Executive Director
Anne Comstock assumed the position of Executive Director of the Butler Institute for Families in November 2013.
As Executive Director, Anne is responsible for leadership, guidance, and oversight to the 30+ staff and multitude of projects, totaling over $4 million annually. She serves in a principal investigator role on Institute grants and contracts and is responsible for leading strategic external relationships, coordination with senior University leadership, idea development, grant writing, and overall management of the Institute.
Ms. Comstock has an established reputation, with more than 30 years of local and national experience. She has worked extensively with state, tribes, and local agencies to improve the quality and capacity of child welfare services. Her experiences includes direct practice, supervision, administration, community collaboration, curriculum development, program evaluation, project management, workforce development, and training and technical assistance, directed towards system improvement.
In her most recent role as an Associate Director with the National Resource Center on Organizational Improvement, Anne was part of a leadership team that sought to continuously improve internal systems, services, and products. She provided consultation, training and technical assistance to state and tribal child welfare programs in strategic planning; practice model development and implementation; workforce development, with an emphasis on leadership and coaching; stakeholder involvement; community partnership, and interagency collaboration.
Anne has a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Metropolitan State University of Denver and a Master’s degree in Management from Regis University.
