Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum At Scale Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions: Policy, Practice, and Evaluation Perspectives April 29, 2014 While scientific research can suggest solutions to leaders in...Read more

Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum Child Well-Being: A Framework for Policy and Practice February 18, 2014 How can the science of child development and well-being be integrated into...Read more

Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum How Do We Promote Stability and Self-Sufficiency for Low-Income Families with Safety Net Programs? The University of Chicago January 16, 2014 Low-income families...Read more

For nearly four decades, the federal government has been funding services for homeless youth by providing grants to community- and faith-based organizations as well as to local public and tribal...Read more

On October 17, 2012, a panel of experts met to discuss community-based organizations and outcomes data at an event hosted by Chapin Hall. Community-based organizations require reliable and interpretable data...Read more

Experts on employment and public policy in Chicago discuss the workforce development landscape, workforce policies aimed at providing services to job seekers, and research on what influences success among community-based...Read more

Experts on child welfare policy discuss the gap between Black and White children in the welfare system. They attempt to answer questions that have arisen from efforts to understand this...Read more

Children and youth who experience trauma such as maltreatment are often involved with multiple systems in the public sector, including foster care, education, and juvenile justice. Effective interventions for this...Read more

One important provision of the 2008 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act extended federal support for keeping foster youth in care until age 21. The goal is to...Read more

Chapin Hall's directors and research fellows discuss the many partnerships Chapin Hall has formed with public and private child serving agencies locally and nationally.Read more

Deborah Daro and Julie Spielberger discuss how to promote the healthy development of children through policy and research.Read more

America's teen pregnancy rate is among the highest in the developed world, despite consistent declines over the past 15 years. Advances here might be ending, however: the federal Centers for...Read more

oon after the new administration begins governing in January, it is expected to propose an ambitious, multipronged urban policy that includes both housing and community-development activities, and the establishment of...Read more

As we explored in our May forum, Americans across the political spectrum embrace universal early childhood education. But what about school-success initiatives that reach back even further to support newborns,...Read more

Coauthors of the new book "Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice" talk about research in the first nationally representative data sample of children in the child welfare...Read more