners, Ltd., who brings over 20 years of nonprofit management, grantwriting and fund development experience to her work as Interim Executive Director at CQI. Her client list includes a wide range of small and large non-profits, government agencies, public and charter schools, providing grants and fundraising work in education, the arts, science, human services, social justice and other areas. Lisa has held past positions as the Founding Principal/Executive Director of the Lynn Community Charter School and Executive Director of the MA Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth. She has also worked extensively in the field of diversity training and conflict resolution.  Lisa is the founding president/state representative of the state chapter of the Grant Professionals Association.

Lisa is a certified yoga teacher and Ayurvedic practitioner. She teaches seasonal cooking classes and consults to individual clients on optimal health and lifestyle. Lisa and her wife, Zoe, live in Lexington, Mass. with three school-age children, for whom they are legal caregivers. Lisa also has three adult children, one of whom has lived with bipolar disorder for 15 years.

Melissa Goodman is the Director of Programs for Consumer Quality Initiatives, Inc. Ms. Goodman has had extensive personal and professional experience with the mental health system, both as a family member of a mental health consumer and in her work as a mental health counselor with children and adults. Ms. Goodman worked as a mental health counselor for adolescents, and as a Mentor Supervisor at Dare Family Services, working with children of all ages who were in need of specialized foster care services.  Ms. Goodman graduated with her BA in psychology from Lehigh University.

Ms. Goodman joined CQI in 2002 as Director of Operations and has been involved with various projects in the organization. She has lead much of CQI's child/adolescent work, including Family Stabilization Team, Coordinated Family Focused Care, and Enhanced Outpaitent Program evaluations, which CQI conducted for MBHP.  These programs provide services/supports for families who have children with severe emotional disturbances, in an attempt to keep the child in the community.  In addition, Ms.Goodman contributes to CQI's work conducting consumer satisfaction surveys for MBHP and DMH.