Our story

The Chances for Children intervention was first developed by Liz Buckner and Hillary Mayers in 2000, when they piloted a program to serve teen parents and their babies. (The results were published in the Infant Mental Health Journal, 2008, vol. 29(4).)

After eight years of expansion and evaluation, both internal and external, that evidenced positive outcomes in over 300 families, CFC expanded its intervention into the larger community of parents through partnerships with a mental health clinic and community centers where it continued to show positive outcomes.

From 2000-2015, CFC operated as a project of larger agencies that served as its financial homes. With fifteen years of solid experience and evaluation data, CFC incorporated as an independent non-profit corporation and received 501(c)3 status in June of 2015.