Rebecca Kleinman

Rebecca Kleinman has expertise in early childhood and family support programs and policies, including those focused on home visiting and child welfare. She specializes in providing evaluation technical assistance and conducting implementation studies as part of program evaluations.

Ms. Kleinman has applied expertise in a range of subjects, including early childhood, family support, nutrition, and behavioral health. She served for many years as an evaluation technical assistance provider to Children’s Bureau grantees implementing and testing programs to improve outcomes for families with children affected by parental substance use, and as a technical reviewer of early childhood home visiting studies for the HomVEE evidence review. She has led several large-scale studies, including a partnership study in the RPG national cross-site evaluation and a process study of demonstration projects designed to end childhood hunger. For the Understanding and Expanding the Reach of Home Visiting, Ms. Kleinman led a literature synthesis, developed a conceptual framework of family engagement, designed a mixed-methods study option, and oversaw in-depth qualitative case studies of centralized intake systems.

Since joining Mathematica in 2010, Kleinman has coauthored numerous publications available on Mathematica and government websites. Her work has been published in academic journals including the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She holds an M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley.