June 5 Forum and Webcast - Taking Action for Children: Early Interventions to Prevent Abuse and Prepare for School Success
Join Chapin Hall and the Urban Institute for a Thursday's Child public policy forum to discuss school-success initiatives that support newborns, toddlers, and their
parents. Panelists will analyze the complexities of enacting effective school-readiness policies and programs. The conversation will address what's behind the latest interest in such initiatives, the social and political environments needed for successful early learning centers and home visitation efforts, and the lessons states can draw from Illinois' recent experience.
Register to attend the Chicago event in person.
Register to attend the live audio webcast.
June 10 Web Conference - Improving Outcomes for Children through Performance-Based Contracting
Please join us as we explore the opportunities and challenges of implementing performance-based contracting in state child welfare systems to improve outcomes for children. Panelists will discuss the research that is helping to shape and refine performance-based contracting models. We will examine how Tennessee shifted its fiscal approach through performance-based contracting. We will also discuss how providers can implement a performance-based model and use outcomes data to improve services for children within their existing structure.
This free Governing for Children and Families web conference is sponsored by Chapin Hall and the NGA Center for Best Practices. Space is limited.
Register online.
Audio Recording - Children and Family Issues on the Campaign Trail
The May 8 Thursday's Child public policy forum in Washington, DC, explored public opinion on the government's role in helping children and families. Matthew Stagner, Chapin Hall executive director, discussed how demographic changes in America's child population, led by shifts in family structure, immigration, fertility rates, and ethnic diversity, intersect with public policy in nuanced ways.
Other panelists explored how child and family issues are being addressed in political campaigns and how policy that is responsive to the public's beliefs and wants can play out at the federal, state, and local levels.
Listen
to the audio recording.
Lawyers Expedite Foster Children's Placement into Permanent Homes
Foster children represented by lawyers in juvenile court are adopted or go to live with relatives in long-term custody up to three times more quickly than children without legal representation, according to a new Chapin Hall evaluation. The study examined results of a Palm Beach County, Florida, program that provides legal representation to children up to age 12 who entered foster care because of abuse or neglect.
Read the report, Expediting
Permanency: Legal Representation for Foster Children in Palm Beach County, by Andrew E. Zinn and Jack Slowriver.
Exploring the Intersection of Child Development and Child Well-Being
A new Chapin Hall study explores how the general principles of child development intersect with the emerging interest in child well-being as an outcome for young people who
come in contact with the child welfare system.
Read the report, Child
Well-Being as Human Capital, by Fred Wulczyn.
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
