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Child Welfare Implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
This brief helps child welfare leaders navigate the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
November 13, 2025
Report
Home Visiting as a Bridge: Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Families Through Transition and Growth
This study explores how home visiting programs can provide immigrant and refugee families with support as they navigate a new country.
2025
Report
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
Policy
Expanded Child Tax Credit as a Key Anti-Poverty & Child Welfare Prevention Strategy
The evidence makes clear that a permanently expanded Child Tax Credit would improve child and family well-being
April 15, 2025
Report
Overall TANF Caseload Declined between 2010 and 2022
This brief describes results from a series of longitudinal analyses using federal TANF administrative data from 28 states.
2024
Research
Reports Explore Employment Patterns, Child Care Needs Among Low-Income Parents
This series of briefs focuses on the work, school, and child care engagement of Illinois families enrolled in the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP).Â
2024
Report
National Survey Assesses Use of Economic and Concrete Supports to Prevent Child Welfare System Involvement
This survey of child welfare leaders examines state leaders’ perceptions and practices regarding the use of economic and concrete supports in preventing...
November 9, 2023
Research
Core Components for Authentic Youth Engagement Identified
This study examines what authentic youth engagement means and how it can be best practiced at youth-centered organizations.
2023
Report
Economic and Concrete Supports are Key Ingredients in Programs Designed to Prevent Child Welfare Involvement
This brief discusses the current evidence for the value of economic and concrete supports as a child welfare prevention mechanism and identifies key program and...
2023
Report
Despite Decline in Interactions, Higher Quality Connections for Doris Duke Fellows in 2019-20
This report presents findings from the most recent survey of Doris Duke Fellows, capturing connections made between July 2019 and June 2020.
2021
Research Collection
The California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH)
CalYOUTH is an evaluation of the impact of the California Fostering Connections to Success Act on outcomes during the transition to adulthood for youth in...
2021
Report
Substantial Interaction and Connectedness Strengthens Doris Duke Fellowships
This report presents findings from the most recent survey of Doris Duke Fellows.
2020
Report
Addressing Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Harmful Impacts of COVID-19
As communities address and recover from the impacts of COVID-19, effective public policy and corresponding interventions to support children and families need...
2020
Report
Advancing Trauma-informed Care Within and Across Child-Serving Systems
This guide offers a framework and process informed by preliminary lessons learned from the MSTIC work, along with guidance from the fields of trauma-informed...
2020
Report
Unlocking the Potential of Electronic Health Records in Pediatric Healthcare
Researchers surveyed and held discussions with staff from nine pediatric clinics in 5 communities to learn about the technical capabilities of clinics to use...
2019
Report
One Summer Chicago Qualitative Study Explores What Makes Youth Summer Jobs Programs Effective
This study explores the key components that make up Chicago’s summer jobs program for youth and the processes through which the program helps to shape...
2018
Report
Youth in Extended Care in Los Angeles County Seek Improved Services
This report provides the most comprehensive view to date of young adults making the transition to adulthood from foster care in Los Angeles County.
2017
Report
More Youth Staying in Care Past Age 18, but Time in Care Varies
In this memo, researchers examine why understanding factors associated with youth’s extended foster care participation is important for predicting future...
2017
Report
Unified Court and Child Welfare Data System Streamlines Research, Practice
The New York State Child Welfare Court Improvement Program (CWCIP) is a federally funded initiative that promotes continuous quality improvement at the...
2017
Report
Training for Attorneys Representing Children Affects Some Child Welfare Outcomes
Most states require that children in child welfare cases be represented by attorneys. Most of these attorneys are solo practitioners or in small, general...
2016
Report
Understanding the Relationship Between Housing and Child Welfare System Involvement
Research has shown that homeless or precariously housed families are more likely to be involved with the child welfare system than families with stable housing....
2014
Report
Children of Young Parents in Care at Higher Risk of Child Welfare Involvement
Youth in foster care have high rates of early parenthood and face many personal and parenting challenges. This study looks at the risk of child welfare...
2014
Report
Elev8 Initiative Strategies Facilitate Successful Implementation of School-Based Health Centers
This report highlights the strategies and structures that the Elev8 initiative successfully employed to improve the working relationship between school-based...
2013
Report
Child Maltreatment Prevention: Past, Present, and Future
Child maltreatment prevention is a critical component of the nation’s child protection system. Dr. Deborah Daro outlines strategies and interventions that have...
2011
Report
No Impact for Youth Participating in an Independent Living-Employment Services Program
Evidence indicates that youth aging out of foster care often struggle with the transition to adulthood. One program to address these youth’s needs is the...
2011
Report
Despite Decline in Criminal Behavior, Young Adults Formerly in Care Arrested More than Peers
Young people transitioning from foster care to adulthood are at risk for numerous negative outcomes including criminal behavior and justice-system involvement....
2011
Report
Coordinated Systems Key to Employment for Youth Formerly in State Care
Preparing youth for employment is a major goal of federal policies to help youth in foster care successfully transition into adulthood. This analysis suggests...
2010
Report
College Enrollment and Graduation a Challenge for Former Foster Youth, Even with Extended Care
Foster youth entering adulthood have college aspirations like other young people their age. Unfortunately, for far too many foster youth, graduating from...
2010
Report
Few Impacts for Youth Participating in Life Skills Training Program
Studies show that youth aging out of foster care encounter many challenges as they transition to adulthood. The Life Skills Training (LST) Program was designed...
2008
Report
When Should the State Cease Parenting?
Prior to the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, youth became ineligible for federally funded foster care when they turned 18...
2007
Report
Youth Who Run Away from Out-of-Home Care
Given child protective services’ responsibility to provide stability for children in their care, running away from out-of-home care is an event of great...
2005
Report
Conditions of Youth Preparing to Leave State Care
The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 gave states more funding and greater flexibility to provide support to youth making the transition from being in foster...
2004
Report
Cash Assistance in Illinois Has Limited Impact on Employment Outcomes
This report describes the changes in cash assistance status and employment changes of the population over time in the 1990s.
2001
Project
Supporting Strategic Efforts in Illinois Child Welfare
Chapin Hall's team of experts bring policy, practice, and data expertise to improve services for families in Illinois.
June 19, 2019
Project
Building the Evidence that Evidence Use Matters
New study underway explores impact of a professional development intervention on use of evidence, placement permanency.
November 27, 2018
Project
University of Chicago-Chapin Hall Joint Research Fund
The Joint Research Fund supports outstanding research that investigates and leads to new directions in policy and practice aimed at promoting the well-being of...
September 18, 2018
Project
Can ‘Housing First’ Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect?
Chapin Hall evaluates two sites in a five-year demonstration project to test the effects of supportive housing for families who were involved or at risk of...
August 10, 2018
Project
Time Use Studies
Talking to children, calling foster parents, and supervising visits are only a few of the tasks that appear on the daily schedule of a social worker. Chapin...
March 19, 2018
Project
The Center for State Child Welfare Data
The Center for State Child Welfare Data–or the Data Center–supports child welfare systems in more than 30 states to make evidence-based decisions designed to...
January 1, 2018
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