Evaluation of the City of Chicago’s Juvenile Intervention and Support Center (JISC)

Chapin Hall researchers conducted an “evaluability assessment” of Chicago’s Juvenile Intervention and Support Center (JISC) to determine its suitability for evaluation and to work with staff to enact procedural modifications needed to facilitate future evaluation activities. Continue reading Evaluation of the City of Chicago’s Juvenile Intervention and Support Center (JISC)

Reclaiming Futures

The National Evaluation of Reclaiming Futures was a 5-year effort by researchers from the Urban Institute (in collaboration with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago after 2005) who worked with the 10 Reclaiming Futures communities and the initiative’s National Program Office to evaluate the impact of the initiative and to examine selected policy and practice issues as they emerged within each site. Continue reading Reclaiming Futures