Yasmin Grewal-Kök
Policy Fellow
Yasmin Grewal-Kök is a Policy Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on supporting large-scale system change efforts to positively impact the lives of children and their families. She provides research-driven implementation and capacity-building assistance to local and state child welfare agencies across the country, and is currently guiding several jurisdictions in their planning, readiness, and implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act. With expertise in early childhood and child welfare research and policy, she also co-leads the development of Chapin Hall’s resources on economic and concrete supports as a core component of child and family well-being systems. She has presented on this work at the state and national level.
Grewal-Kök is an attorney with over a decade of legal experience in both the private and nonprofit sectors. Prior to joining Chapin Hall, she helped to lead the policy and advocacy agenda at Early Edge, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding high-quality, publicly funded early learning programs in California.
Grewal-Kök holds a Juris Doctorate from Berkeley Law at the University of California, a Master of Education in Early Childhood Education from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, and a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University. Her previous research has focused on effective multi-systems collaboration to promote the educational experiences and outcomes of young children in foster care.
J.D., Berkeley Law at the University of California
Master of Education in Early Childhood Education, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Bachelor of Arts, Duke University
Grewal-Kök, Y., Heaton, L., Gaul-Stout, J., Miles, S., & Dygert, M. (2023, April). Enabling policy context to prevent child welfare involvement through economic and concrete supports. Presentation at Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) National Conference in Washington, DC.
Anderson, C., Grewal-Kök, Y., & Thomas, K. (2023, April). TANF & child welfare collaboration: Preventative strategies focused on family well-being: A Review of the evidence and implications for practice. Co-presenter at Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance (OFA) webinar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5iwKqLD9Io
Grewal-Kök, Y., Selivanoff, S., & Pai-Espinosa, J. (2023, April). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Presentation and panelist at plenary session of the Children’s Bureau 23rd National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN), with opening remarks by Assistant Secretary Contreras of the Administration for Children and Families.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2023, March). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Keynote at Los Angeles County Linkages In-Service Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2023, March). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Presentation to Utah’s ACES Learning Collaborative.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2023, February). Economic supports as a child welfare prevention strategy. Presentation at APHSA National Association of State TANF Administrators (NASTA) All-State Meeting.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2023, February). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Presentation to Minnesota legislators as part of the Child Welfare Education series.
Anderson, C., & Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, November). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Presentation to Center for the Study of Social Policy’s Strengthening Families Network.
Anderson, C., Grewal-Kök, Y., & Samuels, B. (2022, November). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Panelist at Chapin Hall webinar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh58XjDI0QI
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, October). Putting economic and concrete supports at the center of a family well-being system. Presentation at FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) Poverty Institute in Chicago, IL.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, October). Redesigning child welfare around prevention, equity and well-being. Presentation to Oregon Juvenile Law Training Academy.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, September). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Presentation to Los Angeles County Family First Leadership Team.
Berger Gonzalez, S., Terry. E., & Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, August). Maximizing opportunities for families: Direct cash transfers, public benefits and addressing benefits cliffs. Panelist at American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) webinar.
Grewal-Kök, Y., & Anderson, C. (2022, August). Addressing economic hardship: Key to preventing child welfare system involvement. Presentation to the Judicial Council of California.
Anderson, C., & Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, August). Economic and concrete supports: Prevention of child welfare involvement. Presentation to the California Center for Children, Families & the Courts.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, June). Family First: Emerging innovations and opportunities for advocacy. Presentation at 2022 National Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian ad Litem Association for Children Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.
Anderson, C., & Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, June). Economic and concrete supports: Prevention of child welfare involvement. Presentation to the California Child Welfare Council.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, May). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Presentation at Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, Child Abuse Prevention Conference.
Grewal-Kök, Y. (2022, April). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Panelist in panel discussion at California Prevention Conference.
Anderson, C., Grewal-Kök, Y., & Boyd C. (2022, March). Family First and Home Visiting: Emerging Considerations in Early Implementation. Workshop conducted at Start Early National Home Visiting Summit.
Grewal-Kök, Y., Rollins, K., & Reardanz, J. (2022, March). Family First: Implementation updates and emerging considerations. Presentation to National Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian ad Litem Association for Children.
Grewal-Kök, Y., & Anderson, C. (2022, February). Putting economic and concrete supports at the center of a family well-being system. Presentation to National Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian ad Litem Association for Children.
Anderson, C., & Grewal-Kök, Y. (2021, November). Putting economic and concrete supports at the center of a family well-being system. Presentation for Children’s Bureau Learning & Coordination Center Digital Dialogue.
Grewal-Kök, Y., Cusick, G., Anderson, C., Weiner, D., Thomas, K., & Heaton, L. (2023). Economic and concrete supports: Core strategies to promote family well-being and race equity. In K. Briar-Lawson, P. Day, & L. Azzi-Lessing (Eds.), Child neglect, inequity, and poverty: Contextual issues and implications (pp. 1–42). Child Welfare League of America.
Grewal-Kök, Y., Anderson, C., Gaul-Stout, J., & American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) (2023). Evidence to impact: State policy options to increase economic and concrete supports as a child welfare prevention strategy.
Saldaña, A., Anderson, C., & Grewal-Kök, Y. (2023, Spring). Leveraging economic supports upstream: A pathway forward for families. American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) Policy & Practice Magazine.
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) & Grewal-Kök, Y. (2023, February). Policy levers for preventing child maltreatment. https://www.ncsl.org/human-services/policy-levers-for-preventing-child-maltreatment#research
Anderson, C., Grewal-Kök, Y., Cusick, G., Weiner, D., & Thomas, K. (2023, March). Family and child well-being system: Economic and concrete supports as a core component. Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. [PowerPoint slides].
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