Audio Recording: Tax Policy for Low-Income Working Families
The March 13 Thursday's Child public policy forum discussed how the child tax credit and earned income tax credit, although powerful tools for helping families, often don't help the very low-income families they were designed to lift out of poverty.
Panelists discussed the strengths and problems inherent in delivering subsidies through the tax code, options for refining these tax programs, and efforts to help
working families navigate the complexities of the law to obtain the credits.
Listen
to the recording.
Preschool Program Faces Implementation Challenges
Chapin Hall evaluated a Palm Beach County, Florida, program that provides low-income children with a high-quality, year-round preschool experience. The program consists of an evidence-based education curriculum, low teacher-child ratios, the use of trained and certified teachers, and an intensive program of activities designed to strengthen parent involvement.
This evaluation report discusses progress made during the second year of the initiative, the challenges of implementing the curriculum in schools and community child care centers, and important variations in views of school readiness among stakeholders.
Read the report, Getting
Ready for School: Palm Beach County's Early Childhood Cluster Initiative, by Julie Spielberger, Stephen Baker, and Carolyn Winje.
Exploring Relationships of Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care
Gina Miranda Samuels, Chapin Hall faculty associate, interviewed 29 young adults who aged out of foster care to better understand their existing support networks and how they learned to cope with people coming in and out of their lives. All the young adults in the study reported having a network that included friends as well as biological, adoptive, and foster family members, but most said they lacked emotional support. The study recommends that child welfare policy and practice address the social-emotional health of youth aging out of foster care as well as their economic and physical well-being.
Read the report, A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime: Relational Permanence Among Young Adults with Foster Care Backgrounds, by Gina Miranda Samuels.
Video Highlights Findings of Child Well-Being Survey
Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice reported results from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, 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.
Watch a video of co-editors Fred Wulczyn of Chapin Hall and Ron Haskins of The Brookings Institution discussing findings in their book.
For more information, order
the book or listen to an audio recording of a related panel discussion.
