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New Resource to Support a Holistic
Child and Family Well-being System

Featured Work
Framework Centers Meeting Family Needs, Preventing Child Welfare Involvement
This framework helps develop an integrated and holistic child and family well-being system. It provides a vision of this system and the practical steps to get there.  
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Key Research
Chapin Hall Work

Key Research

In Statewide Survey, New Mexicans Identify Barriers Accessing Vital Services 
Report describes the baseline results from 6,549 local community members from 11 New Mexico counties about barriers they face accessing vital services. 
2024
Counties Make Progress Implementing 100% New Mexico Initiative
County leaders in New Mexico are coordinating efforts within and across counties to address service barriers in each of 10 vital services, all with interrelated...
2024
Providing Flexible Funds for Concrete Supports to Families as a Child Welfare Prevention Strategy
Policy framework for expanding economic and concrete support services to families as a comprehensive child welfare prevention strategy.
2024
Trending Work

Trending Work

Racial Equity
Chapin Hall Equity First Summer Associates Program for PhD Students Launched
Youth Homelessness
Using Multiple Sources of Administrative Data to Understand Youth Homelessness
Juvenile Justice
Improving the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center
Direct Cash Transfers
Assessing Guaranteed Income Program for Young Adults Who Aged Out of Foster Care in San Francisco
Housing supports matter

Housing supports matter

Watch this webinar to learn how one program used housing intervention to prevent child welfare involvement.

Our Experts

Our Experts

System Change
New Human Services Approach Focuses on 10 Critical Services; 50% of New Mexico Participants Report Trouble Accessing Programs
The 100% New Mexico Initiative is a community-led,… Read More
Julie McCrae
Racial Equity
New Resources Put Equity at the Center of Research, Evaluation, and CQI Processes
National momentum is growing to identify and address the disproportionality and disparities that diverse communities along the child welfare continuum experience, from Black and Native… Read More
Yolanda Green-Rogers
Housing
Supportive Housing Helps Homeless Families Leave Child Welfare System
San Francisco’s Bringing Families Home (BFH) is a state-funded program that provides housing and supportive services to homeless families with child welfare system involvement. Families… Read More
Emily C. Rhodes
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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