John Ducoff

John Ducoff currently serves as chief legal officer for Covenant House International (CHI). For the past five years, through March 2019, he was executive director of Covenant House Pennsylvania (CHPA), the affiliate responsible for operating programs in Pennsylvania. During his tenure, CHPA increased the size of its emergency shelter program in Philadelphia by 50%, created a new permanent housing program for youth, and expanded outside Philadelphia for the first time in CHPA’s 20-year history, opening a 10-bed shelter, drop-in center, and street outreach program in the city of York.

This is John’s second service at CHI. Previously, he served as senior vice president for strategic planning, where he led an initiative across all Covenant House affiliates to deploy a common programmatic database and use data as a management tool to achieve better outcomes for young people.

Before coming to Covenant House, John was deputy commissioner for child welfare reform at the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, where he was responsible for leading a statewide initiative to reform New Jersey’s child welfare system and for the development and deployment of an agency-wide information technology system to 7,000 caseworkers.