Web Conference Recording - Partners in Youth Workforce Development
Our June 20 Charting a Course web conference explored how employers, service providers, and policymakers can better collaborate toprepare at-risk youth for the workforce.
Chapin Hall Researcher Jan DeCoursey discussed research that analyzed the effect of misalignments between employers and youth program providers on expanding employer involvement. Other panelists discussed state and local initiatives that address youth workforce development and strategies for creating community partnerships among various stakeholders in the field.
Listen to the web conference recording and download related materials.
Read the related report, Making Connections: Engaging Employers In Preparing Chicago's Youth for the Workforce, by Jan DeCoursey and Ada Skyles.
Audio Recording - International Society for Child Indicators Plenary Sessions
On June 26-28, Chapin Hall hosted the inaugural conference of the International Society for Child Indicators in Chicago. The
event brought together nearly 200 attendees from 23 countries to hear researchers share information and findings relating to the welfare of children and youth.
Audio recordings of the plenary sessions are now available. Speakers discussed the UNICEF Child Well-Being Report Card for developed countries, including the United States, the role of neighborhood poverty in child maltreatment, and other topics relating to child well-being.
Listen to the audio recordings and download abstracts of presentations from the conference.
Book Edited by Chapin Hall's Fred Wulczyn Interprets Findings of National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being
The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being is the first nationally representative study of children who have
been reported to authorities as suspected victims of abuse or neglect and the public programs that aim to protect them. A new book, co-edited by Chapin Hall Research Fellow Fred Wulczyn, is the first to report the results of the survey, interpret the findings, and place them in a broader policy context.
Order a copy of the book, Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice, edited by Ron Haskins, Fred Wulczyn, and Mary Bruce Webb.
Chapin Hall Research on Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Presented to Legislators
On July 12, the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, part of the Committee on Ways and Means in the U.S. House of Representatives, held a hearing to discuss services and outcomes for children who age out of the foster care system.
Chapin Hall Faculty Associate Mark E. Courtney shared the findings of a report that showed that young people who are forced to leave the foster care system at age 18 face formidable challenges and often struggle to stay in school, find stable housing, and support themselves financially.
Read Courtney's testimony.
Read the related report, Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth, by Mark E. Courtney, Amy Dworsky, Gretchen Ruth Cusick, Thomas Keller, Judy Havlicek, and Noel Bost.
MIT Study Uses Chapin Hall Data to Explore Effects of Foster Care Placement
Data gathered by Chapin Hall on foster children in Illinois was used in a recent study that explored long-term outcomes of
children placed in protective care. The study results suggest that children on the margin of placement--meaning cases where
investigators may have disagreed if the child should be removed from the home--were likely to have better outcomes when they remained at home than when placed in care. The study was conducted by Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., an assistant professor of applied economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and a faculty associate at Chapin Hall.
Read Child
Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care, which will be published in the American Economic Review.
For more information on older children in the child welfare system, read the following Chapin Hall reports:
For more information contact:
Jelene Britten
Public Affairs Associate
Chapin Hall Center for Children
1313 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.256.5138
jbritten@chapinhall.org
