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Spotlight: A Longitudinal Multiprogram Evaluation in Palm Beach County
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| March 11, 2009 |
March 11 - Webcast and Forum on Public Housing and Its Most Vulnerable Families
Join Chapin Hall and the Urban Institute on March 11 for a
Thursday's Child public policy forum that explores public housing and its most
vulnerable families. As the federal government, localities, and housing authorities
seek to revitalize scarred inner-city neighborhoods, a unique set of responses
is needed to aid public housing's most vulnerable families. The Chicago Family
Case Management Demonstration may have some innovative answers.
Register to attend event in Washington, D.C.
Register for live audio webcast.
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Researchers Identify the Numbers and Characteristics of Multi-System Families |
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This Chapin Hall brief
presents findings from an analysis aimed at identifying the amount of
government social program participation overlap among Illinois families. The
focus is on five important social programs--foster care, mental health services,
substance abuse treatment, and juvenile and adult corrections. To the extent that families are involved in multiple
systems, the overlap of needs and service delivery has significant implications
for the overall state budget and for how services might be organized and
provided more efficiently and effectively.
Read Illinois Families and Their Use of Multiple Service Systems by Robert M. Goerge, Cheryl Smithgall, Roopa Seshadri, and Peter Ballard.
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Issue Brief Finds Despite Encouraging News, Child Abuse Prevention Is a Job Half Done |
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The recently released Fourth Federal National Incidence Study
on Child Maltreatment reports substantial drops in the rates of sexual abuse,
physical abuse, and emotional abuse. Chapin Hall Research Fellow Deborah Daro argues
that, though these findings are encouraging, there is more work to be done. Only
minimal gains have been made in our collective ability to protect vulnerable
children from fatal and severe physical abuse, and no gains are evident in
protecting children from most forms of neglect. But we can draw important lessons
from the reduction in sexual abuse, which can inform our efforts to reduce
other forms of child maltreatment.
Read Child Abuse Prevention: A Job Half Done by Deborah Daro.
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Report Examines Building Collaborations As a Platform for Broad and Sustained Neighborhood Improvement
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Chapin Hall Research Fellow Robert Chaskin is one of the collaborators
in an evaluation of the New Communities Program (NCP) by MDRC. An ambitious
community development initiative, NCP uses neighborhood planning and
plan-driven projects and programs, called "quality-of-life plans," to improve a
wide range of outcomes in 16 Chicago neighborhoods. This interim report focuses
on NCP's rollout and early implementation years, examining community
conditions, how local groups worked together, and projects completed through
2008.
Read Creating a Platform for Sustained Neighborhood Improvement by David Greenberg, Nandita Verma, Keri-Nicole Dillman, and Robert Chaskin, with James A. Riccio.
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Report Reviews Key Concepts and Considerations for Adapting a Systems Approach to Child Protection |
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UNICEF has initiated a process to move to a more systemic approach in its child protection programming. A child protection system--as an identified concept common to all child protection practitioners--is new. The question that arises when one refers to a child protection system, or systemic work in child protection is: what is it? In attempt to answer this and other questions, UNICEF contracted Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, with the American Humane Association, to review academic and professional literature on systems, leading to a conceptual framework of the child protection system.
Read Adapting a Systems Approach to Child Protection: Key Concepts and Considerations by Fred Wulczyn, Deborah Daro, John Fluke, Sara Feldman, Christin Glodek, and Kate Lifanda.
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Spotlight: A Longitudinal Multiprogram Evaluation in Palm Beach County
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One of Chapin Hall's long-term collaborations is
currently underway in Florida's Palm Beach County. For more than a decade, the
county has been building an infrastructure of prevention and early intervention
services and the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County commissioned
Chapin Hall to conduct a multiyear evaluation of how families use and are
affected by this system of services.
Read the Spotlight on a longitudinal multiprogram evaluation in Palm Beach County. |
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For More Information Contact:
Marc van Bree
Public Affairs Associate
[email protected]
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Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.753.5900
www.chapinhall.org
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