Jeanette Stevens, MA

Evaluation Consultant —
Pregnancy Prevention and Family Strengthening Programs

Jeanette Stevens joined AMTC in 2006 as an evaluation consultant. In this role, Stevens provides nonprofit project management for client programs, including developing and implementing policies, procedures, systems, contracts, program budgets, grant-required applications, reports, and more. Stevens has provided performance measurement, technical assistance, and training for clients managing youth and family programs funded by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Labor (DOL), and Justice (DOJ). Stevens trains clients and their partners, conducts site visits, and provides technical assistance to ensure compliance with program requirements. Her current portfolio includes providing project management and evaluation services for federally-funded adolescent pregnancy prevention (APP), healthy relationship education, fatherhood, and offender reentry programs in California, Florida, Missouri, and Wisconsin.

Over the past 20 years, Stevens has managed local and national programs from a variety of private and public funding sources. Throughout her career, she has supervised and coached staff, developed and facilitated trainings, and presented locally and nationally. She has authored or co-authored more than 40 performance measurement or evaluation reports. Stevens has extensive experience overseeing APP programs, including serving as the project director for more than $7 million in U.S. DHHS Title V funding for the Illinois State Board of Education. In addition, for 10 years she held a senior leadership role at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin nonprofit, and led programs and services that included a three-year, $1.5 million youthful offender workforce grant funded by the U.S DOL and a multi-community healthy marriage partnership grant funded by the U.S. DHHS, totaling more than $15 million over nine years.

Stevens received her bachelor’s degrees in social science and communications from Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and her Master of Arts in Public Administration from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. She finished coursework toward her Ph.D. in leadership studies at Marian University, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She has completed certification in adolescent pregnancy prevention, fatherhood, healthy relationships and marriage education curricula, trauma-informed care, sexual assault, domestic violence, child maltreatment, and how to promote sustainability. She is also a trainer in performance measurement systems.