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New toolkit to support family stability

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Toolkit Centers Racial Equity in Sustaining Family Stability
Chapin Hall, in partnership with Lutheran Services of America, developed the Family Stabilization Initiative Sustainability Toolkit that centers racial equity.
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Key Research
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Key Research

New Human Services Approach Focuses on 10 Critical Services; 50% of New Mexico Participants Report Trouble Accessing Programs
These briefs describe experiences needing and having difficulty accessing the 10 vital services for surviving and thriving that are part of 100% New Mexico.
2023
Kinship Homes Need More Resources, Fewer Obstacles
This brief summarizes obstacles faced by kinship foster families that reduce stability for the children moved into their homes.
2023
Landscape of Kinship Navigator Programs Shows Investment, Innovation
This brief offers recommendations for child welfare leaders who are considering designing or implementing their own kinship navigator program.
2023
Trending Work

Trending Work

Latest Research
Monthly ChapInsights Alerts Child and Family Well-being Field to New Evidence
Lived Experience
Core Components for Authentic Youth Engagement Identified
Joint Research Fund
Communities Experiencing Adversity Focus of 2023 UChicago-Chapin Hall Joint Research Fund Awards
Juvenile Justice Reform
Evaluating Youth Deferred Prosecution in Cook County
Direct Cash Transfers to Young People

Direct Cash Transfers to Young People

Direct cash transfers help youth bolster housing stability, improve transitions to adulthood, and offset racial and other inequities. This policy toolkit lays out the implications for young people participating in DCT programs.

Our Experts

Our Experts

Family Supports
Economic and Concrete Supports are Key Ingredients in Programs Designed to Prevent Child Welfare Involvement
Ample evidence supports the value of addressing the economic and material hardship faced by most child welfare-involved families. This brief discusses the current evidence… Read More
Yasmin Grewal-Kök
Race Equity
New Study to Apply Race Equity Lens to Federal Child Welfare Data
Since 2001 the Children’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has conducted periodic reviews of state child welfare systems. These reviews… Read More
Arya Harison
Family First
Family First Implementation of Congregate Care Reforms: Where are We One Year Later?
Signed into federal law in February 2018, the Family First Prevention Services Act (Family First) contains a major child welfare policy allowing states to… Read More
Leanne Heaton
Connecting Research to Action

Connecting Research to Action

Decision makers like caseworkers, community leaders, agency directors, and legislators need to know what works to improve the lives of families, especially those experiencing disproportionate exposure to adversity. That’s where Chapin Hall steps in. Chapin Hall combines rigorous research to generate evidence and supports implementation of tested methods in the field. Experts work alongside community and agency partners to apply evidence to build more effective services and systems and better serve children, youth, and families.
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