Brian Kavanaugh

About Brian Kavanaugh

A strategic and purpose-minded innovative leader with progressive experience in a non-profit, community-based behavioral health organization. Demonstrated knowledge and ability to strengthen diverse teams, advance operations, heighten productivity, maximize measurable and cost-effective results, and successfully develop and implement new programs.

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Families & Youth Innovations Plus

   May 2016 — Present

   Lead the overall strategic and operational functions of Families & Youth, Inc.(FYI) • Cultivate a community level collective impact culture in fulfilling FYI’s mission -\"To promote a safer and healthier community by focusing on families and children\"• Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: actively build board involvement with strategic direction for FYI’s operations• Lead, coach, develop, and retain FYI’s high-performance senior management team• Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, regularly evaluate program components, and strengthen FYI\'s capacity in strategic analysis and program planning so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, community partners, stakeholders, and policymakers • Continuously evaluate programs and agency operations: to ensure the highest quality of service delivery and impact; to determine if program goals and means of attaining those goals continue to be appropriate; to identify opportunities to leverage cross-program strengths; to take advantage of new opportunities and/or to address organizational challenges and to achieve organizational goals; and to ensure all program activities operate consistently and ethically within the mission and values of Families & Youth, Inc. • Strengthen existing service and program approaches, strategies and activities; develop and implement new services and programs to responsively address evolving community needs

Education

• New Mexico State University

  Master of Public Administration - MPA, Public Administration

  2014 — 2016

• Grand Valley State University

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Criminal Justice - Juvenile Justice Emphasis

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• Capacity Building
• Program Evaluation
• Policy Analysis
• Thinking Outside the Box
• Prevention
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Budgets
• Volunteer Management
• Community Outreach
• Program Development
• Supervisory Skills
• Youth Development
• Program Management
• Nonprofits
• Juvenile Justice
• Leadership
• Grant Writing
• Budgeting
• Critical Thinking