Sarah Campbell

Sarah Campbell is an advisory services analyst at Mathematica with expertise in child and family well-being, qualitative research, technical assistance, and continuous quality improvement.

She works with federal, state, and local human services partners to understand program implementation, identify promising practices, and translate research and evidence into practical strategies and resources.

At Mathematica, Campbell has contributed to research and technical assistance projects spanning child welfare, early childhood, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). She has conducted and analyzed case study interviews with child welfare agency leaders for several projects designed to examine strategies for improving coordination across federal systems, increasing the effectiveness of methods to prevent entry into the child welfare system, and engaging fathers in the child welfare process. She has also led in-depth interviews with SNAP participants to understand their experiences participating in SNAP in states requiring cooperation with the state child support agency as a condition of SNAP eligibility.

Campbell coordinated Mathematica’s work with 10 Chicago early childhood centers participating in the Illinois Breakthrough Series Collaborative, including facilitating training and supporting implementation. As a site coach on the Families are Stronger Together Learning Community project, she provided training and technical assistance to two states to strengthen the collaboration between TANF and child welfare agency staff working to develop child welfare prevention models using existing economic supports. She has also developed and contributed to many resources for federal and state human services partners, including continuous quality improvement tools for child welfare agencies, training materials, reports, briefs, and other dissemination products.

Before joining Mathematica, Campbell was a social work intern at the Administration for Children and Families, where she conducted research on federal policy priorities in the human services area, including TANF and child welfare. Before that, she worked at Teach Plus, an education policy nonprofit, where she supported policy analysis and led recruitment and selection efforts for a national teacher policy fellowship. She holds a master’s degree in social work, with a specialization in leadership and development in social services, from Loyola University Chicago and bachelor’s degrees in international studies and Spanish from the University of Michigan.