Posts Tagged ‘ Chapin Hall ’

February 27, 2013 - Chapin Hall has just released a new report, Providing Foster Care for Young Adults: Early Implementation of California’s Fostering Connections Act, by Mark Courtney, Amy Dworsky, and Laura Napolitano. The report examines the planning process for implementing California’s Fostering Connections Act as well as the new law’s early implementation. READ MORE. Read more »

October 06, 2011 - Chapin Hall researcher Deborah Daro has authored a new report for the Child Welfare Information Gateway on prevention. Titled "Child Maltreatment Prevention: Past, Present, and Future," the brief "outlines programs and strategies that are proving beneficial in reducing the likelihood of child maltreatment, such as public awareness efforts, parent education, home visitation, and community prevention efforts." Download the report here.Read more »

June 29, 2011 - Chapin Hall has released a report following up on its January 2011 conference "Race & Child Welfare: Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination: Re-Assessing the Facts, Re-Thinking the Policy Options." This report, in line with the presentations at the conference, focus on a new side of the disproportionality discussion "with the goal of advancing the debate on race and involvement in the child welfare system by: (1) presenting some of the best available evidence describing the...Read more »

February 23, 2011 - Chapin Hall and Harvard Law School co-sponsored a conference on Race and Child Welfare held on January 28-29, 2011. The conference brought together major researchers and policy players in child welfare, including FYA board member Jill Duerr Berrick, to consider the latest and most meaningful research on race and the child welfare system, and to discuss the implications of this research for policy. Participants were drawn from universities, the judicial system, government, philanthropic...Read more »

January 04, 2011 - 2011 will be a challenging and unpredictable year for state policymakers and children. While most post-election commentary explores federal changes, when it comes to funding and delivering children's services, the lion's share of public resources are state and local. On January 13, Chapin Hall and the Urban Institute will host a conversation about what's ahead as governors, legislators, and newly appointed agency leaders consider how to fund, design, and reform programs for children and families...Read more »

June 03, 2010 - Issue Brief Weighs Benefits and Costs for States Extending Foster Care to Age 21 This Chapin Hall issue brief provides preliminary estimates of what the potential costs to government and benefits to young people would be for states that extend foster care to age 21. Researchers project increases in postsecondary educational attainment associated with allowing foster youth to remain in care until they are 21 years old, resulting in greater lifetime earnings. Researchers estimate...Read more »

September 25, 2009 - New Illinois Law Allows Foster Youth to Reenter Care; Chapin Hall Research Informs Legislation On August 25, Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn signed into law the Foster Child Successful Transition to Adulthood Act, which will allow young people who leave foster care before their 21st birthday to reenter the child welfare system or to access services and supports without reentering. Chapin Hall Senior Researcher Amy Dworsky, who has been conducting research on the outcomes...Read more »

May 28, 2009 -

From Chapin Hall

Health, Education, and Child Welfare: Measuring Outcomes across Systems

June 4, 2009

Listen to a live audio webcast 10 a.m. ET / 9 a.m. CT / 8 a.m. MT / 7 a.m. PT Program length: 1.5 hours Register

On the horizon is a push to monitor outcomes for children and youth across the systems that serve them, including education, child welfare, and healthcare. With healthcare reforms and changes to the No Child Left...Read more »