Tanya Krupat
Revson Fellow 2004-2005
Director
Children of Incarcerated Parents Program (CHIPP)
Tanya Krupat directed and is now a consultant with the Children of Incarcerated Parents Program (CHIPP) and the Visiting Improvement Project (VIP) in the Division of Family Permanency at the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), New York City’s child welfare agency. CHIPP offers support and services for children in foster care whose parents are incarcerated, and aims to help maintain family bonds despite incarceration by bridging the gap between the child welfare and criminal justice systems. VIP focuses on improving the quality and frequency of family visits for children in foster care, to ensure that children and parents stay connected despite separation. Ms. Krupat is also involved in various ACS reform efforts to improve the experiences of families involved with the child welfare system. Before coming to ACS, Ms. Krupat was the Family Services Coordinator at Taconic Correctional Facility, a medium security New York State prison for women. Ms. Krupat graduated from the University of Michigan with an MPH in Public Health and MSW in Social Work. During her Revson year, she studied public policy as it pertains to the child welfare and criminal justice systems, with a focus on race, class, gender, and child development.
(The Revson Fellow’s biography that appears above was last updated in 2004. Revson Fellows may update their biographies on this site by sending email to: revson@columbia.edu)
The Revson year was an opportunity to recharge mental and spiritual batteries, to deepen my own understanding of important issues at what turned out to be a crucial time in our history, and to do so in the company of committed co-conspirators in the quest for peace and justice. It brings the enormous resources of a great university to the Fellows and time to reflect on how we can best utilize that knowledge to make a better New York City and world.
