AMTC & ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant With
Alexa Warnke-Serwe is an evaluation consultant with AMTC where she provides a full range of services to internal stakeholders and external clients managing federally funded government programs. Among the many aspects of program support she provides, Warnke-Serwe develops tools and processes to ensure the highest level of data integrity for clients and colleagues. As an experienced registered nurse, Warnke-Serwe also conducts medical accuracy reviews for AMTC clients on Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Sexual Risk Avoidance Education curricula to ensure medical accuracy and up-to-date statistics on birth control, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and reproductive health.
Recognized for using real-time research to develop program strategies, Angela Turner helps organizations mobilize and respond to opportunities for growth. Turner brings together a team of Ph.D. researchers, evaluation consultants, and other associates to assist clients in successfully implementing and evaluating large-scale, government-funded programs.
For over 30 years, Turner has provided training and technical assistance to nonprofits for large-scale programs funded by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Justice. She transfers lessons learned from evidence-based program management to AMTC's network of community-based nonprofit organizations, located in 250 communities across 23 states. Turner builds client capacity to professionally design, operate, and evaluate federal grants.
Turner and her team have provided evaluation services for over 158 programs that total more than $410 million in federal, state, and local revenue in the areas of adolescent pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships and marriage education, fatherhood, workforce development, offender reentry, substance abuse, and nonprofit capacity building.
Before starting AMTC & Associates, Turner gained experience planning large-scale workforce development, welfare reform, and one-stop career center service delivery systems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In that role, she led a multi-year planning process to transition Milwaukee's county-based welfare system to the community-based Wisconsin Works (W2) Program. Turner's work in welfare reform has been showcased internationally, including in the Netherlands and Israel. She is a regular speaker at federal conferences and community events.
Turner earned a bachelor's degree in management and communication from Concordia University, Wisconsin. She has completed certification in several areas including adolescent pregnancy prevention and healthy relationships and marriage education curricula; the protection of human subjects; risk and needs assessment specialist in Level of Service/Case Management Inventory; trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and is a certified family development specialist. She is also a trainer in a variety of performance measurement systems.
Expertise
Family-Strengthening
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education
Mentoring Children of Prisoners
Offender Reentry
Responsible Fatherhood
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Welfare Reform
Workforce Development, including Sector-Based Credential
Youth Character Development / Youth Risk Prevention Programs
Job Titles:
- Evaluation Consultant
- Owner of Ann Wolter Consulting
Ann Wolter is the owner of Ann Wolter Consulting, specializing in program design, evaluation implementation, and grant management services in the areas of adolescent pregnancy prevention (with a focus on sexual risk avoidance), healthy marriage and relationship education, and responsible fatherhood. In her work with AMTC, Wolter is responsible for writing and managing program performance evaluation plans for assigned AMTC clients, including development of evaluation questions, data collection and monitoring tools and assignments, policies, procedures and related forms; program training plans; staff monitoring and quality improvement protocols and tools; and focus group planning, implementation and reporting.
Wolter developed grant program management and oversight skills during her service as a federal project officer within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, and as the director of a federally funded statewide teen pregnancy prevention and sexual risk avoidance program within the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. At AMTC, her focus has been on evaluation of such programs. Her 27 years of experience working in these capacities, 22 years of which have related to state or federal grant programs, lends to the capacity building expertise she brings to AMTC clients. She assists AMTC clients in areas of collaborations and strategic partnerships with community and government organizations, incorporation of emerging best practices, and coordination of community providers, volunteer recruitment, training and maintenance.
As a former high school English teacher, Wolter is an integral member of the AMTC grant- and report-writing team and serves our clients in these capacities as well.
She received a bachelor of science degree in English and French Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Expertise
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Sexual Risk Avoidance
Youth Risk Prevention
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education
Responsible Fatherhood Programs
Job Titles:
- Administrative Coordinator
Brooklynn Lawrence-Krol's AMTC responsibilities include confidential administrative support for the principal executive such as managing the schedule/calendar, making travel arrangements, screening and handling telephone communications, greeting and directing visitors, and dealing with administrative problems and inquiries as appropriate. She serves as a primary point of direct administrative contact and liaison with other offices, individuals, and external institutions and agencies on a range of specified issues. Brooklynn organizes and facilitates meetings, conferences, and other special events, develops professional PowerPoint presentations, and manages professional correspondence. Brooklynn manages the AMTC shared contact lists and creates and manages work trackers.
Brooklynn has a background in project management and special event planning. She has planned, promoted, and coordinated fundraising events such as the Ballet Ball and the Nutcracker Tea for the Milwaukee Ballet. In these roles, she was responsible for overseeing the special events committee, managing volunteers, maintaining board relations, and managing a budget, as well as tracking daily progress of projects, delegating tasks to team members, and maintaining correspondence with clients. Brooklynn has also managed large scale website design projects for clients such as Kohl's and Harley Davidson. She has a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies from Portland State University.
Expertise
Accounting
Volunteer Management
Job Titles:
- Evaluation Consultant -
- Evaluation Consultant - Field Research Associate
Crystal Agnew officially joined AMTC in 2021 after having partnered with AMTC in a variety of programs beginning in 2007. Before joining AMTC as an associate, Agnew managed local, state, and federal programs from a variety of funding sources including public and private grants and contracts.
For fifteen years, Agnew held a senior leadership role at the Trinity Church Peacemakers Family Center and led programs and services in Miami and New York City including adolescent pregnancy prevention and healthy marriage and relationship education grants funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, totaling more than $30 million. She helped to grow these programs from one federal project to as many as six projects in two cities. Agnew led and coached staff, developed and facilitated trainings, and presented both locally and nationally.
Through these work experiences, Agnew honed skills and expertise that she brings to AMTC clients. She develops and manages policies, procedures, systems, contracts, program budgets, as well as grant-required applications and reports on behalf of AMTC clients. Agnew trains clients and their partners, conducts site visits, and provides technical assistance to ensure compliance with funder requirements. In addition, she has delivered professional development training in the areas of time management, policy and procedures, classroom management, systems thinking, and curricula development.
Agnew received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, and her Master of Business Administration from the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She has completed certifications in adolescent pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships and marriage education, mental health, financial literacy curricula, trauma-informed care, youth mental-health first aid, domestic violence, human trafficking, and promoting sustainability.
Expertise
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Life Skills and Financial Literacy
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Associate
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Brandon Osborn is a Postdoctoral Fellow and NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Recipient in the School of Medicine-Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus. Osborn provides data analysis, research, and evaluation support to AMTC associates and clients. He oversees and manages the research arm of AMTC and is responsible for designing research and evaluation studies as well as training and assisting with program analysis, reporting, implementation, and evaluation. He has been involved in the evaluation of over 35 federally-funded projects.
Osborn has planned, implemented, and evaluated a variety of social services and health-related programs. Osborn previously worked at the Center for Health Equity Research in California where he helped evaluate place-based programs aimed at improving the health of vulnerable populations. He also assisted with the evaluation of DOJ-funded grants aimed at decreasing gang involvement and human trafficking among at-risk youth. In the community, he has volunteered as an evaluation coordinator for a mobile food pantry and a workforce development program. Osborn also served as the health education coordinator for the Orange County Transitions in Health Program, during which he developed a health and resource education curriculum for inmates pending release from jail.
Osborn received his Ph.D. in Public Health-Disease Prevention at the University of California, Irvine. He earned a Bachelor of Science in health science from California State University, Long Beach. He has also received formal training in the protection of human subjects, research ethics and responsible conduct of research, data science, biostatistics, epidemiology, mapping (GIS), and geospatial analyses. He is an active member of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (IAPHS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He also is a journal reviewer for the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, PLoS ONE, Preventive Medicine, and Prevention Science.
Expertise
Population Health
Social Epidemiology
Program Evaluation
Demography
Research Methods
Health Disparities
Job Titles:
- CEO
- CEO of Research Analytics Consulting
- Research and Evaluation Consultant
Dr. Cindy M. Walker is CEO of Research Analytics Consulting, LLC and the Vice President of Division D of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Walker has worked with the Certification and Skills Assessment team at Microsoft Corporation, the Division of Research and Assessment at Milwaukee Public Schools, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, and many other agencies in providing evaluation services.
Walker brings and applies to programs of AMTC clients her program evaluation expertise in educational and psychological measurement, statistics, research design, research in testing and measurement, application of issues in psychometrics, design of sound measurement tools, working with large testing databases such as TIMSS, NAEP, PISA, differential item functioning, multi-dimensional item response theory, and computer adaptive testing.
Walker received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics with a minor in computer science from Roosevelt University; a master of science degree in mathematics education from Illinois State University; and a Ph.D. in quantitative research methodologies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Expertise
Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership
Dr. Cindy M. Walker is CEO of Research Analytics Consulting, LLC; Vice President of Division D of American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a…
Job Titles:
- Research and Evaluation Consultant
Dr. Weed completed his Ph.D. in 1978 at the University of Washington in the field of Social Psychology and is the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for Research and Evaluation. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in his field. His primary professional and research interests have been the social problems and preventive programs related to adolescents: teen pregnancy, drug abuse, and delinquency. His research has been published in scholarly professional journals and presented at meetings of the American Psychological Association, Academy of Management Association, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, American Evaluation Association, National Conference on Family Relations, and World Conference of Sociologists. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and to the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs in the Department of Health and Human Services. His work assessing the impact of current social policy on teen pregnancy has been cited on NBC TV and in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Reader's Digest, and scores of newspapers around the country. Dr. Weed has also been invited to present his work in Washington D.C. at The White House, the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, the U.S. House Committee on Health and Transportation, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to legislative bodies in several states, and at Moscow University in Russia. He has served as a national consultant for federal Title XX and CBAE projects, and he was a charter member of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. He founded IRE in 1988 and currently serves as Director and CEO.
Expertise
Family-Strengthening
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education
Responsible Fatherhood
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Social Policy
Youth Character Development / Youth Risk Prevention Programs
Dr. Stan Weed completed his Ph.D. in 1978 at the University of Washington…
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Evaluation Associate
Hannah Boyd is an Evaluation Associate at AMTC, where she develops and manages policies, procedures, systems, contracts, and program budgets, as well as grant-required applications and reports on behalf of AMTC clients. She provides support to clients for adolescent pregnancy prevention programs and delivers technical assistance to ensure compliance with funder requirements.
Boyd has worked for programs such as AmeriCorps, Children of Inmates, and the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).
With over 10 years of experience in non-profit settings, Boyd has a strong passion for strategically enhancing the human experience and is always eager to serve with meaning and purpose. Boyd's multi-faceted, professional experiences have been instrumental in her development of a holistic approach to supporting clients and the populations they serve. She takes a big-picture view of client needs, and her recommendations are informed by that broad vantage point.
Boyd studied Human Services at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. She has completed certifications in adolescent pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships, mental health, financial literacy curricula, and trauma-informed care.
Expertise
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Life Skills
Relationship Education
Hannah Boyd is an Evaluation Associate for Pregnancy Prevention Programs at AMTC, where she develops and manages policies, procedures, systems, contracts, and program budgets, as well as…
Job Titles:
- Director of Finance and Administration
Jacqueline Wegner leads AMTC's Finance and Administration function and is responsible for all aspects of business operations, including finance, budgeting, administration, and human resources. In this key leadership role, she manages accounts payable and receivable, prepares financial reports, oversees payroll and benefits, and manages several types of agreements, including client contracts.
With over 25 years' experience in finance and accounting, having served as a staff accountant, accounting manager, and controller, Wegner brings significant expertise in the maintenance of appropriate internal controls, financial systems, and procedures. Known for her distinctive leadership style, Wegner is genuinely personable, professional, and enthusiastic in her pursuit of optimizing business outcomes and maximizing efficiency. She is an excellent resource for AMTC associates and clients.
Wegner holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and has completed additional college coursework in business law, accounting, and more.
Expertise
U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Financial Reporting
Jeanette Stevens officially joined AMTC in 2016 after having partnered with AMTC in a variety of capacities since 2006. Before joining AMTC as an associate, Stevens managed local and national programs from a variety of funding sources including public and private grants and contracts. She has supervised and coached staff throughout her career, developed and facilitated trainings, and presented locally and nationally. For ten years, Stevens held a senior leadership role at the Center for Self-Sufficiency and led programs and services that included a three-year, $1.5 million youthful offender workforce grant funded by the U.S Department of Labor and a multi-community healthy marriage partnership grant funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, totaling more than $15 million over nine years.
Through these work experiences, Stevens honed the skills that she brings to AMTC clients. She develops and manages policies, procedures, systems, contracts, program budgets, and grant-required applications and reports on behalf of AMTC clients. Stevens trains clients and their partners, conducts site visits, and provides technical assistance to ensure compliance with requirements. As needed, she also assists with marketing, outreach, and program design.
Additionally, Stevens uses her 20+ years of social service program development and management experience to coach AMTC clients in serving program participants in the areas of housing, pre-trial criminal justice, special-needs childcare training, adolescent pregnancy prevention, healthy relationship education, and workforce services.
Stevens received her bachelor's degrees in social science and communications from Milwaukee' Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI, and her masters of arts degree in public administration from DePaul University in Chicago, IL. She finished all coursework toward her Ph.D. in leadership studies from Marian University in Fond du Lac, WI. She has completed certification in several areas including adolescent pregnancy prevention and healthy relationships and marriage education curricula; how to address trauma-informed care, sexual assault, domestic violence and child maltreatment, and how to promote sustainability. She is also a trainer in performance measurement systems.
Expertise
Community Development/Revitalization
Job Titles:
- Fund Development and Organizational Consultant
Jim Beer, Ph.D., is a fund development and organizational consultant whose experience includes grant writing, fundraising, legislative advocacy, state program licensure/certification, program/system development, and HIPAA/42 CFR Part 2 compliance.
He has worked with AMTC since 2010. An area of specialization for Jim is his analysis and application of administrative data (e.g., teen birth, STD rates, high-risk sexual behavior rates) to assessment, planning, and evaluation of teen pregnancy prevention grant-funded projects, including the following:
Office of Adolescent Health Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program
OAH Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)
Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program.
Replicating Programs (Tier 1) Effective in the Promotion of Healthy Adolescence and the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy and Associated Risk Behaviors Program
In addition, Jim has written successful grant applications to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) for both the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Center for Mental Health Services, the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, Administration for Children and Families (Children's Bureau; Office of Family Assistance), the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Justice (Bureau of Justice Assistance; Bureau of Prisons), the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Since 2001, Jim has written numerous funded federal, state, local and private grants totaling more than $240 million for various agencies including OIC of Broward County, FL, Meta House, the Center for Veterans Issues, the United Community Center, the State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County (multiple agencies), the City of Milwaukee Community Development Grants Administration, Word of Hope Ministries, the Center for Self Sufficiency, Wisconsin Community Services Community Advocates, Dryhootch of America, the Next Door Foundation, and PragerU.
Jim's management and administration experience includes fund development, public relations, personnel supervision, budget development and monitoring, coalition building, program development, community outreach, and board development. He also has clinical credentials that, in addition to his Ph.D., include being an AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor (inactive), and having a Wisconsin MFT license (inactive) with experience in therapy, supervision, training, managed care consultation, and utilization review. Jim received a bachelor's degree from State University of New York, Regents College, a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Kansas State University, and a doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University.
Expertise
Substance Abuse Treatment
Mental Health
Offender Reentry
Workforce Development
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Responsible Fatherhood
Veterans Services
Child Welfare Services
HIV Services
Hispanic-Specific Services
Gender-Responsive Services
Jim Beer is a fund development and organizational consultant whose experience includes grant writing, fundraising, legislative advocacy, state program licensure/certification…
Joshua coordinates all aspects of AMTC's bi-monthly newsletter, including writing, editing, and providing input into design. The newsletter reaches across multiple states and reaches a diverse group of stakeholders who are vested in social services programming. Joshua has worked with AMTC since 2015.
He is adept at many types of writing, including journalism, creative nonfiction, novels, and academic curriculum. Joshua has covered topics on business, medical issues, religion, recreational sports, family features, personal interest stories, and much more. Additionally, he has teaching and administrator licenses from the State of Wisconsin. Joshua is a full-time Spanish teacher in a suburban school district just outside the City of Milwaukee. He has served in this capacity for over fifteen years. At different periods throughout his tenure, Joshua has taught first through seventh grade at three schools in the same district. He innovates and implements curriculum that is aligned to state standards and engages his students through music, art, stories, poetry, and more. Joshua maintains a Spanish class website that links curriculum and additional resources so that students, parents, and community members can connect to what students learn throughout the school year. His writing pursuits stimulate his creativity so that his curriculum and teaching are more innovative and effective.
Joshua received a bachelor's degree from Cardinal Stritch University in Elementary/Middle School Education, with a minor in Spanish. He also holds a master's degree from Cardinal Stritch University in Educational Leadership.
Expertise
Content Development
Joshua Becker coordinates all aspects of AMTC's bi-monthly newsletter, including writing, editing, and providing input into design. The newsletter reaches across multiple states and reaches a diverse…
Job Titles:
- Sustainability Consultant -
June Martin Perry is well known in Milwaukee and nationally for her work in the nonprofit arena. She prefers to call herself a "social entrepreneur" rather than a nonprofit leader. She started a nonprofit, New Concept Self Development Center, in 1975 and retired 32 years later, having developed the business into a viable organization that employed over 50 social workers and served more than 7,000 families annually. June has worked with AMTC since 2012. Her achievements include receiving the Community Service Award from SET Ministries, Black Women's Network Lifetime Leader Award, Women Putting their Stamp On Milwaukee Award, the Woman of Influence Award for the Non Profit Sector in Milwaukee as selected by the Business Journal, Mentor of the Year from TEMPO and Sacajawea Trailblazer Award from Professional Dimensions (two highly esteemed business women's organizations). Her national recognitions include the Kraft Foods - Essence Award, Daily Points of Light Foundation Award and the Black Administrators in Child Welfare Long Term Leaders Award. June has studied nonprofit leadership and social entrepreneurship and received certificates of completion from the Executive Program for Non Profit Leaders at the Stanford University School of Business and the Denali Initiative, a Harvard, Carnegie Mellon and Babson College three-year fellowship awarded to only 16 nonprofit leaders nationwide. She has also been licensed as a consultant for the Standards for Excellence Institute and has completed the Annie E. Casey sponsored Executive Transition Management Training as well as the CWLA Supervisory Standards for Non Profits. She is a native of Columbia, S.C. who received her bachelor's degree from North Carolina Central University, her master's degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and completed her coursework for a doctorate in Urban Studies from UWM. Her volunteer involvement includes being a founding member of the African American Women's Fund and serving as a mentor for women coming out of prison. June developed a model of nonprofit sustainability and strategic planning, Access 2 Success, a technical assistance intermediary working with businesses, government and nonprofits in strategic visioning and succession planning. She is also co-owner of BestEd, LLC, a school and office supply company.
Expertise
Non-profit leadership
Business development
Social entrepreneurship
Executive management
Job Titles:
- Research and Evaluation Consultant
In 2012, Lori Rolleri established an independent consulting practice aimed at supporting national and international nonprofit organizations, government entities, universities, and donor agencies in developing, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions. Lori joined AMTC in October, 2015.
Before establishing her consulting practice, Lori served as Team Lead for Gender at EngenderHealth (EH). Her projects were based in Africa, Asia, and the United States. Lori led efforts on how to identify harmful gender norms that hinder healthy sexual and reproductive health (SRH) behavior, and develop interventions aimed at transforming these norms into healthier and equitable ones. She co-launched EH's U.S. office headquartered in Austin, TX, which focuses on adolescent SRH.
Before joining EngenderHealth, Lori co-founded and served as Director of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health Promotion (CRSHP) at ETR Associates. While at ETR, she led over a dozen projects focused on capacity-building, program development, and translation of research to practice. Lori regularly consulted with ETR's Research Department in designing and implementing rigorous evaluation projects.
Lori has co-authored several publications on the subject of sexuality education and HIV education, including a book titled Reducing Adolescent Sexual Risk: A Theoretical Guide for Developing and Adapting Curriculum-based Programs (2011) and The Tool to Assess the 17 Characteristics of Effective Sex and HIV Programs (2011). She is the author or co-author of more than two behavior change interventions.
Rolleri holds MSW and MPH degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BS degree in Policy Analysis from Cornell University.
Expertise
Sexual and reproductive health
Adolescent development
Prevention of adolescent and unintended pregnancy
Prevention of HIV and other STIs
Prevention of intimate partner violence
Gender equality and gender transformative programming
Parenting
Organizational/individual capacity building
Adult learning
Health behavior change theory
Job Titles:
- Certified Public Accountant
Mark Adashun has been a certified public accountant for 35 years and has provided individualized technical assistance for secular and faith-based nonprofit organizations for more than 25 of those years. He has worked with AMTC since 1997.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- President
- Nonprofit Capacity Building and Family Strengthening Programs Consultant
- President and Founder of Capacity Development Associates
Maurice Moore is President and Founder of Capacity Development Associates, LLC. Before establishing Capacity Development Associates in 2010, he worked for 17 years as a program officer over fatherhood programs for the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation. Moore brings more than 30 years' experience in human services to AMTC clients, primarily in fatherhood and juvenile and criminal justice. His experience includes work in some of the country's toughest cities, including Chicago, IL; Newark, NJ; Wilmington, DE; Milwaukee, WI; Atlanta, GA; and Baltimore, MD.
Moore has been a social worker with the Illinois Department of Public Assistance, manager of an Illinois Department of Corrections serious juvenile offender program, director of a National Council on Crime and Delinquency violent juvenile offender project; deputy director of the State of Delaware's juvenile justice agency; and a consultant to the U.S Department of Justice (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention). These experiences combined with his years at the Casey Foundation, with a focus on leading the foundation's fatherhood development efforts, bring him skills to assist AMTC clients with responding appropriately to grant announcements, providing technical assistance in managing grants, and helping to advocate in the areas of juvenile justice and especially in responsible fatherhood.
In addition to supporting policy work in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, early childhood, and child support, Moore also has skills to assist AMTC human service practitioners, researchers, and others on methods of achieving effective outcomes for residents (particularly fathers) of low-income communities.
Moore holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Southern Illinois University and a master's degree in sociology from Eastern Illinois University.
Expertise
Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Child Welfare, Early Childhood, Child Support
Responsible Fatherhood
Job Titles:
- Trainer
- Senior Evaluation Associate
Melanie Porterfield joined AMTC in 2005 when she assumed a leadership role in overseeing evaluation, consultation, and training services for grants awarded to AMTC clients for federal adolescent pregnancy prevention programming. Since then she has led AMTC client services for more than $124 million in adolescent pregnancy prevention grant programming. Porterfield has also assisted in launching client workforce reentry programs, including three U.S. Department of Labor sector-based employment and four offender reentry workforce programs.
Additionally, Porterfield leads development and execution of AMTC's survey implementation, its Online Participant Tracking System and AMTC's overall operations and procedures.
As a former project director, Porterfield has direct experience operating adolescent pregnancy prevention programs in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. These programs gave her experience to consult AMTC clients in coordinating community outreach and recruitment of schools, program sites, and youth; developing innovative program delivery methods; assisting with curriculum development and updates; developing and implementing performance measurement and program fidelity systems; overseeing program implementation; and coordinating quasi-experimental evaluation. Additionally, she uses her experiences to consult on contract development and monitoring, database management and support, preparation of grant-required applications and reports, budget oversight, and facilitation of training for program staff.
Porterfield has served as a trainer for adolescent pregnancy prevention, healthy marriage and relation ship education, and workforce development projects in 83 communities across the U.S. and has assisted with social marketing campaigns and the coordination of large-scale, community-based events. She received bachelor's degrees in sociology/criminal justice and computer graphic design from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is a certified trainer in adolescent pregnancy prevention, healthy marriage and relationship education, and workforce development.
Expertise
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Programs
Youth Character Development / Youth Risk Prevention Programs
Workforce Development
Training and Development
Melanie Porterfield provides consultation and training services for AMTC clients and has served as the lead evaluation consultant for more than $60 million in federal teen pregnancy prevention…
Job Titles:
- Project Management Consultant
With over 20 years of experience working with government and nonprofit/NGO consulting, Michael O'Malley has worked with AMTC in various capacities since the early 2000s. He is one of two architects that designed the Online Participant Tracking System (OPTS), used since 2005 by AMTC with clients to track and monitor client evaluation data such as enrollment, participation, completion, and case management. He also supports AMTC grant writing.
In addition to his work in nonprofit consulting and government, Michael has also worked variously in digital, brand, and technical consulting for over 20 years, working with large global Fortune 500 firms to implement technical, marketing, and brand solutions across the financial services, pharmaceutical, insurance, logistics, telecom, and entertainment industries.
Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Quincy University and a Masters in English from Marquette University. Additionally, he earned his Project Management Institute certification in 2006. He has worked internationally as a consultant in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and the UK.
Expertise
Waterfall & Agile Project Management
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Consultant
- Organizational Development Consultant
Deep expertise, keen intuition, and years of experience distinguish Michele Serwe as a consultant and coach. At AMTC, she applies her expertise in leadership, talent, and organizational development to provide advisory support, consultation, and integrative solutions to optimize AMTC's organizational effectiveness.
Serwe has more than 25 years of experience in leading human resources strategy, talent, and executive development. She has held senior-level roles in a variety of corporate settings, across multiple businesses, and has provided strategic planning, as well as human resources consultation, in non-profit settings.
Her skills have put her in leadership roles during times of significant change and industry evolution. For example, she has positively impacted and provided support for multiple aspects of talent management, including succession planning, change leadership, merger/acquisition integration, and strategic business development.
Placing the client at the center of everything she does, Serwe takes a human approach to her work. She is both collaborative and integrative, which results in original solutions that align to the organization's vision, values, and purpose.
Serwe holds a Master of Science in Counselor Education and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She completed post-graduate work at UW Milwaukee and Northern Illinois University in counseling and careers. Serwe has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in human resources and counseling for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Marian University.
Expertise
Leadership Development
Job Titles:
- Certified Trainer
- Senior Evaluation Associate
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Researcher
Salvador Dominguez is a researcher with an emphasis on studying emerging adulthood and mental health. At AMTC & Associates, he provides research and evaluation support to AMTC associates and clients to deliver solutions in data management and training, program analysis, reporting, implementation, and evaluation. Having a strong technical, functional skill set, he also contributes in the areas of technical and professional writing, grant writing, data management, and analysis using statistical processing software such as SPSS and STATA.
Dominguez has experience in conducting secondary data analysis on publicly available datasets for various research studies. He has also worked with an interdisciplinary research team on topics such as the effects of low-level lead exposure on children from urban and rural communities and is passionate about making a difference in communities across a wide range of needs.
Dominguez earned his Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, Master of Public Health, and Doctorate in Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences from the University of Texas at El Paso. He also holds a Gradate Certificate in Technical and Professional Writing and has received formal training in courses on topics such as protection of human subjects, biostatistics, epidemiology, and environmental science.
Expertise
Emerging Adulthood
Mental Health
Environmental Science
Program Evaluation
Research Methods
Job Titles:
- Senior Evaluation Associate
Sara Woods has worked with AMTC since 2007 and provides leadership in developing performance measurement, program fidelity, and evaluation systems for government-funded programs. Before coming to AMTC, she provided evaluation systems and services for federally funded family strengthening projects at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for Urban Initiatives and Research.
Woods currently oversees AMTC evaluation systems related to project performance measurement and organizational and federal data fidelity systems (databases, surveys, data integrity, training, and reporting). She also serves as the evaluation project liaison to assigned AMTC clients for whom she manages evaluation efforts and web-based data systems to conform with funder requirements, monitors program performance, analyzes data, and produces funder-required data reports and statistical reports on evaluation results. She also oversees the work of independent evaluators.
Since 2007, Woods has worked on over 100 AMTC client programs and over 200 evaluation reports in the areas of adolescent pregnancy and healthy marriage and relationship education, responsible fatherhood, adult mentoring, offender reentry, substance abuse, mental health, and workforce development/ green jobs programs. Her extensive evaluation work on these programs has been featured at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conferences on several occasions.
Woods earned a bachelor's degree in biology, chemistry, and forensic science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has completed certification in several areas including evidence-based adolescent pregnancy prevention and healthy relationships and marriage education curricula, substance abuse, trauma-informed care, and motivational interviewing. She is also a trainer in performance measurement systems.
Expertise
Healthy Marriage & Relationship Education
Offender Reentry
Substance Abuse/Mental Health
Responsible Fatherhood
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Job Titles:
- Consultant in the Area
- Evaluation Consultant
- Evaluation Consultant - Field Research Associate
- Field Researcher
- in 2015 As a Field Researcher
Torri Childs joined AMTC in 2015 as an Evaluation Consultant in the area of field researcher. In this position, she oversees the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education grant programs, which has included over twenty-five programs. In her time at AMTC, Torri has also worked with twelve federally funded teen pregnancy prevention programs and four U.S Department of Labor workforce reentry programs. Childs is a regular trainer on implementation, evaluation, and community collaboration for adolescent pregnancy prevention, sexual risk avoidance, workforce reentry, and positive youth development projects.
Childs previously worked as a program director with Mission West Virginia, overseeing adolescent pregnancy prevention, positive youth development, and family strengthening programs throughout the state of West Virginia. She provided management and supervision of federal and state grants totaling $2.4 million annually.
As an AMTC evaluation consultant, Childs uses her experience to assist AMTC clients to build and maintain professional and collaborative relationships among program partners, service sites, community organizations, public schools, group homes, and other entities related to AMTC clients' program services. She also assists clients in overseeing program implementation, including curriculum selection, development, and updates; development of innovative program delivery methods; developing and implementing performance measurement and program fidelity systems; monitoring of database entry and support, preparing grant-required documents and reports, overseeing budgets, and facilitating training for staff development.
Childs received two master's degrees, one in counseling and the other in sports psychology at West Virginia University, and earned her bachelor's degrees in psychology and exercise & sports science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has completed training certifications in several areas, including evidence-based adolescent pregnancy prevention and healthy relationships and marriage education curricula; trauma-informed care, sexual assault and domestic violence, child maltreatment, and sustainability. She is also a trainer in performance measurement systems.
Expertise
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Youth Risk Prevention/Positive Youth Development
Offender Reentry
Workforce Development
Trauma-Informed Approaches
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education/Family-Strengthening
Torri Childs joined AMTC in 2015 as a field researcher. In this position, she has taken a leadership role in overseeing eight federally funded adolescent pregnancy…
Job Titles:
- Organizational Development Consultant
Since joining AMTC in 2010, William has provided expertise and technical assistance as a project liaison to launch and implement nine Department of Labor projects in the areas of workforce development and offender reentry. He has more than 40 years of experience in nonprofit capacity building, workforce development, weatherization, energy conservation, and youth programs in Milwaukee. His vast experience in the Milwaukee community opened opportunities to work extensively with the leadership of local nonprofit organizations to develop services to meet the needs of the entire family. He also served as the executive vice-president and chief operations officer of Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater Milwaukee (OIC-GM), the largest welfare reform program in the State of Wisconsin.
As the director of economic development and community programs for Milwaukee Area Technical College, he advised the president on community affairs, economic development, and employment issues; identified training and marketing opportunities; and developed a training model for working with disadvantaged communities to increase minorities in specialized skill careers.
William also served as the chief of staff to the chancellor at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro where he sat on the chancellor's cabinet, coordinated and managed all budgets within the chancellor's office, and organized internal reports on sustainability energy conservation and green technology.
William currently concentrates on coaching, providing technical assistance, and conducting executive management training for workforce and nonprofit organizations. He received a Bachelor's degree in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Expertise
Welfare Reform
Workforce Development
Green Jobs/Weatherization
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Programs
Youth Program Development
Capacity Building
Since joining AMTC in 2010, William Clay has provided expertise and technical assistance as a project liaison to launch and implement nine Department of…