[4] The organization's focus areas include child welfare and foster care systems, youth homelessness,[5] and community capacity to support children, youth, and families (including early childhood initiatives, home visitation and maltreatment prevention, juvenile justice, and school systems).
In addition to housing orphans and other dependent children, the Asylum provided day care services for working mothers.
As a result of dwindling support, in 1984, Chapin Hall Center for Children decided to close its residential care program.
The goal of the newly formed organization was to conduct research about child welfare and well-being, in alignment with its history as a residential care facility.
[8] Chapin Hall's three major areas of focus are child welfare, community capacity building, and youth homelessness.
[9][10][11] Chapin Hall receives financial support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to run a fellowship program for current and recent graduate students interested in child well-being and maltreatment prevention.
[13] TCOM is the foundation of Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), an assessment strategy for monitoring the well-being of children and youth.
[16] The Collaboration for Early Childhood is a nonprofit organization in Oak Park, Illinois that works to connect parents of young children to local resources.
The database will unify administrative data sources, providing users with a view of school enrollment and poverty at a local level in Oak Park.
[25] Chapin Hall employs research and policy staff with experience in child welfare, epidemiology, psychology, social work, statistics, and youth development.