Fred Wulczyn is a Senior Research Fellow at Chapin Hall and Director of the Center for State Child Welfare Data, a collaboration between Chapin Hall, the American Public Human Services Association, and public child welfare agencies. Dr. Wulczyn has designed two major social experiments: the Child Assistance Program and the HomeRebuilders project. The Child Assistance Program was awarded the Innovations in Government Award from Harvard University and the Ford Foundation. He developed the nation's first proposal to change the federal law limiting the ability of states to design innovative child welfare programs, which then led to the development of the Title IV-E waiver programs used by states to undertake child welfare system reform. Dr. Wulczyn is the 2005 recipient of the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators' Peter Forsythe Award for leadership in public child welfare. In 2011, he was honored with the Flynn Prize, an award given to a researcher whose work has had a demonstrable impact on vulnerable populations. Dr. Wulczyn earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.