Jaclyn Chambers is a senior research associate in the Family and Financial Well-Being Division at the Urban Institute. Her work evaluates how programs and policies affect the well-being of low-income children, youth, and families, with a focus on child welfare, juvenile justice, and housing. Chambers has expertise with randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluations and has led quantitative impact analyses for numerous evaluations using administrative, survey, and program data. She is coprincipal investigator of an RCT evaluating a guaranteed income program for low-income women and is the project director for the statewide evaluation of California’s Guaranteed Income Pilot Program. Chambers is contributing to evaluations of High-Fidelity Wraparound for children with behavioral health needs in Kentucky and the LifeSet program for transition-age youths in New Jersey. She recently worked on multistate evaluations focused on housing interventions for child welfare–involved families, including the Family Unification Program and a supportive housing intervention.
Chambers’s work has been published in Child Maltreatment, Child Abuse & Neglect, Law and Human Behavior, the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, and other journals. She holds a BA from Colgate University, an MSW from New York University, and a PhD in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley.
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