Dr. Boles serves as the Research and Evaluation Director of Children and Family Futures (CFF). In this role, Dr. Boles oversees numerous local, state and federally-funded projects that measure performance effectiveness and evaluate outcomes for children and families affected by substance use disorders who are at risk or involved in child welfare services. These projects include: the federally-funded Regional Partnership Grants Support Contract, the federally-funded Children Affected by Methamphetamine Support Contract, and the locally funded Sacramento Dependency Drug Court evaluation project. Dr. Boles also provides overall project management to research and evaluation projects, supervises members of the research and evaluation team, conducts evaluations, analyzes performance measurement and outcome data, provides evaluation technical assistance, and designs models for data collection.

Dr. Boles’ research, practice and policy understanding of dependency drug courts and other programs that target improving the outcomes for children and families affected by substance use disorders has led her to author several publications and speak nationally on policy implications and research findings. She serves as a peer reviewer for scholarly journals that include: Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Maltreatment; Disease Management & Health Outcomes; Nicotine and Tobacco Research; Substance Abuse; and Journal of Drug Issues. In addition, Dr. Boles has served as a consultant to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in reviewing grant submissions for treatment outcomes projects and the Children’s Bureau for children and families outcomes projects.

Prior to her position at CFF, Dr. Boles served as a Research Associate at UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. Dr. Boles received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry where she conducted research on treatment outcomes.