Jennifer M. Haight is a Senior Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, and a senior staff member of the Center for State Child Welfare Data, housed at Chapin Hall. She has worked extensively with staff from public and private child welfare agencies in multiple jurisdictions to help them use their administrative data more effectively to understand the functioning of their child welfare systems, to conduct program evaluation, and to facilitate continuous program improvements. Currently, she is the local evaluator on a five year federally funded demonstration grant targeting child welfare involved homeless families and of three year federally funded demonstration grant targeting transition aged youth. Other recent work has focused on assisting public child welfare agencies in the development and implementation of performance-based contracting initiatives. Jennifer is an instructor for Advanced Analytics for Child Welfare Administration, a five-day course designed for child welfare managers and focused on improving their use of administrative data. She has co-developed and delivered a series of similar courses developed through the Northern California Training Academy designed specifically for California counties. With her Data Center colleagues, she is developing and delivering EDGE - Evidence-Driven Growth and Excellence, a nine month program designed to promote child welfare managers' skills in acquiring and using evidence in their planning and decision-making. EDGE will be offered for the second time to Tennessee child welfare managers starting in March 2017. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Grinnell College and a Master of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton.