Maryfrances Porter

Experience

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  City of Charlottesville

  Aug 2006 - Dec 2009

  Intervention Team Leader

  Charlottesville/Albemarle Commission on Children and Families (closed in ~2011): Lead local efforts aimed at fostering a collaborative, locally comprehensive, family-driven, child-centered, culturally proficient, and strengths-based system of services and supports, in Charlottesville/Albemarle, for children with mental health needs (as well as other needs) and their families. Conducted comprehensive community, human services needs assessments; staffed the development of a community strategic plan for addressing priorities in human services; published the annual community report card on child and family well-being including data analysis; trained agencies in developing and reporting on logic models/outcomes; co-managed local grant review process by which human service non-profits apply for local funding; directly supervised U.Va. interns and research assistants; served as liaison with U.Va. regarding research and learning partnerships. Show less

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  Porter Psychological and Consulting Services, LLC

  Apr 2009 - now

  Psychotherapist

  Specializing in anxiety disorders in children and adults. Integrating cognitive behavioral and other psychotherapies to deliver individually tailored treatment. Working from an attachment orientation to treat children, adolescents and adults facing personal, relationship and emotional struggles of all kinds. Providing clinical supervision and consultation.Fee-for-service. Out-of-network insurance billing. Comprehensive Services Act provider.302 Hickman Road, Suite 201Charlottesville, VA 22911drmaryfrancesporter@gmail.com434-825-4841 Show less

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  ImpactStory™ Coaching

  Apr 2009 - now

  CEO & Founder at Partnerships for Strategic Impact®

  Real Life. Real Results. Partnerships for Strategic Impact® empowers small- and medium-sized nonprofits – and their funders - to track and tell powerful impact stories. We build customized structures, systems, and processes for data collection, train staff in data analysis and storytelling, and provide ongoing coaching aimed at ensuring long-term sustainability and success. We provide custom training, as well as keynotes.We partner with clients to use impact to promote democracy, social justice, equity, and activating the power of those who have been disenfranchised. Show less

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  University of Virginia

  Dec 2009 - Aug 2013

  Youth-Nex | The UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development: Lead community and trans-disciplinary teams in developing and conducting program evaluations, community-based research, and related projects at the local and state levels that promote healthy youth development through focused research, training and service. Provide consultation, technical assistance and capacity building collaboration to youth-serving organizations seeking to build, develop or expand their ability to collect and use data in driving decisions. Apply for and manage public and private grants and contracts, including regulatory, budgetary, and staff/student management, as well as report writing. Collaborate with the UVA University Community Partnership office to further academic service learning and research. Show less Early Steps Project: Manage all daily operations of the Charlottesville site of a national, three-site, multi-reporter, multi-method, longitudinal, clinical research project funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse to evaluated the effectiveness of “The Family Check-up” (co-Principal Investigators: Thomas Dishion, Daniel Shaw, Frances Gardner, Melvin Wilson). Responsibilities included hiring, training, and administrative/clinical supervision of all staff and undergraduate research assistants, Institutional Review Board submissions, preparation of technical and progress reports, supporting undergraduate and graduate students in analyzing data and preparing manuscripts, working with other site coordinators and directors to ensure high quality and consistent data collection, and liaising with the Department of Psychology on relevant issues Show less

  • Associate Director, Youth-Nex; Program Director of Program Evaluation and Community Consultation

    Jul 2011 - Aug 2013

  • Site Project Director/Senior Scientist

    Dec 2009 - Jun 2011