Charles Watts
Charles Watts is the Follow-Up Assessment Coordinator for HIV Prevention Case Management InitiativeāProgram Evaluation (PCM), conducting case history interviews with clients as well as organizing and facilitating focus groups for clients and for agency staff to discuss their respective experiences with PCM. Prior to that, he was a Senior Case Manager for "Impact of an HIV Intervention for Adolescent Males Leaving Jail: REAL MEN," working as the Site Coordinator on Rikers Island, where he conducted baseline intakes, facilitated empowerment groups, created discharge plans for clients, and conducted home visits; he also facilitated additional empowerment groups for clients after they returned to the community. Additionally, he has been the Assessment/Technical Assistance Coordinator for PCM, liaising between the Center and the participating Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and helping to develop evaluation instruments that determined if each CBO was within project guidelines, as well as a Case Manager for HealthLink, conducting baseline intakes in jail, facilitating empowerment groups both there and in the community, going on home visits, and providing up to one-year post-release case management for clients. Before coming to the Center in 2000, he worked as a Data Collection Supervisor/Project field Manager for a market research company and volunteered at The Fortune Society as a Job Coach/Job Developer/Job Counselor, where he facilitated workshops for individuals who had no work history or who had been out of the job market for an extended period of time.