Jennifer Demaree
Jennifer Demaree, MS
Senior Content Specialist
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Jennifer Demaree is the Senior Content Specialist for the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC). In this role, Jennifer edits and oversees most of the content on the CEBC website, especially the Program Registry database. She also manages communication with all program representatives to ensure new program content is added and existing program content is kept up to date.
Starting as the copy editor on this project in 2006, Jennifer established herself as a specialist in editing the program information and website content with a focus on the child welfare audience. In 2010, Jennifer took on the role of Content and Design Specialist. In this capacity, she edited and oversaw the quality assurance of all the website content and CEBC materials, including the final presentation of all resources and tools until much-needed help arrived in 2020.
Jennifer has also served as the editor and sometimes graphic designer on SAMHSA-funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network grants the Chadwick Center has been awarded since 2005. Prior to Jennifer's employment at the Chadwick Center in 2004, she worked in church membership and marketing for four years in San Diego and in socially responsible market research for four years in the Washington, DC, area. Jennifer earned a Master of Science in Advertising and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in her home state.
One of Jennifer's driving forces is from a quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. Jennifer loves working on the CEBC website since it is all about providing resources to those who serve children in need, which is one of the greatest ways of serving.
In her personal life, Jennifer is the proud mom of one aspiring writer in Indiana, one audiovisual tech lead in California, and one college freshman pursuing a BFA in Theatre Arts Design and Technology in Illinois. She is happily married to her husband, John, who is a United Methodist pastor in southern Indiana, where they both now live.
After living in the San Diego area for almost 25 years, Jennifer is happy to be back in the Midwest and closer to family. Jennifer loves musical theater and has volunteered at many youth theaters over the past nine years, so she is thrilled to be closer to NYC and Chicago (her home city). Jennifer is most proud of her volunteer work from 2010-2019, leading 11 disaster recovery rebuild teams on weeklong mission trips to areas hit by natural disasters all over the United States. The teams repaired and built homes for people in those areas who could not afford to get the work done any other way. She is hoping to get back into that work in her current location.
