Dedicated To Service

Our team at Communities In Cooperation comprises dedicated professionals who strive to empower, assist, transform, and educate individuals and communities to achieve self-sufficiency. We are committed to providing our absolute best in all that we do using trauma-informed care practices.

Our CIC team recognizes the importance of teamwork in achieving our goals.

 

Our Team In the Community

 

About our Leader, affectionately known as

'Pastor Pam'

Meet Dr. Pamela Boykin Jones, an accomplished female executive with extensive experience in human resources management at the executive level. She has excelled in high-performance cultures that value collaboration, empowerment, productivity, quality outcomes, standards, and the recruitment and development of a superior workforce. Pamela is known for her energy, courage, and tenacity in pursuing her goals.

Pamela is talented in innovation and developing successful business strategies, including setting goals, objectives, success indicators, and action steps. She is highly skilled in working with people from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and has expertise in capacity building, managing large teams, and achieving goals. In her former role as Vice President at Merrill Lynch, she worked in multiple locations nationally and internationally, with budgets exceeding $10 million. She has also held positions as Director at the College of New Jersey and Director at Dun and Bradstreet.

Pamela is the founder and CEO of Communities In Cooperation, Inc. This successful, non-profit, faith-based organization collaborates with the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated population, impoverished and fragile families, and at-risk youth. She has sustained this organization from 2004 to the present day. Pamela has a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership and Development and is a certified organizational developer and since earned her Doctorate of Ministry. She is also an ordained Elder Pastor Emeritus of  Liberating Word Ministries in North Newark, NJ. She is married to her childhood sweetheart, David L. Jones, and has two daughters, Tiffanie L. Jones and Dr. Tremaine Jones Afetorgbor.

Pamela and her husband live their dreams of helping others with compassion and sincerity by setting goals and achieving outcomes that make a difference in people's lives.

 

 

 

CIC BOARD MEMBERS

President

Felicia Marie Timley

Vice President

Financial Treasurer

Felicia Vaughn Payton, MSW

Secretary

Edward Acosta

Member

Member

Masters Level Staff

Pamela  (Orga­ni­za­tional Lead­er­ship & Devel­op­ment)

Shayla (MSW)

 

OUR STAFF

Kishon  - Reentry Wellness Supervisor

David – Transportation & Support Staff

Tiffanie  – Business Administration Manager

Victoria  – Reentry Coordinating Supervisor

Ebony - Site Supervisor & Lead Program Coordinator

Pam -Family Engagement Specialist

Jacqueline-Employment Coordinator

Shayla - Social Work Coordinator

Dr.Tre-Program Operations and Wellness Advocate

Professional Youth Program Educators

Pamela Jones, Tiffanie Jones

Volunteers

We also have sev­eral under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate stu­dent vol­un­teers from Kean & Rut­gers Uni­ver­sity.