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Q&A: Updates on the Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative
Chapin Hall Executive Director Bryan Samuels gets updates on the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative from Chapin Hall Senior Policy Fellow Dr. Dana Weiner.
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Key Research
Chapin Hall Work

Key Research

Report Examines Child Maltreatment Investigation Timing, Collaboration between Pediatricians and Child Protective Services
This brief describes findings from a study of a program that provides CPS investigators with real-time medical expert consultation and a definitive manner of...
2025
Child Welfare Assessments Can Be Improved to Better Help Families
This report highlights ways that child welfare case assessments can better support caseworkers.
2025
Evaluating San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income Program for Young People Who Aged out of Extended Foster Care
This brief describes the evaluation of the pilot of a guaranteed income program in San Francisco, in which 150 young people participated.
2025
Trending Work

Trending Work

Practice
Creating Pathways for Kin: A Framework for Implementing Kin-Specific Licensing Standards
Prevention
A Key Connection: Economic Stability and Family Well-being
Prevention
A National First: Law Signed to Implement Universal Mental Health Screenings in Illinois Schools
Deploying Data
Illinois Law Taps Chapin Hall to Develop Children’s Adversity Index, Offering Blueprint for Other States
New Toolkit Available!

New Toolkit Available!

This video explains how to use a new Chapin Hall tool to better incorporate evidence-based practices into Continuous Quality Improvement processes.

Our Experts

Our Experts

Kinship Care
OhioKAN: Building Evidence for Kinship and Adoption Navigation Services  
Becoming a kin caregiver or adoptive parent, whether planned or unexpected, can involve many challenges. Supports are often insufficient for kinship and adoptive families who… Read More
Syeda Naqvi
Juvenile Justice
Improving the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center
A team of Chapin Hall experts are supporting the implementation of improvement efforts at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) by analyzing how… Read More
Mark McDaniel
Juvenile Justice
Monitoring Youth Well-being and Reduction of Justice Involvement in ‘Redeploy’ Pilot Program
Chapin Hall experts are leading a three-year evaluation of a new Cook County Redeploy Illinois pilot program. Redeploy Illinois is a program offered statewide that… Read More
Kya Barounis
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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