If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum At Scale Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions: Policy, Practice, and Evaluation Perspectives April 29, 2014 While scientific research can suggest solutions to leaders in the child welfare system for improving well-being, the actual process of at scale implementation of...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum Child Well-Being: A Framework for Policy and Practice February 18, 2014 How can the science of child development and well-being be integrated into policy and practice? Recent attention at federal and state levels on “well-being” provides an opportunity to consider what is included in...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. For nearly four decades, the federal government has been funding services for homeless youth by providing grants to community- and faith-based organizations as well as to local public and tribal agencies that operate emergency shelters, conduct street outreach, and operate transitional living programs. These programs serve a...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Whether parents can overcome the problems that lead to abuse and neglect of their children is the essence of questions surrounding efforts to return children to their parents once legal custody of a child has been granted to the child welfare agency. Consistent with a legal and policy framework protecting parental rights in the...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum Collective Impact to Address Social Challenges: The Role of the Nonprofit Sector April 18, 2013 Achieving positive outcomes for young children and their families requires new thinking in how we conceptualize, address, and finance our interventions. Increasingly, teams of institutions and...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum Collective Impact to Address Social Challenges: The Role of the Nonprofit Sector April 18, 2013 Achieving positive outcomes for young children and their families requires new thinking in how we conceptualize, address, and finance our interventions. Increasingly, teams of institutions and...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On March 14, 2013, Chapin Hall hosted a Child & Family Policy Forum at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center titled ”Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum: Collaborative Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention.” Despite overall declining rates of teen births in the United States, there exists significant disparity...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On March 14, 2013, Chapin Hall hosted a Child & Family Policy Forum at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center titled ”Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum: Collaborative Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention.” Despite overall declining rates of teen births in the United States, there exists significant disparity...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On December 6, 2012, Chapin Hall hosted a Child & Family Policy Forum at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center titled ”Beyond School Improvement: Partnering to Strengthen Educational Opportunities for Urban Children and Youth.” The discussion, moderated by Chapin Hall Executive Director Matthew Stagner, explored the role...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On December 6, 2012, Chapin Hall hosted a Child & Family Policy Forum at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center titled ”Beyond School Improvement: Partnering to Strengthen Educational Opportunities for Urban Children and Youth.” The discussion, moderated by Chapin Hall Executive Director Matthew Stagner, explored the role...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On October 17, 2012, a panel of experts met to discuss community-based organizations and outcomes data at an event hosted by Chapin Hall. Community-based organizations require reliable and interpretable data in order to improve services. The need for this has increased as government and foundations require more information about...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Experts on employment and public policy in Chicago discuss the workforce development landscape, workforce policies aimed at providing services to job seekers, and research on what influences success among community-based workforce programs. The panel also discusses ways better data can help improve services and how workforce...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Experts on employment and public policy in Chicago discuss the workforce development landscape, workforce policies aimed at providing services to job seekers, and research on what influences success among community-based workforce programs. The panel also discusses ways better data can help improve services and how workforce...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Experts on child welfare policy discuss the gap between Black and White children in the welfare system. They attempt to answer questions that have arisen from efforts to understand this gap. Does the magnitude of the gap differ in different localities? Do places that have high disparity rates share other characteristics? Are...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Experts on child welfare policy discuss the gap between Black and White children in the welfare system. They attempt to answer questions that have arisen from efforts to understand this gap. Does the magnitude of the gap differ in different localities? Do places that have high disparity rates share other characteristics? Are...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Children and youth who experience trauma such as maltreatment are often involved with multiple systems in the public sector, including foster care, education, and juvenile justice. Effective interventions for this vulnerable population require a perspective that is grounded in the understanding of trauma and its effects;...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Children and youth who experience trauma such as maltreatment are often involved with multiple systems in the public sector, including foster care, education, and juvenile justice. Effective interventions for this vulnerable population require a perspective that is grounded in the understanding of trauma and its effects;...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The nation’s urban service systems for children and families often struggle with conflicting goals, inadequate resources, and intense but temporary public attention during turmoil and tragedies. This forum will examine the many challenges of systems reform -- through the lenses of education, health care and child welfare -- and...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. State agencies finance and administer a range of services -- from foster care for abused and neglected children to prisons to long-term care of the elderly. How can large public agencies and small community organizations plan better to meet the needs of the people they serve? Traditionally, useful and timely data for planning...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. America's teen pregnancy rate is among the highest in the developed world, despite consistent declines over the past 15 years. Advances here might be ending, however: the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the rate of teen childbearing increased 3 percent between 2005 and 2006, the first uptick since 1990....

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Youth violence is a public health crisis in the United States. Based on the most recent statistics, approximately 20 percent of high school students report being bullied at school, and over 30 percent report being in a physical fight. Homicide is the second leading cause of death of young people, with an average of 16 youth...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Soon after the new administration begins governing in January, it is expected to propose an ambitious, multipronged urban policy that includes both housing and community-development activities, and the establishment of "Promise Neighborhoods" that provide networks of community-based diversified services for low-income children...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On the horizon is a push to monitor outcomes for children and youth across the systems that serve them, including education, child welfare, and healthcare. With healthcare reforms and changes to the No Child Left Behind Act looming, and as state child welfare agencies strive to comply with federal requirements, ideas and insights...