Emily Rhodes is an Associate Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. Her work currently focuses on helping public and private child welfare agencies use administrative data to assess and improve child welfare systems. Emily also has experience with quantitative and qualitative program evaluation of child welfare, youth violence prevention, and early education programs. She is currently studying a federally funded demonstration of supportive housing for families involved in the child welfare system, and conducting a cost study of a title IV-E waiver for alternative child welfare services. Prior to joining Chapin Hall, Emily contributed to internal evaluation and quality assurance of human services and criminal justice programs for state government. She also has previous experience analyzing federal policy, and has recently staffed policy workgroups for state and local government. Emily holds a B.A. in Public Policy Studies and Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) degrees from the University of Chicago.