Jill Spielfogel

Jill Spielfogel specializes in descriptive and evaluation studies of child welfare, family support, and early childhood programs with the goal of improving outcomes for youth and families. Dr. Spielfogel’s work covers key foster care policy issues, including placement stability, permanency, reduction of length of stay, kinship care, and mental health for youth in care. She has expertise engaging community members in research.

At Mathematica, Dr. Spielfogel offers programmatic and evaluation technical assistance to several human service agencies. She led the implementation of a Breakthrough Series Collaborative for the Administration for Children and Families’ Fathers and Continuous Learning Project and is the project director for the Culture of Continuous Learning Project. She has also worked with the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to develop a wide range of technical assistance tools for state social service agencies.

Before joining Mathematica, Dr. Spielfogel worked with families in multiple contexts, including schools and courts, and conducted research in child welfare agencies. She holds a Ph.D. in social work, policy, and practice from the University of Chicago and an M.S.W from the University of Illinois at Chicago.