JOCHS Leadership
Nancy Torrey is Project Director for the Juvenile Offenders Community Health Services project (JOCHS). She previously worked with Rosenberg & Associates as a Senior Consultant to the Student Access to Health Care Services project that focused on developing a new approach to delivering health services to school-age children and youth at school-based health centers.
Ms. Torrey has extensive experience working to support education and health services for at-risk youth domestically and internationally. As Director of Program for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area, she led program alignment efforts as three local agencies merged into one. At The Every Child Can Learn Foundation, Ms. Torrey managed a portfolio of fiscally sponsored health, art, and youth development projects as Program and Personnel Manager. As a consultant to international development agencies, she led social research and evaluation activities for projects in health, education, and agriculture.
Ms. Torrey received an M.A. from Stanford University in applied communication research with an emphasis in international development. Her undergraduate degree is in humanities from Scripps College.
In addition to his position with JOCHS, Dr. Keith Barton is medical director for Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS), the partner organization to JOCHS. Previously, he worked in correctional medicine with Prison Health Services at the county jail in Alameda County, CA.
Dr. Barton studied clinical internal medicine at the Lehigh Valley Medical Center in Allentown, PA, after graduating from the University of Texas medical school. He worked in a bilingual medical clinic in Allentown before relocating to Berkeley, CA, where he was in private practice for 9 years. He subsequently worked in correctional medicine at the Alameda County (Santa Rita) Jail for 6 years before joining the staff at COCHS in 2006.
Jacob Turino graduated from Marlboro College in Marlboro, VT, with a B.S. in management information systems. He has extensive experience in software development and has lived and worked in Central America.
