Chapin Hall

Improving outcomes for children and families requires engaging the voices of children, families, and partners, using data to understand performance, identifying root causes, and testing changes that support continuous improvement.

Chapin Hall Senior Policy Analysts Claire Kimberly and Yolanda Green-Rogers have spent years helping child welfare and human services organizations build their capacity and drive real improvement. On September 17, they're bringing that expertise to a small, three-hour virtual workshop on the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle (limited to 30 participants).

If you're a CQI practitioner, quality manager, or program supervisor looking to sharpen your practice, this is for you. You’ll learn how to actively engage voices in the PDSA cycle to ensure multiple perspectives inform your improvement effort.

Express your interest using this form: https://tinyurl.com/ChapinHallPDSA

What does it look like to bring to child well-being research?

For Bianca Burnside, Project Associate and lived expert at Chapin Hall, it looks like reading an interview guide and immediately sensing how someone who has navigated the child welfare system might respond to a particular question.

Her perspective consistently surfaces things that wouldn't otherwise be visible.

Check out our feature on Bianca, who is contributing firsthand knowledge of the Illinois child welfare system to projects focused on improving services for families: https://www.chapinhall.org/project/bringing-lived-experience-to-the-table-bianca-burnsides-path-to-chapin-hall-2/https://www.chapinhall.org/project/bringing-lived-experience-to-the-table-bianca-burnsides-path-to-chapin-hall-2/